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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.
#26. If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.
#27. Hippo milk is pink.
#28. The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries.
#29. Betty White is actually older than sliced bread.
#30. A thousand seconds is about 16 minutes.
#31. A million seconds is about 11 days.
#32. A billion seconds is about 32 years.
#33. And one trillion seconds is about 32,000 years. A trillion is a lot.
#34. But the good news is: Honey never spoils. You can eat 32,000-year-old honey.
#35. Mario hits blocks with his hand, not his head.
#36. You cant hum while holding your nose.
#37. This is what Jupiter would look like if it were as close to us as the Moon is.
#38. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
#39. Turtles can breathe out of their butts.
#40. The dot over an i is called a tittle.
#41. At the time the current oldest person on Earth was born, there was a completely different set of human beings on the planet.
#42. And at the time you were born, you were briefly the youngest person in the entire world.
#43. Peanuts are not nuts. They grow in the ground, so they are legumes.
#44. There is 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.
#45. And 90% of the cells that make us up of arent human but mostly fungi and bacteria.
#46. If a piece of paper were folded 42 times, it would reach to the moon.
#47. This is what sand looks like under a microscope.
#48. One in every 5,000 babies is born with a condition known as imperforate anus. This means the baby is born without an anus and has to have one created manually in the hospital.
#49. The CEO of Food For The Poor is named Robin Mahfood.
#50. Carrots were originally purple.
#51. A snail have 5 buttholes.
#52. Dead people can get goosebumps.
#53. A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light. (Mantis Shrimp are really awesome, I recommend you guys researching them)
#54. Coca-Cola would be green if the food colorant wasn't added.
#55. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
#56. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
#57. Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every day.
#58. Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is different.
#59. The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green.
#60. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
#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.
#26. If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.
#27. Hippo milk is pink.
#28. The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries.
#29. Betty White is actually older than sliced bread.
#30. A thousand seconds is about 16 minutes.
#31. A million seconds is about 11 days.
#32. A billion seconds is about 32 years.
#33. And one trillion seconds is about 32,000 years. A trillion is a lot.
#34. But the good news is: Honey never spoils. You can eat 32,000-year-old honey.
#35. Mario hits blocks with his hand, not his head.
#36. You cant hum while holding your nose.
#37. This is what Jupiter would look like if it were as close to us as the Moon is.
#38. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
#39. Turtles can breathe out of their butts.
#40. The dot over an i is called a tittle.
#41. At the time the current oldest person on Earth was born, there was a completely different set of human beings on the planet.
#42. And at the time you were born, you were briefly the youngest person in the entire world.
#43. Peanuts are not nuts. They grow in the ground, so they are legumes.
#44. There is 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.
#45. And 90% of the cells that make us up of arent human but mostly fungi and bacteria.
#46. If a piece of paper were folded 42 times, it would reach to the moon.
#47. This is what sand looks like under a microscope.
#48. One in every 5,000 babies is born with a condition known as imperforate anus. This means the baby is born without an anus and has to have one created manually in the hospital.
#49. The CEO of Food For The Poor is named Robin Mahfood.
#50. Carrots were originally purple.
#51. A snail have 5 buttholes.
#52. Dead people can get goosebumps.
#53. A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light. (Mantis Shrimp are really awesome, I recommend you guys researching them)
#54. Coca-Cola would be green if the food colorant wasn't added.
#55. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
#56. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
#57. Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every day.
#58. Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is different.
#59. The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green.
#60. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
I thought these were interesting what do you guys think?
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I think the most bizarre fact is probably
#12. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark.
#12. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark.
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Actually quite fascinating, was surprised that strawberry is not a berry but yet a banana is!
Mindfck hehe
Mindfck hehe
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Nice list yeah but these arent totally unbelievable and in fact ive heard just about every single one of these with the exception of #5
Not hard to believe lol
Not hard to believe lol
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#2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire
that's very interesting.
that's very interesting.
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I found a lot of these very interesting, and some unbelievable that I had to Google them just to check haha.
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believe most off them but
"#9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds"
^^^thats straight up bs!
"#9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds"
^^^thats straight up bs!
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#18 and #19 are really weird aha, banana is a berry? thats weird man
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I have heard of the first one, haven't on the rest of them.
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-Email- wrote believe most off them butits true, i know this one is
"#9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds"
^^^thats straight up bs!
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