25 Crazy Facts You Would Never Believe To Be True!

In our interconnected times, where information travels all around the globe within milliseconds, one may assume that humans should already know almost everything. Even more refreshing, when there are actually still amazing facts that are still unknown.

In this picture series, astonishing facts that probably were not on your radar are presented. After all, who know that the Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire or that Shakespeare made up the name “Jessica” for his play Merchant of Venice?

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1. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto

2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

3. France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars: A New Hope hit theatres

4. Nintendo was originally a trading card company

5. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States

6. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world

7. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants

8. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans

9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds

10. Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months

11. Shakespeare made up the name “Jessica” for his play Merchant of Venice

12. Your chances of being kllled by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark

13. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg

14. Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets

15. Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn

16. Apparently there are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos

17. John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today.

18. A strawberry is NOT a berry

19. A banana IS a berry.

20. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid

21. An octopus has three hearts

22. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells

23. There is only one country between North Korea and Norway

24. New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy

25. Maine is the closest US state to Africa

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