Some of these are way off so hard to believe but a great thread!

Bye guys im going to jupiter ill do a $1000 dollar giveaway when i get back lol jk

Some of these facts are bizarre!

Most of them sound fake

Ok concerning the Jupiter Saturn (and Neptune and frankly any planet with an incredibly strong gravitational force) diamonds.

Diamonds are made out of compressed carbon, and the gravity on these massive planets is strong enough to quite literally squeeze carbon into diamonds, it's science, we have created diamond presses in labs (google synthetic diamonds). The reason that no one is EVER going to get these diamonds is 1. The planets are made of toxic gases in the dead vacuum of space with no where to land and 2. The diamonds in the wind are moving as fast as bullets and would destroy any craft going to get them. Also, diamonds are worthless, made popular around the mid 1900s by the De Beers company so that they could make bank, but diamonds aren't really all that valuable.

These are some pretty cool facts.

I really didn't know about #15 and #19.

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#1. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.

#2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

#3. France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars: A New Hope hit theatres.

#4. Nintendo was originally a trading card company.

#5. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States.

#6. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.

#7. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.

#8. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans.

#9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.

#10. Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months.

#11. Shakespeare made up the name Jessica for his play Merchant of Venice.

#12. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark.

#13. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.

#14. Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets.

#15. Scotlands national animal is the unicorn.

#16. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.

#17. John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today.

#18. A strawberry is NOT a berry.

#19. A banana IS a berry.

#20. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid.

#21. An octopus has three hearts.

#22. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.

#23. There is only one country between North Korea and Norway.

#24. New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy

#25. Maine is the closest US state to Africa.

I thought these were interesting what do you guys think?

There are 3 countries between North Korea and Norway....

And how someone ACTUALLY prove some of these facts?

How do scientist know that there is 1.6 million ants for every human? How do we know how many stars are in space? W have never been to Jupiter or Saturn so how do we know it rains diamonds?

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Fold wrote Ok concerning the Jupiter Saturn (and Neptune and frankly any planet with an incredibly strong gravitational force) diamonds.

Diamonds are made out of compressed carbon, and the gravity on these massive planets is strong enough to quite literally squeeze carbon into diamonds, it's science, we have created diamond presses in labs (google synthetic diamonds). The reason that no one is EVER going to get these diamonds is 1. The planets are made of toxic gases in the dead vacuum of space with no where to land and 2. The diamonds in the wind are moving as fast as bullets and would destroy any craft going to get them. Also, diamonds are worthless, made popular around the mid 1900s by the De Beers company so that they could make bank, but diamonds aren't really all that valuable.

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According to this graph Diamonds are actually worth something....

SELU wrote

There are 3 countries between North Korea and Norway....

And how someone ACTUALLY prove some of these facts?

How do scientist know that there is 1.6 million ants for every human? How do we know how many stars are in space? W have never been to Jupiter or Saturn so how do we know it rains diamonds?

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Fold wrote Ok concerning the Jupiter Saturn (and Neptune and frankly any planet with an incredibly strong gravitational force) diamonds.

Diamonds are made out of compressed carbon, and the gravity on these massive planets is strong enough to quite literally squeeze carbon into diamonds, it's science, we have created diamond presses in labs (google synthetic diamonds). The reason that no one is EVER going to get these diamonds is 1. The planets are made of toxic gases in the dead vacuum of space with no where to land and 2. The diamonds in the wind are moving as fast as bullets and would destroy any craft going to get them. Also, diamonds are worthless, made popular around the mid 1900s by the De Beers company so that they could make bank, but diamonds aren't really all that valuable.

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According to this graph Diamonds are actually worth something....

The idea of a diamond engagement ring is roughly a century old. Guess who invented the concept? Not surprisingly, it's the same people who mined the diamonds -- the De Beers diamond syndicate.

Read some of those, diamonds are just a monopoly and are only worth something because we were told they were worth something. Diamonds aren't really all that rare comparative to other precious minerals either. Just think of how many people you know who own a diamond ring/watch/necklace/earrings/bracelet. I'd get you the numbers but sadly they don't exist to the public.

You're other questions:
Countries: Russia touches both NK and Norway, the wording was poor but, you could get from Norway to NK without touching any other country but Russia.

Ants: rough estimate but backed by colonies like the Ishikari colony which had about 400 million ants in 1 square mile which about 17.5% of the total population of humans right there in a square mile of land. Read this: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Stars: rough estimate (but correct just by the scope of the Universe) There's about 100 billion stars just in the Milky Way, and that's one galaxy out of billions in the observable Universe.

Diamonds: Physics, as explained above.

Wow! This is impressive sh*t, I did not know any of these(Im pretty dumb).

The ants one if so weird and thanks for sharing this with us, Learn something new everyday