Mind-blowing Facts That Literally Nobody Has Heard Before

The Oldest Tree

The oldest tree in the world is the methuselah tree. This piece of growing, changing, morphing carbon is 4851 years old. This tree is quite possibly the oldest living thing on Earth, period. 

Mikey Actually Hated His Job

Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel once it was finished. The poem reads "I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison)."

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The More You Know

  • The chance of a coin landing heads-up is not 50-50
  • Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties have been registered as blood donors.
  • The smallest unit of measurement in the universe is the Planck length.
  • A man sued Pepsi claiming he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew. Pepsi attorneys stated that Mountain Dew will dissolve a mouse in 30 days, and showed his can was purchased 74 days after being manufactured.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.