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A jiffy is an actual unit of time equal to one hundredth of a second.
Honey never spoils — archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.
The shortest war in recorded history lasted only 38 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.
The opposite sides of a standard die always add up to seven.
There are more possible combinations in a single game of Go than there are atoms in the observable universe.
The average cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds.
A group of hedgehogs is called a prickle, and a group of pandas is called an embarrassment.
More monopoly money is printed each year than real money in the United States.
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.
The dot on top of a lowercase 'i' or 'j' is called a tittle.
If you shuffle a deck of cards properly, the resulting order has almost certainly never existed before in history.
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance, and they stand on one leg to conserve body heat.
The inventor of the Pringles can, Fredric Baur, was so proud of his creation that his ashes were buried in one.
Pitch Lake in Trinidad is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world and has been a source of road-building material for centuries.
Brine pools on the ocean floor are so salty that they are toxic to most marine life, creating an underwater 'shoreline' effect.
Cave-dwelling organisms called troglobites have evolved to lose their eyes and pigmentation over millions of years.
Permafrost in Siberia contains ancient viruses and bacteria that are being released as the ground thaws due to climate change.
The yeti crab, discovered in 2005, grows bacteria on its hairy claws and uses them as a food source near hydrothermal vents.
Blood Falls in Antarctica flows a deep red color from iron-rich saltwater that has been trapped beneath a glacier for 2 million years.
The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia features acidic hot springs, toxic gases, and temperatures exceeding 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Xenophyophores are giant single-celled organisms found on the deep ocean floor that can grow up to 8 inches across.
Lake Mono in California is three times saltier than the ocean and supports brine shrimp and alkali flies that exist nowhere else.
The zombie worm, or Osedax, feeds on whale bones on the ocean floor by secreting acid to dissolve them.
Some fungi can survive in space, and researchers are studying whether they could help colonize other planets.
Black smokers are hydrothermal vents that spew superheated water rich in minerals, creating chimney-like structures on the ocean floor.
Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring gets its vivid colors from heat-loving microorganisms called thermophiles.
Deinococcus radiodurans is a bacterium so resistant to radiation it has been nicknamed 'Conan the Bacterium.'
The deepest fish ever recorded is the Mariana snailfish, found at 26,831 feet in the Mariana Trench.
Bacteria have been found living in rocks 1.5 miles below the Earth's surface, surviving on hydrogen gas and chemical reactions.
Giant tube worms near hydrothermal vents can grow over 6 feet long and have no mouth, stomach, or eyes.
The Hadal zone, below 20,000 feet in ocean trenches, is home to unique species found nowhere else on Earth.
Tardigrades have survived exposure to the vacuum of space, radiation levels 1,000 times the lethal dose for humans, and pressures six times greater than the deepest ocean trench.
Extremophile organisms have been found living in boiling hot springs, frozen Antarctic ice, and even inside nuclear reactors.
Canada's Coastline is the longest in the world, stretching over 151,000 miles including islands.
Mexico City is sinking at a rate of about 20 inches per year because it was built on top of a drained lake bed.
The Philippines consists of over 7,600 islands.
South Korea has the fastest average internet connection speed in the world.
Egypt's Nile River is often cited as the longest river in the world at about 4,130 miles.
In Finland, there are more saunas than cars — approximately 3.3 million saunas for 5.5 million people.
Norway's coastline, if measured including all the fjords, would stretch over 63,000 miles.
New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote in national elections, in 1893.
Iceland has no mosquitoes despite being surrounded by water and having marshy terrain.
The Amazon River carries more water than the Nile, Yangtze, and Mississippi rivers combined.
Brazil shares a border with every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador.
Brazil has won the FIFA World Cup more times than any other country, with five titles.
The name Brazil comes from the brazilwood tree, which was the country's first major export.
Brazil is the only country in South America that speaks Portuguese.
Brazil contains about 60% of the Amazon Rainforest.
India's railway system is the fourth largest in the world and employs over 1.3 million people.
Shampoo was first developed in India using a mixture of herbs and natural ingredients — the word comes from the Hindi word 'champo.'