Neil Armstrong had to go through U.S. Customs after returning from the Moon. (That's one small step for man, one giant leap for insane government regulations...)
Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia. (Saudis are not really camel jockeys?)
There are whales alive older than the novel Moby Dick.
Mankind put a man on the Moon before he put wheels on suitcases.
Betty White is literally older than sliced bread. (And more ubiquitous.)
Pluto was made and unmade a planet before it completed one orbit of the Sun.
The Current U.S. flag was designed by a 17-year-old for a school project. His grade was B-minus. (Cheer up, kid. One of Einstein's teachers said he'd never get anywhere.)
Your iPhone has more computing power than NASA used for the Moon landing. (And is probably infinitely more useful than whatever was learned on the moon.)
Alaska is simultaneously the most northern, western and eastern state in the U.S.. (Huh?)
There are more plastic Pink Flamingos than real ones in the U.S.. (At least they don't poo.)
Nathan Gibson contributed a list on facts that sound fake but are true, which I whittled from 14:
There are more trees on Earth than stars in The Milky Way. (No, way Jose.)
The first recorded use of OMG was in a 1917 letter to Churchill. (LOL)
Wyoming has only two escalators in the entire state. (Must be at its one mall.)
The first adult film was screened in 1896. (This film has yet to be rated.)
My thanks to the gentleman who purchased a thriller, and to the young woman who bought Tina Fey's Bossypants and bios on Howard Stern and Gloria Steinem. As she was scanning the display, a middle age man voiced his surprised that someone so young still read books. She replied that she still listened to Black Sabbath and Prince on vinyl. I guess she showed him. I withheld my opinion that anyone who prefers vinyl to digital is nuts.
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