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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 4 Likes 2 Shares |
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 |
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by JhyMedex: 9:40pm On Nov 15, 2014 |
Thewhizzkid1:Duly noted Boss... |
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by JhyMedex: 9:41pm On Nov 15, 2014 |
bigt2:Doz piggies got it rily gud... |
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by JhyMedex: 9:42pm On Nov 15, 2014 |
bigt2:Doz piggies got it rily gud... [ |
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: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 |
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Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by dew1: 11:08pm On Nov 15, 2014 |
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!! 1 Like |
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: |
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: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: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:okay |
Re: 62 Amazing Facts That'll Blow Your Mind!!! by SpaceGoat: 4:02am On Nov 16, 2014 |
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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 |
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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. |
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