1. The Earth's circumference is approximately 40,075 kilometers.
2. The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world, stretching over 13,000 miles.
3. Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
4. The human brain has a storage capacity equivalent to about 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes).
5. Cows have best friends and can become stressed when they are separated from them.
6. The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.
7. Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't technically berries.
8. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896, lasting only 38 minutes.
9. Octopuses have three hearts: two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body.
10. The world's largest desert is not the Sahara but Antarctica, as it receives very little precipitation.
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