Mind-blowing Facts That Literally Nobody Has Heard Before

Binary is Wild, But Computers are Wilder

Binary code literally makes up all of the information that you've ever seen on a computer. These letters, this website, your cursor, even your phone's user interface are created using a system of computer language that literally computes faster than the speed of light. Computers nowadays are absurdly strong, even stronger than you can fathom. 

History Is Wild

The Eiffel Tower was actually originally intended to stand in Barcelona. Unfortunately, Gustave Eiffel (the artist behind the Eiffel tower) decided that Barcelona was too "ugly" to put the Eiffel tower, so he sold it to Paris instead. French critics don't much like the Eiffel tower either.

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The More You Know

  • A reservoir in space holds 140 trillion times the amount of water in Earth's oceans.
  • The chance of a coin landing heads-up is not 50-50
  • Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
  • Muhammad is the most popular name in the world.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.