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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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#1
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.
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
Except for Mrs Chippy. They shot him. :-( Yes, it was a he, despite the name.
Tracie Creta 5 years ago
Captain Ernest Shackleton shot the ship's cat, Mrs. Chippy, when they had to disembark the Endurance in the Antarctica. Mrs. Chippy's, owner Harry McNish, fell out with Shackleton because of it. When all the ship's crew were given medals for their surviving the ordeal, McNish was the only one denied a medal because of the bad feelings between Shackleton and himself over Mrs. Chippy's death.
CbusResident 5 years ago
Actually none of this sounds fake; look at our obsession with the little fur-babies on the internet now.
Viktor Feurer 5 years ago
Cats with ranks: this is same in many military today: the service dogs have ranks, many time higher than the rank of the handler. This is partially custom and partially protection for the dogs.
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#2
Cheetahs can't roar. They meow like house cats.
Hello it Smee 5 years ago (edited)
I looked them up on Youtube and OMG that is the cutest thing I have seen in a while.
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Dynein 5 years ago
There's two types of cats in that regard: Roaring cats and purring cats. Any cat can only do either. Now, even big, roaring cats can appear to purr, but it's not a real purr. A real purr continues through exhaling and inhaling - roaring cats can only make that sound during exhaling.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
But do they meow when humans aren't around? Because domesticated cats don't.
Caspar Teppema 3 years ago
But they can purr. Lions can't purr. It all has to do with the amount of flexibility of the larynx.
#3
Because the number of possible combination of genes isn't infinite, there are probably at least 7 humans that looks the same as you.
troufaki13 5 years ago
I pitty my doppelganger... Such an ugly face is a shame to be duplicated!! :'D
April Simnel 5 years ago (edited)
I met one of mine when I was 10, a visiting cousin of one of my neighborhood friends. We were the same thinness and height, with the same sort of curly hair and skin color, face shape, everything. We even both wore glasses for nearsightedness. It was so weird to see what I looked like to other people.
Christine Holl 5 years ago
Someone found my doppelganger and tagged me in the pictures of twitter. Was pretty bizarre seeing "me" like that.
Michelle Muirhead 5 years ago
That is amazing, I wish I could have/meet my doppelgänger if there is one.
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Rissie 5 years ago (edited)
This is not true. Not because the math doesn't check out, but because the math is not applicable. Within your own community you actually look more alike to people close to you because of how we procreate. So you are more likely to have black hair if you live in Nigeria and blonde if you live in Sweden. And so with so many more features. So a few are actually set within families, communities, countries etc. But within those actually very much alike looking ethnicities and communities, the amount of possible gene combinations are still in the same order of magnitude. But the basics (ethnicities) make for a smaller group in which these occur. If we would totally randomly find partners all over the world it would become more likely to create doppelganger and adhere to the mathematics by actually creating one large group of humans that randomly combine genes. And even then there are epigenetics to consider. Google the infinite monkey problem to understand more of it.
Rissie 5 years ago
Fun fact, it's also why someone who grew up between say a white community might feel all others of a different ethnicity look somewhat alike. It's because we are so used to the common features, we look at more details in people in our daily lives. But I'd a big feature is different, we tend to focus on that and are no longer able to see the details. It's why a mom can identify her identical set of twins with ease and why a globalisation makes it easier to get around that mechanisme because we are actually exposed more regularly to different people with explicitly different features from our close community. It's why I can spot a Dutch person even before they start talking or walking if I meet them anywhere on this planet (of course behavior plays a part too). While for an American or Australian that same person could just as easily be German or French.
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Jane Alexander 5 years ago
Yes, that was my question too. What chimp downvoted this question?
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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.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
I hear that cartoon, along with Bojack Horseman, referenced all the time, but I have seen neither. If I like Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead, and King of the Hill but dislike The Simpsons and Family Guy would I like them?
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I_am_clearly_a_pidgeon 5 years ago
Wouldn't it be cool, if the screeching noises people with tinnitus hear, were actually the sun noises due to not impaired but actually enhanced hearing abilities :D? *hopesintinnitus*
Showchia Hay 5 years ago
If the space between the earth and the sun were filled with air, the conductive heat would have been so hot that earth would have been burnt to a crisp!
Astrid Nineor 5 years ago
One webite says : Stars are pretty much like bells. Our Sun, if it could be heard through the vacuum of space, vibrates with a song of many frequencies similar to the ringing of cathedral bells that are each hitting at different notes. If you have been near a cathedral you may notice that as the bells get louder, they chime at certain pitches when they are simultaneously rung. The Sun is similar in that it belts out rhythmic bass thumps over its background hum when certain frequencies overlap with one another. If space were replaced with air and we could hear the Sun, it would be incredibly noisy – the output of the Sun is equivalent to 10 million keys, or notes, of a piano. In fact you would struggle to hear little else! Throwing out an energy of 383 yottawatts per second, we get a translation of 290 decibels which makes for a very, very loud Sun indeed.
Lauren Lewis 5 years ago
Wouldn't that depend on the density of the atmosphere containing the sun and the gradient of particles to the observer? or do I not understand sound?
Timothy Daniels 5 years ago
and because a vacuum is a notably better insulator than air, we wouldn't be here to hear it.
#5
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.
Martin Alex 5 years ago
It did live aside the allosaurus though. It makes me wonder if I was actually seeing an allosaurus and not t-rex.
