Everyone loves a good piece of trivia. Whether you’re looking to impress your friends at a party or just curious about the oddities of our world, these fun facts are sure to pique your interest.

Surprising Animal Facts

• Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.
• A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance”.
• Cows have best friends and experience stress when they are separated.

Astonishing Human Body Facts

• The human nose can detect about one trillion different scents.
• Your entire body can fill roughly one billion matchsticks.
• Adults have fewer bones than they did as babies. Infants are born with around 270 bones, which fuse to become 206 bones in adults.

Mind-Blowing Space Facts

• A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
• There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all Earth’s beaches.
• If two pieces of the same metal touch in the vacuum of space, they will bond and become permanently stuck together.

Historical Oddities

• There used to be a job called “knocker-up”. The person was paid to knock on people’s windows to wake them up for work.
• In the 16th century, Turkish women could initiate a divorce if their husbands didn’t provide enough coffee.
• The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

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