#1 You can’t breathe and swallow at the same time.

#2 You can’t hum while holding your nose.

#3 If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it would reach to the moon.
If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, the thickness would be enough to reach the moon. A standard sheet of paper is about 0.1 mm so 42 folds would give us this: 0.1 * 2 42 = 439,804,651,110 mm.

#4 Coconuts kill more people than sharks every year. Same with cows.

#5 “umop apisdn” is “upside down” spelled upside down with different letters of the alphabet.

#6 Brussel sprouts grow on stalks like this:

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#7 Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPad than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.

#8
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the galaxy.
There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth.

#9 Some of the apples you can buy in a grocery store are over a year old.

#10 Pineapples grow out of the ground like this:

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#11 The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

#12 Every Froot Loop tastes the same. The color doesn’t matter.

#13 Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you as a shark is.

#14
Woody from Toy Story has a full name — it’s Woody Pride.
Mr. Clean’s full name is Veritably Clean.
Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.

#15 Carrots were originally purple.

#16 The word “swims” upside-down is still “swims”

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#17 The Lion King was released closer to the moon landing than to today.

#18 Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he’s an egg.

#19 Armadillos nearly always give birth to identical quadruplets.

#20 Betty White is actually older than sliced bread.

#21 Every “C” in Pacific ocean is pronounced differently.

#22 The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

#23 A strawberry isn’t a berry, but a banana is. Avocados and watermelons are also berries.

#24 New York City is further south than Rome, Italy.

#25 North Korea and Finland are separated by one country.

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#26 Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid.

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

#28 If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.

#29 Maine is the closest US state to Africa.

#30 The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice.

#31 Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.

#32 There are more tigers in Texas than the rest of the world.

#33 John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, had a grandson who was alive this year.

#34 There are fewer atoms on Earth than there are ways to arrange a deck of cards.

#35 The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur. You know, dinosaur pee, is almost 100%.

#36 Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.

#37 There have been studies that show that goats, like us, have accents.

#38 The lint that collects in the bottom of your pockets has a name: gnurr.

#39 The difference in time between when Tyrannosaurus Rex lived and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now.

#40 Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire.

#41 Beethoven and George Washington were alive at the same time. In fact, George Washington was in his forties when Beethoven was born.

#42 Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet.

#43
I’m tellin’ ya, a billion is a lot:
A thousand seconds is about 16 minutes.
A million seconds is about 11 days.
A billion seconds is about 32 years.

#44 There’s enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water.

#45 There are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the US.

#46 It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.

#47 Every two minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity did in the 19th century.

#48 A “butt load” is an actual unit of measurement, equivalent to 126 gallons.

#49 Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln have the same exact birthday, down to the year.

#50 Scotland is farther north than Alaska.

#51 Not only is Reno, Nevada, west of Los Angeles, but so are six state capitals.

#52 If you’re in Detroit and you walk south, you’ll actually walk into Canada.

#53 Every single odd number has an “e” in it.

#54 This is what Pluto looks like compared to Australia:

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#55 The dot over an “i” is called a “tittle.”

#56 “Will Will Smith smith?” and “Will Smith will smith” are sentences that make complete sense.

#57 There is 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.
And 90% of the cells that make us up aren’t human but mostly fungi and bacteria.

#58 The pyramids were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us.

#59 If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and dropped a book down, it would take 42 minutes to reach the bottom.

#60 If you say “Jesus” backwards it sounds like “sausage.”

#61 The “ueue” in “queue” is silent. And so is the “ea” in “tea.”

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#62 Turtles can breathe out of their butts.

#63 There are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth.

#64 Speaking of the world, it’s just a cat playing with Australia:

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#65 At the time the current oldest person on Earth was born, there was a completely different set of human beings on the planet.
And at the time you were born, you were briefly the youngest person in the entire world.

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