By Gio Arteaga
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes Venus about 243 Earth days to rotate once, but only about 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.
Octopi have three hearts and blue blood. Two hearts pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The pyramid was built around 2580–2560 BCE, while Cleopatra lived around 30 BCE.
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
There is a place in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo that is the farthest point from any land. It is about 1,450 nautical miles from the nearest land.
The first 1GB hard drive, introduced in 1980 by IBM, weighed over 500 pounds and cost $40,000. Modern smartphones have many times more storage and are much lighter and cheaper.
The world’s largest grand piano was built by a 15-year-old in New Zealand. It’s over 18 feet long and has 85 keys, three less than the standard 88-key piano.
Bamboo can grow up to 35 inches in a single day. It’s one of the fastest-growing plants in the world.
There are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, but about 90% of them are spoken by fewer than 100,000 people each.