10 amazing facts!
Here are 10 amazing facts for you:
- The world’s largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
- There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.
- A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
- The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896. It lasted only 38 minutes.
- In China, there is a bridge made entirely of glass that is 984 feet long and 590 feet high.
- The longest name of a place is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a hill in New Zealand.
- The world’s largest underwater volcano is Mauna Loa in Hawaii. It rises 30,000 feet from the ocean floor to its summit.
- In ancient Egypt, people used crocodile dung as a contraceptive.
- The world’s largest diamond, the Cullinan, was discovered in South Africa in 1905. It weighed 3,106 carats.
- The shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am.”