23 Insanely Crazy Facts That Are Actually True

MrHumptyDumpty Published 12/14/2015

These facts are so crazy they just might blow your mind.

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1.
The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice
2.
Cashews grow like this
3.
And pineapples grow like this
4.
Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto
5.
Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia
6.
Hippo milk is pink
7.
The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
8.
Woody from Toy Story has a full name too — it’s Woody Pride
9.
Oh, and Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid
10.
Carrots were originally purple
11.
The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries
12.
Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is
13.
France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.
14.
Armadillos nearly always give birth to identical quadruplets
15.
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland
16.
New York City is further south than Rome, Italy
17.
North Korea and Finland are separated by one country
18.
Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid
19.
There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos
20.
Nintendo was founded as a playing card company back in 1889
21.
The man who voiced Fry on Futurama, Billy West, also voiced Doug on Doug
22.
If you shrunk the sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way Galaxy down using the same scale, it would be the size of the continental United States
23.
Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet

1.
The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice
2.
Cashews grow like this
3.
And pineapples grow like this
4.
Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto
5.
Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia
6.
Hippo milk is pink
7.
The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
8.
Woody from Toy Story has a full name too — it’s Woody Pride
9.
Oh, and Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid
10.
Carrots were originally purple
11.
The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries
12.
Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is
13.
France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.
14.
Armadillos nearly always give birth to identical quadruplets
15.
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland
16.
New York City is further south than Rome, Italy
17.
North Korea and Finland are separated by one country
18.
Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid
19.
There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos
20.
Nintendo was founded as a playing card company back in 1889
21.
The man who voiced Fry on Futurama, Billy West, also voiced Doug on Doug
22.
If you shrunk the sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way Galaxy down using the same scale, it would be the size of the continental United States
23.
Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet