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Facts That Seem False But Actually Aren’t

Time to blow your mind.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 9 years ago in Wow

Time to blow your mind.

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Oxford University is at least 400 years older than the Aztec Empire. (No one knows when Oxford was founded, but there are records that go back to 1096.)

2
Incoming college freshman don't remember 9/11.

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3
When they were building the Great Pyramids, there were still woolly mammoths roaming the Earth.

4
Next to the United States, North Korea has the most submarines in the world.

5
Mount Everest was originally calculated to be exactly 29,000 feet but was reported as 29,002 feet to avoid making it seem as though the measurement was just a rounded estimate.

6
25% of the world's prison population is incarcerated in the United States.

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7
20% of mammal species on Earth are different types of bats.

8
An average cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds.

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9
Samsung accounts for 25% of South Korea's GDP.

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Starquakes are like earthquakes except on neutron stars. They would release enough gamma radiation to kill you from nearly 10 light years away.

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11
Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin both owned the same tortoise. (His name was Harriet, and he lived for 175 years.)

12
If the sun exploded in a supernova, it would be roughly 1 billion times brighter than having a hydrogen bomb explode right in front of your face.

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13
Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died less than one year apart and less than 150 miles from each other.

14
Reno, Nevada is farther west than Los Angeles.

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15
When Nintendo was founded, the Ottoman Empire was still in power (Nintendo founded – 1889, Ottoman Empire ended – 1922).

16
More silent films have been lost than saved.

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17
80% of males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 didn't survive World War II.

18
If you start in downtown Detroit and head south, you'll end up in…Canada.

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19
2 in 3 Australians will get cancer in their lifetimes.

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All the ants on Earth weigh about the same as all the people.

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21
If a show called That 90's Show was going to start filming the same number of years following the 90's as That 70's Show waited to film following the 70's, it would start in 2017.

22
Bristol, Tennessee is closer to Canada than it is to Memphis.

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23
On average, the US Congress brings up Hitler 7.7 times per month.

24
Star Wars was released closer to the end of World War II than to today.

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25
There are more plastic flamingos in the US than real ones.

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