There is no shortage of information one can learn about the world around us. From animals to time, space to people, our universe is filled with all kinds of wild and strange facts. Check out these stranger than fiction sounding facts that might even change your perspective.
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The difference between million and billion is huge (relatively): 1 Million seconds = 11 Days 1 Billion seconds = 31 years
2
The budget to send to the Curiosity Rover to the Mars is less than the worldwide military expenditure for thirteen hours
3
Cleopatra was alive closer to the Moon landing than she was to the construction of the great pyramids.
4
The typical cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds
5
The original height of Mount Everest was calculated to be exactly 29,000 ft high, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 ft in order to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 feet was nothing more than a rounded estimate.
6
Neutron stars are so dense that if you dropped a gummy bear from one meter away it would hit the surface in a microsecond with the force of 1,000 nuclear bombs.
7
80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.
8
USA citizens privately own more firearms than all countries combined. Even more than most militaries.
9
Monsters Inc was released closer to the fall of the Berlin wall than to the present day.
10
Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died less than a year apart less than 150 miles away from each other.
11
Vatican city has a population of 2 popes per 1 square kilometer.
12
You could walk from North Korea to Norway and only pass through one other country. Also, your feet would be a little sore.
13
Nintendo existed at the same time as the Ottoman Empire.
14
The state of Maine has more Black Bears than black people.
15
More silent films have been lost than saved. We live in an era where everything is saved, and it's hard to imagine such a massive loss of creative material. Plenty of films are lost, as late as the 1970s too.
16
All the ants in the world weigh about the same as all the people in the world.
17
Radio astronomer here! You exert more energy when you unfold a single piece of paper than we have collected in *all* the radio waves we have *ever* collected from outer space.
18
1 in 2 Australians will get skin cancer in their lifetime
19
In a room with 23 people there is a ~50% chance that 2 people share a birthday
20
According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, every two days human beings create as much information as we did from the dawn of time until 2003.
21
Samsung is responsible for 25% of South Korea's GDP
