Busting Popular Myths That You Probably Thought Were Facts

The Great Wall of China Is Not Visible From Space

People think that the Great Wall of China is the only visible man-made object from space. Not true! In fact, it’s not even visible from space. Who would have thought?

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The More You Know

  • But the loudest animal relative to its size is a water bug.
  • The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • The largest volcano in the solar system is three times taller than Mount Everest.
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