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  • Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t: Botanically speaking, bananas qualify as berries, while strawberries do not.
  • There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way: Estimates suggest there are about 3 trillion trees on Earth compared to 100-400 billion stars in our galaxy.
  • The inventor of the Pringles can was buried in one: Fred Baur’s ashes were buried in a Pringles can per his request after his death.
  • Scotland has 421 words for "snow": Scots have a rich vocabulary for different types of snow, reflecting their snowy climate.
  • The shortest commercial flight in the world is just 90 seconds: The flight between Westray and Papa Westray in Scotland covers just 1.7 miles.
  • A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus: Venus rotates very slowly on its axis, taking about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation and 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.
  • An adult human is made up of about 37.2 trillion cells: The human body is a complex organism with an incredibly high number of cells working together.
  • Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid: Cleopatra lived around 30 BC, while the Great Pyramid was completed around 2560 BC.
  • Wombat feces are cube-shaped: The unique shape of wombat poop prevents it from rolling away, helping mark their territory.
  • Hot water freezes faster than cold water: Known as the Mpemba effect, this phenomenon occurs under certain conditions and is still not fully understood.
  • There are no two zebras with the same stripe pattern: Zebra stripes are unique to each individual, much like human fingerprints.
  • The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes: The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is considered the shortest war ever recorded.
  • The moon is moving away from Earth: Every year, the moon drifts away from Earth by about 1.5 inches.
  • A group of crows is called a "murder": The term reflects the often ominous reputation of crows in folklore and literature.
  • Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system: Despite not being the closest to the Sun, Venus has a thick atmosphere that traps heat, making it hotter than Mercury.

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