Although you might not believe most of them, these are 25 things that sound too crazy to be true, but they are!
Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars: A New Hope hit theatres

Nintendo was originally a trading card company

If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States

There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world

For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants

The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans

On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds

Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months

Shakespeare made up the name "Jessica" for his play Merchant of Venice

Your chances of being kllled by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark

Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg

Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets

Scotland's national animal is the unicorn

Apparently there are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos

John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today.

A strawberry is NOT a berry

A banana IS a berry.

There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid

An octopus has three hearts

There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells

There is only one country between North Korea and Norway

New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy

Maine is the closest US state to Africa
