24 Real Facts That Are Hard To Believe

1.

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

2.

A strawberry is NOT a berry

3.

An octopus has three hearts

4.

Apparently there are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos

5.

Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets

6.

For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants

7.

France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars A New Hope hit theaters

8.

John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today.

9.

Maine is the closest US state to Africa

10.

Your chances of being kllled by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark

11.

New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy

12.

There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid

13.

Nintendo was originally a trading card company

14.

On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds

15.

Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto

16.

Scotland's national animal is the unicorn

17.

Shakespeare made up the name Jessica for his play Merchant of Venice

18.

Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months

19.

The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans

20.

There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells

21.

There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world

22.

Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg

23.

There is only one country between North Korea and Norway

24.

A banana IS a berry