25 Facts That Might Blow Your Mind

1.

We landed on the moon before someone thought to add wheels to suitcases.

2.

Back in the days of dinosaurs, there was no grass. There is some overlap, but there was a time when dinosaurs walked the earth and there was no grass.

3.

80% of soviet men born in 1923 died during WWII.

4.

All the Botox in the world, literally every gram, is produced in a factory in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.

5.

Greenland sharks can become up to 400 years old and don’t reach sexual maturity until they’re 150.

6.

Martin Luther King, Jr., and Anne Frank were born the same year.

7.

A graveyard is connected to a church while a cemetery is not.

8.

You know when you get up too fast and feel dizzy? Squeezing/stiffening your buttocks together stops the dizziness.

9.

There are more castles in Germany than there are McDonalds in the U.S.

10.

Neptune was originally discovered as apparently inexplicable changes in the orbital path of Uranus. Because a man named Le Verrier observing these alterations decided that there must be an orderly reason for it, he calculated where another planet would have to be to cause Uranus to act like that, and still keep the laws of gravitation discovered by Sir Isaac newton. He then sent his calculations to Royal Observatory in Berlin, and the prediction was within 1° of its actual position.

11.

The gene for six fingers is dominant, five fingers recessive.

12.

Ancient Egypt and mammoths existed at the same time.

13.

"OMG" usage can be traced back to 1917.

14.

The Earth is traveling through space at 2.1 million km/h (1.3 million mph) relative to the cosmic background radiation. Which means by the time you finished reading this, you've traveled roughly 8,700km (5,420 mi) through space.

15.

There was ONE homicide recorded in New York City on September 11, 2001. The official crime stats don’t include the terrorist attacks because that would tremendously skew the results.

16.

Whales are closer to artiodactyls (even-toed hoofed animals) than they are to seals or manatees. Whales are essentially just wet deer with extra steps.

17.

Tamales are one of the oldest dishes on earth still commonly eaten today.

18.

A tablespoon of oil can calm about half an acre of water. It spreads out to form a layer 1-molecule thick on top of the water. That's why oil spills are so harmful and destructive. The largest oil spill (BP) was about 61,488,636,185 tablespoons, or about 68,000 miles of damage.

19.

You could fit the global population on the surface of Lake Superior and each person would have 100 square feet or so. Also, the Great Lakes, in their current formation, are not even as old as the oldest cities on earth.

20.

In a group of 23 random people, the probability of two of them sharing a birthday is over 50%.

21.

The Sahara desert used to be under the ocean, and you can still find seashells in the sand there.

22.

George Washington died in 1799. Dinosaurs were discovered in 1824. George Washington didn't know dinosaurs existed.

23.

The Goonies go underground on the exact same day (Saturday, Oct. 26, 1985) as Marty travels back in time to 1955.

24.

Sharks have been around longer than the rings of Saturn.

25.

German Chocolate Cake was invented in New York by it’s baker Samuel German who wanted to do his version of a Black Forest Cake.