62 Amazing Facts You
Probably Didn’t Know That Will Blow Your Mind
1. The bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros are the
same, just colored differently.
2. There are warehouses so big they have their own weather.
The Nasa Vehicle Assembly Building
has its own rainclouds.
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.
6. Duck Hunt is two player. A controller in port 2
controls the ducks.
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.
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.
From wikipedia:
A total of 165,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history, as of 2009.1 This is roughly equivalent to 5.3 billion
troy ounces or, in terms of volume, about 8,500 cubic meters, or a 20.4m cube.
12. There are more atoms in a single glass of water,
than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.
13. Half of all humans who have ever lived, died
from malaria.
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.
18. Of all the people in history that have reached
65 years of age, half of them are living right now.
19. Fold over a piece of paper 42 times and it will
reach the moon
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.
22. 54 million people alive right now will be dead
within 12 months.
23. You replace every particle in your body every
seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.
24. When your mother was born, she was already
carrying the egg that would become you.
25. A tree is the opposite of your lungs. Physically
and functionally.
26. Mayonnaise is made from oil and eggs.
27. The sun is 400x further from the earth than the
moon, but the moon is 400x smaller than the sun.
28. All the humans on the planet could fit into 1
cubic mile.
29. Goats have rectangular pupils.
30. If there was no space between any of its atoms,
Earth would be the size of a baseball.
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).
32. You’re not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
33. Sloths mistakenly grab their arms instead of the
branches of a tree, and they fall to their deaths.
34. Penguins will give their mate a pebble as a way
of proposing.
35. Butterflies are cannibals.
36. Turtles can breathe out of their butts
37. A small percentage of static on televisions is
actually radioactive resonance from the big bang 13 billion years ago.
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
39. Both of Jack Black’s parents were rocket
scientists.
40. A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
41. Velociraptors were just slightly bigger than
chickens.
42. A pencil has the potential to draw a line 38
miles long.
43. There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal
(turritopsis nutricula).
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.
45. Horseshoe crabs have eyes on their tail.
46. A Nintendo had over twice the computing power of
the first lunar lander.
47. Lighters were invented before matches.
48. Psychology is the brain trying to comprehend
itself.
49. If a man never cut his beard, by the time he
dies it would be 30 feet long.
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
51. The population of Ireland is still 2 million
less than it was before the potato famine, 160 years ago.
52. The last president that wasn’t a Republican or
Democrat was Millard Fillmore in 1853
53. You have 0.5% chance of being related to Genghis
Khan.
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.
56. If you keep going North, you will eventually go
South. If you keep going East, you will never go West.
57. Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as
sharks.
58. There is a garbage swirl in the ocean the size
of Texas.
59. Black HP printer ink costs roughly 1,400 times
as much as crude oil, gallon for gallon.
60. George Washington spent about 7% of his annual
salary on booze.
61. A Mosquito has 47 teeth.
62. A banana is actually a berry. A strawberry
isn’t..
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