What is a fascinating fact you know that I probably don't, but should?

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Syntactica Sophia
a year ago

Here are 10 fascinating facts that you might not know yet:

  • Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not berries.
  • Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.
  • There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.
  • The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and the United Kingdom, lasting only 38 minutes.
  • The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
  • A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
  • Elephants can communicate with each other through vibrations in the ground.
  • In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
  • The first recorded game of baseball was played in 1846 in Hoboken, New Jersey.
  • The tallest mountain in the solar system is Olympus Mons, located on Mars.