1. The bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros are the same, just colored differently.
3. In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for 59 seconds. 38 years later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. 28 years after that, we landed on the moon.
4. When a male bee climaxes, their testicles explode then they die.
5. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Via omg-facts.com
7. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.
8. The adult human has two to nine pounds of bacteria in his or her body.
9. Blue whales heart is the size of a VW Beetle and that you could swim through some of its arteries.
Via whalefacts.org
10. Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.
11. All of the gold mined in the history of the world would more or less fit into a 20x20x20 meter cube.
12. There are more atoms in a single glass of water, than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.
14. Martin Sheen’s original name was Ramon Estevez. He had two sons, Emilio and Carlos. Emilio kept the Estevez, but Carlos changed his name to Charlie Sheen. He changed his stage name to ride the coattails of his father’s changed stage name.
15. Alcohol is considered a performance-enhancing drug in competitive shooting competitions.
16. Once Charlie Chaplin entered a contest for “Charlie Chaplin look-alikes” and he came in third.
17. If you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are that the new order of playing cards has never existed before.
Via qi.com
18. Of all the people in history that have reached 65 years of age, half of them are living right now.
20. Pirates wear eye patches so that they can see in the dark.
When they go to a lower deck with
poor lighting, they can remove the patch and see better with that eye
since it’s used to the dark, whereas the other eye would take several
minutes to adjust to the change in light.
21. It took thousands of years after domesticating the horse to invent the stirrup.
23. You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.
Via ted.com
24. When your mother was born, she was already carrying the egg that would become you.
Via babycenter.com
27. The sun is 400x further from the earth than the moon, but the moon is 400x smaller than the sun.
30. If there was no space between any of its atoms, Earth would be the size of a baseball.
Via fark.com
31. If you put all the earth’s ants in one pile, and all the earth’s humans in another pile, the pile made of ants would be bigger (have more mass).
Via ranker.com
33. Sloths mistakenly grab their arms instead of the branches of a tree, and they fall to their deaths.
Via inagist.com
34. Penguins will give their mate a pebble as a way of proposing.
37. A small percentage of static on televisions is actually radioactive resonance from the big bang 13 billion years ago.
Via en.wikipedia.org
38. It takes a photon, on average, 200,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, then just a little over 8 minutes from the Sun’s surface to your eyeball
Via quora.com
44. The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest air force in the world is the US Navy.
50. 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
Via reddit.com
51. The population of Ireland is still 2 million less than it was before the potato famine, 160 years ago.
Via en.wikipedia.org
52. The last president that wasn’t a Republican or Democrat was Millard Fillmore in 1853
Via whitehouse.gov
54. The USA is an older country than Germany.
Germany became one country only in 1871.
55. Napoleon was not unusually short. The French inch was longer than the British inch, so while he was thought to be 5’2” by most of the world, in reality he was closer to 5’7”, an average height for a Frenchman.
Via en.wikipedia.org
56. If you keep going North, you will eventually go South. If you keep going East, you will never go West.
Via en.wikipedia.org
59. Black HP printer ink costs roughly 1,400 times as much as crude oil, gallon for gallon.
62. A banana is actually a berry. A strawberry isn’t.
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