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1) The University of Oxford is even older than the Aztec Empire                        

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(Facts: Oxford began in 1096 and the Aztec Empire in 1428.)

2) You can never buy a mirror that  never used.

3) The world population has doubled since 1970. But it took 200,000 years for the population to reach one billion. the world population by 2021 is 7.9 billion               in 1970,3.683 billion 

4)  A Banyan Tree near Kolkata, India is bigger than the average Walmart

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Fact -The 250-year-old Great Banyan tree has aerial roots that cover 3.5 square acres of land, which equals roughly 156,000 square feet, or 14,400 square meters. 

Compare that to data from the most recent unit count and square footage report from Wal-Mart, which says that the average store size (that's not a Super-center) is just under 105,000 square feet or 9,750 square meters.

5) 50% of the world's population is under 30 years of age.

6) A quarter of the world's population was born after 2004.

7) 90% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.


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8) The world's largest tire manufacturer is LEGO Toy Manufacturer.

9) The average number of arms, legs, eyes, or ears that a person has is less than two

10) Finland and North Korea are separated by only one country.

(Fact: Russia shares a 10.5-mile border along the Tumen River with North Korea, and a 833-mile border with Finland)

11) Not a single mummy has been found in the most famous pyramid, the Pyramid of Giza - fact: stolen by robbers 

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12) Cheetahs cannot roar like lions and Meow sounds like cats.

13) No matter how long the neck is, the number of bones in the neck of a giraffe is the same as the number of bones in the neck of humans. That value is 7.

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14) Sharks live older than the United States.

(Fact: USA was founded in 1772 and Greenland sharks live about 300-500 years.)

15) In a pool type nuclear power plant we can swim without damage 

(Fact: Radiation through water is very weak.)

16) The order in which a deck of 52 cards is shuffled at once has a very high probability of being unprecedented in human history.

(Fact: The number of leaf processing sequences is 52! = 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000) This is huge value)

17) If 50 people are put in the same room, the probability of at least two of them having the same date of birth (not the year) is 97%

18) Only 22 countries in the world have not been invaded by Britain.

19) Polar bears and penguins never meet together naturally in the environment.

(Fact: Polar bears live only in the Northern Hemisphere and penguins are restricted to the Southern Hemisphere.)

20) Bangladesh has more people than Russia 

Fact;Russia population 146,009,080 

Bangladesh population 166,652,162


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