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2. 62 Amazing Facts You Probably Didn’tKnow That Will Blow Your Mind

3. The Universe isan amazing place and there’sa lotof things that we will neverknow. From warehouses
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1. The bushesand cloudsin Super Mario Bros are the same, just coloreddifferently.
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5. 2. There are warehousesso big they have their own WEATHER.
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The Nasa Vehicle AssemblyBuildinghasitsownrainclouds.
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3. In 1903 the Wrightbrothers flewfor 59 seconds.38 years later the Japanese bombedPearl Harbor.
28 years after that, we landedon the moon.
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4. Whena male bee climaxes,their testiclesexplode thentheydie.

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5. Cleopatralivedcloserin time to the firstMoon landingthan to the buildingofthe GreatPyramid.

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6. Duck Hunt istwo player.A controller inport 2 controlsthe ducks.
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7. There are more fake flamingosinthe world than real flamingos.

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8. The adult human has two to nine poundsof bacteria in hisor her body.
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9. Blue whalesheart is the size of a VW Beetle andthat you could swimthrough some of itsarteries.
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10. Hydrogen is a light,odorlessgas, which, givenenoughtime,turns intopeople.

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11. All ofthe gold minedinthe history of the world would more or lessfit intoa 20x20x20 meter
cube.
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A total of 165,000 tonnesof goldhave beenminedinhumanhistory,asof 2009.1
Thisisroughly
equivalentto5.3 billiontroyouncesor,intermsof volume,about8,500 cubic meters,ora 20.4m cube.
12. There are more atoms in a single glass ofwater, than glassesof water in all the oceans of the
Earth.
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13. Half of all humans who have everlived,diedfrommalaria.

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14. Martin Sheen’soriginal name was Ramon Estevez.He had two sons, Emilioand Carlos. Emiliokept
the Estevez,but Carloschanged his name to Charlie Sheen.He changed his stage name to ride the
coattails of his father’schanged stage name.
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15. Alcohol is considereda performance-enhancingdrugin competitive shootingcompetitions.

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16. Once Charlie Chaplinentereda contest for “Charlie Chaplinlook-alikes” andhe came inthird.
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17. If you shuffle a deck ofcards, chances are that the new orderof playing cards has neverexisted
before.

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18. Of all the people in historythat have reached65 years of age, half ofthem are livingright now.
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19. Fold overa piece ofpaper 42 timesand it will reach the moon
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13. 20. Pirates wear eye patches so that they can see in the dark.
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Whentheygo to a lowerdeckwithpoorlighting,theycanremove the patchand see betterwiththat
eye since it’sused tothe dark, whereasthe othereye wouldtake several minutestoadjusttothe
change in light.
21. It took thousandsof years after domesticatingthe horse to invent the stirrup.
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22. 54 millionpeople alive rightnow will be dead within12 months.

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23. You replace everyparticle inyour body everysevenyears.You are literallynot the same person
you were 7 years ago.
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24. Whenyour mother was born, she was already carrying the egg that would become you.

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25. A tree isthe opposite of your lungs.Physicallyand functionally.
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26. Mayonnaise is made from oil and eggs.

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27. The sun is 400x further from the earth than the moon, but the moon is 400x smallerthan the sun.
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28. All the humans on the planetcould fit into1 cubic mile.
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29. Goats have rectangular pupils.

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30. If there was no space betweenany of its atoms, Earth wouldbe the size ofa baseball.
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31. If you put all the earth’sants in one pile,and all the earth’s humans in another pile,the pile made
of ants would be bigger (have more mass).
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32. You’re not stuck intraffic, you are traffic.

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33. Sloths mistakenlygrab their arms insteadof the branches of a tree,and theyfall to theirdeaths.
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34. Penguinswill give theirmate a pebble as a way of proposing.

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35. Butterfliesare cannibals.

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36. Turtles can breathe out of theirbutts

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37. A small percentage of static on televisionsisactuallyradioactive resonance from the bigbang 13
billionyearsago.
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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 minutesfrom the Sun’s surface to your eyeball

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39. Both ofJack Black’s parents were rocket scientists.

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40. A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
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41. Velociraptorswere just slightlybiggerthan chickens.
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42. A pencil has the potential to draw a line 38 mileslong.
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24. 43. There isa speciesofjellyfishthatis immortal (turritopsisnutricula).
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44. The largest air force inthe world is the US Air Force. The secondlargest air force inthe world is the
US Navy.
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45. Horseshoe crabs have eyeson their tail.

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46. A Nintendohad over twice the computing powerof the firstlunar lander.
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47. Lighters were inventedbefore matches.

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48. Psychologyis the brain trying to comprehenditself.
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49. If a man nevercut his beard, by the time he diesit wouldbe 30 feetlong.
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27. 50. 1 spermhas 37.5MB of DNA informationin it. That means a normal ejaculationrepresentsa data
transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
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51. The populationof Irelandis still 2 millionlessthan it was before the potato famine,160 years ago.
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52. The last presidentthat wasn’t a Republicanor Democrat was MillardFillmore in1853

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53. You have 0.5% chance of beingrelatedto GenghisKhan.
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54. The USA isan oldercountry than Germany.

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Germanybecame one countryonlyin1871.
55. Napoleonwas not unusuallyshort. The French inch was longerthan the British inch, so while he
was thought to be 5’2” by most of the world, in realityhe was closerto 5’7”, an average heightfor a
Frenchman.

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56. If you keepgoing North,you will eventuallygoSouth. If you keepgoingEast, you will nevergo
West.
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57. Vendingmachineskill 4 timesas many people as sharks.

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58. There isa garbage swirl inthe ocean the size ofTexas.
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59. Black HP printer inkcosts roughly1,400 timesas much as crude oil,gallon for gallon.

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60. George Washingtonspentabout 7% ofhis annual salary on booze.
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61. A Mosquito has 47 teeth.

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62. A banana is actually a berry. A strawberry isn’t.
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