1. The bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros are the same, just colored differently.
2. There are warehouses so big they have their own WEATHER.
The Nasa Vehicle Assembly Building has its own rainclouds.
3. In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for 59 seconds. 38 years later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. 28 years after that, we landed on the moon.
Via en.wikipedia.org
5. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Via omg-facts.com
9. Blue whales heart is the size of a VW Beetle and that you could swim through some of its arteries.
Via whalefacts.org
10. Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.
11. All of the gold mined in the history of the world would more or less fit into a 20x20x20 meter cube.
From wikipedia:
A total of 165,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history, as of 2009.[1] This is roughly equivalent to 5.3 billion troy ounces or, in terms of volume, about 8,500 cubic meters, or a 20.4m cube.
12. There are more atoms in a single glass of water, than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.
14. Martin Sheen’s original name was Ramon Estevez. He had two sons, Emilio and Carlos. Emilio kept the Estevez, but Carlos changed his name to Charlie Sheen. He changed his stage name to ride the coattails of his father’s changed stage name.
Via scribd.com
15. Alcohol is considered a performance-enhancing drug in competitive shooting competitions.
Via en.wikipedia.org
16. Once Charlie Chaplin entered a contest for “Charlie Chaplin look-alikes” and he came in third.
Via en.wikipedia.org
17. If you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are that the new order of playing cards has never existed before.
Via qi.com
18. Of all the people in history that have reached 65 years of age, half of them are living right now.
Via wisegeek.com
20. Pirates wear eye patches so that they can see in the dark.
Via mentalfloss.com
When they go to a lower deck with poor lighting, they can remove the patch and see better with that eye since it’s used to the dark, whereas the other eye would take several minutes to adjust to the change in light.
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