These 25 Things Might Sound Crazy But They’re Mind-Blowingly True. #9 Is AWESOME.
Check out these incredible facts.
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 theaters.
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 kllled 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.) Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn.
16.) There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.
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.
(H/T list25)
If a strawberry isn’t a straw or a berry, then what is it? That’s easy: delicious. Seriously though, how are these things true? I feel like my life has been flipped upside down–or is it downside up? I really don’t know what to believe anymore.
Where you surprised at any of these? Which was your favorite?
TalesAlongTheWay 
Guess my weird fact file was at zero. 10 % of all photos ever taken in the last 12 months? This is what going digital does. My favorite – it rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn – am catching the next launch. 😉
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Who wouldn’t love that rain fall? LOL
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I knew some of these and not others, but I think my favourite is Scotland’s national animal 😀
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Isn’t that great? I love that , too!
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#22 is my favorite.
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Beautiful! Thanks!
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#1 and #5 blew me away!! #13 made me chuckle 🙂 interesting read, thank you!
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Right now I think the people of California would think rain was even more precious than the diamonds that rain on Jupiter and Saturn.
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What a great way for Jessica to come about
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