19 Interesting Facts That Will Destroy Your Worldview

One: Firstly, did you know that it’s impossible to hold your nose and hum? Try it!

Two: In France, people were still able to be executed by guillotine in the same year that the first Star Wars movie was released in theaters.

Three: When mammoths finally died out, the pyramids of Giza were already 1000 years old.

Four: While on this topic, Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the Great Pyramids.

The construction of the pyramids (2580 to 2560 BC) which is almost 2,500 years apart and Cleopatra’s birth (69 BC). In contrast, there are only 2,037 years between Cleopatra’s death (30 BC) and the first iPhone (2007).

Five: Moreover, those pyramids aren’t actually out all alone in the desert…

But DIRECTLY bordering the city of Giza.

Six: Russia and Pluto have about the same surface area.

Pluto’s surface area is about 17.8 million square kilometers, and Russia’s is 17.1 million square kilometers.

Seven: Even more on Pluto: In the time that’s elapsed between its discovery in 1930 and today, the dwarf planet has not yet achieved a complete orbit of the sun. It will only do so by the year 2178.

Eight: While we’re on the solar system, here’s a reminder of how small our mother earth is compared to the sun.

Nine: Here’s also how our relatively little sun compares to the VY Canis Majoris, one of the biggest stars of the Milky Way.

Ten: The world map as you know is totally incorrect.

Take this example. You might be led to believe that Greenland and Africa are the same sizes. They are actually not. Peters projection of the world map depicts the relative sizes of continents far more accurately.

Eleven: Change of topic: For your information, this is what the skull of a kid with all of their milk teeth looks like:

Twelve: The “2x Snickers” bar is really only 1.5 Snickers, sadly.

Thirteen: The Krusty Krab is not the shape of a treasure chest at all. It’s the shape of a lobster trap.

Fourteen: Did you know that pineapples grow on the ground like this?

Fifteen: Or that the actual Winnie the Pooh is actually female?

Author A.A. Milne’s son, Christopher Robin, named his teddy bear” Winnie” after an actual bear from the London Zoo, a female black bear.

Sixteen: The time period between the existence of humans and the existence of the T-rex is shorter than the time period separating the existence of the T-Rex and the stegosaurus.

T-Rexes lived in the Cretaceous period, which lasted from 83.6 million years ago to 66 million years ago. The stegosaurus lived about 150.8 million years ago, which meant it lived about 67 million years before the T-rex’s time.

Seventeeh: After English, German is the most widely spoken language in North Dakota.

Eighteen: The name “Barbie” is a nickname for “Barbara.”

Nineteen: Lastly, no one really knows why the alphabet is in the order that it is.