If Wayne Gretzky never scored a goal in his entire career, he'd still be the all time points leader in NHL history, just from assists.
If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, its thickness will be 3/4 the distance from the Earth to the Sun (71 million miles). The math checks out: folding in half operation is just a 2x problem (0 folds = 1 thickness, 1 fold = 2 thicknesses, 2 folds = 4 thicknesses, 3 folds = 8 thicknesses, etc). 250 = 1.12589990684262E+15 thicknesses estimate thickness of paper is 0.09652 mm; you get: 108,671,859,008,450 mm = 108,671,859 km = 67,525,600 mi
The time difference between when Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus lived is greater than the time difference between Tyrannosaurus and now.
If you properly shuffle a deck of cards, in all likelihood, the resulting deck has never been seen before in the history of the world.
Cleopatra was alive closer to the Moon landing than she was to the construction of the great pyramids.
The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest air force in the world is the US Navy.
A small percentage of static on televisions is actually radioactive resonance from the big bang 13 billion years ago.
In America, same-sex marriage is only legal in 9 states - But, it is legal to have sex with a horse in 23 states.
Some of these sound awfully similar to the random facts twitter feed that I follow! Speaking of which: The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/insects-on-earth1.htm The estimated number of individual insects currently hopping, crawling or flying around our planet at any given moment is about 10 quintillion, or the number "10" followed by 18 zeros, according to entomologist Dr. E.O. Wilson [source: Smithsonian Institute]. That means there are about 2 billion insects for every human being, and assuming that there are 5 million species of insects, that means that each species has about 50 trillion individuals [source: Hogg]. So the next time you feel outnumbered, just remember: Unless you're an insect, so is everyone else.
