"The Guinness book of records was invented by the Guinness beer folks. They figured a book of verifiable facts would help stop bar arguments."
"Mammoths still walked the Earth when the great pyramids were being built."
"A million seconds is 11.5 days. A billion seconds is 31.7 years."
"Your brain sags when you’re dehydrated. "
"The Amazon River is over 4,000 miles long and doesn’t have any bridges that cross it."
"All of the gold discovered thus far would fit in a cube that is 23 meters wide on every side."
"Each (human) cell in your body has over 2m (6ft) of DNA in it."
"In mid-2000s Kagoshima, Japan, an alarming rise in power blackouts was traced back to crows who were building their nests on top of electric poles. The power company formed a “Crow Patrol” in order to seek and destroy the crows’ nests. The crows responsed by building thousands of dummy nests as decoys."
"Sharks have been swimming our oceans since before the rings formed around Saturn."
"Switzerland, the country of neutrality, has unintentionally invaded its neighbor Liechtenstein 3-5 times…1968-2007. 3/4 times Liechtenstein didn’t know of it until Switzerland apologized."
"All of the planets in our solar system, if laid side by side, would fit between the earth and the moon."
"Squirrels can’t find 80% of the nuts they hide."
"There are craters on the poles of mercury that are SO DEEP that rays of light from the sun have never directly struck their bottoms, and scientists have found evidence of water ice at the bottom of these craters."
"A sound must increase by 10db to be perceived as “twice as loud.”"
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