“There were only 25 episodes of the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! 1969 TV series.”
“The lineup of the Beatles we love so much were only together for a little over seven years before breaking up. It’s as long as it takes some bands to get their first record deal.”
“Ancient Egypt lasted so long that Ancient Egyptian archaeology was a career in Ancient Egypt.”
“A worm was frozen solid for over 46,000 years in Siberian permafrost, but some scientists revived it. So, it was actually not dead, just resting.”
“A full-size basketball court can fit inside a soccer penalty box. Still amazes me.”
“We live closer in time to the Tyrannosaurus Rex than the Tyrannosaurus Rex lived to Stegosaurus.”
“Sharks existed before trees did.”
“Humans are the ONLY animals to have a chin. Sounds fake right? Wrong. Monkeys? Nope. Give your dog’s chin a scratch? Nope, you’re scratching its jaw. Only humans have chins.”
“We are as far away from the end of WWI as WWI was from the Napoleonic Wars.”
“Wooly mammoths did not go extinct until 1,000 years after the Great Pyramids of Giza were built.”
“Hannibal Lecter only has 16 minutes of screen time in The Silence of the Lambs.”
“If you’re 7 feet tall you have a 1 in 6 chance of landing in the NBA.”
“There were only two seasons of both The Munsters and The Addams Family. Given the number of times I watched reruns, that surprised me.”
“German chocolate cake is not named for the country, it’s named after chocolate maker Samuel German and was originally called German’s Chocolate.”
“Greenland sharks can live up to 500 years. They don’t reach sexual maturity until they are over 100 years old. When they get pregnant, gestation lasts up to 18 years.”
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they do, but I'm not entirely sure about brains tho
#9 I like these types of time span comparison factoids. A similar one is that we're closer to being Millionaires than Elon Musk is.