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?

More properly, the feathers and gold have equal mass.

Exactly, so a heap of feathers would have its centre of mass further from the Earth's surface than the gold, so gravity would have slightly less effect, meaning less weight.

The opposing benches in the House of Commons are just over 2 sword lengths apart.

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Carrots are ripe courgettes

Think you mean marrow. Carrots are a totally different vegetable.

Every cow has a unique nose print in the same way we have fingerprints.

If you sail due east from New York harbour the first land you come to is Portugal.

Gold and other precious metals are weighed in Troy weights which are smaller than avoirdupois, hence feathers, potatoes etc are heavier.

I love these!!

Armadillos nearly always give birth to identical quadruplets, only species to do so..

Of course, if you measure feathers gold in metric units, grams and kilograms, then the difference disappears

Feathers and gold!

If you put all the DNA in one person end to end it would stretch from here to the sun and back nearly 70 times.

Cows don't bite grass, they twist their tongue around it and tug it out

If you take out the small intestine of a human and lay it flat
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It will no longer work effectively :D

When orangutans do the kissy face and noise - it isn’t cute and affectionate, it means they’re really angry/upset.

Guinea pigs can't vomit!

If you peel a banana and squish your thumb into one 'tip' it splits into 3 lengthwise. My French exchange student showed me this in 1983!

There is a man alive today whose grandfather was born in 1790.

The gestation period of a chinchilla is 111 days.

The neck of a giraffe has the same number of vertebrae as a human neck (7)

Bryan Adams and Ryan Adams share the same birthday

Draw ' - 2 - 2 + =' on a pillow when laying down. It sounds like chim chimney

Every time you poo you flip the human/bacteria DNA numbers in your body to more probably more human than bacteria. Until that point you have more bacterial DNA in your body than human.

It's less than a million days since Jesus is supposed to have died

Carrots are ripe courgettes.

Eh?