It can be hard to separate fact from fiction, especially considering the former tends to be stranger than the latter. But that's what makes those
odd bits of trivia all the more interesting -- especially when compared to all the other useless facts you learned in elementary school currently taking up space in your noggin.
1
All blue eyed people are related here and have one common ancestor known as the Founder.
2
There is a disease out there that can change all of your muscular tissue into bone.
3
Picasso was alive at the same time as Eminem and Charles Darwin let that sink in for a second.
4
The Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
5
Because the Statue of Liberty is made of copper it used to be the color of a coin basically due to oxidation in 1922 it turned completely green.
6
If you had a teaspoon sized neutron star, it would have the same mass as 900 pyramids of Giza.
7
If you shuffle a deck of cards, it is statistically likely that you've shuffled them in an order that has never existed before and will never exist again. Essentially, you were the first person in history to shuffle them in that exact sequence.
8
The United Kingdom has more tornadoes per area than any other country in the world.
9
Stonehenge was a tourist attraction for ancient Romans.
10
Only after making 1.4 billion crayons the senior crayon maker at Crayola admit he was colorblind. I mean fair play he smashed it, but what?
11
The can opener wasn't invented until 40 years after the can.
12
One glass of water has more atoms than there are glasses of water in all of the oceans of the earth.
13
Facebook Like button was going to be called the Awesome button.
14
The stickers that are placed on fruits turns out are actually edible.
15
There are more ways to play a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.
16
Eiffel Tower was originally intended to be in Barcelona because the people of Barcelona didn't like the project idea they moved it to France.
