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  • Blue whales' heartbeats can be heard from over 2 miles away: The heart of a blue whale is so powerful that its beats can be detected from a distance of more than 2 miles.
  • There’s a country with no rivers: Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the world without a river, relying on underground reservoirs for its water supply.
  • Koalas sleep up to 22 hours a day: These marsupials have one of the longest sleep durations in the animal kingdom, primarily due to their low-energy diet of eucalyptus leaves.
  • The "shortest" war lasted 38 minutes: The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is the shortest recorded war in history, lasting only 38 minutes.
  • The first oranges weren’t orange: The original oranges from Southeast Asia were a tangerine-pomelo hybrid, and they were green.
  • A day on Mercury lasts longer than a year: It takes Mercury 59 Earth days to rotate once but only 88 Earth days to complete an orbit around the Sun.
  • Goosebumps are a remnant of our ancestors: They were once useful in making human hair stand on end, making early humans appear larger and more intimidating to predators.
  • The moon has moonquakes: Just like earthquakes, the moon experiences quakes due to tidal stresses caused by the gravitational forces of Earth and the Sun.
  • A snail can sleep for three years: Snails can enter a state of hibernation or estivation to avoid unfavorable conditions, such as drought.
  • The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 134°F: This record was set in Furnace Creek Ranch, Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913.
  • There’s a species of jellyfish that can live forever: The Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish can revert back to its juvenile form after reaching maturity, potentially living indefinitely.
  • Bananas glow blue under UV light: Ripe bananas emit a blue glow when exposed to ultraviolet light due to the breakdown of chlorophyll.
  • A cloud can weigh over a million pounds: The weight of a typical cumulus cloud is roughly equivalent to that of 100 elephants.
  • The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years: Charles Osborne started hiccuping in 1922 and continued until 1990, hiccuping an estimated 430 million times.
  • Humans are the only animals that blush: Blushing is a unique physiological response associated with emotions, making humans the only species to do so.

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