18 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Unreal But Are True

Prepare to be amazed by these mind-blowing facts that sound too crazy to be real, but aren’t.

It takes ~108 atoms laid in a row to span the width of a human fingernail (~1 cm.) If the same number of standard wooden pencils were laid end to end, they would circumnavigate the Earth’s equator more than 47 times.

Human’s ability smell petrichor (smell of wet earth from rain) is greater than a Shark’s ability to smell blood in water.

Oregon is the only state with a state nut – the Hazelnut.

Since most people are right handed, in WW2 the Germans were specifically trained to eat with their left hand, so that finding spies from other countries would be easier to spot.

When unable to tell the difference between a bone and a rock in the archaeological field, it’s not uncommon to press it to one’s tongue. If it falls, it’s a rock, and if it sticks, it’s bone.

The reason the plural of Goose is Geese (same with tooth/teeth) but the plural of Moose is still Moose, is because the aforementioned comes from the Latin language while the latter comes from Native American languages, so it doesn’t follow the same rules as most other words.

The word LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

That the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire.

The shell is part of the turtle’s skeleton.

When you are looking at a star, you are literally looking in the past.

The first person to write about tofu in the English language was Benjamin Franklin.

Emma Morano of Italy was the last (documented and verified) person to die that was born in the 1800s. 29th November 1899 – 15th April 2017

There was a time on the Earth where there were, at least, four different human species at the same time. Homo sapiens, Homo Neanderthalensis, Homo denisova and Homo floresiensis.

The General Electric Company for many decades owned NBC. The three chimes of the NBC jingle are the notes G-E-C. During the radio era if that chime ever had a fourth note, that was a signal for NBC employees to go into work because a major news story (i.e. D-Day) was about to break.

German chocolate cake was invented by an English-American baker named Samuel German and has nothing to do with the country of Germany.

Corgi is a translation of the welsh for dwarf dog.

The figure in Munch’s ‘The Scream’ is not screaming but is, in fact, reacting to hearing the scream.