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.
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 ...
no one has born at that time because it was none existent - they just skipped 11 days, like today is 2nd September and tomorrow it will be 13th. however, they DID skip some birthdays to celebrate of people who had been born a year or more before.
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This is only valid in Britain and the (at that time) British colonies. In other countries they switched either much earlier (e.g. Spain in 1582) or later (e.g. Russia in 1918).
Or Orthodox countries like Russia and Greece --- the October Revolution of 1917 didn't happen in (Gregorian) October.
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Don't you mean "Gregorian" calendar? This post reads "Georgian" calendar as of the morning of April 25th (CET).
A man I've met once upon a time had writen a story takin' his inspiration from this subject and it was about a man who became immortal cause his death day was between these days and his job was answering phone calls of people who wants to learrn the time ...upper degree of boredom. story's name was ''TİME AND THE MAN'' AS İ REMEMBER
And prior to 1752, New Year's Day was March 25th, not January 1st. Eg., the day immediately following March 24 1749 was March 25 1750.
Actually there are no dates between Sept 2nd and Sept 14th of that year.
In some places it happened a lot later (early twentieth century) and then it was 13 days already
The change happened in 1582. Various countries opposed to science who refused the change in 1582 had to catch up centuries later. So, it depends who's "we".
Actually, that happened in 1582, and the few nations who were opposed to science back then had to catch up centuries later. So, yeah, there probably was some country who refused to change in 1582 and finally accepted the change in 1752, but that's not "we".
It was nothing to do with rejecting science. The Catholic church was the first to make the change. Non Catholic countries had no particular reason to change their calendar's at exactly the same time just to fit in with the Catholics.
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People protested and claimed their days back. Pope Gregorius was inflexible about it.
So, find an autistic savant and ask him/her what day of the week was the 10th of September, 1752.
And it means that George Washington wasn't born on the day we think of as February 22nd. (I learned that in a social studies class in 1965-66)
Sweden made such a hash of switching to the Grégorian calendar that they had a 31st feb
The “we” here is just referring to Americans, the Gregorian calendar was originally introduced in the late 16th century.
And this calendar change drives me (as a family genealogist) nuts -- before that date (in the US and the American colonies) the year started on March 25. (Yeah, it's a strange place to start a year but it was Lady Day, or the Annunciation, in the Christian religion; basically the day the Virgin Mary - ahem - was told she was pregnant with Jesus, etc.) ANYWAY. So March was month 1 (even though most of it was, strictly speaking, in the year before.) April was month 2, May, 3, etc., all the way up to February, the 12th month. (In that earlier calendar, months like OCTober, NOVember and DECember actually made sense, since they were the 8th, 9th, and 10th months.) Anyway, now I'm so used to thinking in Julian calendar months that I now have to count to remember what month is what number in the current one.
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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