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62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by JhyMedex: 9:06pm On Nov 15, 2014
1. The bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros are
the same, just colored differently.
Via nintendoeverything.com

2. There are warehouses so big they have their
own WEATHER.
The Nasa Vehicle Assembly Building has its own
rainclouds.
You can find out more awesome facts like this
here.
qmiservices.net / Via qmiservices.net

3. In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for 59
seconds. 38 years later the Japanese bombed Pearl
Harbor. 28 years after that, we landed on the
moon.
Via en.wikipedia.org

4. When a male bee climaxes, their testicles
explode then they die.
Via answers.yahoo.com

5. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon
landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Via omg-facts.com

6. Duck Hunt is two player. A controller in port 2
controls the ducks.
Via en.wikipedia.org

7. There are more fake flamingos in the world
than real flamingos.
Via omg-facts.com

8. The adult human has two to nine pounds of
bacteria in his or her body.
Via nytimes.com

9. Blue whales heart is the size of a VW Beetle
and that you could swim through some of its
arteries.
Via whalefacts.org

10. Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given
enough time, turns into people.
Via smithsonianmag.com

11. All of the gold mined in the history of the
world would more or less fit into a 20x20x20
meter cube.
From wikipedia:
A total of 165,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in
human history, as of 2009. This is roughly equivalent
to 5.3 billion troy ounces or, in terms of volume,
about 8,500 cubic meters, or a 20.4m cube.
Via omgfans.

1
12. There are more atoms in a single glass of
water, than glasses of water in all the oceans of
the Earth.
Via physicsforums.com

13. Half of all humans who have ever lived, died
from malaria.
Via reddit.com

14. Martin Sheen’s original name was Ramon
Estevez. He had two sons, Emilio and Carlos.
Emilio kept the Estevez, but Carlos changed his
name to Charlie Sheen. He changed his stage
name to ride the coattails of his father’s changed
stage name.
Via scribd.com

15. Alcohol is considered a performance-
enhancing drug in competitive shooting
competitions.
Via en.wikipedia.org

16. Once Charlie Chaplin entered a contest for
“Charlie Chaplin look-alikes” and he came in third.
Via en.wikipedia.org

17. If you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are
that the new order of playing cards has never
existed before.
Via qi.com

18. Of all the people in history that have reached
65 years of age, half of them are living right now.
Via wisegeek.com

19. Fold over a piece of paper 42 times and it will
reach the moon
Via scienceblogs.com

20. Pirates wear eye patches so that they can see
in the dark.
When they go to a lower deck with poor lighting, they
can remove the patch and see better with that eye
since it's used to the dark, whereas the other eye
would take several minutes to adjust to the change in
light.
Via mentalfloss.com

21. It took thousands of years after domesticating
the horse to invent the stirrup.
Via en.wikipedia.org

22. 54 million people alive right now will be dead
within 12 months.
Via who.int

23. You replace every particle in your body every
seven years. You are literally not the same person
you were 7 years ago.
Via ted.com

24. When your mother was born, she was already
carrying the egg that would become you.
Via babycenter.com

25. A tree is the opposite of your lungs. Physically
and functionally.
Via stritch.luc.edu

26. Mayonnaise is made from oil and eggs.
Via whatscookingamerica.net

27. The sun is 400x further from the earth than
the moon, but the moon is 400x smaller than the
sun.
Via forum.bodybuilding.com

28. All the humans on the planet could fit into 1
cubic mile.
Via democraticunderground.com

29. Goats have rectangular pupils.
Via listverse.com

30. If there was no space between any of its
atoms, Earth would be the size of a baseball.
Via fark.com

31. If you put all the earth’s ants in one pile, and
all the earth’s humans in another pile, the pile
made of ants would be bigger (have more mass).
Via ranker.com

32. You’re not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
Via autoevolution.com

33. Sloths mistakenly grab their arms instead of
the branches of a tree, and they fall to their
deaths.
Via inagist.com

34. Penguins will give their mate a pebble as a
way of proposing.
Via news.nationalgeographic.com

35. Butterflies are cannibals.
lepidopterran..com / Via
skull81.deviantart.com

36. Turtles can breathe out of their butts
Via straightdope.com

37. A small percentage of static on televisions is
actually radioactive resonance from the big bang
13 billion years ago.
Via en.wikipedia.org

38. It takes a photon, on average, 200,000 years
to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface,
then just a little over 8 minutes from the Sun’s
surface to your eyeball
Via quora.com

