30 Facts That Sound Like BS, But Are Actually True. #12 Makes You Think.

[Capt.Kangaroo]

Sometimes a friend spouts a fact that seems fake, sounds fake, and is fake. The following facts however seem fake, but are actually real



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 a 50% chance that 2 of them have the same birthday.

9. It’s 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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[crazed 9.6]

That #12 makes you think , I agree. Wow!
But #14 makes you wonder what them Scotts been smokin' on the golf course

The #22 well I gotta call BS on that one. Someone's been smokin' the same stuff as them Scotts have been

[Capt.Kangaroo]

That #12 makes you think , I agree. Wow!
But #14 makes you wonder what them Scotts been smokin' on the golf course

The #22 well I gotta call BS on that one. Someone's been smokin' the same stuff as them Scotts have been

Paper can only be folded 7to12 times. try it....lol
c/p:
The long standing challenge was that a single piece of paper, no matter the size, cannot be folded in half more than 7 or 8 times. Recently, reports have been made that Britney's paper folding record of folding a piece of paper in half 12 times has been broken.

[Kimbo]

So when Betty White was born the mammoths roamed the earth and a nintendo had super mario brothers back in the day??? :-P

[SMok3dOUT]

#8 is suspect... This post is food for thought thou...

[bigearth]

But oh my god, number 1:
Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.
Haha, can you imagine that when they built the pyramids in egipt, on the other side of the world, there still was our ancestors trying to kill mammoths, pretty cool
also fact about pluto is pretty cool too, actually everything about universe is pretty cool

[iptvjunky]

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
oh my god, can you believe it? i still dont believe in this

If the timeline of earth was compressed into one year, humans wouldn't show up until December 31 at 11:58 p.m.
and this is pretty cool too, this is cosmic calendar, crazy time, we are nothing in it.

[Marley]

wow that could be bs