23 Insanely Crazy Facts That Are Actually True

1.

The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice

2.

Cashews grow like this

3.

And pineapples grow like this

4.

Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto

5.

Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia

6.

Hippo milk is pink

7.

The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts

8.

Woody from Toy Story has a full name too — it’s Woody Pride

9.

Oh, and Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid

10.

Carrots were originally purple

11.

The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries

12.

Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is

13.

France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.

14.

Armadillos nearly always give birth to identical quadruplets

15.

The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland

16.

New York City is further south than Rome, Italy

17.

North Korea and Finland are separated by one country

18.

Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid

19.

There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos

20.

Nintendo was founded as a playing card company back in 1889

21.

The man who voiced Fry on Futurama, Billy West, also voiced Doug on Doug

22.

If you shrunk the sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way Galaxy down using the same scale, it would be the size of the continental United States

23.

Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet