THINGS YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE ARE TRUE:
- Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.
- Betty White is older than sliced bread.
- 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.
- The lighter was invented before the match.
- France last used a guillotine to execute someone after Star Wars premiered.
- Harvard University was founded before Calculus existed.
- If you have 23 people in a room, there is a 50% chance that 2 of them have the same birthday.
- It’s never said that Humpty Dumpty was an egg in the nursery rhyme.
- The water in Lake Superior could cover all of North and South America in a foot of water.
- North Korea and Finland both border the same country, Russia.
- When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.
- Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
- National animal of Scotland is a unicorn.
- The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
- The lighter the roast of coffee, the more caffeine it has.
- A speck of dust is halfway in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
- If the timeline of Earth was compressed into one year, humans wouldn’t show up until December 31 at 11.58 pm.
- If you were able to dig a hole to the centre of the Earth, and drop something down it, it would take 42 minutes for the object to get there.
- We went to the moon before we thought to put wheels on suitcases.
- A human could swim through the arteries of a blue whale.
- If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, the combine thickness would reach the moon.
- On both Saturn and Jupiter, it rains diamonds.
- Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
- 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.
- The youngest known mother was 5 years old.
- The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball, if both were of the same size.
- Nintendo was founded in 1889.
- 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.
- In Australia, there was a war called the emu war. The emus won.