Someone Asks People To Share Facts That Sound Fake But Are Actually Real And They Deliver (30 Facts)
In the world of fake news, shams, and bogus claims, it’s hard to tell a fact from fiction. And you simply get used to doubting things. You read "unicorns exist" and the mind detects deceit. But what if I tell you they’re just bulky and we call ‘em rhinos? Sounds about right.
So when someone on r/AskReddit asked what fact sounds fake at first but is actually real, redditors rolled up their sleeves. 26K upvotes and 14.3K comments later, we have the finalists of these mind-boggling facts ready down below. Get ready to get that trivia muscle pumped up for the next game after quarantine is over. After you're done, take a look at our previous lists of crazy-sounding facts here.
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Ancient sailors believed that cats were magic and would often risk their own lives, even in an "every man for himself" situation, to save a cat from a sinking ship. All ships had at least one ship's cat as cats would eat the rats that have always plagued ships. The ship's cat would often be given a rank and sailors would generally take excessively good care of their cats.
Because the number of possible combination of genes isn't infinite, there are probably at least 7 humans that looks the same as you.
The sun is so loud, if space was filled with air instead of being a vacuum, we'd be hearing screeching sun noises at 125 decibel at all times.
T-Rex (~64 million years ago) is nearer to now in years than it is to Stegosaurus (~151 million years ago)
Images depicting them fighting are very very wrong.
The founders of Adidas (Adi Dassler) and Puma (Rudolf Dassler) are brothers.
..and their HQs are literally next door to each other in Germany.
That most of the oxygen on earth doesn’t come from trees. It’s comes from plankton in the ocean
Distance from USA to Russia 4 kilometers
This fact is always amusing.
One horse is actually 15 horsepower.
Is that an African or European... errr, is that a Metric or Imperial horse?
This not accurate. Just read the wikipedia page. Hp is compared to the steady state output of a horse, not the brief peak power. Engines were sold to replace horses for extended work and hp is actually an overestimate of horse power.
Horses can have very different sizes. This should be a range like 10 to 20 horsepowers.
I don't believe this one. I have read that the man who first used the term horsepower did so very modestly; that one 'horsepower' was more like two horses power. -of course some does depend on which horse.
Sounds like a marketing team that oversold early engines and made it sound amazing compared to horses
According to the University of Calgary - "While it is true that the maximum output of a horse is around 15 horsepower, when you average the output of a horse over the course of a work day it ends up being around a horsepower. Watt defined this amount as "the amount of work required from a horse to pull 150 pounds out of a hole that was 220 feet deep"-https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Horsepower
A time constraint needs to be added to that description to make it power instead of work. 1 hp = 33,000 ft*lb/min, so it would have to pull the 150 lb load out of the 220 ft-deep hole in 1 minute.
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One HP is how much Work they can do over the course of a day. They can produce a peak of up to 15 hp but not for long
One horsepower equals 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute, as power is work/time. How much work would be done in a day = power*time.
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Only for very short time... Athletes can continuously output about 300 watts; 1 horsepower is 746 watts...
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President Coolidge got sent a raccoon for Thanksgiving one year, but instead of eating it, he granted it a pardon because it was "cute"
Lyrebird's imitations will seriously sound exactly like the thing they're trying to imitate. If they imitate a chainsaw, you will think it's a chainsaw. It sounds like a perfect recording.
Jack the Ripper was still active when Nintendo was founded
There isn’t a single bridge across the amazon river.
Astronomer here! The coldest place we know of in the universe is actually... on Earth!
To explain further, the coldest places we know of that naturally occur in the universe are inside dark nebulae with little to no star formation, and thus no starlight to heat things up. The coldest one known so far is the Boomerang Nebula, where the temperature has been measured as low as 1 degree above absolute zero (−272 °C or −458 °F). However, we regularly get below this temperature in labs on Earth! Specifically, absolute zero is at –273.15°C (or –459.67°F) and labs on Earth regularly get to within a tenth or even a hundredth of a degree of that.
Pretty cool!
It takes about 3-4 generation before your entire existence is completely forgotten (assuming you don't invent the cure for cancer or discover the fifth dimension or anything like that)
Orcas are a natural predator to moose
You can fit all the planets in our solar system touching end to end between Earth and the moon.
There is no Date between 03-Sept-1752 to 13-Sept-1752,
Checkout the September Calendar of 1752. 11 days are missing in the Calendar.
This is due to the fact that we converted our Calendar from Julian to Georgian calendar on 2nd of September 1752.
Not cool for the people who had their birthday between the 03 and 13/09/1752 ...
The guy who sang Peanut Butter Jelly Time died in a police shootout. Also, his brother in law was there trying to talk him out of shooting himself. You know who that brother-in-law was? F***ing Snoop Dogg
The Ethiopian calendar is seven years behind the rest of the world. Edit; yeah guys it's still 2013 there
A little heads-up guys: 2020 is gonna be one helluva year!! Be prepared!
One ten inch pizza is more pizza than two seven inch pizzas.
Every Canadian is allowed to get a free Canadian flag from the government. However, if you ordered a flag today you would get it in about 110 years.
Chickens are one of many species of birds that dont have penetrative genitalia. Read; cocks are cockless. The method of reproduction they use is commonly called a "cloacal kiss" and you can think of it as chickens scissoring, because "bumping holes" is the grossest possible way to phrase chicken sex.
Also chickens are not a flightless species like lots of people think and are generally totally capable of short flight.
A typical cumulus cloud actually weighs 1.1 million pounds (498,951 kg)
Let's say it is 500,000 kg. In light of the variable weights that's precise enough.
That ants don't take fall damage
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Very informative and makes me want to look into some of these facts in more detail.
I leave the room to get something, and as soon as I get out, I forget it. this is also a gift...
Very cool, I can already imagine myself throwing some of these facts into conversations :D
I hope that the key word in your comment is "some".
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MORE!, MORE!, MORE! Does boredpanda not understand that many of it's readers are full-on information junkies. We rely on boredpanda for our daily fix.
Very informative and makes me want to look into some of these facts in more detail.
I leave the room to get something, and as soon as I get out, I forget it. this is also a gift...
Very cool, I can already imagine myself throwing some of these facts into conversations :D
I hope that the key word in your comment is "some".
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