Every once in a while, you might hear something that makes your brain go “Huh?” An idea, fact, or detail that does not at all sit right. So you sit down and Google it, only to have your entire worldview upended.Someone wanted to know what factssound definitely made upbut are actually factually correct. The experts and trivia aficionados of the internet came together to share interesting and obscure facts that you can use. So get comfortable as you scroll through, prepare to have your mind boggled, and be sure to upvote your favorite facts. Comment any other interesting facts you didn’t see mentioned.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Every once in a while, you might hear something that makes your brain go “Huh?” An idea, fact, or detail that does not at all sit right. So you sit down and Google it, only to have your entire worldview upended.
Someone wanted to know what factssound definitely made upbut are actually factually correct. The experts and trivia aficionados of the internet came together to share interesting and obscure facts that you can use. So get comfortable as you scroll through, prepare to have your mind boggled, and be sure to upvote your favorite facts. Comment any other interesting facts you didn’t see mentioned.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
Over 70 years ago then Naval Lieutenant James “Jimmy” Carter led a team that walked into a melting nuclear reactor core and shut it down safely. He got dosed with so much radioactivity (10,000x more than what we now consider safe) he pissed radioactive whizz for months. Yet he outlived not only his Presidential successor but his successor. He’s the nations oldest President ever, and recently celebrated his 77th wedding anniversary, also a record for a President.He’s currently in EOL Hospice care. And has been… for almost 7 months now. The man is made of iron.
it would be cheaper to have medicare for all than the current private healthcare scheme we have in the US. like trillions of dollars cheaper and would help with a lot of the social ills we have at the moment.
Given the number of scientists and historians around the world, it’s not surprising that we have new bits of information or inventions to marvel at every day. For example, if someone were to tell you about holographic animals at a circus performance, you would wonder what sci-fi show they had just watched.Well, Germany’s Roncalli circushas actually done that, using footage they filmed in 1991. The circus boss, wonderfully named Patrick Philadelphia, says the idea came from musicians doing the same. “If you can project someone who’s no longer living onto a holographic screen, why can’t you do it with an animal, a horse, an elephant? So that’s where the idea came from,” he shared with Euronews.
Given the number of scientists and historians around the world, it’s not surprising that we have new bits of information or inventions to marvel at every day. For example, if someone were to tell you about holographic animals at a circus performance, you would wonder what sci-fi show they had just watched.
Well, Germany’s Roncalli circushas actually done that, using footage they filmed in 1991. The circus boss, wonderfully named Patrick Philadelphia, says the idea came from musicians doing the same. “If you can project someone who’s no longer living onto a holographic screen, why can’t you do it with an animal, a horse, an elephant? So that’s where the idea came from,” he shared with Euronews.
Brazil is so big that the northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point in Brazil.
Bats help pollinate the agave plant. So if you like tequila, give props to the bats
While that does seem like a solid idea, have you noticed that you often do your best thinking in the shower? No, you aren’t imagining it,it’s a real feature. Unless you’re taking a cold shower, the relaxation and heat help your brain produce dopamine, which stimulates creativity. So if you are feeling stuck with something, hop in the shower and see where it takes you.
Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died less than a year apart and within 150 miles of each other.
Sharks are older than both trees and the rings of Saturn.
Speaking of ideas, anyone who has spent more than four minutes in a city has no doubt encountered what some deem the “flying rat.” If that wasn’t enough of a hint, it’s a reference to the pigeon. Bumbling, clumsy, and somewhat annoying, these birds can actually tell the differencebetween the works of Picasso and Monet, despite not being able to tell a breadcrumb apart from some sand.
80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.
Trees existed for a while before there was bacteria to break down trees, so most of the earth was just a pile of dead trees for awhile
The moon is roughly 400x smaller than the sun, but also coincidentally about 400x closer to us than the sun. This makes them appear as though they are the same size - helpful for solar eclipses! This will change over time though as the moon drifts away from us, we just happen to live in a time that they appear the same size!
