Aye, Me Mateys! The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction!

#1 Did you know that a glass of milk has more sodium than a serving of potato chips?

#2 Russia has more surface area than Pluto. (Russia covers about 17 million sq km, while Pluto covers about 16.6 million sq km.)

#3 Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. (Teaching existed at Oxford in 1096; the Aztec Empire was founded in 1325.)

#4 The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.

#5 Nintendo was founded while Jack the Ripper was still at large. (Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.)

#6 A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. (It takes Venus 243 Earth days to rotate once, but only 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.)

#7 Sharks have been around longer than trees. (Sharks have existed for 400 million years; trees for about 350 million years.)

#8 There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.

#9 Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.

#10 Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.

#11 Vending machines are statistically deadlier than sharks.

#12 The total weight of all the ants on Earth is roughly equal to the total weight of all the humans on Earth.

#13 There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. (3 trillion trees vs. 400 billion stars.)

#14 You can’t hum while holding your nose. (Go ahead, try it.)

#15 Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

#16 Wombat poop is cube-shaped.

#17 Honey never spoils. Archeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that is still edible.

#18 The state of Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.

#19 A single cloud can weigh more than a million pounds (453,593 kg).

#20 There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.

#21 The first oranges weren’t orange—they were green.

#22 A jellyfish is 95% water.

#23 If you fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the Moon.

#24 The tongue of a blue whale is so large that 50 people could stand on it.

#25 Mammoths were still alive when the Egyptians were building the pyramids.