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1. The world's oldest known living tree is a bristlecone pine called Methuselah, which is over 5,000 years old and can be found in the White Mountains of California.

2. The human nose can detect over 1 trillion different scents.

3. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

4. The longest word in the English language, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica particles.

5. The longest single flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

6. A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."

7. The term "butterfly" was originally "butter-colored fly."

8. The world's largest snowflake on record was 15 inches in diameter and 8 inches thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.

9. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny.

10. The world's largest snowball fight involved 5,834 people and took place in Saskatoon, Canada in 2007.

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