20 Completely useless facts

Here’s a list of 20 utterly useless (but fun!) facts:

Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t.

Botanically, bananas meet the criteria to be berries, while strawberries do not.

A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."

Fitting for their bright pink feathers!

Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.

Social bonds in animals are fascinating but not particularly practical for daily life.

Wombat poop is cube-shaped.

This unique shape helps prevent it from rolling away.

Octopuses have three hearts.

Two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body.

A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

But it lasts such a short time that it’s not even useful for cooking.

A shrimp’s heart is located in its head.

More precisely, it’s in its thorax, but close enough!

Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn.

A mythical creature as a national animal—because why not?

Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins.

They can slow their heart rate and hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.

You can’t hum while holding your nose.

Try it. You just can’t.

The word "OK" is more than 180 years old.

It originated as a joke abbreviation for "oll korrect," a humorous misspelling of "all correct."

A cloud can weigh over a million pounds.

Despite being incredibly heavy, it floats due to its large size and low density.

Sharks existed before trees.

Sharks have been around for over 400 million years, predating the first trees by about 50 million years.

Goats have rectangular pupils.

This gives them panoramic vision to spot predators.

You can’t fold a piece of paper more than seven times.

At least not without extreme measures or special tools.

There’s enough iron in your body to make a nail.

Not a big nail, but still impressive for your blood supply!

A day on Uranus lasts 17 hours, but its year is 84 Earth years.

So, lots of short days in an extraordinarily long year.

Penguins propose with pebbles.

Male penguins often present a pebble to their mate as a courting gesture.

A sneeze travels at about 160 km/h (100 mph).

That’s faster than most cars on the highway!

Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.

It didn’t take off as wallpaper but became indispensable for packaging.

Totally pointless, right? Yet weirdly satisfying to know!

Source: Some or all of the content was generated using an AI language model