Real Fun Facts

Here are your weekly fun facts!

1. Bank of America was originally going to be called Bank of Italy, but was renamed due to most of the customers being in America.

2. Nobody knows who invented the fire hydrant because the patent for the fire hydrant burned in a fire.

3. The voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy were the same voice actor.

4. Oxford University (1096) is older than the Aztec Empire(~1400).

5. A whale was killed in Alaska two years ago that had the tip of a harpoon in its head. The tip of the harpoon had been made around the 1880s. The whale survived at least 130 years with a harpoon in its head!

6. The human to insect ratio is about 170,000,000: 1.
Bonus Fact: Despite there being so many more ants, if you added the weight of all the ants and all the humans, they would weigh about the same.

7. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year.

8. Mammoths were still alive when the Egyptian pyramids were made.

9. Dragonflies can not walk, they have to fly anytime they want to move.

10. Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.

11. The largest air force in the world is the U.S. Air Force . The second largest is the U.S. Navy.

Bonus Fact: The U.S. Coast Guard (protects our border) is the 12th biggest navy in the world.

12. During World War I, Americans started calling "hamburgers" liberty sandwiches.

13. Ohio is the only state that doesn't share a letter with the word "mackerel".

14. Otters have pouches where they keep their favorite rock.

15. The cardboard sometimes put on coffee to keep it from burning you is called zarf.

16. Most deer can jump higher than the average house. This is due to the deer's powerful hind legs, and the fact that the average house cannot jump.

17. Modern lighters came before modern matches.

18. Egyptians didn't get cavities until the Romans started importing sugar. For this reason, many people had no need to brush their teeth.

19. Squid brains are donut shaped, and their esophagus is located in the "donut hole". If they eat something too big, it gives them brain damage. 

20. Pineapples take 1.5-3 years to grow.

Hope you enjoyed my facts! :)