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?

Love these threads-

Holland isn’t a country (I know, right?? I only discovered this on the last one of these threads....)

The biggest spider weighs more than the smallest monkey

ShirleyPhallus - I know Portsmouth is one of the standards that always gets wheeled out (along with the pineapples) - I just thought I'd do the service of getting it out there, so we could all move on.

Also, in some cars the little pointer on the fuel indicator points to the side of the car that the fuel cap is on, but it's not universal.

99,999,999 / 81 = 1234567.89 (on a 2 decimal place calculator)

Sherpa is a tribal/family name and not an occupation.

The Basque language is unrelated to all other Indo-European languages and is isolate from all currently living languages.

@NapQueen

WTF? I have no idea what you’re talking about. 1 billion = 1,000 x 1 million

If one million = 11 minutes (why have you chosen 11?) then one billion = 11,000 minutes which is ~ 8 days.

Have you omitted critical information from your statement?

Have we done Gibraltar isn’t an island yet?

Have you omitted critical information from your statement?

I spotted that to Hedgehog and even if a billion here is a million millions it cannot be 34 years either.

@AutisticHedgehog I've seen this fact before and I think they've missed out the 'seconds' part haha.

Yes it's 1 million seconds vs 1 billion seconds...

I've seen that fact too, if it's seconds it would be 1m seconds = 11 days and 1b seconds = 30 years (ish)

The biggest spider weighs more than the smallest monkey

That is a fucker I'd never wanna meet.

@daintydaisies

Where should seconds go? I’m confused. And I still don’t understand why we should be amazed that 1billion is 1000x 1million.

I’m amazed that someone finds that amazing.

@whitevixon

Thank you for clarifying.

But it’s still a shite fact that is not amazing.

It’s basically saying if you multiply something by 1000 it becomes a lot bigger.

That’s not amazing.

The word 'slang' is short for ' shortened language.'

The game of Tag - it's short for Touch and go

If you click your fingers one minute after midnight on the 1st January, then wait two minutes to click again, then again after four minutes, doubling the wait each time, your 18th click will fall on 2 July and your 19th will just squeeze in on 31 December (assuming a non leap-year). 10 of the clicks will happen on the first day.

The Netherlands attempted to colonize Brazil. They nearly succeeded. Brazilians wanted them to

What is longer? The height of a standard pint glass or its circumference? (at the top)

It's the circumference.

The word 'slang' is short for ' shortened language.' What's your source, because a quick google doesn't support that at all (as an origin explanation).

Koala babies eat their mums poo, if they don’t eat their mums poo then eucalyptus (the only good they eat) is toxic for them

Giraffes are just long horses

No they're not; horses are related to the hippopotamus.

Baby girls are born with all their eggs already in their ovaries. Which means that when your mum was inside your grandmother's womb, the egg that would become you was in there too.

The game of Tag - it's short for Touch and go

Also a backronym.

Tali or just a really really tiny monkey?!