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“Wyoming Only Has 2 Escalators”: 52 Facts That Are Somehow True, Despite How Crazy They Sound
Nobody wants to be perceived as gullible. So if you hear something that sounds too good, too absurd, or too devastating to be true, your first instinct might be to simply deny it. “Yeah right, that’s a good joke!” But history has shown us time and time again that truth is stranger than fiction, and we’ve got a list below that proves that point.
Netizens have been sharing surprising facts that sound too ridiculous to be true, so we’ve compiled a list of the most amusing ones below. From scientific fun facts to random tidbits of information about modern companies, we hope you enjoy scrolling through this treasure trove of knowledge. And be sure to upvote the facts that you find hard to believe!
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#1
There are more libraries in the US than McDonald's.
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#2
There is a point in the Pacific Ocean named "Point Nemo" which is the furthest point from land. In fact, it is so far from land, the nearest humans are often astronauts in the International Space Station when it passes overhead. The ISS orbits the Earth at a maximum of **416 km** while the nearest inhabited landmass to Point Nemo is **over 2,700 km away**.
Bi.Felicia 1 hour ago
I actually knew this one, read about it somewhere, but I didn't know the exact distances...2,700+ km is crazy.
#3
John Tyler, born 1790 has 2 living grandchildren as of 2017. Not great grandchildren, just regular grandkids. I think he was in his 80s when he had a son and his son was also pretty old when he had these 2.
Bi.Felicia 1 hour ago
His son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, was born in 1853 when the President was 63. Lyon Gardiner Tyler subsequently had his own children at an advanced age, with his sons Harrison Ruffin Tyler (born 1928) and Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. (born 1924).While Harrison Ruffin Tyler was the last living grandson, he passed away in May 2025.
#4
It’s illegal to hunt whales in Arizona, a completely landlocked state.
#7
At its furthest away point, you can fit every planet in our solar system between Earth and the Moon.
#8
Pluto has not gone half way around the sun since its discovery.
#9
Polar Bears have recently been migrating further south and mating with Grizzly bears, creating a hybrid called Grolar Bears. They were separated for so long they took on different phenotypes, but they aren’t distant enough to no longer be able to mate and create viable offspring.
#10
The longest domestic flight in the world is in France (Paris to Réunion).
#11
There was no grass in dinosaur times. It just seems so strange because it's so ubiquitous today.
#12
The best thing for you to do if you're stung by a tarantula hawk wasp is to lie down and scream.
EDIT: Laying down prevents you from falling over/hurting yourself when you're in the throes of pain, and the screaming helps cope with the pain level. Nothing else is really going to help you.
#13
Having six fingers is actually a dominant trait, but the genes for it are so incredibly rare that pretty much no one has it.
#14
Otters carry a favourite stone in their pocket.
#15
There are more whitetail deer in the U.S now than at the time of first European contact.
#16
The Giza pyramids were built when Mammoths still roamed the earth.
#17
If you have 10 dollars in your pocket and no debts , you have more wealth than 25% of Americans.
Riley Quinn 7 minutes ago
I admit, I made it out alive. Years of working like a fool, squirreling a chunk aside, and being old so I get Social Security and dirt cheap rent including utilities. Because I'm extremely fortunate to have planned ahead, I'm able to donate a significant amount to those who aren't as fortunate.
#19
A ton of people is only about 11 people.
#20
The entire captain planet cartoon was a all star cast. It had Whoppie Goldberg, Jeff Goldblum, Tim Curry, Meg Ryan.
#21
France lends power to Britain so they don't get power surges from boiling the kettle, which happened several times in 2013 after a tv programme ended.
#22
Saudi Arabia imports sand ..
Bi.Felicia 39 minutes ago
Desert sand is unsuitable for construction because wind erosion polishes the grains, making them too smooth and rounded to bind effectively with cement for concrete. Construction-grade sand is angular, usually sourced from rivers, lakes, or coastal seabeds, which allows it to lock together securely. Saudi Arabia imports sand from countries like Australia and Egypt to meet the high demand for durable concrete in its massive infrastructure projects.
#23
Ada Lovelace designed the first computer algorithm roughly 100 years before the first computer.
#24
Wasabi is really hard to find, and most times the “wasabi” you’re eating is horse radish with food coloring.
#25
The most expensive grocery store item on a per pound basis is saffron. It’s about $5,000 lb.
#26
There is a polar bear "jail" in Churchill, Manitoba. Polar bears who get too close to the town and/or attack townspeople are shot with tranquilizer darts, airlifted, and dropped off at the jail. IIRC, they are released into the wild again a few days later.
