Mind-blowing Facts That Literally Nobody Has Heard Before

The Oldest Tree

The oldest tree in the world is the methuselah tree. This piece of growing, changing, morphing carbon is 4851 years old. This tree is quite possibly the oldest living thing on Earth, period.

Mikey Actually Hated His Job

Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel once it was finished. The poem reads "I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison)."

The More You Know

The world's largest Barbie collection includes more than 15,000 dolls.
Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don’t both end up with food poisoning.
Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world's freshwater.
North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can't buy Coca-Cola.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.