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The Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar on 27 August 1896.
The conflict lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, marking it as the shortest recorded war in history.

‘Euouae’, a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels, according to ‘Guinness World Records’.

It is pronounced 'you wow we'

Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat flap.
The scientist is most famous for calculated gravity, but it’s also believed that Isaac Newton invented the cat door.
When Newton was working on his experiments at the University of Cambridge he was constantly interrupted by his cats scratching at the door.
So he called the Cambridge carpenter to saw two holes in the door, one for the mother cat and one for her kittens!, apparently these holes can still be seen at the university today.

The letter “J” was the last letter added to the English alphabet.
It dates back to 1524.
Before it became a letter, the letter “i” was used for both “i” and “j” sounds.

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends with the letters 'mt'.

The Moon looks upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/does-the-moon-look-upside-down-in-the-southern-hemisphere

All of the blood in your body travels through your heart in under one minute.
It takes a red blood cell less than a minute to move from the heart, through the body, and back to the heart.

ramiejamie wrote:The Moon looks upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/does-the-moon-look-upside-down-in-the-southern-hemisphere

I can assure you that its not the moon that turns upside down, its the people that are upside down

Look at the link and that's what exactly what happens, the Moon is NOT upside down, it looks or appears upside down to the observer.

King Charles doesn't need a passport to travel abroad.

Some collective names :-

The collective name for a group of frogs is an Army.

The collective name for a group of apes is a Shrewdness.

The collective name for a group of hippopotamuses is a Bloat.

The highest mountain in our Solar System is on the planet Mars.
It is called Olympus Mons and is 16 miles (24 kilometers) high which makes it about three times higher than Mt. Everest.

The Earth is 4.54 billion years old.
Using radiometric dating, scientists have discovered that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old, (give or take 50 million years).
This makes our planet half the age of our Milky Way Galaxy which is 13.6 billion years old and around a third of the age of the Universe which is 13.8 billion years old, although some later research has suggested it could be as old as 26.7 billion years old.

Phrases that William Shakespeare gave us :-

“What the dickens” - nothing to do with Victorian author Charles Dickens.
The phrase is first found in The Merry Wives of Windsor and uses 'dickens' as a more polite version of 'devil'.

“Break the ice”
The Taming of the Shrew

“Dead as a door nail”
Henry VI, Part II

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body.
If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

Everyone has a unique smell, except identical twins – they smell the same!

The shortest commercial flight in the world is in Scotland
Scottish regional airline Loganair operates the shortest commercial flight in the world between the islands Westray and Papa Westray, a distance of 1.7 miles which is scheduled for 90 seconds.

There are 5 countries in the world that don’t have airports
If you’re a jet-setting traveller, it’s hard to imagine not having an airport nearby for your next family gathering or work event.
However, Vatican City, San Marino, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Andorra manage to do without.

Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world
While 138 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt, Sudan boasts around 255.

The Philippines consists of 7,641 islands.
The Philippines is an archipelago, which means it’s made up of a group of islands, 7,641 islands, to be exact.

The brand name “Spam” is a combination of “spice” and “ham”
Contrary to American mythology, Spam is not an acronym for “Scientifically Processed Animal Matter” or “Shoulder of Pork and Ham,”.

A flock of ravens is called an “unkindness”.

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was adopted as the world's time standard at the Washington Meridian Conference in 1884.
The International Meridian Conference was a conference held in October 1884 in Washington, D.C., in the United States, to determine a prime meridian for international use.
This conference also established Universal Time, from which the international 24-hour time-zone system grew.
This is why all time zones refer back to GMT on the prime meridian.
The meridian line in Greenwich represents the Prime Meridian of the world, Longitude Zero (0° 0' 0").
Every place on the Earth is measured in terms of its angle east or west from this line.

It takes a drop of water 90 days to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River
Spanning 2,340 miles, the Mississippi River is the third-largest watershed in the world.

Thanks to 3D printing, NASA can basically email tools to astronauts
Getting new equipment to the Space Station used to take months or years, but the new technology means the tools are ready within hours.