Interesting Facts - Page 167

Fact: In the USA alone, all the combined parking spaces are as big as the state of West Virginia!

Fact: If all ants were to pile up in 1 flat plain, it would be as big as the entire state of Minnesota!

And, if it were to pile up into 1 giant ball, it would be as wide and tall as 860 meters!

Serbia has a panhandle less than 100 feet across

Zagreb is the only capital to start with Z. It's also the only one to end in B

Cashews grow from an apple

A single strand of DNA holds 218 petabytes. To put that into perspective, that's 218 million gigabytes. Even crazier, your brain can only hold 2.5 petabytes!

If you counted how much information was in all of your DNA, it would count up to 697 BILLION PETABYTES, OR 6.976e+17 (or 69760000000000000) GIGABYTES.

Technically, Vatican´s biggest city is also their smallest

Fun Facts:

1. The westernmost point of Canada is closer to South Korea than it is to the easternmost point.

2. Parts of Alaska extend North, South, East, and West of Hawaii.

3. The US intentionally detonated an atomic bomb over Indiana in the 1970s.

4. More people speak Chinese as a second language than English as a first language.

5. Because of exclaves and intricacies, Russia actually shares a longer border with Finland than with Kazakhstan.

6. After just 3 moves in chess, there are already over 5 billion possible positions.

7. An Olympic delegation from Quebec actually competed separately from the rest of Canada in the 1952 Winter Olympics.

8. In the country of Georgia is so diverse that only 22.58% of the population actually speaks Georgian.

9. Switzerland actually has no official flag- the classic "red cross" is only its de facto flag.

From 1984 to 1994, South Africa had a tricameral parliament.

Lyndon Johnson died exactly two days into Richard Nixon's second term.

Minnesota is the only US state that is Quadruply Landlocked

Pepsi were once the sixth largest power in the world. In 1989, the USSR traded 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer in order for Pepsi to be sold in the Soviet Union.

1/3 of raspberries come from Serbia

Belarus means white Russia.

Music competitions were part of the Olympics from 1912 to 1948

The Bishop of Orlando once jokingly claimed himself to be the Bishop of the Moon—and he may be right. Under canon law, newly found territories are the property of the diocese from where the expedition departed, in this case Apollo 11.

UP was given to Michigan as a result of the Toledo War between Ohio and Michigan.

There's a town called X-box in Mexico

This comment section has gone down the pan. No wonder Quizmaster doesn't bother to review the facts posted anymore.

Fun fact:

This is a true fact.

Inferno has wild punishments for the wicked. Those who commit suicide / self-harm are doomed to be trees with fragile branches, the homosexual are doomed to forever lie on hot sand, excessive flatterers are condemned to a river of literal crap, astrologers / wizards have their heads twisted backwards, and the traitorous are frozen beneath a lake of ice.

King Alexander of Greece died from a monkey bite.

Fun fact, there are more Minecraft Accounts than books on the planet.

835: That's a W.

We talk about political polarisation now but in 1920 only 3 states were decided by less than 10 percentage points. Kentucky, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.