Here Are 21 Cool Historical Facts That Will Blow Your Gourd

1. There isn’t a single bridge across the Amazon River.
2. The founders of Adidas (Adi Dassler) and Puma (Rudolf Dassler) are brothers and their houses are next door to each other in Germany.
3. The distance from the United States to Russia is 55-miles.
4. Jack the Ripper was still active when Nintendo was founded.
5. The sun is so loud that if space was filled with air instead of being a vacuum we’d be hearing screeching sun noises at 125 decibel at all times.
6. Stonehenge was already a ruin when Jesus lived.
7. Because the number of possible combination of genes isn’t infinite, there are probably at least 7 humans that look the same as you.
8. Netflix was founded before Google.
9. The 10th president of the US, John Tyler (1790-1862), has two living grandchildren. Yes, GRANDchildren.
10. Wyoming only has two escalators.
11. Dinosaurs were officially discovered in 1842, so George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the boys had no knowledge of them.
12. Vending machines kill twice as many people per year than sharks do.
13. Sharks are older than trees. Sharks date back 450 million years, trees 350 million years.
14. The combined weight of all the ants on the planet is greater than the combined weight of all the humans.
15. The Nazis were the first people in modern history to start an anti-smoking and tobacco movement.
16. Maine is the closet US state to Africa.
17. Woolly Mammoths were still alive when Egyptians were building the pyramids.
18. England’s Oxford University had existed for hundreds of years when the Aztec Empire was founded.
19. The world’s oldest living tree was already 1,000-years old when the last Wolly Mammoth died.
20. When the Pilgrim’s landed at Plymoth Rock, the Spanish had been settled in what is now the American Southwest for 100-years.
21. The Brooklyn Bridge was being built while Custer’s Last Stand occurred.