You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

Dyrehavsbakken, an amusement park located in Denmark, is the oldest in the world. It opened in 1583 and is located 6.2 miles (ca. 10 km) north of Copenhagen.

[Lee Stewart]

Scientists don't know the exact number of stars in the galaxy. According to NASA, there are anywhere between 100 billion and 400 billion stars in the Milky Way.

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Counting all battle and civilian deaths, World War II (1939 to 1945) had the most fatalities of any conflict in world history: approximately 56.4 million people.

[Lee Stewart]

You'd think that paper money is paper money, regardless of the amount printed on it, but that's not the case. According to the Federal Reserve, it costs 5.5¢ to make a $1 or $2 bill, but approximately 11¢ to make fives, tens, 20s, and 50s. But $100 bills cost 14.2¢ each to manufacture.

[Lee Stewart]

Though we may associate Kansas with tornadoes thanks to the Wizard of Oz, Texas actually has more of these destructive cyclones on average each year: 155. Kansas does, however, come in second with an average of 96 tornadoes each year.

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Climate change isn't just dangerous because it threatens the very planet we inhabit—it's also bad for business. After causing approximately $160 billion in damage in 2018, experts predict the figures for 2019 will be even worse.

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In 2017, a painting called "Salvator Mundi" attributed to Leonardo da Vinci sold for $450.3 million making it the most expensive painting of all time sold at auction. It has been dated to approximately 1500.

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Located in Antarctica, Don Juan Pond has the highest salinity of any body of water on the planet—40 percent. In fact, despite the fact that surrounding temperatures can get as low as -22 degrees Fahrenheit (-5.56 °C), it never freezes.

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]