Top 10 fun facts

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.

The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896. It lasted just 38 minutes.

In 2013, a man named Carl McCoid set the world record for having the most tattoos of the same cartoon character. He had 41 tattoos of Homer Simpson.

Sloths only defecate once a week and lose up to one-third of their body weight in the process.

The world's largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.

The longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters and takes over three hours to pronounce.

A group of hedgehogs is called a prickle.

There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.

Bananas are berries, while strawberries are not.