People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren’t, As Shared In This Online Thread
The world is a strange place. You think you know how it works, but all it takes is one good documentary, and you end up questioning everything around you. Maybe even your own existence.
Heck, if you're lucky, you don't even need a twenty-to-sixty-minute video to expand your horizons. A quick scroll might be enough. And it brings me great joy to tell you that today we are, indeed, fortunate.
Recently, Redditor Aden_Elvis77 asked other users to share facts that sound fake but are actually true, starting a thread that has become an online archive of some of the most interesting trivia you can find.
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An infinite supply of food would not solve world hunger. We actually have more than enough food to end world hunger, the issue is with distribution/logistics.
Technically, that is exactly what the author said. The food is being wasted because it is failing to reach the available consumers needing it. Points for rephrasing in a way that possibly reaches understanding for some.
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True. It's funny how capitalism can get food on the shelves for profit but won't lift a finger to get it to those that need it most. And this is not singling capitalism out. Every system is flawed because it's governed by people. Where there are people, there will be greed. There's always someone more equal than the rest, to paraphrase Orwell.
It doesn't help when the aid that is sent is stolen by warlords or corrupt governments instead of getting to the people who need it. It's happened in Africa (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0176268016301720) and more recently in Yemen (https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/12/1029542)
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There is enough food for the world, problem is cheaper to let it rot than transport it to where it is needed. Plus some areas the local governments/war lords find it easy to control the people if they control the food supply.
Warlord politics, too. They can't have the people they subjugate getting any kind of assistance.
The issue isn't with distribution or logistics, it's with capitalism. If you make food unaffordable and make junk food affordable, you guarantee poor health and poor quality of life.
Money also plays a very important role in ending world hunger. Who would want to go open McD in a backwards country where almost all of the customers can't pay for the food?
The issue is more, that food will not be distributed to people who cannot pay enoug for it. Rather let it grow bad in cold storage facilities to support the farmers.
Stores order too much. It's like they don't look at how much people actually buy in their store, and how much they order.
Actually, infinite food WOULD solve world hunger. We'd also all die in a black hole of infinite mass caused by the infinite food, but at least nobody would be hungry!
I think it's less a distribution problem and more a rich people don't want everyone to have to enough issue.
In a hugely overpopulated world, feeding everyone will only result in more people, less natural world, fewer wild animals, and more pollution. No thanks.
Sam Kinison did the greatest couple of minutes in the history of standup with that bit. More groundbreaking at the time than it seems now. Ballsy as it gets.
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the way it is now, food is a commodity , as such, the priority is to make profit , not distribute it evenly thats why sometimes is more profitable to waste than simple nourish someone in need
food is a commodity , as such, the priority is to make profit , not distribute it evenly thats why sometimes is more profitable to waste than simple nourish someone in need
There is more than enough food however buying power is unequal, hence there are those who can't provide for themselves. It is an economics issue
Is the problem really 'logistics'? I think the main problem is that some people can't afford the food, while others can afford way more than they need. So actually an infinite supply would help, because it would drive down the price. But indeed, it's not necessary: we could also solve the problem by distributing what we have more equally.
The problem is capitalism. Charging exorbitant prices for food instead of selling them at cost is the root cause.
Corruption. You pay for food distribution and most of the money winds up in administrative expenses like fat salaries for the executives.
More plastic flamingos exist on earth than living flamingos.
The same is true for unicorns.
it took longer for humans to go from a Bronze sword to an Iron sword, than It took to go from an iron sword to the atomic bomb.
And if we don't tread carefully it won't take long to send us to ash age.
Humans can smell some components of the smell of rain (the geosmin part of petrichor, specifically) far better than sharks can small blood in water.
I live in a rain forest area .. and love the smell of the rain. Also can sense the rain (hours before) is coming by the smell, moisture in the air.
James Garfield could write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other at the same time
I’m shocked by the amount of people that refuse to believe narwhals are real animals. I’ve got one tattooed on my forearm, so I probably get people talking to me about them more often than normal lol. It usually ends in me pulling up pictures on google, and them still being skeptical.
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" marks the one and only time that Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny have ever officially appeared in the same place at the same time, as well as Daffy and Donald.
