J.L. Heggum
“a collection of random facts to expand your mind.”
the shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes. It was fought between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27th, 1896.
The first vending machine was invented in ancient Greece and dispensed holy water.
a group of flamingos is charmingly known as a “flamboyance,”
bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun against gravity in a process called “negative geotropism.“
Nintendo was founded way back in 1889 as a playing card company,
Bram Stoker’s Dracula was originally titled “The Un-Dead.”
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the construction of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza
“strengths” is the longest English word with only one vowel.
a “jiffy” is an actual unit of time, specifically one one-hundredth of a second.
all the Beatles‘ haircuts were originally styled by George Harrison’s wife in Liverpool.
honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs, has been found to be still edible
the moon experiences moonquakes, very similar to earthquakes but caused by the gravitational pull of the Earth.
a shrimp’s heart is located in its head,
wombats are the only known animals to produce cube-shaped poop.
the search engine Google was originally called Backrub
sloths can hold their breath underwater for up to 40 minutes, which is actually longer than dolphins.
the Eiffel Tower can be up to 15 centimeters taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.the sentence “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” is grammatically correct.
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