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  • Butterflies taste with their feet: They have taste sensors on their feet to help them find their host plants and locate food.

  • Octopuses have three hearts: Two pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body.

  • A day on Mercury lasts 176 Earth days: This is because Mercury rotates very slowly compared to its orbit around the Sun.

  • Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't: Botanically, bananas fit the berry criteria, while strawberries do not.

  • There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe: This is known as the Shannon number, estimated to be 10^120.

  • Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the Great Pyramid: She lived around 30 BC, while the pyramids were built around 2560 BC.

  • A single strand of spider silk is thinner than a human hair but five times stronger than steel of the same diameter: This makes spider silk incredibly strong and versatile.

  • The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes: It was fought between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896.

  • Hot water can freeze faster than cold water: This phenomenon is known as the Mpemba effect.

  • Honey never spoils: Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still edible.

  • There's a species of jellyfish that can revert to its juvenile form after reaching maturity: This effectively makes it immortal.

  • The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland: This mythical creature has been a symbol of Scotland for centuries.

  • Cows have best friends: They become stressed when separated from their preferred partners.

  • The world's largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick: It fell in Fort Keogh, Montana, in 1887.

  • There's a planet made of diamonds: Discovered in 2004, 55 Cancri e is a super-Earth with a surface that is likely covered in graphite and diamond.

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