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Someone Asked People “What Is A True Fact That Sounds Fake?” And 40 Delivered Illuminating Responses
In this modern world, where the amount of fake news, alternative facts, scams, and quasi-claims seem to be off the charts, it’s easy to doubt things. But despite our suspicions, many of us still enjoy and seek out good "truth is stranger than fiction" stories. Because life is weird. Science is crazy. Evolution is wild. And there are so many staggering or downright surreal things happening right under our noses we don't even notice.
Chances are, you've stumbled upon at least one piece of trivia that is so weird, it sounds totally made up. And you’re definitely not the only one. There’s an entire thread on 'Ask Reddit' where this subject matter takes center stage. "What is a true fact that sounds fake?" asked user TheMemeing and inspired hundreds of members to share their intriguing tidbits of knowledge immediately.
From snails having 14,000 teeth to Mantis shrimp generating light, just because something sounds a little bogus, it doesn’t mean it’s not real. We've gathered some of the most illuminating responses from the thread, so continue scrolling! Although remember that a little healthy skepticism goes a long way, so put your thinking caps on and take everything you read online with a pinch of salt. Then upvote the facts that surprised you most, and be sure to share your own nuggets of information with us in the comments.
Psst! When you've finished this list, take a look at our previous post filled with fake-sounding facts here.
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#1
The oldest hotel in the world is The Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan and has been in business since 705AD. The crazy thing is that it’s still a family business. For 52 generations
Mad Dragon 3 years ago (edited)
In the instances that there were no heirs to take over, the family found folks to run it, but then adopted them into the family!
Debbie 3 years ago
I've watched too many movies... I immediately think of some precious holy something that needs to be protected at that place by someone of their bloodline, and they cover it up with a hotel business....
LJ Robinson 3 years ago
Debbie, that's the start of what sounds like a great book!
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RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Been there. It's lovely, even if only staying the night. They have a book you can look through if all the famous people who have stated there
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
I looked up photographs online and it looks like such a relaxing and gorgeous experience. The onsen is set in the foothills of the Japanese Alps so you are immersed in nature. They have a lovely hot spring and traditional rooms. It certainly looks like a place of relaxation.
InvincibleRodent 3 years ago
I read about this place! Apparently in the ~80"s (iirc) part of the original structure was torn down in an effort to modernize the place during the economic boom to attract businessmen customers, but the current owner/head now deeply regrets it.
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#2
Female dragonflies drop out the sky and pretend to be dead to avoid unwanted male advances.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Would that matter to the male? Sometimes in the animal world it does not. I am looking at you ducks! Being dead is not a problem to the horny male.
Anonymous 3 years ago
This. I've seen male ducks harrassing a female duck till she died and then harassed the dead body too.
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BeardedVulture 3 years ago
There’s a female gorilla at our zoo that climbs a tree when she’s ovulating to avoid the male. They have to feed her up there. It’s a pretty nice little nest.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
"Dude, I flew across and said "hey, what's up?" and she just straight up died....like drop out of the sky...I need to go see my therapist".
Pieter LeGrande 3 years ago
More humane than biting his head off. Not sure dropping out of the sky is such a great idea if you weigh 60kg or so.
#3
Donald Trump was actually the US President at one time.
The boredest panda 3 years ago (edited)
I think this one is by far the scariest and fake sounding
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Please don't remind us. I think this one is the most disturbing fact by far.
Kathy Rayborn 3 years ago (edited)
US citizens: Please register to vote. It matters!!! We need an overwhelming tidal wave to support the marginalized and hurting in our country. If this doesn’t affect you right now, it may become intolerable for you in the future.
Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
And he can't just go away. He is worse than any rash. Plus he's we get Trump spawn/clones like DeSantis
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
As a non-US citizen for me this is so unreal...like Trump...the guy from Home Alone and Ms. Universe? Damn.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago (edited)
Even crazier, there are people who haven’t figured out what a bafflingly stupid man he is. Forget the actual politics. We can have actual discussions about abortion, foreign policy, the border, taxation, etc., etc. But this man, this sack of garbage is just so f*cking dumb and utterly amoral, and millions of people don’t see that. THAT is what worries me about humanity’s fate.