Load More Replies... Esca Sav 5 years ago
To be honest I find this pretty cool considering it means there was a huge evolutionary gap between the two. Like I thought they were alive during the same time period, but the difference just reminds us how long dinosaurs really survived on Earth. It's kind of terrifying in a way... (Also, love the theory that T-Rex's may have had feathers)
Sam Cook 5 years ago
I remember a show called Extreme Dinosaurs from the late nineties that featured a T-Rex, a Stegosaurus, a Pteranodon, and a Triceratops as the main protagonists, battling against Velociraptors. Having read about dinosaurs a great deal as a kid, even at the age of five, I remember looking at my mom and saying, "Why is the Stegosaurus there? They didn't live with the others." I also remember getting the VHS in Blockbuster, if anyone wants to feel old like I do (and this was in 2002-2003, by the way). Still had a great opening theme, though.
Alvin Rendell 3 years ago
From Triassic Period (Steg) through Jurassic and into T-Rex's Cretaceous Period.
Adam Jablonski 3 years ago
How is it a fact? Haw any of the dating methods can tell you the age? Find out, and you'll be for a real surprise.
#6
The founders of Adidas (Adi Dassler) and Puma (Rudolf Dassler) are brothers. ..and their HQs are literally next door to each other in Germany.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Along same German lines, the brothers Albrecht had two independent competing chains of discount supermarket: ALbrecht DIscount... There's "North" and "South" they divided the world in. E.g. South of Germany and most of EU are "South" and UK, US, China, Australia and North of Germany are "North". You enter an Aldi, you know instantly whether it's "North" or "South" from the flooring to the branding.
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Robert Bailey 5 years ago
I thought it would be abbreviated Rudas. Then I realized it sounded like Rude A*s.
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Two Silly Pups 5 years ago
And they used to passionately hate each other and be violently competitive. Even their workers hated the other factory's workers. Caused quite a turmoil in the town.
#7
That most of the oxygen on earth doesn’t come from trees. It’s comes from plankton in the ocean
Full Name 5 years ago
Climate change is the best thing for forests. There is actually more land trees can grow on, and the biomass is actually increasing.
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Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
I knew this! Which makes it extra fun that the oceans are on the brink of collapse. (according to some)
Kathleen Pearlman 3 years ago
Not just plankton - plants, algae, and cyanobacteria all create oxygen. An even tinier organism plays a similarly large role. Prochlorococcus bacteria are so small about 20,000 of them fit in a single drop of seawater. They live in a wide swath of the world’s oceans. There are somewhere around 3 billion billion billion Prochlorococcus cells in all. Together, they produce 5 to 10 percent of the oxygen we breathe.
Pamela Storer 5 years ago
Actually it doesn't "come from" them or anywhere, It's a part of this planets make up and is in a fixed amount. they just recycle more than anything else.
PaloniemiJ 5 years ago
They're referring of course to O2, oxygen gas.. That does come from the sources mentioned, even tho the amount of elemental oxygen never changes...
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#8
Distance from USA to Russia 4 kilometers This fact is always amusing.
Paul Jordan 5 years ago
And Alaska is a part of the USA... muck fee, sum ppl just idjits.
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Martti Laurson 5 years ago
From USA to Russia the distance is 2.48548 miles. Distance from Russia to USA is 4 kilometers. All depends where you live
Dave P 5 years ago
it is two uninhabited islands in the north pacific near the arctic, during the cold war each side had a radar there as a statement. You can drive from Alaska to Russia during a brief period every year over the frozen ice in the Bearing Straights
Jerry Eggleston 3 years ago
The islands that you speak of are not uninhabited. The larger of the two is Russian and the smaller is in Alaska. They are called big and little Diomede islands. Little Diomede has a permanent settlement on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomede,_Alaska
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Fritz Baumeister 3 years ago
And you know there are still people who think that Sarah Palin actually said, "I can see Russia from my house." It was a Tina Fey in a SNL parody skit.
Load More Replies... Pamela Storer 5 years ago
And there's no airline to just jump you across. You still have to go all the way around.
Pam Herbert 3 years ago
They are the Diomede Islands. Big Diomede is the Russian and Little Diomede is the US one. https://sites.google.com/bssd.org/diomede
#9
One horse is actually 15 horsepower.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Is that an African or European... errr, is that a Metric or Imperial horse?
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Horses can have very different sizes. This should be a range like 10 to 20 horsepowers.
Rachel Batzer 5 years ago
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.
Jane Alexander 5 years ago
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.
Willem Groenewald 5 years ago
Sounds like a marketing team that oversold early engines and made it sound amazing compared to horses
Susanne Carvin 5 years ago
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
PaloniemiJ 5 years ago
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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#10
Pocahontas and Shakespeare lived during the same time
Kaisu 5 years ago
Sometimes it's hard to kind of understand when different historical things happened. Like for an example, when Jesus lived, the Stonehenge was already a ruin
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
How about Cleopatra living closer to our time than the time of Khufu when the Great Pyramid was being built?
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Willem Groenewald 5 years ago
It blew my mind that not only did Cleopatra and Julius Caesar live during the same time, they had a relationship. Highly recommend watching Roman Empire on Netflix, I learned a ton.
djinnjeannie 5 years ago
And cleopatra lived during a time closer to the invention of the cell phone than the building of the Great Pyramids of Giza
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Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
Also, a lot of people believe Shakespeare wasn't one guy, but several poets trying to educate people through fiction. Interesting thought if nothing else!
