DHAKA: In our strange world, everyday we encounter lots of facts whether be it true or lie. And yet, there are lots, when we hear about those at first that really sound like huge lies and strange but they are actually completely true. Here are some facts
1. If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.
2. The YKK on your zipper stands for “Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha.”
3. Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.
4. The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice.
5. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
6. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
7. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
8. Hippo milk is pink.
9. The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
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 more likely to kill you than a shark is.
13. Home Alone was released closer to the moon landing than it was to today.
14. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
15. Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he’s an egg.
16. France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.
17. Betty White is actually older than sliced bread.
18. A strawberry isn’t a berry but a banana is.
19. North Korea and Finland are separated by one country.
20. Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid.
21. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.
22. And lollipops had not yet been invented.
23. And women did not have the right to vote in the United States.
24. 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.
25. John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, has a grandson who’s alive today.
26. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
27. Peanuts are not nuts. They grow in the ground, so they are legumes.
28. The difference in time between when Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now.
29. Speaking of Alaska — it’s simultaneously the most northern, the most western, and the most eastern state in the U.S.
30. Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet.
31. A thousand seconds is about 16 minutes.
32. A million seconds is about 11 days.
33. A billion seconds is about 32 years.
34. And one trillion seconds is about 32,000 years. A trillion is a lot.
35. But the good news is: Honey never spoils. You can eat 32,000-year-old honey.
36. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth.
37. And there’s enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water.
38. There are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the U.S.
39. For every human on Earth there are approximately 1.6 million ants. The total weight of all those ants is approximately the same as the total weight of all the humans on Earth.
40. An octopus has three hearts.
41. The CEO of Food For The Poor is named Robin Mahfood.
42. One in every 5,000 babies is born with a condition known as “imperforate anus.” This means the baby is born without an anus and has to have one created manually in the hospital.
43. You can’t hum while holding your nose.
44. It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.
45. Also, this is what Jupiter would look like if it were as close to us as the Moon is; and this is what sand looks like under a microscope:
46. The pyramids were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us.
47. If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and dropped a book down, it would take 4 minutes to reach the bottom.
48. There is 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.
49. And 90% of the cells that make us up of aren’t human but mostly fungi and bacteria.
50. Every two minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
51. Turtles can breathe out of their butts.
52. The dot over an “i” is called a “tittle.”
53. There are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth.
54. The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur is almost 100%.
55. At the time the current oldest person on Earth was born, there was a completely different set of human beings on the planet.
56. And at the time you were born, you were briefly the youngest person in the entire world.
57. And, finally, “dog food lid” backwards is “dildo of God.”
Source: BuzzFeed
BDST: 1329 HRS, SEP 04, 2014