39. Both of Jack Black’s parents were rocket
scientists.
Via en.wikipedia.org

40. A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
Via skeptics.stackexchange.com

41. Velociraptors were just slightly bigger than
chickens.
Via en.wikipedia.org

42. A pencil has the potential to draw a line 38
miles long.
Via news-leader.com

43. There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal
(turritopsis nutricula).
Via en.wikipedia.org

44. The largest air force in the world is the US Air
Force. The second largest air force in the world is
the US Navy.
Via commons.wikimedia.org

45. Horseshoe crabs have eyes on their tail.
Via biol.andrews.edu

46. A Nintendo had over twice the computing
power of the first lunar lander.
Via en.wikipedia.org

47. Lighters were invented before matches.
Via en.wikipedia.org

48. Psychology is the brain trying to comprehend
itself.
Via psychology.about.com

49. If a man never cut his beard, by the time he
dies it would be 30 feet long.
Via lifesmith.com

50. 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it.
That means a normal ejaculation represents a
data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
Via reddit.com

51. The population of Ireland is still 2 million less
than it was before the potato famine, 160 years
ago.
Via en.wikipedia.org

52. The last president that wasn’t a Republican or
Democrat was Millard Fillmore in 1853
Via whitehouse.gov

53. You have 0.5% chance of being related to
Genghis Khan.
Via biography.com

54. The USA is an older country than Germany.
Germany became one country only in 1871.
Via americavsgermany..com

55. Napoleon was not unusually short. The French
inch was longer than the British inch, so while he
was thought to be 5’2” by most of the world, in
reality he was closer to 5’7”, an average height for
a Frenchman.
Via en.wikipedia.org

56. If you keep going North, you will eventually go
South. If you keep going East, you will never go
West.
Via en.wikipedia.org

57. Vending machines kill 4 times as many people
as sharks.
Via omg-facts.com

58. There is a garbage swirl in the ocean the size
of Texas.
Via bigblueorb.

59. Black HP printer ink costs roughly 1,400 times
as much as crude oil, gallon for gallon.
Via longandshortit.com

60. George Washington spent about 7% of his
annual salary on booze.
Via en.wikipedia.org

61. A Mosquito has 47 teeth.
Via ask.com

62. A banana is actually a berry. A strawberry
isn’t.
Via

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Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by Princecalm(m): 9:12pm On Nov 15, 2014
Nice facts but your 10,19 and 61 are really extraordinary.
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by Thewhizzkid1(m): 9:24pm On Nov 15, 2014
Mosquito with teeth? God!!!!
Immortal jellyfish is Turritopsis dohrnii. Turritopis nutricula is d old classification.
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by QAPHAYNE: 9:33pm On Nov 15, 2014
Op na GOD go bless you. These are really amazing facts.
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by bigt2(m): 9:38pm On Nov 15, 2014
50. 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it.
That means a normal expulsion represents a
data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
40. A pigs heavenly feeling lasts 30 minutes
61. A Mosquito has 47 teeth.
Via ask.com

62. A banana is actually a berry. A strawberry shocked
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by JhyMedex: 9:40pm On Nov 15, 2014
Thewhizzkid1:
Mosquito with teeth? God!!!!
Immortal jellyfish is Turritopsis dohrnii. Turritopis nutricula is d old classification.
Duly noted Boss...
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by JhyMedex: 9:41pm On Nov 15, 2014
bigt2:
50. 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it.
That means a normal expulsion represents a
data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
40. A pigs heavenly feeling lasts 30 minutes
61. A Mosquito has 47 teeth.
Via ask.com

62. A banana is actually a berry. A strawberry shocked
Doz piggies got it rily gud...
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by JhyMedex: 9:42pm On Nov 15, 2014
bigt2:
50. 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it.
That means a normal expulsion represents a
data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
40. A pigs heavenly feeling lasts 30 minutes
61. A Mosquito has 47 teeth.
Via ask.com

62. A banana is actually a berry. A strawberry shocked
Doz piggies got it rily gud... grin[
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by Unekz(m): 9:47pm On Nov 15, 2014
what more can i say.......
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by Nobody: 9:55pm On Nov 15, 2014
poor male bee,
Pig? 30mins? Wow.
And the turritopsis nutricula, i find this one more amazing. I wanna see this immortal thing. Where can i find it?
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by Thewhizzkid1(m): 9:55pm On Nov 15, 2014
JhyMedex:
Duly noted Boss...
They are not entirely immortal anyway. They can be killed by diseases and they can be "chopulated" by other fishes.
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by Nobody: 10:48pm On Nov 15, 2014
.
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by dew1: 11:08pm On Nov 15, 2014
shocked
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by Nobody: 11:26pm On Nov 15, 2014
Whaaaaaaat!! If fact .50. 1 sperm has 37.5MB
of DNA information in
it.
That means a normal
expulsion represents a
data transfer of
1587GB in about 3
seconds

then i believe, women v-slot storage capacity, is more than 600 terabytes! Wonderful!!

