Fun Facts
- Alaska is simultaneously the most northern, the most western, and the most eastern state in the U.S.
- In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.
- The surface area of Russia is slightly larger than that of the surface area of Pluto.
- Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.
- Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
- There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building known as the “highest court in the land.”
- It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.
- Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor, who respectively voiced Mickey and Minnie Mouse, were married in real life.
- The order of the alphabet is completely random.
- There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth.
- You can’t breathe and swallow at the same time.
- A British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.
- A TI-83 calculator has six times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.
- The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglion neuralgia.
- Marie Curie’s (Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity) notebooks are still radioactive. Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer.
- Albert Einstein could have been the President of Israel. When Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, died, Einstein was offered the position, but he declined.
- The nearest black hole to the Earth is 1,600 light years away.
- A Princeton professor recently proved that you can have identical snowflakes after growing them himself.
- Congo, a chimpanzee who made over 400 paintings, would scream if a painting was taken away from him before he was finished.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