#4
In 1895 there were 2 cars out of the entire state of Ohio and they still managed to crash into each other
Michael Largey 3 years ago (edited)
My mother was parked at one end of a parking lot. In the center of the lot was a light pole. Although hers was the only car in the lot, she still managed to back into that pole.
Chrissyfox 3 years ago
I once had an early model Porsche. Went into the supermarket, loaded car and proceeded to back out. Tree jumped out and hit the side of my car. I swear that tree was NOT there before I did the shopping.
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CatchTheWind 3 years ago
You are correct, but BP always posts stock images, not images of the actual event.
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UselessKnowledgeFont 3 years ago
I wanted to know where it may have happened. Found this https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/only-two-cars-ohio-crashed-1895/
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Randolph Croft 3 years ago
Possibly because there were very few roads a car could drive on properly. Or just drunk off their buttts.
madbakes 3 years ago
People did drink a lot of alcohol since safe, potable water wasn't commonly available yet.
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Linda's friend Ginger 3 years ago
I remember when the stay-at-home order came out during the pandemic, 2 people went out and somehow hit each other on empty streets.
#5
There’s a penguin named Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III who is the ceremonial head of the Norwegian Royal Guard
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
This penguin lives in the Edinburgh Zoo aka Scottish National Zoological Park. The guard visited the zoo in 1972 and a corporal asked the to make him the unit's mascot when they returned home. He's named after the corporal who asked for him to be the mascot and the king of Norway. His original rank was lance corporal like the man who asked him to be added but every time the unit returns to the zoo, the penguin gets a promotion. He's now the 4th highest ranked officer in the Army and outranks all but 1 person in his unit. He's also the 3rd penguin of his name/rank. When one dies, another gets the title.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
How did a Penguin end up in Norway I wonder? They are southern animals.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
He actually now happily resides at Edinburgh zoo. To makes things even stranger the name 'Nils Olav' and and the associated rank has been passed down through three king penguins since 1972 : https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/animals-and-experiences/sir-nils-olav/
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#6
Nestle intentionally created a famine by giving put free formula in African countries and pushed a campaign that said it was healthier than breast milk. Then when most of the population had converted and dwindled the number of mothers capable of nursing, they began charging exorbitant prices for formula. this caused thousands of children to starve to death and they got away with it.
Richard Campbell 3 years ago
Very difficult since they make an astounding number of products in any given grocery store. Like, a stupid amount of s**t is made by nestle
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Biofish23 3 years ago
They sent sales people dressed as nurses to new mothers, and gave out free samples to last just long enough for the mothers milk supply to dry up. Not to mention these were populations of people without access to reliably clean water to prepare the formula with. So even when the families managed to buy enough formula countless babies still died of diarrhea from the contaminated water.
Kitty White 3 years ago
Oh, but *surely* nestle paid a pittance for local “water rights,” drained aquifers in drought-stricken areas, and then bottles that water and sold it to people in need of potable water… oh, no wait- that was California; Flint, MI; and soon enough we will find out that they’re doing it in Jackson, Mississippi as well.
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Torza 3 years ago
Who the farq came up with that campaign idea? How did such a blatent human rights abuse get the greenlight? Why are big corps so soulless??
Channon Doughty 3 years ago
Kill one or two or three people, it's murder. Kill thousands to millions, it just the "cost of doing business".
K- THULU 3 years ago
As they say " one death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic."
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RajunCajun 3 years ago
the sad part = this fact will not keep people from buying Nestle products.
Kathy Rayborn 3 years ago
It starts with one person, then another, and another.
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There are more slaves today than in any point in history
Waite Forit 3 years ago
And there are still slaves in the United States. The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution allows "slavery or forced labor" as punishment for a crime. At this time, there are approximately 800,000 prisoners who are forced to work - including many who do manufacturing work for the 4,200 corporations that utilize prison labor. Source: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers, June, 2022
Sergio Bicerra 3 years ago
Do they reduce sentence if they do this kind of work, or is to fund the prisions and don't touch contributors money, or just to profit from the inmates?