Esca Sav 5 years ago
There is also the idea that Shakespeare was a woman who pretended to be a man to gain popularity. I love stuff like this because we may never get the answer and the mystery grows each passing decade 🙃
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Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
Mammoths were still alive when the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built
Ronnie Cassinello 3 years ago
Apple pie was created in England over 150 years before North America was even discovered.
#11
President Coolidge got sent a raccoon for Thanksgiving one year, but instead of eating it, he granted it a pardon because it was "cute"
NMN 5 years ago
I guess not many people are raccoon eaters Daniel. If you are a raccoon eater, that's on you. Don't expect others to know your personal habits
Load More Replies... NMN 5 years ago
They also eat squirrels, chipmunks and other things (yet they complain and have prejudice saying that Chinese eat everything). For those that don't like the comment "they" are my family, and my current fridge used to be used to store carcasses of those animals, so no, not lying or talking about what I don't know
Load More Replies... Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
not always. Meat is meat, especially if it is hard to come by
Load More Replies... Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
Daniel Lewis is asking, "Are you vegetarian?" meaning "Are you criminal?" What did vegetarians and especially vegans did to you that you detest them so much??? Vegans did not bring on COVID19.
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danielw 5 years ago
Yes. it was. There's a lot of folk recipes for things like raccoons and rabbits. Part of it is that the fur was used by trappers and explorers, and would otherwise be waste.
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Phil Olejack 5 years ago
Greg Stewart, not only are you a racist piece of s**t, you’re stupid as a bag of rocks. I’m sitting here wondering what you family, friends and work environment would think of this comment. Good thing you didn’t use you’re full name Greg Stewart.
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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.
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
But do they have to practice first, or do they get it right the very first time?
Val Wilkinson 5 years ago
Hiking in appalling wet weather in a NSW, Australia, national park I was very keen to locate the shortest route back to camp and dry clothes. Thus was overjoyed to hear up ahead but out of sight, star pickets being thumped in with a mallet by presumably park rangers. One was also using a chain saw. Relieved, I hurried through the rain only to arrive at a totally deserted parking area. The sounds continued, interspersed with a cacophony of various birds songs. I’d heard those also, back down the muddy track but hadn’t paid any heed, thinking there really were lots of birds singing in the bush around me. Ha! Only one bird! It took only a minute to track the misleading culprit down. He was sheltering under a bush, and also under his fabulously displayed tail feathers, having a marvellous time practising his repertoire in hope of attracting a mate. Got some fabulous photos of this virtuoso lyrebird, the best heard in my ten years photographing Australia’s national parks
Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
Youtube has a video of this, people! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
Here is the famous David Attenborough clip about the lyre bird imitating a chain saw and other things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxcw1tbjkE
Susan Widomski 3 years ago
My friends had a parrot and it learned to imitate the sound of the microwave finishing cooking. We would go in the kitchen to see if there was something cooked. Funny every time.
#13
Jack the Ripper was still active when Nintendo was founded
mph seti 5 years ago
They still make traditional Japanese playing cards, too. Vintage sets are pricey AF, but Nintendo's modern remakes/reissues are reasonable ($20 per deck or so).
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PaloniemiJ 5 years ago
Nokia made tires and rubber boots for decades before the first mobile phone appeared... Apparently they began as a pulp mill (per google).
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fainasKeturatis 5 years ago
and they say games don't cause kids to go violent... or the other way around. (jk)
Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
Also, he was the founder! (Oh sorry, that was for the list of facts that sound fake because they are, my bad)
Michael Woodruff 3 years ago
Yeah. this loses its wow factor when you learn how old Nintendo corporation actually is.
#14
A lot of the earliest war gods were actually goddesses.
mph seti 5 years ago
Before the three main Abrahamic faiths took over the western world, there were lots of Goddesses. It's a shame...
Two Silly Pups 5 years ago
And a lot of nations were actually matriarchal. I heard the Irish were too, at least in their mythology, before St. Patrick arrived.
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Cigdem Kanburoğlu 5 years ago
so being something related to war is a good thing for you? I am happy this kind of brain is not related to my religion.
CbusResident 5 years ago
But here's what my fellow liberals on here will now get wrong about this: they're now going to claim that this means that many societies in the past frequently had female warriors and female political leadership. In surveys of anthropology like Donald Brown's Human Universals, (looking far beyond Western Culture), it's been found that examples of female warriors and female political leadership are extremely rare, & non-existent for many of history's societies - whether you're talking about African tribes, Pacific Islanders, Aboriginal Australians, South American tribes - of course as we know, in Western cultures as well. None of this means we shouldn't want women in political leadership or the military now, of course we should allow and further both such permissions. But as a statement of world history it's a vast misunderstanding to say that female warriors & emperors were common, rather than the very rare occurrences that they were.
K. aka letmeplaywithkittens 5 years ago
Because they were also attributed to qualities that give life, renewal, love, fertiltiy, and etc.. some viewed that war and love, death and rebirth were just different sides of complex components of life.
K. aka letmeplaywithkittens 5 years ago (edited)
Still wasn’t enough to get people to f**k off, doesn’t stop them from dictating what living goddesses are expected to do. Athena/Minerva was a goddess of civilized war and military strategy. Ishtar was a goddess of love and war, and rides into battle with a lion as a companion.
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Sharon Vaughn 5 years ago
Women could rule AND give birth, and male ego could not accept that, so they made women subservient.
Jackie Nettleton 3 years ago
Lots of the Celtic and pagan goddesses were both very powerful, important and had multiple roles such as goddesses of regeneration and death. They also were the embodiment of the moon in some cases but now that’s thought to be a man in it
#16
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!
