Internet Users Share 20+ Cool Things That You Might Not Know

There was a short period of time when Picasso and Snoop Dogg were both alive together.

German chocolate cake was invented by an English-American baker named Samuel German and has nothing to do with the country of Germany.

Bob Ross was a Drill Instructor. When he stopped working as that, he promised he would not raise his voice at someone again. That's why he was so soft spoken.

Komodo dragons are the largest animals in the world capable of reproducing asexually

Eugene Aldrin, the father of the famous moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, not only witnessed the Wright brothers’ first flight but also went to see his son land on the moon in his lifespan.

We’ve been quick!

Shaq hit almost 12,000 baskets in his career. Exactly 1 of them was a 3-pointer.

There was a phantom poop on an Apollo mission. A poop, floating around, that none of the astronauts said was theirs.

The figure in Munch's 'The Scream' is not screaming but is, in fact, reacting to hearing the scream.

Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.

Putting enough eye drops in someone’s food or drink will, in fact, kill them.

The technology for the fax machine was invented in 1843. The feudal era in Japan ended in 1868 abolishing the samurai class. Abraham Lincoln lived until 1865. All of this combined lead to a 22 year period in which Lincoln could have received a fax from a samurai.

Corgi is a translation of the welsh for dwarf dog. Cor gi.

In the Mabinogion, the welsh book of myths and legends, corgis were the battle steeds of fairies

Some birth control pills can cause vitamin B deficiency. Vitamin B is used to make seratonin. I’ve know a few people that got super depressed after starting birth control and taking B complex made a huge difference

*consult your doctor

Due to evolution, humans share genes with all living organisms. For example, 60% of your DNA is the same as a strawberry.

Australia is wider than the moon.

Honeybees can be trained to sniff out land mines in war zones! Obviously dogs can do it but to avoid blowing up poor unsuspecting doggos, they figured out that bees could do the same thing and swarm the area without setting the mine off to alert people to its presence.

More people die from vending machines than sharks.

90% of the population on Earth lives in the Northern Hemisphere.

That the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire.

The Guinness book of records was invented by the Guinness beer folks. They figured a book of verifiable facts would help stop bar arguments.

If you stare at your own reflection in dim lighting for a few minutes, your face will begin to distort and you will essentially begin to hallucinate. Don’t do it. It’s a trap.

The shell is part of the turtle’s skeleton.

There’s a vast difference between a million and a billion. A simple way to visualize it: a million seconds is over 11 days. A billion seconds is just under 32 years.

Sharks existed before trees existed.

If you type the word "askew" into the Google search box, the entire page will tilt slightly.

When the Rubix Cube was first released a mathematician said it would take the average person 30 years, working 8 hours a day, to solve a cube saying it was impossible for someone without a master's in mathematics to solve it in under a month.