25 Real Facts That Are Actually Insane

1.

That a spy named Joan Pujol Garcia was awarded the highest honor of service from both the Allies and Axis in the Second World War.

2.

If a billion people from both China and India didn't exist, they would still be the #1 and #2 most populated nations in the world.

3.

That only 6 people have survived rabies. Rabies has a 99% Mortality rate. You can have rabies for an entire year without symptoms and once you have symptoms, its already late. You'll probably die in a couple of days if you have symptoms.

4.

The Loudest Sound In Recorded History Was The Krakatoa Volcanic Eruption Of 1883. It ruptured the eardrums of people more than 40 miles from the epicenter, created a sound wave that circled the globe seven times, and could be heard all the way in New York City, a short 10,000 miles away.

5.

Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire.

6.

There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover north and South America in water one foot deep.

7.

Very few mosquito species prefer human blood, but among those that do, only 5% are deadly to humans. Those 5% though, kill more people annually than humans do.

8.

Every human could fit into a cubic mile.

9.

Dragonflies accelerate at up to 4G and corner at up to 9G.

10.

President Jimmy Carter rappelled into a nuclear reactor that was in partial meltdown to stop the meltdown and save Ottowa. (Before he became President, of course.)

11.

The Australian Funnel Web Spider is often regarded as the world's deadliest and hasn't had a confirmed kill in over 40 years since the antivenom was created.

12.

2/3 of Canada’s population lives south of Seattle.

13.

Tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets.

14.

105 billion people have lived so far. 7.9 billion of us are currently alive.

15.

In 1995, a man named MacArthur Wheeler robbed two banks at gunpoint, he was arrested mere hours later because he didn't wear a mask. Instead, he decided to coat his face in lemon juice because he read that lemon juice can be used to make invisible ink. His logic, was that it would make his face invisible. And reportedly, he said to one of the tellers, "don't worry, I have a face, it's just invisible". The only thing he did when he was arrested was sigh dejectedly and say "but I wore the juice!". His case is actually still in academic journals regarding the fact that people with low intelligence do in fact believe that they're smarter than everyone else.

16.

One of Joseph Stalin's granddaughters is a hipster/punk lady who runs a record shop in Portland.

17.

From the time it was discovered to the time it lost its status as a planet, Pluto made it less than a third of the way around the sun.

18.

An Australian man won the lottery, then on camera to re-enact the winning for the news he bought another ticket... he won the lottery again on camera.

19.

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. Roughly by a factor of 10.

20.

Lightning bolts can reach temperatures 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.

21.

That a spy named Joan Pujol Garcia was awarded the highest honor of service from both the Allies and Axis in the Second World War.

22.

A moose can dive underwater down to nearly twenty feet in search of food.

23.

Ciabatta bread was invented in 1982. It's advertised and perceived as this, traditional, rustic Italian bread that peasants must have enjoyed, but nope--created in the 1980s.

24.

Dinosaurs are older than grass. Every artist rendition you've seen of them roaming fields is wrong. Most ground-level plants were ferns or flowering bushes, not grass.

25.

Clouds weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds, full of water, effortlessly floating above our heads. No support, No structure, just weight, floating around above us and we're like, yep totally believable, because they're clouds, duh.

26.

For 60 million years, there was no bacteria, fungus, anything to decompose trees. They just got crushed under the weight of other dead trees. This is where about 90% of coal comes from.