11. Ciabatta bread was invented in 1982.
It’s advertised and perceived as this, traditional, rustic Italian bread that peasants must have enjoyed, but nope–created in the 1980s.
– Darmok45
12. Chainsaws were invented for childbirth and were hand-cranked.
– grimgrum420
13. There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. Roughly by a factor of 10.
– TyroneMings
14. A man, Michel Lotito, ATE an entire airplane. It took him 2 years.
– Gubble-Buppie
15. There’s less time between Lincoln’s second inauguration and Joe Biden’s birth than there is between Biden’s birth and his own inauguration.
When Harriett Tubman was born, Thomas Jefferson was still alive. When she died, Ronald Reagan had already been born.
Time is short.
– TheNumbermucher
16. Clouds weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds, full of water, effortlessly floating above our heads. No support, No structure, just weight, floating around above us and we’re like, yep totally believable, because they’re clouds, duh.
– dang-dude-dont
17. The US has a 1.4 billion pound cheese surplus. It’s all stored in the Cheese Cave in Missouri.
– greengiant333
18. For 60 million years, there was no bacteria, fungus, or anything to decompose trees. They just got crushed under the weight of other dead trees. This is where about 90% of coal comes from.
– moldyhands
19. The circulatory system(arteries, veins, and capillaries) is more than 60,000 miles long.
– SuevenPan
20. A spy named Joan Pujol Garcia was awarded the highest honor of service from both the Allies and the Axis in the Second World War.
– Bma1567