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
Yeah, just thinking about that fact just gives me chills
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The coldest place we know of in the universe is actually.. the heart of man.
Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
Hey chill out, no need to be so cold! Just cool down, take it breezy. Ok I'm out.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
Pretty frightening!!! Many very dangerous, cruel, and absolutely unnecessary things are happening in laboratories anywhere in the world.
#17
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)
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
I have photos on my wall going back 5 generations from my daughter. My dad has compiled a family tree that goes back further, so they won't be completely forgotten.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
This is before the internet. Now your duckface selfies will be remembered for eons.
Nia Loves Art 5 years ago (edited)
Three generations would be your grandkids. That seems too short a timeframe. I know who my great grandparents and some of my great great grandparents were because my own parents and grandparents grew up with them.
Eddie 5 years ago
Every year in December I participate in Wreaths Across America where a is laid upon the tombstone of a military service member. Their name is said out loud so they are never forgotten.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
Do those names really mean anything to people anymore?
Load More Replies... djinnjeannie 5 years ago
If you mean by people who actually knew you sure, but that would the same no matter you invented (or killed). I never met any grandparent beyond “great” but I’m still aware of the existence of several generations back. I know their names, where they lived, what they did for a living.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
That's part of the reason that I have been tracing my family history for decades. I feel like I'm giving some of them new life by being remembered. I trace back each line as far as it can go. I have many, many lines I've traced back to 1000 AD (my self-imposed cut off.) I find as many little facts as I can about them in order to get some idea of what they were like as individuals.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
But your good works and positive behavior can echo down through the generations to come.
#18
Netflix was founded before Google
Pipe SanSol 5 years ago
Wrong, Google was founded on 1996 as a project, as a website in 1997, and as a company in 1998. Netflix was founded in 1997.
Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
I bet kids today also wouldn't believe they used to send discs with movies on them in the mail, haha!
#19
Iran arrested 14 squirrels on suspicion of espionage
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
yes, and I heard they were absolutely nuts! The BEST squirrel spies a country could get lol
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K. aka letmeplaywithkittens 5 years ago
No, it’s the chipmunks you’re supposed to be suspicious of.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
The animals mistaken for spies: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23962379
Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
And the 15th one was asked what he did to avoid being caught, he was like: I ran.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
CIA is currently planning an extraction with SEAL Team 6 to get their agents out
#20
Orcas are a natural predator to moose
Paul Jordan 5 years ago
obviously you're having withdrawal symptoms. You need to change your addiction... could try heroin.
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Pixie 5 years ago (edited)
Pictured here: https://www.boredpanda.com/underwater-moose-aquatic-vegetation-pet-foolery/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Wow, thank you! Here's a snippet of a moose eating underwater vegetation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_wBH2hSBQ
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Jackie Nettleton 3 years ago
And great white sharks, they will eat anything, just recently it was discovered that 70 orca hunted and killed a blue whale
#21
You can fit all the planets in our solar system touching end to end between Earth and the moon.
Philly Bob Squires 5 years ago
You can also fit 63 earths into Uranus... 64 if you relax a bit...
Jamie S. Martindale 5 years ago
Not for very long tho - within a short time their gravitational effects would crash them into one another
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago (edited)
You actually can’t.....I think it would be better phrased in saying all the planets could fit in between Earth and the moon
#22
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.
Wendy Warner 5 years ago
Not cool for the people who had their birthday between the 03 and 13/09/1752 ...
fainasKeturatis 5 years ago (edited)
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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Sanne H. 5 years ago (edited)
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).
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Or Orthodox countries like Russia and Greece --- the October Revolution of 1917 didn't happen in (Gregorian) October.
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Luca Valerio 5 years ago
Don't you mean "Gregorian" calendar? This post reads "Georgian" calendar as of the morning of April 25th (CET).
Murat Tamgili 3 years ago
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
Ronnie Cassinello 3 years ago
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.
#23
It takes 2 years for a pineapple to grow.
Ben Smith 5 years ago
It’s an odd looking plant too. Tastes amazing though....but NOT ON PIZZA.
YupItsMe1234 5 years ago
People used to "rent" Pineapples to put on their tables at fancy parties back in the day
%einfallsreicher Text% &🌈 5 years ago
I don't really unterstand the issue with pineapples on Pizza... 😶 as far as I know Pizza Margherita is the original - it has been created by someone named "Raffale Esposito", in honor of king Umberto and bis wife queen Margherita and got coated with ingredients that represented the colours of the italian flag (tomato sauce, Buffalo mozzarella and basil). 🤔 So... theoretically, nothing else beides that should be put in pizza... And despite knowing that I nearly never bake or eat pizza Margherita 😅 Maybe someone can explain that odd issue to me...?
Lynn Morello 5 years ago
2 years to grow an additive for Pizza Salad, cakes and deserts and so much more.
#24
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
fainasKeturatis 5 years ago
I never could imagine that Snoop Dog is the good brother... you learn something every day
Ryan Ricks 5 years ago
Technically Snoop wasn't there, it was a recording he made that was then played over the phone.
#25
The Ethiopian calendar is seven years behind the rest of the world. Edit; yeah guys it's still 2013 there
troufaki13 5 years ago
A little heads-up guys: 2020 is gonna be one helluva year!! Be prepared!
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
You need to put a "SPOILER ALERT" before that comment.