All characters screentime between both companies was timed down to the frame to make sure they both had exactly equal amounts with their characters
The average blood pressure of a giraffe is around 300/190. They need to have a high BP to get the blood all the way up the neck to profuse the brain with oxygen. I am thoroughly impressed by their cardiovascular system.
A single coal power plant produces more toxic waste in a year than every nuclear power plant has ever made.
Slightly misleading, the nuclear waste is much more toxic but has a much smaller volume/mass, so is much easier to contain. The coal plant just spews toxic gases into the air and dumps toxic ash in sludge ponds. Not to mention carbon emissions. A more revealing statistic is the comparison of deaths per terawatt hour of electricity generated. 24.62 for coal, 0.03 for nuclear. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh
Anne Frank, Martin Luther King, and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year
Anne Frank a life that was cut short by evil and yet we know her name across the world. Dr King didn't live for very long as well and we know him through whatever he did in that time.
Komodo dragons usually reproduce sexually, but females in captivity have been known to reproduce by parthenogenesis, without the need for sperm.
Our eyes view everything upside down, but our mind flips it right side up
The northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point in Brazil.
Every single person on Earth could have about 950 square feet in Texas and leave the rest of the world completely empty. (Not that anyone would want that!)
Almonds are from the peach family.
If you look inside the pit of a peach, the center looks just like an almond
The Italian name for the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” roughly translates to “If You Dump Me, I Delete You.”
Strawberry is not a berry but banana is
A strawberry is a multiple fruit which consists of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle.
The number of ants on Earth has a mass greater than all birds and mammals combined
The Rope Around The Earth Problem
Take a rope tied tautly around a basketball. Now the rope must be lengthened so that there is a one foot gape between the ball and the rope at all points, as if the rope is hovering a foot away around the entirety of the ball. How much must the rope be lengthened to accomplish this? 6.28 Feet.
Now take a rope around tied tautly around the equator of the earth. We have the same goal for the one foot hovering gap around the entirety of the earth. How far must the rope be lengthened? 6.28 Feet.
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This is so counter intuitive just about no one will believe it until shown the math
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima released an amount of energy equivalent to the conversion of 0.7 grams ( about the weight of a paperclip) of matter into energy.
That seems so small - but its genuinely terrifying - a gigantic amount of energy is required to translate energy into mass
Everest is nowhere close to being the farthest away from the center of the earth. The top of Chimborazo in Ecuador is 2.1 km farther away, even crazier is that Chimborazo isn't even the highest mountain in the Andes.
According to the Doomsday argument, there is a 95% chance that in the next 9120 years human civilization will die out.
Your brain can’t really distinguish between imagination and reality.
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasted 57 seconds. It was a Loganair flight between two Scottish islands, Westray and Papa Westray. It was recorded the shortest commercial flight, with the distance of 1.7 miles.
The guy who played the villain in Karate kid 3 ( Terry Silver , Thomas Ian Griffith ) is actually 7 months younger than Ralph Macchio , ( Daniel LaRusso). It’s weird because the karate kid was still supposed to be under 18 and the villain was supposed to have fought in Vietnam.
In a few million years we won't see solar eclipses on Earth anymore because the moon would be too far away to cover the sun - it moves 4 cm away from Earth per year
Almost panicked because I wanna Conroe sewing solar eclipses and then I remembered I probably won't anyway, and a few million year has no effect on me SO. Kinda like how a discord's friends status is 'Christmas is a week away' and I panic even tho I know it's wrong. That's a neat fact tho
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one weird fact that i know is the fact that,even despite the idea of one,aside from belief,there is no god.anything religion explains,science cn do the same thing.
Oh really? Tell me where the first living cell came from then. How did it come into existence?
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In a few million years we won't see solar eclipses on Earth anymore because the moon would be too far away to cover the sun - it moves 4 cm away from Earth per year
Almost panicked because I wanna Conroe sewing solar eclipses and then I remembered I probably won't anyway, and a few million year has no effect on me SO. Kinda like how a discord's friends status is 'Christmas is a week away' and I panic even tho I know it's wrong. That's a neat fact tho
Load More Replies... one weird fact that i know is the fact that,even despite the idea of one,aside from belief,there is no god.anything religion explains,science cn do the same thing.
Oh really? Tell me where the first living cell came from then. How did it come into existence?
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