- A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes Venus longer to rotate once than to orbit the Sun.
2. The Eiffel Tower can grow taller in summer. The iron expands in heat, making it up to about 6 inches taller.
3. There are more possible games of chess than atoms in the observable universe.
4. Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. Up to 40 minutes by slowing their heart rate.
5. Your stomach gets a new lining every few days to prevent it from digesting itself.
6. There’s a species of jellyfish that is biologically immortal. It can revert to an earlier life stage instead of dying.
7. The fingerprints of a koala are nearly indistinguishable from humans’.
8. The dot over a lowercase “i” or “j” has a name. It’s called a “tittle.”
9. The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.
10. Mount Everest grows a little every year due to tectonic plate movement.