{"id":9111,"date":"2015-09-20T01:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T07:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=9111"},"modified":"2015-09-19T19:21:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T01:21:06","slug":"30-facts-that-sound-like-bs-but-are-actually-true-12-makes-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=9111","title":{"rendered":"30 Facts That Sound Like BS, But Are Actually True. #12 Makes You Think."},"content":{"rendered":"

1.<\/strong>\u00a0Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0<\/strong>Betty White is older than sliced bread.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong>\u00a0From the time it was discovered to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto hadn’t made a full trip around the Sun.<\/p>\n

4.<\/strong>\u00a0The lighter was invented before the match.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0<\/strong>Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.<\/p>\n

6.<\/strong>\u00a0France last used a guillotine to execute someone after Star Wars premiered.<\/p>\n

7.<\/strong>\u00a0Harvard University was founded before Calculus existed.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0<\/strong>If you have 23 people in a room, there is a\u00a050% chance<\/em>that 2 of them have the same birthday.<\/p>\n

9.<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s never said that Humpty Dumpty was an egg in the nursery rhyme.<\/p>\n

10.<\/strong>\u00a0The water in Lake Superior could cover all of North and South America in a foot of water.<\/p>\n

11.<\/strong>\u00a0North Korea and Finland both border the same country; Russia.<\/p>\n

12.<\/strong>\u00a0When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.<\/p>\n

13.<\/strong>\u00a0Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.<\/p>\n

14.<\/strong>\u00a0National animal of Scotland is a Unicorn.<\/p>\n

15.<\/strong>\u00a0The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series. (This is the one that caused this entire posting just so I can make fun of the Cubs and direct it to\u00a0Archie and Cathie.)<\/span><\/p>\n

16.<\/strong>\u00a0The lighter the roast of coffee, the more caffeine it has.<\/p>\n

17.<\/strong>\u00a0A speck of dust is halfway in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.<\/p>\n

18.<\/strong>\u00a0If the timeline of earth was compressed into one year, humans wouldn’t show up until December 31 at 11:58 p.m.<\/p>\n

19.<\/strong>\u00a0If you were able to dig a hole to the center of the earth, and drop something down it, it would take 42 minutes for the object to get there.<\/p>\n

20.<\/strong>\u00a0We went to the moon before we thought to put wheels on suitcases.<\/p>\n

21.<\/strong>\u00a0A human could swim through the arteries of a blue whale.<\/p>\n

22.<\/strong>\u00a0If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, the combined thickness would reach the moon.<\/p>\n

23.<\/strong>\u00a0On both Saturn and Jupiter, it rains diamonds.<\/p>\n

24.<\/strong>\u00a0Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.<\/p>\n

25. You can line up all 8 planets in our solar system directly next to each other and it would fit in the space between Earth and the Moon.<\/p>\n

26. The youngest known mother was 5 years old.<\/p>\n

27. The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball, if both were of the same size.<\/p>\n

28. Nintendo was founded in 1889.<\/p>\n

29. If you take all the molecules in a teaspoon of water and lined them up end to end in a single file line, they would stretch ~30 billion miles.<\/p>\n

30. In Australia, there was a war called the emu war. The emus won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1.\u00a0Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built. 2.\u00a0Betty White is older than sliced bread. 3.\u00a0From the time it was discovered to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto hadn’t made a full trip around the Sun. 4.\u00a0The lighter was invented before the match. 5.\u00a0Anne Frank and Martin … Continue reading 30 Facts That Sound Like BS, But Are Actually True. #12 Makes You Think.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9114,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}