16 Wild Facts that Might Shatter Your Perspective

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There's no doubt the world is truly an amazing and fascinating place. There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of truly mind-blowing things about this rock we call home.

2.

The time period in which dinosaurs lived is so vast there were dinosaur fossils when dinosaurs were still alive.

3.

If you made $5,000 a day since Columbus first stepped foot in America, you still wouldn't have one billion dollars today, but you'd hit a billion in 2040.

4.

There are more molecules of air in one breath than there are breaths in the atmosphere. That means that every breath you take probably contains at least one molecule of Newton's last breath.

5.

Nintendo was founded 34 years before the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

6.

A bear was enlisted in the Polish army made it to the rank of Corporal. He also smoked, drank and carried weapons to the front during battles. His name was Wojtek

7.

The wow signal came from a part of space 17,000 lightyears away. It emitted a signal 30x stronger than anything we can make today. It lasted for an entire 71 seconds, was on 1444Hz frequency of hydrogen, and we couldn't find the signal again after pointing to the same spot.

8.

When the pyramids were built, there were still some Woolly Mammoths roaming the earth.

9.

There's a place in the Pacific known as Point Nemo. At certain times of the day it's closer to the Iss than to any land mass.

10.

There are more permutations of a standard deck of 52 cards than there are seconds since the Big Bang, over a billion times as many, in fact.

11.

The least financially successful Harry Potter film made a pproximately $90 million more than the most successful Twilight movie.

12.

The Burj Khalifa is so tall you can see two sunsets from it in one day.

13.

Dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy from where our solar system is in present day.

14.

The World's Biggest Tire Producer is Lego The toy company produces approximately 306 million tires per yearfar more than any other manufacturer in the world. They may be tiny toy tires, but the fact still stands.

15.

Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach every day for over 27 years!

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The mayor of the Alaskan town, Talkeetna, is called Stubbs and has been mayor of the town since July 1997. Stubbs is a cat.