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Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by tomiobj(m): 11:31pm On Nov 15, 2014
No 23 is actually 10 years not 7
JhyMedex:

1. The bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros are
the same, just colored differently.
Via nintendoeverything.com

2. There are warehouses so big they have their
own WEATHER.
The Nasa Vehicle Assembly Building has its own
rainclouds.
You can find out more awesome facts like this
here.
qmiservices.net / Via qmiservices.net

3. In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for 59
seconds. 38 years later the Japanese bombed Pearl
Harbor. 28 years after that, we landed on the
moon.
Via en.wikipedia.org

4. When a male bee climaxes, their testicles
explode then they die.
Via answers.yahoo.com

5. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon
landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Via omg-facts.com

6. Duck Hunt is two player. A controller in port 2
controls the ducks.
Via en.wikipedia.org

7. There are more fake flamingos in the world
than real flamingos.
Via omg-facts.com

8. The adult human has two to nine pounds of
bacteria in his or her body.
Via nytimes.com

9. Blue whales heart is the size of a VW Beetle
and that you could swim through some of its
arteries.
Via whalefacts.org

10. Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given
enough time, turns into people.
Via smithsonianmag.com

11. All of the gold mined in the history of the
world would more or less fit into a 20x20x20
meter cube.
From wikipedia:
A total of 165,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in
human history, as of 2009. This is roughly equivalent
to 5.3 billion troy ounces or, in terms of volume,
about 8,500 cubic meters, or a 20.4m cube.
Via omgfans.

1
12. There are more atoms in a single glass of
water, than glasses of water in all the oceans of
the Earth.
Via physicsforums.com

13. Half of all humans who have ever lived, died
from malaria.
Via reddit.com

14. Martin Sheen’s original name was Ramon
Estevez. He had two sons, Emilio and Carlos.
Emilio kept the Estevez, but Carlos changed his
name to Charlie Sheen. He changed his stage
name to ride the coattails of his father’s changed
stage name.
Via scribd.com

15. Alcohol is considered a performance-
enhancing drug in competitive shooting
competitions.
Via en.wikipedia.org

16. Once Charlie Chaplin entered a contest for
“Charlie Chaplin look-alikes” and he came in third.
Via en.wikipedia.org

17. If you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are
that the new order of playing cards has never
existed before.
Via qi.com

18. Of all the people in history that have reached
65 years of age, half of them are living right now.
Via wisegeek.com

19. Fold over a piece of paper 42 times and it will
reach the moon
Via scienceblogs.com

20. Pirates wear eye patches so that they can see
in the dark.
When they go to a lower deck with poor lighting, they
can remove the patch and see better with that eye
since it's used to the dark, whereas the other eye
would take several minutes to adjust to the change in
light.
Via mentalfloss.com

21. It took thousands of years after domesticating
the horse to invent the stirrup.
Via en.wikipedia.org

22. 54 million people alive right now will be dead
within 12 months.
Via who.int

23. You replace every particle in your body every
seven years. You are literally not the same person
you were 7 years ago.
Via ted.com

24. When your mother was born, she was already
carrying the egg that would become you.
Via babycenter.com

25. A tree is the opposite of your lungs. Physically
and functionally.
Via stritch.luc.edu

26. Mayonnaise is made from oil and eggs.
Via whatscookingamerica.net

27. The sun is 400x further from the earth than
the moon, but the moon is 400x smaller than the
sun.
Via forum.bodybuilding.com

28. All the humans on the planet could fit into 1
cubic mile.
Via democraticunderground.com

29. Goats have rectangular pupils.
Via listverse.com

30. If there was no space between any of its
atoms, Earth would be the size of a baseball.
Via fark.com

31. If you put all the earth’s ants in one pile, and
all the earth’s humans in another pile, the pile
made of ants would be bigger (have more mass).
Via ranker.com

32. You’re not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
Via autoevolution.com

33. Sloths mistakenly grab their arms instead of
the branches of a tree, and they fall to their
deaths.
Via inagist.com

34. Penguins will give their mate a pebble as a
way of proposing.
Via news.nationalgeographic.com

35. Butterflies are cannibals.
lepidopterran..com / Via
skull81.deviantart.com

36. Turtles can breathe out of their butts
Via straightdope.com

37. A small percentage of static on televisions is
actually radioactive resonance from the big bang
13 billion years ago.
Via en.wikipedia.org

38. It takes a photon, on average, 200,000 years
to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface,
then just a little over 8 minutes from the Sun’s
surface to your eyeball
Via quora.com

