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Funny Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About 1. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old. Archaeologists have found chewing gum that is made from birch bark tar in Finland, dating back to 7000 BC. 2. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. The collective name for a group of flamingos is not just any old name, it’s truly flamboyant. 3. The smallest mammal in the world can fit on your fingertip. The bumblebee bat or the Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, is the world’s smallest mammal, weighing only two grams. 4. Most of the world’s people have an above-average number of legs. This mathematical anomaly is due to the fact that the average number of legs is below two, due to the high number of people who are missing a limb. 5. Penguins used to be six feet tall! The tallest penguin on record was the giant penguin, which lived in New Zealand around 30 million years ago. 6. The shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes. The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 was over almost before it begun. 7. The only time a person’s DNA changes is when they have a serious injury, such as a bone marrow transplant. In all other cases, a person’s DNA remains the same throughout their life. 8. A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head. This is mainly due to the fact that a cockroach has an open circulatory system, so it does not rely on its head to pump blood around its body. 9. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop. The kangaroo uses its tail to balance and to push itself forward. 10 Honey never spoils. Honey has natural antibacterial properties which means it will never spoil, no matter how long it is stored. In fact, archaeologists have found pots of honey that are still edible after being buried with Egyptians for thousands of years.
