The human brain is great at analyzing the world around it. But not everything is right in front of our faces, and some facts just don't make any sense.
For example, did you know that Dinosaurs couldn't even touch grass?
Here are 21 counterintuitive facts to mess up your mind.
1
Night Sky
The night sky looks the same from every planet in the solar system. That’s how far away everything else is.
2
World Timeline
There was a point in time when a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.
3
Fresh Water
Only 3% of the Earth's water is fresh water, and less than 1/3 of that isn't frozen.
4
Fingerprints
While it is generally assumed that no two people share identical fingerprints, it cannot be proven.
5
Benford's Law
In datasets of large numbers, you will have more 1s, 2s, and 3s, than 7s, 8s, and 9s. If you have similar amounts of all, the data might be fake.
6
Elemans
Every element heavier than lithium had to be created in the core of a star. Every element heavier than iron had to be created by a supernova.
7
Early Humans
For tens of thousands of years modern humans coexisted with other ancient hominids.
8
Blimps
There are only about 25 blimps in the world.
9
Grizzly Bears
Grizzly bears in Yellowstone eat around 300,000 moths a month and it accounts for 1/3 of their calorie intake.
10
McDonald’s
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11
Turkeys
A female turkey can lay an egg that doesn't need to be fertilised by a male turkey and the baby that hatches will always be a male.
12
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs evolved in a world where there was no grass and no flowers. Both grasses and flowering plants first appeared toward the end of the age of dinosaurs. Before that time, the vegetation landscape was dominated by ferns and cycads and conifers.
13
Cheetahs
Cheetahs aren't technically big cats. They are very large, small cats. They can’t roar. Instead, they purr and chirp.
14
Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico should be named Puerto Rico, San Juan. It got mixed up by a map maker.
15
Cambridge
Cambridge University is 200 years older than the Aztec empire.
16
DNA
All humans share 99.9% of the same DNA. The .1% is what makes us different.
17
Sharks
There have been sharks on Earth for longer than there have been trees.
18
Fire Hydrant
The patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire.
19
Wooly Mammoth
Wooly Mammoth still roamed when the pyramids were built.
20
Flight
It took humans less than 66 years to go from first discovering flight, 1903, to landing a man on the moon, 1969.
21
Time
A million seconds is 11.5 days. A billion seconds is 31.7 years.