39. Both of Jack Black’s parents were rocket
scientists.
Via en.wikipedia.org

40. A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
Via skeptics.stackexchange.com

41. Velociraptors were just slightly bigger than
chickens.
Via en.wikipedia.org

42. A pencil has the potential to draw a line 38
miles long.
Via news-leader.com

43. There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal
(turritopsis nutricula).
Via en.wikipedia.org

44. The largest air force in the world is the US Air
Force. The second largest air force in the world is
the US Navy.
Via commons.wikimedia.org

45. Horseshoe crabs have eyes on their tail.
Via biol.andrews.edu

46. A Nintendo had over twice the computing
power of the first lunar lander.
Via en.wikipedia.org

47. Lighters were invented before matches.
Via en.wikipedia.org

48. Psychology is the brain trying to comprehend
itself.
Via psychology.about.com

49. If a man never cut his beard, by the time he
dies it would be 30 feet long.
Via lifesmith.com

50. 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it.
That means a normal ejaculation represents a
data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
Via reddit.com

51. The population of Ireland is still 2 million less
than it was before the potato famine, 160 years
ago.
Via en.wikipedia.org

52. The last president that wasn’t a Republican or
Democrat was Millard Fillmore in 1853
Via whitehouse.gov

53. You have 0.5% chance of being related to
Genghis Khan.
Via biography.com

54. The USA is an older country than Germany.
Germany became one country only in 1871.
Via americavsgermany..com

55. Napoleon was not unusually short. The French
inch was longer than the British inch, so while he
was thought to be 5’2” by most of the world, in
reality he was closer to 5’7”, an average height for
a Frenchman.
Via en.wikipedia.org

56. If you keep going North, you will eventually go
South. If you keep going East, you will never go
West.
Via en.wikipedia.org

57. Vending machines kill 4 times as many people
as sharks.
Via omg-facts.com

58. There is a garbage swirl in the ocean the size
of Texas.
Via bigblueorb.

59. Black HP printer ink costs roughly 1,400 times
as much as crude oil, gallon for gallon.
Via longandshortit.com

60. George Washington spent about 7% of his
annual salary on booze.
Via en.wikipedia.org

61. A Mosquito has 47 teeth.
Via ask.com

62. A banana is actually a berry. A strawberry
isn’t.
Via
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by kelechiMarie(f): 11:58pm On Nov 15, 2014
Amazing facts bt op you said the largest airforce is the us airforce and d second is the us navyi dnt get
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by JhyMedex: 1:34am On Nov 16, 2014
missberrypop5:
poor male bee,
Pig? 30mins? Wow.
And the turritopsis nutricula, i find this one more amazing. I wanna see this immortal thing. Where can i find it?
quite simple... U fly wit Me 2 D Caribbeans or Canada or d US of A...
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by JhyMedex: 1:44am On Nov 16, 2014
kelechiMarie:
Amazing facts bt op you said the largest airforce is the us airforce and d second is the us navyi dnt get
d rankings was compiled based on numba of combatants n fighter jets... d US navy also partake in air raids... so doz d Russian defence
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by kelechiMarie(f): 1:57am On Nov 16, 2014
JhyMedex:
d rankings was compiled based on numba of combatants n fighter jets... d US navy also partake in air raids... so doz d Russian defence
okay
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by SpaceGoat: 4:02am On Nov 16, 2014
guys stop doing this if you want to have a girlfriend
https://www.nairaland.com/1999306/guys-dont-get-it-see
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by Biggty(m): 7:12am On Nov 16, 2014
Amazing fact indeed, poor bee
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by simdam500(m): 7:59am On Nov 16, 2014
62........... I can't read through because my son is screaming "daddy let go to church."




brb
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by Nobody: 9:49am On Nov 16, 2014
really informative, thanks o.p.
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by constance500: 10:57am On Nov 16, 2014
Leanne join the queue
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by johnstar(m): 12:04pm On Nov 16, 2014
cool.
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by GraceBestowed(f): 12:13pm On Nov 16, 2014
Mosquitoes with more teeth than you and I. I can't shout!!
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by Nobody: 12:43pm On Nov 16, 2014
vendi vidi vicki
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by binie: 1:22pm On Nov 16, 2014
Please Nigerians, lets all go out and Vote Vincent Enyeama right now for the BBC African Footballer of the year... with just 2 clicks. He deserves it. http://bbc.co.uk/sport/football/african/afoty-vote/2014-nojs

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Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by Odisco2(m): 2:10pm On Nov 16, 2014
in case
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by sandradayz(f): 2:59pm On Nov 16, 2014
Nice. shocked cheesy

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