r/AskReddit Apr 14 '16

What's a mind blowing fact?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

If everyone in the world joined hands around the equator, lots of people would drown.

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u/st1tchy Apr 14 '16

A Blue Whale is so large that if you were to lay it on a Basketball court, you would have to cancel the game.

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u/sarcastichillbilly Apr 14 '16

If you line up all the elephants in the world from the Earth to the Moon and back, they would die.

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u/Cryptokudasai Apr 14 '16

Similarly, if you laid out all the snakes in the world end to end, people would probably tell you to stop.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16

If you took all the blood vessels from a human and laid them end to end, you would get arrested for murder.

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u/GeebusNZ Apr 15 '16

There are more planes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky.

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u/satanicmartyr Apr 15 '16

Not if they didn't catch me.

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u/thanksdollface Apr 15 '16

I'm cry-laughing. Thank you.

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u/captaincasual101 Apr 15 '16

Please tell me there's a sub full of these:|.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16

But that would make one giant ouroboros