Can You Make It Through This Post Without Having Your Mind Blown?
2 Here’s something that you never realized:
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11And pineapples like this:
12Before we move on, here’s the ending to “Inception” explained:
13Now let’s shrink things down. Here’s what velcro looks like close up:
14Here’s what chalk looks like under a microscope:
15 And here’s what sand looks like under a microscope:
16Speaking of sand, there are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth:
Thanks to Carl Sagan for this knowledge.
Via: science.nationalgeographic.com
Let’s go deeper:
17. If you shrunk the Sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way Galaxy down using the same scale, it would be the size of the continental United States:
18Speaking of things that are huge, a Blue Whale’s heart is so big, a small child can swim through the veins:
19There’s enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water:
20Here’s the true size of Africa:
21And the Pacific Ocean:
22Let’s think bigger: If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and dropped a book down, it would take 45 minutes to reach the bottom:
23Here’s what Jupiter would look like if it were the same distance to Earth as the Moon:
24And here’s what a sunset on Mars looks like:
25DID YOU KNOW? There are more bacteria cells in your body than actual body cells:
Anywhere from 2 to 9 pounds of them. We’re more bacteria than we are human!
Via: scientificamerican.com
26.DID YOU KNOW? John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States, has a grandson that’s alive today:
John Tyler had a son, Lyon, when he was 63. Lyon had a son, Harrison Tyler, at 75.
Via: geneamusings.com
27.DID YOU KNOW? A compressed spring weighs more than a relaxed one:
28.JUST THINK: We know more about the surface of the moon than the bottom of the ocean:
29Speaking of the ocean, there are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth:
30Speaking of time: The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series:
31Keep this in mind, too:
32The Great Pyramid was built circa 2560 BC…
… and Cleopatra lived 69 BC – 30 BC…
… and the first Moon landing was in 1969, AD…
which means Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Via: le.ac.uk
33.Speaking of the pyramids, they were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us:
34.Should we keep going? The difference in time between when Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now:
35Here’s one more: In 1903 the Wright Brothers flew for the first time…
…38 years later, in 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor…
… and 28 years later, in 1969, man landed on the Moon.
That’s 66 years.
Via: kitmcc.edu.glogster.com
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