Interesting Facts

1. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
3. Nintendo was originally a trading card company.
4. France was still executing people by guillotine at the time that "Star Wars: A New Hope" hit theatres.
5. If the sun was the size of a white blood cell the Milky Way galaxy would be the size of the United States.
6. There are more stars in space than grains of sand on every beach in the world.
7. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.
8. The total weight of all those ants, however is about the same as all the humans.
9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.
10. Ten percent of all the photos taken were taken in the last five months.
11. Shakespeare made up the name "Jessica" for his play, Merchant of Venice.
12. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine is twice as large as your chances of being bitten by a shark.
13. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it say he is an egg.
14. Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.
15. Armadillos always give birth to quadruplets.
16. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.
17. John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, who was born in 1790 has a grandson still alive today.
18. A strawberry is not a berry.
19. A banana is, however, a berry.
20. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover North and South America in one foot of liquid.
21. An octopus has three hearts.
22. There are ten times more bacteria in your body than your actual body cells.
23. There is only one country between North Korea and Norway. Russia.
24. New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy.
25. Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
-Carlee