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Martha Meyer 5 years ago
You can't just throw out a fact like this and then withhold the reason behind it!
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 5 years ago
And Hebrew calendar is now on 5780 while Islam calendar is on 1441
fainasKeturatis 5 years ago (edited)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Year_in_various_calendars It's 68th year of the Elizabeth the 2nd.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Whoa now! There's a number 13 in that, could it be that their's is the right one, 'cause so far this year seems like the embodiment of a bad luck-year.
Susan Widomski 3 years ago
Does that mean I can go backwards in age seven years? That would be good, as the last couple years have been hell on my body.
#26
One ten inch pizza is more pizza than two seven inch pizzas.
Monday 5 years ago
I think we should double check this fact...you know...just to be sure. I think a practical experiment would be the best method.
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K. aka letmeplaywithkittens 5 years ago (edited)
25 pi vs 12.25 pi x 2. —> it’s more than twice the area size by 0.5 pi
Keith Wollenberg 5 years ago
The difference in topping area is even greater when you allow for a fixed rate of topping loss at the crust.
#27
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.
Twitchy 5 years ago
They change the flag on the main parliament building (Center Block) daily. You can sign up to get one of the flags that has flown after it is taken down, however the waiting list is about 110 years. If you want one of the flags from one of the two other buildings (West and East Block) I believe it is 30 something years, but I'm not 100% of the exact wait times for those.
Michelle Muirhead 5 years ago
In Oz, you can request a picture of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth from your local Member of Parliament for free. Didn’t take 110 years to receive mine.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Not true at all, you have to ask your MP and you''ve got a fair chance of rapid delivery.
#28
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.
Donna Leske 5 years ago
As a longtime chicken keeper I'd like to add something that *apparently* schools don't teach; female chickens (hens) do NOT need a male (rooster) to start laying eggs. Their body matures at from 3 to 6 months, depending on breed, and the eggs start arriving. The eggs are unfertilized and can never hatch.
backatya 5 years ago
I assume farmers still get the unfertilized eggs to eat?
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Eunice Probert 5 years ago
Oh I know about the flight thing. We don't tell our hens that they can fly or they'd try it. We had one small hen who threw herself into the air and flapped her wings, and she flew the length of the garden. She was so shocked!
Moezarella 5 years ago
Good to know. I used to google how chickens have sex before and found no answers 😂
Stijn Cornelis 5 years ago
That peculiar reproductive system applies to all bird species btw, not just chickens.
raraavis 73 5 years ago
Clearly you've never heard about duck mating. Corkscrew penises, no joke.
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Meanwhile ducks have massive, corkscrew shaped penises. They're sex life is often violent and painful for the females, so the females evolved uniquely shaped, twisted vaginal tracts to avoid the horrid process, which then the males follow suit; like a sexual arms race. Btw. it's also a cloaca, which isn't usually visible, but it can "unroll" itself into this massive s*****g.
#29
A typical cumulus cloud actually weighs 1.1 million pounds (498,951 kg)
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Let's say it is 500,000 kg. In light of the variable weights that's precise enough.
Johnny 5 years ago
I bet that fact originated as "500,000 kg", and then someone converted to 1,102,311 lbs, then rounded that off to 1.1 million lbs. I see that in the news a lot where they'll say something like "he traveled 620 miles (998 km)..." when the original source was clearly 1000km, which they converted to 621 miles and rounded to 620
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Chuck Yount 5 years ago
Weight is not the same as mass. A cloud floats: it may have mass, but not weight.
Jonathan Glaze 5 years ago
You are correct but in this case it weighs that much too. Weight is the gravitational effect on mass. So when we talk about a constant system such as here on earth; they are synonymous. It floats not because it weighs less but because it has a lower specific gravity or density that the fluid in which it’s contained (I.e. air). But that is still it’s weight.
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No. It is floating in the air so it must be weightless. Thus sayeth the Lord.
#30
That ants don't take fall damage
Simone Laterza 5 years ago
they should release a patch to fix it, that's unfair. Do they get mana regeneration as well?
Paul Jordan 5 years ago
...but, did you know that you can tell the sex of an ant by putting it on water? If it sinks its a girl ant. If it floats its boy ant.
PaloniemiJ 5 years ago
If it floats, it's a witch... thus sayeth Monty Python... :D
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Angry Duck 5 years ago
Why does the phrase fall damage always make me think about Minecraft lol
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
Whatever the reason for "that", it's wrong, and it obscures the meaning of whatever was trying to be conveyed.
hobbitly 5 years ago
No, spiders have an exoskeleton that can break. So some will die right away if you drop them.
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#31
Antarctica is technically a desert
K. aka letmeplaywithkittens 5 years ago
Rivals because I'm a degenerate who enjoys pineapple on pizza. Hear me out, try a thin-crust pineapple pizza with jalapeno and a bit of bacon, drizzled with sriracha or hot honey.
Load More Replies... Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
A desert is defined as “a dry, barren area of land...characteristically desolate, waterless, and without vegetation” Antarctica gets very little precipitation and there is little to no vegetation, thereby making it a desert.
theenglishbornable 5 years ago
Technically it is the largest desert in the world. So when on your next pub quiz you can contest the answer which is always Sahara, I cannot guarantee you will get the points however.
#32
No matter where you touch a turtle on its body shell or otherwise it can feel it.
K. aka letmeplaywithkittens 5 years ago (edited)
Oh that makes me so sad. They can feel the pain of being strangled while growing if there are plastic rings around their body. Ugggh we haven’t been doing a good job taking care of each other or the earth.
