Saturday, June 13, 2015

Interesting, Obscure Facts

The "YKK" on your zipper stands for “Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha”.
The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice.
Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
Hippo milk is pink.
The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries.
Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he’s an egg.
Armadillos nearly always give birth to identical quadruplets.
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
A strawberry isn’t a berry but a banana is.
Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid.
Nintendo was founded as a trading card company back in 1889.
Alaska is simultaneously the most northern, the most western, and the most eastern state in the U.S.
Honey never spoils.
There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth.
And there’s enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water.
For every human on Earth there are approximately 1.6 million ants. The total weight of all those ants is approximately the same as the total weight of all the humans on Earth.
An octopus has three hearts.
You can’t hum while holding your nose.
It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.
There are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth.

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