14 Facts That Sound Completely Untrue

by N/A, 10 years ago | 2 min read

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These facts about the world around you might sound totally fake, but we promise they're 100% true.

1. In Kolkata, India, you can find a Banyan tree that's bigger than the average Walmart.

2. People traveled to the moon before wheels were put on suitcases.

3. A billion seconds will pass in about 32 years.

4. France spans more time zones than the U.S. and Russia.

5. Oxford University was around before the Aztec Empire.

6. Most of the world's oxygen is produced by the ocean, not trees.

7. Carrots were once purple.

8. There is a lag between when something happens and when we actually experience it.

Scientists say the lag is about 80 milliseconds.

9. The stegosaurus and tyrannosaurus rex weren't alive at the same time.

10. More people have been killed by drowning in molasses than by coyote attacks.

11. Giraffes have seven neck vertebrae, just like humans.

12. Cleopatra lived closer to the time the first Pizza Hut was constructed than the when the pyramids were built.

13. Alaska is the most eastern, western and northern state in the U.S.

14. There are more libraries in the U.S. than there are McDonald's.