Invisible User 5 years ago
I agree with what you're saying but, genuine question, why does every comment have to be such a downer?
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The yearly risk in the US of dying from a shark bite is around 1 in 250 million and the yearly risk of dying from a vending machine accident is roughly 1 in 112 million. Therefore, vending machines are about twice as deadly as sharks
K. aka letmeplaywithkittens 5 years ago
Factor in how much it contributes to obesity and do some magic math, and that number should be more
#34
Cleopatra lived closer *in time* to the invention of the iPhone than the construction of the Great Pyramid. Or that 1980 was FORTY YEARS AGO!
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
She would no doubt have made a career as an internet influencer had she lived today
#35
Sharks are older than trees, sharks date back 450 million years, trees 350 million years
Martti Laurson 5 years ago
So for at least 100 million years sharks could not hide behind a tree :D
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
And yet they somehow survived. I'll bet they hid from predators in barrels.
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#36
The entire state of Wyoming only has 2 escalators.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-state-of-wyoming-has-2-escalators/277891/
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The 10th president of the US, John Tyler (1790-1862), has 2 living grandchildren.
Charl Marx 5 years ago
Yep, John Tyler's second wife was 30 years his junior. His 15th and final child, a son, was born when the president was 63! This son then went on to do the same thing and had children in his 70s. Two of whom are still alive despite being born in 1924 and 1928! Always found this one fascinating.
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
I think the point is, this guy died 158 years ago, yet his grandchildren are still alive. Presidents since him, some would likely have only great grandchildren alive, others of course aren't from as long ago, so them having grandchildren still alive now is no big deal.
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SoozeeQ 5 years ago
Where would we be without Google? https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29842/president-john-tylers-grandsons-are-still-alive
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The Holy Roman Empire still existed when the US was founded.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
"The Holy Roman Empire (of the German Nation) officially ceased to exist one fine day in August of 1806 when Francis II went to the Imperial Diet and resigned. He of course continued to be the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, but that is another story." https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/13/when-did-the-holy-roman-empire-collapse
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Actually, now, one could argue, it is called the Catholic Church.
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#39
Disney Is the Second-Largest Buyer of Explosives in the World
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
This is with a great big Hurrah! for Sydney! Way to go. https://www.terrapass.com/fireworks-impact-environment
K. aka letmeplaywithkittens 5 years ago
I knew they were planning to take over the world. Maybe mickey’s ears are actually hiding horns.
#40
The day Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire was the exact middle of his life, to the day.
varwenea 5 years ago
I still like his music, even though it's hard to reconcile what he may or may not have done. We'll never really know.
Val/Malibu/Dante/Bob 5 years ago
Exactly. There is a difference between ones music and ones actions. It doesnt make you bad person if you still enjoy his, or anyone else who may have done something wrong's, music
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There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in our galaxy.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Four ants are more than four elephants. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/did-you-know-that-there-are-more-trees-on-earth-than-stars-in-the-milky-way.html
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https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/did-you-know-that-there-are-more-trees-on-earth-than-stars-in-the-milky-way.html
#42
A bunch of pissed of Scots who hated the way England played rugby is why we have the quarterback position in American football.
Michelle Muirhead 5 years ago
Yay for us Haggis Bashers! Proud to be one!
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#43
The combined weight of all the ants on the planet is greater than all the humans.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
This is along the lines of the fact that we have more bacteria in our bodies than human cells, one could even argue that without them, we would not live at all.
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
Dan. He's an intern in the research dept. He was bored a couple days ago so we assigned this task to him.
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#44
When compasses were first used on ships, sailors were afraid of them because they thought it had evil powers. Compasses were stored in boxes called a “binnacle”
#45
On average Mercury is the closest planet to Saturn.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Probably because the speed at which Saturn orbits the sun puts it on the opposite side of the sun from every other planet, but since, Mercury orbits the sun so quickly, it is often the closest. I’m not an expert, but that’s my guess.
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Willem Groenewald 5 years ago
I think we are missing context here. Maybe over the last x years it was the case?
Arlene Reber 5 years ago
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/287809-mercury-is-actually-the-closest-planet-to-every-other-planet
#46
In a room of just 23 people there’s a 50-50 chance of at least two people having the same birthday
Michelle Muirhead 5 years ago
How many of the Bored Pandas have a birthday falling on 1st May?
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
If you take a room of 23 people, the other 22 are trying to match your birthday, so to speak. With 23 people, we have 253 possible pairs. (Matching each person to a different person, Person A to Person B, or Person C to Person D, et cetera)The probability of two random people having a different birthday is 99.7%. However, you take that equation (1-(1/365))=(364/265) and multiply it to the 253 power. (364/365)^253, because the chances of this happening increase with each person that is involved. One chance is pretty low, but comparing the chance hundreds of times raises the odds significantly. This equation works out to be approximately 49.95%. Sorry if this is confusing, but I hope it helps
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Two Silly Pups 5 years ago
There are 13 of us in the office and 3 of us have their birthdays between June 1st and 13th.
Two Silly Pups 5 years ago
And I know 6 people whose birthday falls on May 23rd
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Narfy T. Barfy 5 years ago
I know. my math class has 17 people and i have the same birthday as one
#47
People in Europe feared the tomato for over 200 years because they thought eating it would kill them. It was even nicknamed the "poision apple"
Ben Smith 5 years ago
Nightshades. The tomato was even put in trial and a guy ate a bucket of then to prove their safety.
