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Article created by: Monika Pašukonytė

Not all facts seem intuitive. Some take people by surprise or feel strange even after knowing them for a while. The reasons for this may vary from limited knowledge of the area, something having very different features from other things of a similar kind, to our senses perceiving something in such a way that it is tempting to the mind to draw some false conclusions, as is the case with various optical illusions, such as one line looking shorter than the other when that isn’t the case. People are sharing these kinds of facts, answering one Redditor’s question: “What’s something that sounds completely illogical but is actually correct?”

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Close-up of shiny crumpled foil reflecting blue and gold light, illustrating surprising facts shared online. Aluminum is infinitely recyclable and one of the worlds most recycled metal

ComplexSolid6712 , La Mary Anne Report

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    Camel walking in the desert at sunset, illustrating surprising facts about animals shared online by people. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia

    goth_mary , Wolfgang Hasselmann Report

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    Sloth hanging from tree branch amid green leaves, illustrating surprising facts shared online about unusual animals. Sloths can hold their breath under water longer than dolphins

    havoc_ado , Javier Mazzeo Report

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    Young donkey standing in a grassy field, an unexpected fact that surprised people when they first heard it online. Mail is still delivered via donkey to a place at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

    jetmech725 , David Selbert Report

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    Blue light beams radiating in a dark space, illustrating the concept of surprising facts shared online. The double-slit experiment in quantum physics, where you're firing electrons at a barrier with two slits. Logic suggests you should see two lines on a screen behind the barrier, but instead, you get a pattern like waves interfering with each other, implying each electron goes through both slits simultaneously. Yet, if you observe which slit they go through, the electrons revert to acting like particles, forming only two lines, as if they 'know' they're being watched. It's a mind-bending phenomenon that sounds illogical but is scientifically proven.

    Hindsight_DJ , wiki commons Report

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    Tiger shark swimming in clear ocean waters, illustrating surprising facts that took people by surprise when first heard. Sharks existed before Saturn’s rings did.

    Moakmeister , Gerald Schömbs Report

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    Young woman using a megaphone outdoors, excitedly sharing surprising facts people hear for the first time online. You hear your own voice differently than others, that's why a lot of people get shocked when they listen to their own recordings.

    purpleoyster67 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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    #8

    Large blue ice chunks on a frozen sea with snow under a clear sky, illustrating surprising facts about ice and nature. Water expands when frozen but almost everything else contracts when frozen

    tsmitty24 , Simon Berger Report

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    Cashew nut growing on cashew tree with green leaves in natural sunlight showing surprising facts about plants. Cashews grow on the outside of a cashew apple

    NoFinish4978 , Quang Nguyen Vinh Report

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    Bright orange flames rising from burning wood, illustrating surprising facts shared online about fire and energy. Inflammable means flammable

    hexagon_son , www.pexels.com Report

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    Transparent anatomical model showing human skeleton and veins with arms raised under bright ceiling lights, surprising facts concept. There is a nerve that connects your brain to your larynx (voice box), but first it goes down your neck, into your chest, and under your aorta before coming back up. Giraffes also have it despite the length of their necks.

    Symnestra , camilo jimenez Report

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    Two camels standing close together under clear blue sky illustrating surprising facts shared online. The US Army tried a "Camel Corps" in the Southwest, in the early 19th century, mostly as pack animals or using for mail service, as far West as southern California; when the Civil War interrupted their experiment, they sold the camels off, but some escaped. As a result there were feral camels at one point in the Angeles National Forest.

    ThaneOfCawdorrr , إبن الصحراء Report

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    Partial solar eclipse against a dark sky, illustrating surprising natural facts that took people by surprise online. Both the moon and Sun are about 400 times farther from Earth than the sizes of their respective diameters. This means that the moon will block out, or “eclipse,” anything behind it that has the same ratio. This is the “cosmic coincidence” that makes solar eclipses possible.