The blue whale tends to feature on this list a lot, as the largest mammal and animal on our planet. Its heart might not fit into most commercial pick-up trucks and we could slide down its veins like a water park ride, but did you know that its massive cardiovascular system works with such power that you can hear its heartbeat two miles away?
A kind of moth is found in Madagascar that almost entirely subsists on the tears of sleeping birds.
Tsutomo Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip and on the day he was supposed to leave, the atomic bomb dropped. Tsutomo survived with minor injuries and returned to his home in Nagasaki where he went to work 3 days later. As he was describing his experience to his supervisor, the second bomb was dropped and he survived without any injuries. He ended up living into his 90s.
The founders of Adidas and Puma were brothers with a sibling rivalry.
As mentioned before, there are more and more interesting facts about the world being revealed every day. Logically, not all of them will “make sense,” so if you want to read more,Bored Pandahas got you covered. Check out our articles onfacts that sound fakeat first but are actually real andour collection of “stupid facts”that are still true.
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire Solar System.
There were already fossilized dinosaur bones while dinosaurs were still alive.
The timespan between the use of copper swords and then steel swords is longer then the timespan between the use of steel swords and the nuclear bomb.
Jimmy Carter left nuclear codes in his jacket, which he had sent to the cleaners.
Human children do not develop kneecaps until they are 3 years old.
There are boat bridges where a boat can travel over a ravine between two bodies of water. These boat bridges only need to be strong enough to hold the water in them. The boats, no matter how heavy they are, never contribute to the weight that the bridge must hold.
2/3 of Canada’s population lives south of Seattle.
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King jr. were born in the same year.
The population of earth would fit inside Texas at the same density as NYC.
More people die annually as a result of coal power than have died due to nuclear power in its entire history.
If you cut some species of worms in half, they can regenerate into 2 separate, fully-functioning worms. On other species, the front half will become a full worm, but the back half will grow another tail instead of a head, and will eventually starve to death because it can’t eat.
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Lighters were invented before matches
A day on Mercury is longer than a year on Mercury and if you could walk on the surface of the planet, you could out-walk the sunset.
that if you knock out a tooth and replace it in its socket, the tooth will grow roots again and survive.
Woolly mammoths we’re walking the earth while the pyramids were being built
Wombats have cube shaped poo
The brain named itself
Johannes Gutenberg, the man credited with creating arguably the most important invention in history, only had an operating printing press for a few years. He went bankrupt after his financier successfully sued him for not paying his loans. His then former financier came into possession of the printing press and any unfinished books.
There was a time when a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln
Plastic was introduced as a means to combat deforestation (paper bags were the norm back then)
Did you know that Alaska is the northernmost, the westernmost, and the easternmost state in the United States? It’s practically playing its own game of hide and seek!
If you shuffle a deck of cards, it’s not only possible, but likely no deck has ever been in the same sequence in the history of humans
The total weight of all the ants on Earth is estimated to be roughly equal to or even greater than the total weight of all the humans on Earth.
The great pyramids were older to Cleopatra than she is to us. Also she was not Egyptian but was the first Egyptian ruler of her dynasty to speak Egyptian.
There used to be trillions of oysters living in New York harbor.
Most peoples wing span is the same as their height
Strawberries are not technically berries
Rabies virus has a 100% kill rate, if left untreated. (There are, like, one or two cases in all of human history of patients beating untreated rabies.)
They put men on the moon before they put wheels on luggage.
You are more likely to win an Olympic Medal than the lottery.
The Phantom Menace is older now than Star Wars was when The Phantom Menace was released.
Virtually all of the South American continent is east of Florida.
The Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal is farther West than the Pacific entrance.
France’s longest border is with Brazil.
Alaska is the centre of the world.I.E if you were going to set up an operation less than eight hours away from the three biggest economies in the world, North America, Asia and Europe then Alaska is the perfect place to set up!
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