SoozeeQ 5 years ago
Plot twist: Was Snow White given an apple, or a tomato?!?
Load More Replies... Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
They ate from pewter plates, which is high in lead content. The acid from tomatoes reacts with the lead to kill people
Jo Choto 5 years ago
Yes, but the reason they thought it would kill them is because people died after eating them. They thought it was the tomatoes, but it was in fact a reaction between the tomatoes and the pewter plates they used. The acid in the tomatoes caused the lead to leach out of the tomatoes, thereby poisoning the person eating the tomato.
Narfy T. Barfy 5 years ago
It was the plates they ate them on. They were pewter and the acidic tomatoes sucked up the bad stuff in pewter
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
This is false, but also true. ""...most Europeans thought that the tomato was poisonous because of the way plates and flatware were made in the 1500's. Rich people in that time used flatware made of pewter, which has a high-lead content. Foods high in acid, like tomatoes, would cause the lead to leech out into the food, resulting in lead poisoning and death. Poor people, who ate off of plates made of wood, did not have that problem, and hence did not have an aversion to tomatoes. This is essentially the reason why tomatoes were only eaten by poor people until the 1800's, especially Italians." https://www.tomato-cages.com/tomato-history.html
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
There is a story about when the potato was introduced to Greece (I think,) they left the tubers aboard a ship and the rulers forbade the people to offload and plant it, saying that it was to be reserved for the king. Or something along those lines. In the dead of night, the guard fell asleep as he was supposed to and, the rest is, as they say, history.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I do not know if there is even a shred of truth in that, and as I like the story, I am not going to look into it.
Load More Replies... Mystery Egg 5 years ago
People used pewter plates back then and because of the tomato's high acidity, it would leach lead from the pewter plates and cause lead poisoning to anyone that ate them (from these plates)
Dave P 5 years ago
Because early people cooked it with the leaves and roots, and one of the subspecies of tomatoes they had the leaf was toxic was when they at it it made them very sick. And not all over Europe, just in England, the continent did not have that issue and ate it fine by following the instructions of how to eat them properly.
#48
Baby koalas eat only diarrhea for the first 6-9 months.
Stimpy 5 years ago
There is a popular type of biscuit called "koala" in my country that is formed like tiny koalas and filled with a brown soft paste. This makes a lot more sense now...
NMN 5 years ago
It's originally Japanese and its sold in several countries. I love those btw
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Arrow and Ace 5 years ago
This is one of the many reasons I don't like koalas. (also they only eat 13 out of 300 kinds of eucalyptus, they will only eat eucalyptus from a certain, small area based on the koala, and they can't recognize eucalyptus leaves as food if they're plucked off the branch and set in front of them. And their teeth rot and fall out (most plant eating mammals have teeth that never stop growing)
Steve Lor 5 years ago
Eucalyptus leaves are too toxic for the babies so the mothers usually prepare a fecal diet until the babies are tuned to it.
Load More Replies... Michelle Muirhead 5 years ago
This is a true fact. Have a look at a very informative YouTube about Koalas from the Australian Reptile Park
Kim Conroy 5 years ago
they need to eat their mothers poop to absorb the gut bacteria necessary to survive eating eucalyptus
#49
The Nazis were the first ever people in modern history to start an anti-smoking and tobacco movement. Or being from Scotland, and finding out the national animal is the unicorn!
Markus Holstein 5 years ago
The Unicorn was picked because it was believed to be the natural enemy of the lion - the national animal of England
Markus Holstein 5 years ago
The Nazis also had the most advanced animal welfare laws of their time, to the point where it ment essentially less paperwork to do gruesome experiments on concentration camp inmates than mice.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
Also, Scotland is the first country to make women's hygiene products free!
Miklós Nagy 5 years ago
Pretty sure tobacco companies even used the "nazis did this" argument when people said their products are causing cancer.
#50
During the Cold War the US had an idea to drop XL condoms labeled Medium all over Russia to make them think they are more "Manly"
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
This - in a nutshell - is the reason we are probably better off with female leaders, I think.
Rick 5 years ago
To Make Russian men feel inadequate when buying “medium sized” condoms they couldn’t fill, when they were actually for extra long penises
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#51
There is a city in Turkey called Batman
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
And here's why that Mexican bird is called Turkey in English: "Once imported, Europeans came to call the guinea fowl the turkey-c**k or turkey-hen, because the bird came from the Turks. When settlers in the New World began to send similar-looking fowl back to Europe, they, out of familiarity, called them turkeys." https://www.dictionary.com/e/turkey/. However, precisely because of that, turkey, the fowl, is called 'French hen', or 'French chicken' in Greek.
Load More Replies... djinnjeannie 5 years ago
There’s lots of things in Melbourne named Batman, after John Batman though not the caped crusader
SanchaTheSeeker 5 years ago
There's a train station in Melbourne called Batman! Surprised no one has put any batman decals 2130622874...6d78fd.jpg 
#52
An octopus has blue blood
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Also some spiders have blue blood. It's blue because of copper instead of iron in the blood. In general, it's less effective than red blood.
K. aka letmeplaywithkittens 5 years ago
So why do we get more vampire horror?
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#53
During WWII, the Polish Army had a brown bear in their ranks. The bear was really helpful to the force, particularly for carrying heavy artillery.
djinnjeannie 5 years ago
He ended up in Scotland after the war, there’s a statue memorial to him in Edinburgh
#54
The previous owner of the company Segway died from driving a Segway off a cliff
#55
LEGO is the largest producer of tires in the world
#56
There used to be a species of parrot native to what is now Kentucky and Tennessee.
