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?

Cross-post, Ifailed.

Another cross post!

I stand corrected

Thanks for clearing that up @SimonBridges, @Ifailed and @GrouchyKiwi

Rabbits can't vomit either!

If you were to pick up & move Greater London, it would fill the gap between the edges of Carlisle and Newcastle.

John Tyler, the 10th US President (Trump is the 45th) was born in 1790 and has two grandsons still alive today.

So, are all these facts true? I did enjoy the carrots and courgette fact lol

If a piece of paper was folded 42 times it would reach the moon.

Why stop at the moon when you can blot out the universe? How many trees must die to accomplish our paper folding dreams?

Millipedes grow more legs as they get older.
Each segment has two pairs of legs and they grow new segments as they mature.
Most only ever get to a couple of hundred legs with 400ish being the most.

Forgot this thread & just caught up.

I had to check Wikipedia because I thought it was a wind up but I can confirm Brad Pitt really IS older than Nigel Farage

@ThinkOfAWittyNameLater I'm not sure I can cope with that piece of information 😂

He is, and Keanu Reeves and old Nige are the same age

Tawny owls DO make a wheee, whooo sort of sound. I have one outside my bedroom window and used to see (and hear!) them in the mornings when sorting the horses.

10% of all photos have been taken in the last 12 months
You have a 14% higher chance of dying on your birthday then any other day
The first Nintendo had twice the computing power of the lunar landing module

Also butterfly’s were originally called flutterflys

Violet flowers contain twice as much vitamin C as the same weight of oranges.

Prince George is descended from more monarchs than any of his predecessors. William (and possibly Kate too) descend from Charles II and she also descends from an alleged illegitimate child of Henry VIII.