    Seed_Is_Strong , Sebastian Voortman Report

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    #14

    Vintage typewriter with aged paper showing typed facts that surprised people when first heard online. Spaces between words weren’t introduced until the 7th to 9th centuries, with more widespread adoption occurring in the 10th century.

    Goddamnpassword , Dominika Roseclay Report

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    Person sitting outdoors on mossy rock, opening a can, representing surprising facts shared online. It took decades after the invention of the can to invent the can opener.

    theTenebrus , cottonbro studio Report

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    #16

    Half-illuminated planet with contrasting cloud patterns, illustrating surprising facts shared online that took people by surprise. One day on Venus is longer than one year on Venus.

    SuvenPan , Kevin Gill Report

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    Painting of an ancient figure in regal attire seated on a throne, illustrating surprising historical facts shared online. We live closer in time to the reign of Cleopatra than she did to the building of the pyramids.

    caughtinfire , wiki commons Report

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    Cupcakes with pink frosting and happy birthday toppers, decorated with colorful sprinkles, celebrating surprise facts online. If you have 23 people together in a room there is a 50% chance that 2 of them share a birthday (same day and month, not necessarily the same year).

    realmofconfusion , Robert Anderson Report

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    #19

    Banana, strawberry, and orange fruit on a white plate representing surprising facts shared online. Hmm, did you know that technically speaking, a strawberry isn't a berry, but a banana is? Sounds weird, but it's true!

    eva_curls_ , Phong Thanh Report

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    #20

    Small glass bowl of creamy white sauce on a table highlighting surprising facts shared online about food and ingredients. If your mayonnaise is too thin add more oil to thicken it. Emulsions are weird.

    _BlueFire_ , Sara Cervera Report

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    #21

    Science experiment creating smoke cloud in dark classroom, surprising facts that took people by surprise concept. When magnesium is burned, the ashes weigh more than the magnesium.

    whatintheactualfeth , Geoffrey McKim Report

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    #22

    A wide canal lock system with waterways and boats, illustrating surprising facts about engineering and transportation. The western end of the Panama Canal is the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern end is the Pacific Ocean.

    gbrell , wiki commons Report

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    #23

    Wristwatch close-up on a diver’s arm in water, highlighting surprising facts that took people by surprise online. That 1,000,000 (one million) seconds is ~11.6 days, and 1,000,000,000 (one billion) seconds is ~31.7 years.

    jfincher42 , Maël BALLAND Report

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    Close-up of a water droplet creating ripples on the surface, illustrating surprising facts shared online concept. There are more hydrogen atoms in a single water molecule than there are stars in the entire solar system.

    AlmostSane67 , Pixabay Report

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    Jim Hayter
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    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's only one star in the solar system.

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    #25

    Water buffalo grazing in a field at sunset, illustrating surprising facts that took people by surprise when first heard. "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a complete, grammatically correct sentence in the English language.

    Eclectophile , Pixabay Report

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    Hand holding a detailed silver lighter with flame against a dark background, illustrating surprising facts concept. Hmm, did you know that lighters were invented before matches? Sounds kinda weird, right?

    eva_curls , Thomas Despeyroux Report

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    #27

    Earth rising above the moon’s surface, illustrating surprising facts about our planet as shared online. If you somehow managed to fold one piece of paper 42 times, its thickness will actually be equal to the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

    SlapDatBassBro , NASA Report

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    Father and newborn baby sleeping peacefully together, wrapped in a soft brown blanket, sharing a calm moment. Babies will sleep in longer if you put them to bed earlier

    Romnonaldao , Pixabay Report

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    #29

    Abstract blue light network and digital connections over city skyline at night illustrating surprising facts shared online. The speed of light is constant on all reference frames

    Key_Card4539 , Pixabay Report

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    Colorful atom model with glowing orbits and particles illustrating surprising science facts shared online. You can’t know both what the exact position and the exact momentum of a quantum particle will be.

    HyperConnectedSpace , Gerd Altmann Report

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