#57
The US government kidnapped and experimented on its own population
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Damn, that's pretty sickening. And I can't help but wonder how much else has been going on that hasn't been brought out into the light of day. https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/history-of-mk-ultra
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Stimpy 5 years ago
Yep. A bit nonsensical to just put it out like that without any further info, link or even hint
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maswartz 5 years ago
Most "gotchas" about the US government can be said about the majority of governments
Load More Replies... Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
Well, that still better than kidnapping other countries' population.
#58
Maine is the closet US state to the continent of Africa.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
And how many wondered about the US "closet" states?
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#59
There was a week in American history where Tim Allen had the #1 film, tv show, and book.
Helen Haley 5 years ago
Clarification- his image was endearing once upon a time.
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#60
Stop signs used to be yellow. In 1922, the American Association of State Highway Officials met to determine a standard design for stop signs, and that's where they decided on the color: yellow (because they thought that would grab drivers' attention). They'd also considered red, but there was no dye available at the time that wouldn't eventually fade. By 1954, sign-makers had access to fade-resistant porcelain enamel, and could finally start making stop signs the red color recognized today.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
There are several variations, it depends on where you are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign
#61
It is estimated viruses kill about 50% of ocean biomass every 4 days.
#62
There are more tigers in captivity in America than in the wild
zims 5 years ago
Considering tigers aren't native to America, the number in the wild should be 0. Is it not 0? Are there tigers roaming around loose? This is alarming.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I find it truly upsetting that it is not illegal to own wild animals that are not even from the Americas in the USA, it is about as appalling as the fact that under-age marriage is legal in most states the US, some have no lower age limit at all.
#63
The US and Russian military employed dolphins as part of their marines.
#64
Pumpkins are rarer than diamonds in Minecraft.
Midnight_Waterlily 5 years ago
I'm surprised this is here. Welp, then next time I trade for pumpkins instead of diamonds!
#65
The average amount of arms humans have is less than 2
Trick Question 5 years ago
One person missing one arm lowers the average by a tiny tiny amount but still brings it below 2.
#66
A Russian luxury SUV Manufacturer attempted and failed to use whale penis skin for their SUV interiors.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Or use it for a convertible roof and it can become a hard top.
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A barnacle has a penis up to 10 times the length of its body.
#68
Joseph Stalin was nominated for the Nobel peace prize. Twice!
Sean Baxter 5 years ago
It's pretty easy to get nominated for a Nobel peace prize. Pretty much every major world leader gets nominated.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago (edited)
Nominated, but he did not get it. Take into account the somewhere between 20 and 27 million Soviet casualties, both civilian and military, during WW2. To compare, the USA lost 'only' 418,500 people. "Joseph Stalin, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1948 for his efforts to end World War II. Award winner: Dag Hammarskjöld; Joseph Rotblat..." https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/facts-on-the-nobel-peace-prize
April Simnel 5 years ago (edited)
Don't make this just about Obama. Almost every US president since Andrew Jackson and those Congresses are also responsible for the murders of at least hundreds of people. How do citizens stop their governments from torturing and killing people? Do we need oil or whatever that badly? I don't think so, but they're not going to listen to just me, and the American people as a whole don't care enough to force or shame these "leaders" to stop.
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#69
When large ships were first sailing sailed through electrical storms they would sometimes see a blue glow at the top of their mast. There was no lightning and they thought it meant they were cursed.
CbusResident 5 years ago
It turned out that what was thought to only be explicable by religion &/or magic had a scientific explanation, a surprise to no atheist ever. Also, some neuroscientists think, why you may see a 'tunnel of white light' during near death dreaming in a hospital: the head trauma (which caused the person to be near death) causes their brains to stop processing visual info from the rods and cones from the periphery of our eyesight. If your brain 'sees' light (like from hospital surgical lights, fluorescent ceiling lights) w/ no data from your rods and cones processed, the light appears white. As your brain is processing less and less info from your visual periphery, it creates an illusion of a narrowing tunnel of white light. Sorry, it isn't a 'tunnel to heaven' after all.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atmospheric/st-elmo-fire.htm
#70
The average density of the universe is 1 proton in 3 cubic meters and the average temperature is 2.73 kelvin.
#72
If Titanic had had more lifeboats on board, more people would have died. There are lots of unique factors that go into this. But the simple version is there was no time. Titanic's crew acted incredibly quickly as soon as it was known the ship had no chance of surviving. Preparing these massive, heavy lifeboats for launch and lowering them takes a lot of time and effort. Despite their efforts, the last two lifeboats were floated off deck. They needed every available second to launch the boats they did have. Titanic had no time to launch more lifeboats. If there had been more boats on board, they would have been stacked which would have added time to the already laborious and lengthy preparation and launch of the boats. They also would have been stored on deck which would have added to an already crowded, chaotic scene the night it sank.
Ben Smith 5 years ago
I feel like this is an opinion more than a fact. So the last two floated off... I imagine many people would have liked more boats to have floated off at the end
Anne 5 years ago
They would have had to be stacked on top of each other if they had more - making the process of getting them un-stacked take more time than they had. So more people would have had no boat.
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One of the largest stadiums in terms of crowd seating in the world is located in North Korea
Bill Taylor 5 years ago
Sure, and Kim Jong Un won every olympic event that has ever been held there...
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