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. Random Facts.. Historical The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar and lasted only 38 minutes on August 27, 1896.Ancient Romans used urine as a cleaning agent for laundry because of the ammonia it contained.The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was larger and more advanced than many European cities, including London and Paris, when the Spanish arrived in 1519. Tenochtitlan had advanced aqueducts, causeways, and a sophisticated waste management system.The guillotine was used in France until 1977, four years before the death penalty was outlawed.In the 18th century, carrying a pineapple around was considered a sign of wealth in England because they were incredibly rare and expensive.ScienceA teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 6 billion tons on Earth.It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, a 36-letter word.Earth's average day is increasing by about 1.8 milliseconds per century because the moon's gravity slows down the planet's rotation.The human stomach can produce an acid strong enough to dissolve razor blades, but the stomach lining renews itself so quickly that the acid doesn't harm it.Animal kingdomIf a honeybee repeatedly insists on an unpopular nesting site, other worker bees will headbutt her to reach a consensus.All clownfish are born male. They can become female later in life to lead a colony.Platypuses "sweat milk" for their young. They don't have teats, so the milk appears as sweat on their skin.Some frogs in colder climates can freeze solid and later thaw out, allowing them to survive winter.Goats can develop "accents" by adjusting their vocalizations to match the social groups they are part of..