Fun facts

Vikings used the bones of slain animals when smithing new weapons believing this would enchant the weapon with the animals spirit. This actually made the weapons stronger because the carbon in the bones coupled with the iron made a primitive version of steel.

Human beings only use one nostril at a time. Each nostril takes a turn at being dormant (about five minutes), as the other nostril does all the work. The process is then reversed and the resting nostril takes over. Confirmed this with an ENT doc.

Humans are the best endurance runners on the planet, able to outrun ANY species given enough distance/time.

Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dalí.
Pablo Picasso died in 1973, and Salvador Dalí died in 1989. People usually think they lived centuries ago.

The wingspan of a 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

cashew nuts grow like this

Shaq hit almost 12,000 baskets in his career. Exactly 1 of them was a 3-pointer.

In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not

All of the planets could fit inbetween the earth and the moon

In Japan more paper is used to make manga than toilet paper.

There are more permutations of a standard deck of 52 cards than there are seconds since the Big Bang.

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.

The measurement of time, the second, is called that because it's the second division of the hour.

People who are too fat for the conventional MRI at the hospital are taken to the zoo.

More french soldiers died during WW1 than american soldiers during the entire US military history, including both sides of the civil war. The same can be said for Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary.

There was a bear enlisted in the polish army who made it to the rank of Corporal. He also smoked, drank and carried weapons to the front during battles. His name was Wojtek.

90% of the population on Earth lives in the Northern Hemisphere.

Ohio is the only state that doesn't share a letter with the word "mackerel".

From when it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet, Pluto did not make a full orbit around the sun.

If you lined up elephants from the Earth all the way to the moon they would die

A lot of cities used to close all the bars on election day. They wouldn't open until the polls closed. Political corruption used to be more retail. You could buy people drinks, and thus buy their votes.

Mainland China has a population in excess of one billion people... while less than one million are foreigners. This gives China the lowest score in the world for migrant percentage of total population - less than North Korea.

If it were brighter, the Andromeda Galaxy would appear six times bigger than a full moon.

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