We all have that one friend who is a fountain of interesting knowledge. You know the one guy or girl who knows every useless fact about everything you can think of? Well, here we have 12 true, yet hard-to-believe, facts you can impress them with! Many people won’t believe these facts yet they are totally on point. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Take a look and let us know in the comments any bizarre-but-true facts of your own!
The Ottoman Empire was still in power the last time Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
![chicago cubs](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/chicago-cubs.jpg)
2 out of every 3 Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer at some point in their lives.
![australian opera house](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/australian-opera-house.jpg)
Einstein’s autopsy pathologist stole his brain and kept it for 40 years before returning it.
![albert einsteins brain slide](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/albert-einsteins-brain-slide.jpg)
The population of Bangladesh is larger than that of Russia.
![bangladesh map](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/bangladesh-map.jpg)
Vending machines have killed more people in America than sharks.
![homer simpson vending machine](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/homer-simpson-vending-machine.jpg)
90% of all silent films in the USA have now been lost forever.
![film reels](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/film-reels.jpg)
William Shakespeare and Pocahontas died less than a year between them, and 150 miles apart!
![pocahontas william shakespeare](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/pocahontas-william-shakespeare.jpg)
Maine contains more black bears than black people.
![black bears](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/black-bears-black-people.jpg)
Vatican City has one of the highest crime rates in the entire world.
![pope vatican city](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/pope-vatican-city.jpg)
Hitler is mentioned by Congress around 7.7 times per month.
![dancing ss officers](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dancing-ss-officers.gif)
Monsters Inc. came out in 2001, closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than this present time!
![monsters inc](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/monsters-inc.jpg)
And lastly, UK surveyors discovered Mt. Everest was 29,000 ft high however they officially recorded it at a height of two feet higher! With experts around the world still disagreeing on the height, nobody is completely sure just how high the great mountain is.
![mt everest](https://www.awesomeinventions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mt-everest.jpg)
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