10 Amazing Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

1.

The longest piece of English literature ever written is over 4,000,000 words long. It was written by a single person and is a Super Smash Bros fan fiction.

2.

Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization. The origination of the Aztec civilization, marked by the founding of the city of Tenochtitlán at Lake Texcoco, didn’t come until 1325, Oxford began classes in 1096.

3.

Supernovas are so bright that if one went off and we were to observed it at the same distance as the sun is from the Earth, it would be 9 orders of magnitude brighter than putting your eyeballs directly against an atomic bomb during detonation.

4.

Killer whales are natural predators of moose. Whales commonly attack moose as they swim from one island to the next in Alaska.

5.

California's population is greater than all of Canada. Canada has roughly 35 million residents while California has 38 million.

6.

At the time the great pyramids were being built in Egypt, Wooly Mammoths still roamed the earth.

7.

Nepal Airlines once sacrificed a goat in an attempt to fix its terrifyingly bad safety record.

8.

A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB.

9.

New York City is farther south than Rome

10.

The Sama-Bajau people of the Southeast Asian coast rarely go on land, have no nationality, no currency and spear fish without scuba equipment or tanks.