{"id":31982,"date":"2026-05-05T06:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=31982"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:25:36","slug":"aye-me-mateys-the-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/aye-me-mateys-the-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Aye, Me Mateys! The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aye, Me Mateys! The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Aye,<\/p>\n

Once in a while, we like to take a break from the tips and tricks and fix-em-up business and have a little fun. Nothing wrong with that, right?\u00a0 So, mateys, once in a while, we create our own “site pick” for you to peruse. And today, we’re going to do just that – create our own “site pick” or “page pick” (if you will), and share with you some examples of how the truth is often stranger than fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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#1<\/span> Did you know that a glass of milk has more sodium than a serving of potato chips?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#2<\/span> Russia has more surface area than Pluto. (Russia covers about 17 million sq km, while Pluto covers about 16.6 million sq km.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#3<\/span> Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. (Teaching existed at Oxford in 1096; the Aztec Empire was founded in 1325.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#4<\/span> The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#5<\/span> Nintendo was founded while Jack the Ripper was still at large. (Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#6<\/span> 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.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#7<\/span> Sharks have been around longer than trees. (Sharks have existed for 400 million years; trees for about 350 million years.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#8 There are<\/span> more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#9<\/span> Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#10<\/span> Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#11<\/span> Vending machines are statistically deadlier than sharks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#12<\/span> The total weight of all the ants on Earth is roughly equal to the total weight of all the humans on Earth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#13<\/span> There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. (3 trillion trees vs. 400 billion stars.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#14<\/span> You can’t hum while holding your nose. (Go ahead, try it.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#15<\/span> Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#16<\/span> Wombat poop is cube-shaped.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#17<\/span> Honey never spoils. Archeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that is still edible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#18<\/span> The state of Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#19<\/span> A single cloud can weigh more than a million pounds (453,593 kg).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#20<\/span> There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#21<\/span> The first oranges weren’t orange\u2014they were green.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#22<\/span> A jellyfish is 95% water.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#23<\/span> If you fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the Moon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#24<\/span> The tongue of a blue whale is so large that 50 people could stand on it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#25<\/span> Mammoths were still alive when the Egyptians were building the pyramids.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aye, Me Mateys! The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction! Once in a while, we like to take a break from the tips and tricks and fix-em-up business and have a little fun. Nothing wrong with that, right?\u00a0 So, mateys, once in a while, we create our own “site pick” for you to peruse. And today, we’re going to\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,4168,1678,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31982"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31991,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31982\/revisions\/31991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}