TRUE FACTS

People on Reddit often post fun, mindblowing, counterintuitive, or disturbing facts. Nick Douglas, a writer with Lifehacker.com, has collected the very best facts, and verified them. So, these are true:
– “When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the third kidney in your pelvis.”
– “There are roughly 200 corpses on Mount Everest that are used as way points for climbers.”
– “If you made $5,000 a day since Columbus first stepped in America, you still wouldn’t have one billion dollars today.”
– “People in the southern hemisphere see the moon upside down compared to the north.”
– “Every day there are 82 years’ worth of videos being published on YouTube.”
– “You could fit all of the planets in our solar system between the Earth and the moon. With room to spare.”
– “Pyramids and wooly mammoths coexisted.”
– “George Washington never knew dinosaurs existed.”
– “Cows have best friends and get lonely if they are separated.”
– “Shaquille O’Neal hit almost 12,000 baskets in his career. Exactly 1 of them was a 3-pointer.”
– “There are more permutations of a standard deck of 52 cards than there are seconds since the Big Bang.”
– “The color orange was named after the fruit, not the other way around.”
– “There are over a billion insects for every person alive today.”
– “The letter J wasn’t invented until 1630.”
* Suddenly, I’m going to be the hit of the office Christmas party this year.
* Just how stoned does this Nick Douglas guy get every day?
* Shaquille O’Neal hit almost 12,000 baskets in his career. That’s also how many products he’s done TV commercials for.
* If you think about it, that’s really tragic news about cows having a best friend.