10 Shockingly True Facts About The World We Live In. #9 Is Completely Crazy

by N/A, 11 years ago | 2 min read

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You hear a lot of crazy information everyday. It's definitely hard to know what's true and what's not. Although they may sound ridiculous, these facts about the world are 100% true.

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1. Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state in the United States.

The Alaskan Aleutian Islands stretch to the edge of the Western Hemisphere and across into the Eastern Hemisphere.

2. Bayer once used heroin to treat children's coughs.

3. Cleopatra was alive closer to the era when the first Pizza Hut opened than when the pyramids were constructed.

4. Austria's GrÃ¼ner See park becomes submerged under 30 feet of water after the snow on nearby mountains melts.

5. Calculus was discovered after Harvard was founded.

6. The Eiffel Tower was almost sold twice.

Victor Lustig convinced six different scrap metal dealers that he was a government official charged with selling the tower's scrap metal. After making thousands of dollars, he ran off to Austria to hide out when the story broke.

7. Woolly Mammoths still roamed the Earth while the pyramids were being built.

8. In the 1850s, the city of Chicago was raised a foot due to a mud and sewage problem.

It was elevated 10 feet in some areas of the city.

9. Bangladesh has a higher population than Russia.

Russia spans nine timezones and still has 13.1 million less people than Bangladesh.

10. The human brain contains more synapses than there are stars in the galaxy.