21. There are more libraries in the US than McDonald’s or Starbucks.
– drburns
22. Tsutomo Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip and on the day he was supposed to leave, the atomic bomb dropped. He survived with minor injuries and returned to his home in Nagasaki where he went to work 3 days later. As he was describing his experience to his supervisor, the second bomb was dropped and he survived without any injuries. He ended up living into his 90s.
– Hopeful-Jaguar
23. Dinosaurs are older than grass.
Every artist rendition you’ve seen of them roaming fields is wrong. Most ground-level plants were ferns or flowering bushes, not grass.
– AJCLEG98
24. 2/3 of Canada’s population lives south of Seattle.
– never-mind
25. There are only 25 blimps in the entire world.
– dwalshmmg
26. 105 billion people have lived so far. 7.9 billion of us are currently alive.
– Figrunitonoutfornow
27. In 1995, a man named MacArthur Wheeler robbed two banks at gunpoint, he was arrested mere hours later because he didn’t wear a mask. Instead, he decided to coat his face in lemon juice because he read that lemon juice can be used to make invisible ink. His logic was that it would make his face invisible. And reportedly, he said to one of the tellers “don’t worry, I have a face, it’s just invisible”. The only thing he did when he was arrested was sighed dejectedly and say “but I wore the juice!”. His case is actually still in academic journals regarding the fact that people with low intelligence do in fact believe that they’re smarter than everyone else.
– AnningWilliams
28. Only 6 people have survived rabies. Rabies has a 99% Mortality rate.
You can have rabies for an entire year without symptoms and once you have symptoms, it’s already late. You’ll probably die in a couple of days if you have symptoms.
– Strange-Listen
29. 1/6 of the world’s living languages are only spoken in New Guinea.
– MMr-Travio
30. “Häagen-Dazs” has no meaning in any language, it was meant to sound “European”. It was started by Reuben Mattus, a Polish immigrant to New York who sold fruit ice and ice cream from a horse-drawn cart.
– mirubahcho