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rthomas6  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, shoot me with random facts that you think will blow my mind

Cleopatra lived closer to the first Moon landing than the building of the pyramids.





OftenBen  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's more neurons in your brain than brains in your entire body.

tacocat  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you lined up all the elephants on earth from here to the moon they'd die of asphyxiation

galen  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you unraveled a person's intestines and stretched them perpendicular to the earth that person would die

elizabeth  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's more grains of sand on a beach than atoms in the universe.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Aren't those grains composed of atoms, though?

Devac  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They are, it's just a continuation of non-facts that sound convincing until you'll think about it that was started by OftenBen ;).

someguyfromcanada  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The Colossal Squid and domestic turkey both have beaks so may have a common genetic ancestor. If so, perhaps Colossal Squids could also be domesticated.

Devac  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

By 'brains' you mean that nodule that controls peristalsis from around lumbar region of the spine?

OftenBen  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just being facetious really. It's a close approximation of a KenM quote.

goobster  ·  3080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Cleopatra was the one I was coming here to mention.

And for those visual types, check out this timeline: