The Beirut blast is estimated to have been equivalent to a few hundred tons of TNT. Hundreds of people are still missing and at least 300,000 are displaced. The Tsar Bomba, a Soviet hydrogen bomb, had a blast yield of 50 million tons of TNT.
LIGO [The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory] ligo.caltech.edu/page/facts 
The loudest sound in the world was so loud that it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away. kottke.org/14/10/the-worl…
You live closer in time to T. rex than T. rex did to Stegosaurus.
Cleopatra lived closer to the creation of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
The first ever pyramids where built whilst the wooly mammoth was still walking the earth.
There are whales out there older than the tale of Moby Dick.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
The Japanese construction company Kongō Gumi was founded 1442 years ago.
The jewellery company Tiffany & Co. is older than Italy.
"The Peacemaker missile's navigation suite featured the most precise and complex self-contained gyro system ever built. It had 19,000 individual parts." thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3…
