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Truth Bombs: 17 Facts That Shocked People Into Questioning Reality
Article created by: Ieva Pečiulytė
While scrolling through social media, we often stumble upon fun and quirky facts that make us smile or shrug. But then, there are those facts that make you pause and wonder, “Wait…is that really true?”
So when a curious Redditor asked, "What’s a fact you learned that instantly made you question reality?" people flooded the thread with some of the most jaw-dropping facts they’ve ever encountered. Ready to have your mind blown? Keep reading, Pandas! This post may include affiliate links.
#1
I read somewhere that we can only see about 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum, meaning we’re practically blind to most of what’s going on around us. It made me question how much of reality is hidden from us, existing beyond what our senses can perceive.
Another one that shook me was learning that trees can communicate with each other through underground fungal networks, sharing nutrients and even warning each other about threats. It completely flipped my understanding of forests — they’re not just a collection of individual trees, but more like an interconnected community working together. Reality suddenly seemed a lot more complex.
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#2
That some people don’t have an inner monologue or voice; and that some people literally can’t picture things in their minds.
#3
The Romans figured out how to make heated floors. Central heating sounds like a modern invention, but apparently its been around for 2000 years.
#4
That everyone you know or have met has a different version of you in their minds. Their perceptions are based on their interactions or impressions of you. No one really sees you exactly the same way.
#5
My son is 5 now and I still look at him dumbfounded at times. Like I MADE you. You grew inside of me and now you exist with your own consciousness. And continue to grow. Crazy.
#6
That there is no way to know for sure if you and any other person sees the same color when looking at the same thing.
#7
You know those fun universe animations that starts out with the earth, or maybe something on earth, then zooms out bit by bit, comparing us to something larger in the universe? Then it keeps going. You can't see earth anymore, but you can focus on the sun. But then the sun is gone. And we're still getting smaller because we haven't gotten to the biggest object yet. Smaller and smaller and smaller. We barely even exist. But I complain about the drive to Dallas.
#8
Not really a fact, but a feeling. I was raised in a religious setting, so the question became "If God made everything, who made God?" I used to spiral into these thoughts, like "How does the universe exist?" "Where did everything come from?" "How is it possible to exist? Nothing can exist!" I eventually learned about dimensionality and stuff and put it to bed with the fact that whatever the answer is, I have no capacity to understand it anyway.
#9
That one about how bananas are berries but strawberries aren't really berries... like what even is fruit anymore.
#10
Dude when I found out honey never spoils like how is that even real... is it just magic or what?
#12
The double-slit experiment. Even when you slow the experiment down so that it's only a single photon, electron, etc. being measured you still see the interference pattern. Unless you put your detector behind the slits, then it's a solid set of two lines behind the slits.
It's almost like the universe is rendering itself differently based on observation.
#16
I learned that lobsters can theoretically live forever, and now I’m questioning why we’re not all trying to unlock the secret to lobster immortality.
#17
When measuring a coastline, the smaller the unit of measurement, the longer it is.
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