BarkingSquirell 32 minutes ago
Those poor things. And yes, citizens leave their car doors unlocked if a person needs to escape a polar bear.
#27
That Netflix was founded a year before Google.
BarkingSquirell 40 minutes ago
Back when it was a VHS sharing business. Order a movie, the last person to watch it mails it to you, you mail it onward, etc.
#28
The 15-20 largest container ships in the world create more pollution than all of the cars in the world.
#29
Fungi are actuly more closely related to animals than plants.
#30
Googolplex is such an absurdity huge number that if you wanted to try and write it out you’d need a tool that could imprint on subatomic particles; Also there aren’t enough subatomic particles in the universe to even write the number.
#31
The world's largest desert isn't the Sahara. It's the entire continent of Antarctica
-------Deserts aren't measured by grains of sand or amount of camels; it's all about precipitation, and Antarctica takes the cake. The roughly 5.5 million square mile continent only gets about eight inches of rain a year.
#32
If you cut a hole in a net. It will have less holes.
#33
In the US, the legislation which prevents the government from banning gay marriage was passed in 1868.
Michael Largey 1 hour ago
I presume the OP is referring to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, with its equal protection clause. The other two major provisions of that amendment were birthright citizenship and due process, both currently under a*****t from the Trump administration. Gay marriage will go the way of abortion rights if the Alito wing of the Supreme court has its way.
#34
When you receive the wrong type of blood when given a blood transfusion you can become overwhelmed with a feeling of dread like something bad is about to happen.
Bi.Felicia 34 minutes ago
Aka The impending feeling of doom. I've experienced this awful feeling, but not from getting the wrong blood type during a transfusion. I was experiencing SVT, supraventricular tachycardia and given a medication called Adenosine that can also cause the same feeling of dread.
#35
Contrary to popular belief, Napoleon was actually average height and wasn’t short for the time. He was 5’6” and the average height of European men at the time was 5’5”-5’7” depending on which historical record you read.
Michael Largey 49 minutes ago
He was often seen (and painted) surrounded by members of the Imperial Guard, who had to be at least 6 feet tall.
#36
Most people have already met psychopaths and sociopaths in their lives, without really knowing which ones are crazy.
#37
The New York City metro area has a greater population than all of New York State.
#38
The saying "money doesn't buy you happiness". People often read into the surface of the sentence and disregard it; but aren't aware of the research behind it.
Money does not buy us happiness after a rearching a certain threshold (73k USD a year last time I read, but with time I'm sure with time the amount has inflated). After we fulfill our basic physiological needs through money, money is unlikely to buy us happiness.
So subjectively it might not be true for a lot of people, but objectively the statement "money doesn't buy you happiness" is likely to be correct.
Michael Largey 52 minutes ago
Even if money can't actually buy you happiness, it is one of the better subscription plans available.
#40
That humans are 60% genetically similar to bananas.
#41
For any given language, the most common word will occur 2x as often as the second most common word, 3x as often as the third most common word, and so on. It's called Zipf's Law and it works.
#42
A Chihuahua is more Closely related to a Grizzly bear than to a Hyena.
#43
You can't choke an owl.
#44
The state of Maine has more Black Bears than Black People.
Edit:
15,000 Black People.
30,000 Black Bears.
Bi.Felicia 1 hour ago
As of 2024–2025, the estimated number of black bears in Maine is higher than the state's Black or African American population. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife estimates there are between 24,000 and 36,000 black bears in the state. According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates from 2024, the Black or African American population in Maine makes up approximately 2.3% of the total population, which translates to roughly 32,000 individuals. The numbers vary throughout the years but the discrepancy isn't as great as this post depicts.
#45
Harvard University is over 100 years older than the United States.
Eastendbird 1 hour ago
Well, not to be mean but the US is pretty young as far as countries go.
#46
HD Video has been around for over 20 years, only became popular with consumers in the past 5/10 years.
#47
27 US states have land that is farther north than the southern most point of Canada, with 13 of them being completely north of the southern most point of Canada. The most surprising is that California has land north of Canada, but New Jersey does not.
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#48
People who sing with accents are actually faking it. Different hemispheres of the brain are responsible for speech, harmony and rhythm. That why, for example, British vocalists (Adele, etc.) have no english accent while singing.
#49
Water is a bad conductor of electricity.
*Pure* water absolutely is an insulator. Water is also really good at containing things that are good conductors of electricity therefore most water, non-pure water, is a good conductor of electricity.
#51
That if you knock your tooth out and put it back in the socket it will grow roots back and save the tooth.
#52
More Americans believe they've seen a ghost than met a trans person.
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