Sometimes a friend spouts a fact that seems fake, sounds fake, and is fake. The following facts however seem fake, but are actually real.
1/30. Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.
2/30. Betty White is older than sliced bread.
3/30. From the time it was discovered to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto hadn’t made a full trip around the Sun.
4/30. The lighter was invented before the match.
5/30. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.
6/30. France last used a guillotine to execute someone after Star Wars premiered.
7/30. Harvard University was founded before Calculus existed.
8/30. If you have 23 people in a room, there is a 50% chance that 2 of them have the same birthday.
9/30. Its never said that Humpty Dumpty was an egg in the nursery rhyme.
10/30. The water in Lake Superior could cover all of North and South America in a foot of water.
11/30. North Korea and Finland both border the same country; Russia.
12/30. When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.
13/30. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
14/30. National animal of Scotland is a unicorn.
15/30. The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
16/30. The lighter the roast of coffee, the more caffeine it has.
17/30. A speck of dust is halfway in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
18/30. If the timeline of earth was compressed into one year, humans wouldn’t show up until December 31 at 11:58 p.m.
19/30. If you were able to dig a hole to the center of the earth, and drop something down it, it would take 42 minutes for the object to get there.
20/30. We went to the moon before we thought to put wheels on suitcases.
21/30. A human could swim through the arteries of a blue whale.
22/30. If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, the combined thickness would reach the moon.
23/30. On both Saturn and Jupiter, it rains diamonds.
24/30. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
25/30. You can line up all 8 planets in our solar system directly next to each other and it would fit in the space between Earth and the Moon.
26/30. The youngest known mother was 5 years old.
27/30. The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball, if both were of the same size.
28/30. Nintendo was founded in 1889.
29/30. If you take all the molecules in a teaspoon of water and lined them up end to end in a single file line, they would stretch ~30 billion miles.
30/30. In Australia, there was a war called the emu war. The emus won.