30 Facts That Sound Like BS, But Are Actually True!
Original article HERE
I thought these were interesting! I haven't fact-checked them, but some of those who made comments on the original article did... Some of these I KNOW to be true, especially #12 and #20.
Hope you enjoy these!
1.Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.
2.Betty White is older than sliced bread.
3.From the time it was discovered to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto hadn't made a full trip around the Sun.
4.The lighter was invented before the match.
5.Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.
6.France last used a guillotine to execute someone after Star Wars premiered.
7.Harvard University was founded before Calculus existed.
8.If you have 23 people in a room, there is a50% chancethat 2 of them have the same birthday.
9.Its never said that Humpty Dumpty was an egg in the nursery rhyme.
10.The water in Lake Superior could cover all of North and South America in a foot of water.
11.North Korea and Finland both border the same country; Russia.
12.When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.
13.Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
14.National animal of Scotland is a Unicorn.
15.The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
16.The lighter the roast of coffee, the more caffeine it has.
17.A speck of dust is halfway in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
18.If the timeline of earth was compressed into one year, humans wouldn't show up until December 31 at 11:58 p.m.
19.If you were able to dig a hole to the center of the earth, and drop something down it, it would take 42 minutes for the object to get there.
20.We went to the moon before we thought to put wheels on suitcases.
21.A human could swim through the arteries of a blue whale.
22.If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, the combined thickness would reach the moon.
23.On both Saturn and Jupiter, it rains diamonds.
24.Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
25. You can line up all 8 planets in our solar system directly next to each other and it would fit in the space between Earth and the Moon.
26. The youngest known mother was 5 years old.
27. The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball, if both were of the same size.
28. Nintendo was founded in 1889.
29. If you take all the molecules in a teaspoon of water and lined them up end to end in a single file line, they would stretch ~30 billion miles.
30. In Australia, there was a war called the emu war. The emus won.
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I put this under the "Other" category, because it didn't seem to fit anywhere...
My thought: Why did anyone invent Calculus in the first place?
AND, while you may not believe that Harvard is older than the Aztec Empire-- it really isn't. Harvard University, LINK , was founded in 1636, while the Aztec Empire came into being around the early 1300's. LINK
So, anyone that wants to fact check all this, please do so!
#26...human 5 yr. old? Seriously how is that possible?
Interesting article...thanks for sharing, Dowser!
I can't imagine-- BUT there are a lot of strange things that go on, when you have the whole world to choose from...
EGAD, snopes says it is true! LINK
This seemed unbelievable then I started calculating in my head (don't hold me to it exactly) and I came up with that after 30 folds the paper would 128 million times it's original thickness. ( I cant get any farther in my head). lol.
24 is true. Australia has the largest number of wild camels in the world.
LGL, there was a whole mythbuster's thing about folding paper... Glad you could that math in your head! I can't do math in my head...
I would never have guessed it!
I've always wanted to go there...
Number 30 is also true. It's known as ''The great emu war'' and took place in West Australia, in the 1920's or 30's. And yes, the Emu's won.
Number 15 is true. The Cubbies are still praying for a championship. LOL
3 cheers for the emus!!!
And, Poor Cubs!
I think that 42 folds would get you into the general area of 500 billion times the thickness of the paper. I was doing very rough figuring though.
WOW! I'd have to get out the calculator...
Glad you liked it!
Note: I always write out exponents to see how many zeroes...
LOL!
Annual Camel Race, Alice Springs, Australia.
That looks like a lot of fun!
So basically the title is a lie ?
I used the title of the original article, Petey. Want me to change it to 29 facts?
I started with 1x2 and multiplied every subsequent result by 2 , 41 more times, and the result is 4 trillion plus ( 4,398,046,511,104). So I was only off by a factor of one billion
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Worry not! I would never have figured it out.
Don't bother . All I'm saying is the title indicates they are all true . Now I have doubts about the validity of all of them ...
15. The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
And we'll probably have colonies on Mars before they win it again.
20. We went to the moon before we thought to put wheels on suitcases.
And 6% of Americans think we never landed a man on the Moon.
A 1999 Gallup poll found that a scant 6 percent of Americans doubted the Apollo 11 moon landing happened, and there is anecdotal evidence that the ranks of such conspiracy theorists, fueled by innuendo-filled documentaries and the Internet, are growing.
As my Dad used to tell me-- "Look 'em up!"
I mean no insult... it was just a Daddy moment!
I was alive and kicking and watched tho whole dang shebang on TV. I believe it happened!
I found it on wiki:
Too much work !
Really cool! I had a lot of fun looking these facts up and found out a lot of other stuff from the searching.
They launched on my 13th birthday and I was watching when Neil took the first step. My whole family was gathered around the TV, barely breathing. It was one of the most incredible days of my life.
I also remember Apollo 12 when the commander Pete Conrad (who overcame Dyslexia in High School, before going to Princeton on an ROTC Scholarship) said "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil , but that's a long one for me." Big chuckle over that one.