#1. Did you know that you can’t hum when you hold your nose closed?
Go ahead. Try it.
#2. Mosquito repellents don’t repel; they hide you. The spray blocks mosquito sensors so they think you’re no longer there.
#3. The reason the taste of artificial banana flavouring and artificial banana flavoured products doesn’t taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.
#4. It is estimated that millions of trees grow thanks to squirrels forgetting where they buried their nuts.
#5. Oh, and you’ve always pictured the pyramids out in the middle of the desert, haven’t you?
But they’re actually DIRECTLY next to the city of Giza.
#6. The entire surface area of Pluto would fit within the entire surface area of Russia with room to spare.
#7. And while we’re on the subject, did you know that in the time between when we first learned about Pluto in 1930 and today, the dwarf planet has not managed to completely circumnavigate the sun once?
It will only accomplish this for the first time since its discovery in
2178.
8. Oh, and in case you’ve forgotten how small and insignificant we really are… here’s Earth compared to the sun.
#9. But our little sun’s got nothing on VY Canis Major, one of the largest stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
#10. Okay, back to Earth. Did you know that all the maps you’ve ever seen are totally wrong?
Yep! The sizes of the countries are totally skewed. Here’s an animated comparison:
