10 Mind-Blowing Facts You've Never Heard Of

 

1. The human brain can store up to 2.5 petabytes of information, which is equivalent to 3 million hours of television.

2. The largest living organism in the world is a fungus called Armillaria ostoyae, which covers 2,200 acres in Oregon and is estimated to be at least 2,400 years old.

1. The Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down, and as a result, every day is getting slightly longer. In fact, a day was only 23 hours long about 500 million years ago.

2. There is a species of jellyfish, called the immortal jellyfish, that can potentially live forever by constantly reverting back to its youthful state.

3. The longest war in history was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, which lasted from 1651 to 1986, a total of 335 years, and did not result in a single shot being fired.

4. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.

5. The world's largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, and it fell in Fort Keogh, Montana, in 1887.

6. The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system, is actually composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometers.

7. The oldest piece of chewing gum in the world is over 9,000 years old and was found in Sweden.

8. The closest living relatives of the tyrannosaurus rex are actually chickens and ostriches, as they share a common ancestor that lived over 230 million years ago.