These 25 Weird Facts Will Sound Totally False, But They’re Not

By Editorial Staff in Facts On 27th June 2016
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#1 Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.

#2 Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

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

#4 Nintendo was originally a trading card company.

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#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.

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

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

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

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#9 On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.

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

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

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#12 Your chances of being killed 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.

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#14 Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets.

#15 Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn.

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#16 There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.

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

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#18 A strawberry is NOT a berry.

#19 A banana is a berry.

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#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.

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#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.

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

#25 Maine is the closest US state to Africa.