Top 10 Facts In "Weird But True! 3"

The Top Ten

1 There was a hotel made of garbage in Rome, Italy

2 Octopuses have three hearts

3 One of the shortest wars ever lasted was 38 minutes

It was between England and Zanzibar in 1896. It lasted 38 minutes before Zanzibar surrendered.

4 Studies show that when evenly matched teams compete, the team wearing red has a better chance of winning

There's actually more to it than that. Red teams have an advantage for more aggressive games, Blue teams have an advantage for more strategic games.

5 The earth spins so fast that someone standing at the equator is traveling at about 1,000 miles (1,600 km/hr) an hour

6 Lemons can have more sugar than strawberries

I thought it was the other way around...

7 You lose up to 100 hairs a day

8 It would take a stack of more than 100,000 giraffes to reach the outermost layer of the earth's atmosphere

9 The earth weighs about 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons (1 metric ton=2,204.6 pounds)

I didn't know any of these facts.

10 Seeing the color red can make your heart beat faster

The Contenders

11 The color blue changes your appetite.

Honestly, I thought that this one was just weird. If you look around at buffets, you might see a lot of blue plates.

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