Strange Facts About Our World

Attention. The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes. In 1896,

Britain and Zanzibar went to battle, and Zanzibar surrendered before most people finished breakfast.

But here's something wilder. There are more possible iterations of a chess game than

atoms in the observable universe. Your brain contains about 86 billion neurons,

which is roughly the same number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Speaking of space,

a day on Venus is longer than its year. It takes Venus 243 Earth days to rotate

once, but only 225 Earth days to orbit the sun. And get this.

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000 year old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still perfectly