Here’s one that often surprises people:
Honey never really spoils. Archaeologists have found edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs thousands of years old. Its low moisture, acidity, and natural enzymes make it very hard for bacteria and microbes to survive in it.
A well-shuffled deck of 52 playing cards is almost certainly in an order that has never existed before in human history.
There are 52! possible arrangements, which is about:
80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000
That’s so huge that even if billions of people shuffled cards every second since the invention of cards, they’d still have explored only a tiny fraction of all possible orders.
Sharks are older than trees.
Sharks have existed for about 400+ million years, while the earliest true trees appeared around 385 million years ago. So sharks were swimming in oceans before forests covered land.