Unbelievable Fun Facts

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Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Doves are just white pigeons.
When Neil Armstrong returned from the moon, he had to go through customs.

Do you know any unbelievable fun facts?

I knew the first one and had realised the second but the third.... What??

Yes, they had to complete custom forms.
www.space.com/7044-moon-apollo-astronauts-customs.html

I'm case they'd brought any illegal drugs back :) do you thibk they got searched?

Did Neil Armstrong land in an Airport?
That would be another fun fact if he did.

Sorry x post, it seems he did, who knew :)

Well, you can't bring cheese into the US so I suppose they were being careful 😄

France was still using the guillotine to execute criminals when the first Star Wars film came out.

Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the Great Pyramids!

Wombats do cube poos

Kangaroos can't jump backwards and sharks can't stop swimming.

Among the very last prisoners in the Tower of London were the Kray Twins.

(This was when they deserted from National Service in their late teens/early 20s, not when they committed their more infamous crimes. The tower was by then used as a military prison.)

The apollo astronauts splashed down in an ocean. Presumably they had to go through customs at the port the ship that picked them up docked in.

Black cats are just tabbies with no brown and white bits. If you see a black cat in a certain light you can see the tabby pattern in different shades of black.

France was still using the guillotine to execute criminals when the first Star Wars film came out.
WHOA.

Former US presidents are not permitted to drive themselves in public, even after their time in office has ended.

I have nothing to contribute but great thread 😁

111,111,111 × 111,111,

12,345,678,987,654,321

People find it hard to perceive the enormity ofthe gap between 1 million and 1 billion. If it were measured in time, 1m would be 11 minutes and 1b would be about 34 years.

The cleopatra one messes my head up.

Yeah now the Edinburgh and Panama Canal one have too. This is too much to take in when sleep deprived!

Nothing to add but -doves are just white pigeons?!
I’m shocked, shocked to my core. Never knew that.
Hate pigeons.

Speaking of Egypt, it turns out the "upper Nile" is actually the bit in the south and the "lower Nile" in the north, where the delta joins the Mediterranean Sea

We live closer in time to the T rex than the T rex did to the Stegasaurus