79 Short And Sweet Facts That Might Get You Questioning Everything You Know

There are more trees on earth than there are stars in our galaxy. MANY more trees. Also, sharks appeared on earth about 50 million years before trees did. Thank you for subscribing to tree facts.

That if you could fold a piece of paper on half 125 times, it would be thicker than the observable universe.

The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world.

The history of how "Bless You" became a thing to say after someone sneezes.

TLDR - It was believed that when you sneeze, your soul briefly escaped your body and that was a chance that the Devil has to grab it. It was believed that if you blessed someone fast enough, it would force your soul back into your body, thus making it safe again from his capture.

Crazy that we have turned that into an almost social expectation with such archaic thinking.

Observational studies link moderate, long-term cheese consumption to a lower risk of all-cause mortality.

American English is closer to Old English than Oxford English.

I hate this fact because I am an Oxford snob.

Space is completely silent. The universe is basically ignoring everyone..

Joe Biden’s birth date is closer to Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration than to Joe Biden’s (first) inauguration.

Michael Jackson’s life ended up being split evenly in half, down to the day (yes, including accounting for leap years), by the time his hair caught on fire due to a pyrotechnic malfunction while he was filming a Pepsi commercial.

It’s very UK-coded, but my favourite music trivia relates to the sample that Eminem used in My Name Is, specifically that it’s from “I Got The” by Labi Siffre. The musicians involved in the Labi Siffri tune were Chas Hodges and Dave Peacock who played guitar and bass on this track, specifically the Eminem sample part - anyone from the UK (myself included) would almost immediately recognise this names as “Chas n’ Dave” who were a semi-comedy Cockney-London novelty-act - “Rabbit” being a good example of their style

So, yeah - there’s a UK context here, but I just LOVE the fact that Chas n’ Dave played a huge part in Eminem’s explosion and d********n.

There is a point somewhere in space where you stop going "up" and start simply moving "away".

What is the only word in the English language with all the vowels in order?

Answer: Facetious.

You are generally within 20’ of a rat.

The universe has a quadrillion year timeline (until it ends). If you compress that into a year and then look at our 14 billion years that we’ve had so far with our universe, that would only be the first seven minutes of the first day of the year.

Blue whales are so big that you could swim through their largest arteries

Those squiggly lines you see in your vision sometimes are the remnants of veins that supplied your eyes with nutrients while you were in the womb...after you're born they break into pieces and are permanently sealed inside your eyeballs.

Today I found out that if you subtract the sum of the digits of a number from the number itself always produces a multiple of 9. Also,
Mono = One
Rail = Rail.

An American team has won the Canadian football Grey Cup since the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup.

Jim Harbaugh has more career NFL rushing yards than Bo Jackson.

"Saved by the Bell: The New Class" had more episodes than "Good Morning, Ms. Bliss", "Saved by the Bell" and "The College Years" COMBINED.

The L in Samuel L Jackson isn’t actually an initial. There was already another Samuel Jackson registered with the SAG when he joined, and because he is the 50th Samuel Jackson in his bloodline he chose the Roman numeral for 50 as his middle initial.