amazing facts you probably didnt know

All of the gold mined in the history of the world would more or less fit into a 20x20x20 meter cube.

A total of 165,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history, as of 2009.1 This is roughly equivalent to 5.3 billion troy ounces or, in terms of volume, about 8,500 cubic meters, or a 20.4m cube.

There are more atoms in a single glass of water, than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.

Half of all humans who have ever lived, died from malaria.

Martin Sheens original name was Ramon Estevez. He had two sons, Emilio and Carlos. Emilio kept the Estevez, but Carlos changed his name to Charlie Sheen. He changed his stage name to ride the coattails of his fathers changed stage name.

Alcohol is considered a performance-enhancing drug in competitive shooting competitions.

Once Charlie Chaplin entered a contest for Charlie Chaplin look-alikes and he came in third.

If you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are that the new order of playing cards has never existed before.

Of all the people in history that have reached 65 years of age, half of them are living right now.

Fold over a piece of paper 42 times and it will reach the moon

Pirates wear eye patches so that they can see in the dark.
When they go to a lower deck with poor lighting, they can remove the patch and see better with that eye since its used to the dark, whereas the other eye would take several minutes to adjust to the change in light.