16 Facts That Are Hard to Believe

It can be hard to distinguish between real facts and twisted truths.

Published 2 years ago in Wow

It can be hard to distinguish between real facts and twisted truths.

1
Trees existed millions of years before rot. So trees, for millions of years, didn't rot.

2
It took us more time to go from bronze swords to iron swords than it did for us to go from iron swords to nuclear weapons.

3
After the british made head protection mandatory in WW1, the amount of head wounds increased. It's due to they were no longer KIA, but "only" a head wound.

5
In English, the color orange was named after the fruit. Before that, orange was just considered a shade of red. That's why gingers are called redheads.

6
We live closer in time to Tyrannosaurus Rex than the T Rex did to the Stegosaurus.

8
The Appalachian, Scottish Highlands, and the Atlas mountains are actually the same prehistoric mountain range.

9
A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years. People have a lot of trouble comprehending numbers that big

10
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the mobile phone than she did the construction of the pyramids. There was a window of time where a samurai could have faxed Abraham Lincoln

11
I saw a scale model of the earth, moon and sun in a museum. The sun was about the size of a basketball, and the earth was on the opposite side of the room, the size of a small marble, I'd guess about 30 metres away. The moon was the size of a tiny pinhead, about 10cm away from the earth. On this scale, the nearest star to earth, Proxima Centauri, wouldn't be in the same building, or even in the same city. It would be 10,000km away. And that's just one star, the nearest one to us, in a galaxy containing billions of stars, which is just one of billions of galaxies. The scale of the universe really is mind bogglingly big. Far bigger than we can begin to comprehend.

13
The Oxford university in England existed centuries before the rise and fall of the Aztec civilization.

14
New Delhi hired people to hunt cobra snakes which led to people having Cobra Farms to earn money then the government stopped the project which led the Cobra Farmers to release their snakes causing twice as many snakes than they first started.

16
If you made $100,000 a day since birth you'd still not be worth as much as Bezos

17
Horses [takes out] more people every year in Australia than all the other beasties combined. Everyone thinks it's the spiders and snakes that'll get you, but it's the horses you've really got to watch.

19
Chainsaws were invented to assist with childbirth… [In 1780, two Scottish doctors invented the prototype of the chainsaw. Not to cut down trees or clear debris. No, John Aitken and James Jeffray invented the hand-cranked chainsaw to cut through the pelvises of delivering mothers who were having trouble pushing their babies out.]

20
You are more likely to be married to Kim Kardashian in the United states then you are to die of Ebola in the United States. ( I know. Poor sample size and all. )

21
There are 80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible arrangements of a 52 card deck.

24
If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each be able to fit into a particle of dust, and the entire human species would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.