Friday 1 May 2015

You Definitely wont believe these 14 completely bizzare and unbelievable Facts

1. Nobody knows who invented the fire hydrant, because the building containing the patent burned down. 

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2. Lighters came before matches.

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The first modern lighter was created by German chemist Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner in 1823. Matches were invented three years later by John Walker in England.

3. A piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times, as long as its no more than 0.1 millimeter thick.

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4. Hypothetically, you could reach the moon using paper.


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If you folded 0.1 millimeter-thick paper 42 times, the resulting paper would theoretically be thick enough to reach the moon. Theoretically is the key word here.

5.If you folded the paper 103 times, it could span the universe.


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With every fold, the paper’s thickness doubles.

6.127,000 trees are chopped down daily to make enough toilet paper for everyone.

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7.  Watermelons are berries.

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8. Strawberries are NOT berries.

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9. And Peanuts are NOT nuts.

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10. Pineapples actually get sweeter with salt.

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11. Trailers used to come after the movie.

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Hence why they’re called ‘trailers’. Nobody would stick around to watch them, so they got moved to the front.

12. 99% of the Earth’s gold is inside its core.

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13. Not much gold at all is available to humans.

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All of the gold ever mined by humans put together could build about a third of the Washington Monument.

14. There’s even less platinum.

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All the platinum ever mined by humans could fit in an average-sized house.

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