Here are **100 surprising facts** that will blow your mind!

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Science & Nature 🌿

1. Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't!
2. A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
3. Octopuses have three hearts.
4. Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
5. There's a species of jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) that is biologically immortal.
6. Water can boil and freeze at the same time (triple point).
7. The Eiffel Tower grows taller in summer due to heat expansion.
8. There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.
9. Honey never spoils; archaeologists found 3,000-year-old edible honey.
10. Hot water freezes faster than cold water (Mpemba effect).

Space & Universe 🌌

11. Neutron stars are so dense that a sugar-cube-sized amount would weigh billions of tons.
12. There’s a massive water cloud in space, holding 140 trillion times Earth's water.
13. One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about 6 billion tons.
14. If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would reach the Moon.
15. Saturn’s moon Titan has lakes of liquid methane.
16. The Sun makes up 99.8% of the mass in our solar system.
17. A black hole can slow down time due to gravitational time dilation.
18. The footprints on the Moon will remain for millions of years.
19. A day on Mars is just 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth.
20. There is a planet where it rains molten glass sideways (HD 189733b).

Animals & Creatures 🦓

21. Sea otters hold hands while sleeping to keep from drifting apart.
22. Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.
23. Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins.
24. Some turtles can breathe through their butts.
25. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.
26. Axolotls can regenerate limbs and even parts of their heart and brain.
27. A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
28. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backward.
29. Octopuses can change color in an instant using special skin cells.
30. The immortal jellyfish can revert back to its juvenile form.

History & Human Body 🏛️

31. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.
32. The human brain produces enough electricity to power a light bulb.
33. Your bones are actually stronger than steel.
34. You can’t hum while holding your nose closed.
35. Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days.
36. Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas.
37. Your body has more bacteria than human cells.
38. The entire internet weighs about the same as a strawberry.
39. The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.
40. Your brain can store the equivalent of 2.5 petabytes of information.

Mind-Blowing Geography 🌍

41. Antarctica is the driest, windiest, and coldest place on Earth.
42. There’s a place in Canada with lower gravity than the rest of Earth.
43. Russia is bigger than Pluto.
44. You could fit all the planets between Earth and the Moon with room to spare.
45. Alaska is the westernmost and easternmost state in the U.S.
46. Mount Everest grows about 4 millimeters taller every year.
47. The Sahara Desert was once a lush, green jungle.
48. Iceland has no mosquitoes.
49. The Amazon Rainforest produces 20% of the world’s oxygen.
50. The Dead Sea is so salty you can float without trying.

Technology & Innovations ⚙️

51. The first email was sent in 1971.
52. The first website is still online (info.cern.ch).
53. Bluetooth is named after a Viking king.
54. The Apollo 11 computer had less power than a modern calculator.
55. GPS was originally a military project.
56. The first digital camera was invented in 1975 and had only 0.01 megapixels.
57. Google was originally called “Backrub.”
58. There’s Wi-Fi on the Moon, thanks to NASA experiments.
59. The world’s first 3D-printed car was made in 2014.
60. The floppy disk icon is still used to represent "save" even though most people today have never used one.

Food & Drinks 🍔

61. Pineapples take about two years to grow.
62. A single fast-food hamburger can contain meat from 100+ cows.
63. Ketchup was once sold as medicine.
64. The popsicle was invented by an 11-year-old.
65. Peanuts aren’t nuts; they’re legumes.
66. Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.
67. Coca-Cola was the first soft drink consumed in space.
68. Carrots were originally purple, not orange.
69. McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers every second.
70. Lobsters were once considered food for poor people.

Unbelievable Laws & Records 📜

71. In Switzerland, it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig.
72. In Japan, there’s an island full of bunnies.
73. The world’s largest snowflake was 15 inches wide.
74. The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.
75. The world's quietest room can make you hear your own heartbeat.
76. A single lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
77. The longest English word has 189,819 letters.
78. The world's largest pyramid isn't in Egypt; it's in Mexico.
79. The shortest war in history lasted just 38–45 minutes.
80. More people visit France than any other country.

Random & Weird Facts 🤯

81. You can’t breathe and swallow at the same time.
82. Some people have an extra bone in their knee that’s making a comeback.
83. A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
84. The human nose can detect over a trillion different scents.
85. The tongue print is as unique as a fingerprint.
86. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, not Mercury.
87. Cows have regional accents.
88. The "M’s" in M&Ms stand for Mars and Murrie.
89. The letter "J" is the only letter missing from the periodic table.
90. It rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn.

Extra Surprises! 🎉

91. There’s a hotel in Sweden made entirely of ice.
92. The moon has moonquakes.
93. It takes 8 minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.
94. Butterflies can taste with their feet.
95. The Great Wall of China isn’t visible from space.
96. The longest time between twin births is 87 days.
97. Napoleon was once attacked by a horde of bunnies.
98. A cat was once the mayor of an Alaskan town.
99. The word "emoji" comes from Japanese, not English.
100. A cloud can weigh as much as a million pounds.