You Probably Didn't Know This

March 08, 2018

You Probably Didn't Know This

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.

The bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros are the same, just colored differently.

There are warehouses so big they have their own Weather.

The Nasa Vehicle Assembly Building has its own rainclouds.

When a male bee climaxes, their testicles explode then they die.

There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.

Blue whales heart is the size of a VW Beetle and that you could swim through some of its arteries.

Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

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. 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.

There are more atoms in a single glass of water, than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.

Half of all humans who have ever lived, died from malaria.

If you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are that the new order of playing cards has never existed before.

Of all the people in history that have reached 65 years of age, half of them are living right now.

Fold over a piece of paper 42 times and it will reach the moon.

It took thousands of years after domesticating the horse to invent the stirrup.

You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.

All the humans on the planet could fit into 1 cubic mile.

Goats have rectangular pupils.

If there was no space between any of its atoms, Earth would be the size of a baseball.

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).

Sloths mistakenly grab their arms instead of the branches of a tree, and they fall to their deaths.

A small percentage of static on televisions is actually radioactive resonance from the big bang 13 billion years ago.

Velociraptors were just slightly bigger than chickens.

A pencil has the potential to draw a line 38 miles long.

Lighters were invented before matches.

Psychology is the brain trying to comprehend itself.

If a man never cut his beard, by the time he dies it would be 30 feet long.

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.