16 amazing and completely true facts that are hard to wrap your head around (17 photos)

We are used to looking at the world from only one side and not spending much time thinking about the Universe, strange coincidences or relationships. But even in this case, amazing discoveries can be made (even if they are quite obvious). Video blogger MjcMatthew collects just such interesting facts on his TikTok account. You'll like it.





Here is a small list of facts that Matthew found incredible. But it really seems absurd that the can opener was invented much later than the can opener. Or that all blue-eyed people have the same ancestor.

And some facts show us things from a point of view from which we have never considered them. For example: Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire, and Picasso can be considered the link between Eminem and Darwin. Marvelous!

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Picasso was born while Charles Darwin was still alive and died when Eminem was born.

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There is a disease that can turn all your muscle tissue into bone. It's called fibrodysplasia and affects 800 people worldwide.

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Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

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Since the Statue of Liberty is made of copper, it used to be the color of a regular coin. Due to oxidation, it turned completely green in 1922.

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If you had a neutron star the size of a teaspoon, it would have the same mass as the 900 Pyramids of Giza.

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If you are shuffling a deck of cards, it is statistically likely that you have shuffled them in an order that has never happened before and will never happen again. In fact, at this moment you are the first person in history to mix them in exactly this sequence.

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The United Kingdom has more tornadoes per unit area than any other country in the world.

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Stonehenge was a tourist attraction for the ancient Romans.

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Retiring after 35 years at Crayola and having made 1.4 billion crayons, top employee Emerson Moser admitted that he was colorblind and could not distinguish many colors.

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The opener was invented only 40 years after the tin can.

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There are more atoms in one glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth.

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All blue-eyed people are 400 cousins ​​and share one common ancestor known as the Founder. He lived about 7-10 thousand years ago during the Mesolithic era in the territory of modern Spain and had an unusual genetic mutation.

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Facebook's Like button should have been called Awesome.

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The stickers that are placed on fruits are actually edible. Just in case.

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There are more variations of chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe.

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The Eiffel Tower was originally supposed to be built in Barcelona. But the residents of Barcelona did not like the idea of ​​the project - and the tower was moved to France.