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This is both heartbreaking and deeply disturbing. I saw a documentary on mica mining, where children as young as 6 are forced into a life of manual labour to help feed their families. I told myself that I was going to swear off mica and the realized that it is in SOOOO many products from makeup to your car parts. Here's a link to the documentary on Youtube if anybody is interested (trigger warning: child slavery; mentions of grave bodily injury/death; child exploitation; and mentions of extreme poverty): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeR-h9C2fgc
Phil Green 3 years ago
I'm so pleased this made the list. I have been highlighting this on here and elsewhere whenever the case for slavery being a "white man thing". It is everyone's concern and is more prevalent today than at any other time in history. Rather than talk about the past, we should be addressing the slavery of today and bringing it to an end.
onivdsrapowijap 3 years ago
This is why so many companies have their stuff made in southeast Asia: slavery is extremely easy to get away with there. Many major cell phone producers, including Apple and Samsung, have their phones made by slaves.
iseefractals 3 years ago
12.5 million were taken during the african slave trade, only 10.7 million actually survived the middle passage. Today, 167 countries have some form of slavery, effecting 1 out of every 150 people on the planet. While Nestle may be the go to for highlighting this ongoing issue, the ramifications reach far beyond a single company. Bricks, ceramics, electronics, mining which includes minerals used in fertilizer and electronics, "exotic" fruits, and clothing to name a few of the obvious. Slavery plays a large role in producing Chinese garlic, those pre-peeled cloves are peeled by hand, often by prisoners, in such large quantities that it's common for fingernails to fall off. Chattel slavery also continues, as extreme poverty forces some to sell themselves, or their children in order to survive, the same applies to sex slaves. It's all but impossible for anyone to exist in the western world today without having supported slave labor in myriad of ways, which have been publicized for decades
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
That is so wrong! That is a violation of human rights. And about the the US Supreme court ruling that Nestle using child slaves to create chocolate is legal, I wonder how many people Nestle had to bribe, because that's the only reason I can think of as to why the Supreme Court ruled it as legal.
DetongLhamo 3 years ago
And most are women and children, but please, LBGTQA etc people living in the first world, tell us about the suffering caused by not being able to use the women’s change room.
#8
The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
It's the only natural enemy of the lion, which is the national animal of England...
Waite Forit 3 years ago
They also have a national bird (the golden eagle). So apparently Scottish people don't consider birds to be animals.
Atreïdes 3 years ago
Many countries have a national [type of animal], like how the American Bison is the US’ national mammal.
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eMpTy 3 years ago
Kangaroo is a lean meat with less than 2% fat and less than 0.1% cholestoral, making it a healthier red meat option than beef, pork or lamb. It is also high in protein, essential B vitamins, minerals such as zinc, iron and omega 3 fats and omega 6 fatty acids. Compared to beef, kangaroo contains double the amount of iron and triple that of chicken and pork. Apart from that, it tastes bloody great mate!
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Claire Ferguson 3 years ago
Nessie is just a myth the locals made up to keep the tourist away from the unicorns, they don't like being disturbed so they hide away with the haggis.
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Erica Cochrane 3 years ago
yeah, scotland and wales looked at england and their lion and were like 'screw that, we want to be mythical!'
#9
Oxford University predates the Aztec Empire by 3.5 centuries.
Russell Tilling 3 years ago
...and Cambridge University was founded by students who broke away from Oxford as they wouldn't help cover-up a rape on the campus.
François Carré 3 years ago (edited)
It's also due to a common misconception about the history of empires in North and South America. Just because they were there before Europeans arrived doesn't mean Aztec and Inca empires were ancient states. They were not, and the regions they ended up dominating had millenia of rich and complex geopolitical experiences before them. The Holy City of Teotihuacan, very close to what is now Mexico City, was one of the biggest, wealthiest and most advanced cities of the world centuries before Oxford was even founded.
#10
Humans can smell geosmin (the chemical released when it rains or snows) at 5 parts per trillion. Which means that humans are 200,000 times more sensitive to smelling geosmin than sharks are at smelling blood.
Angela B 3 years ago
Isn't the smell after rain called petrichor....or something like that? Happy to be corrected if am mistaken.
Not Your Business 3 years ago
Yep, the smell is called petrichor, but the chemical that makes the smell is geosmin.
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Devon Archer 3 years ago
Pretty much the best smell and you feel so rejuvenated after smelling it. Love it.
Yubo 3 years ago
I was always taught that water had no scent and that when it rains, all we are smelling is wet asphalt. I need to call my therapist, this is too much to take in.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
You're not smelling the water, you're smelling chemicals released when it hits the ground, so you were right the first time.
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Mark Fuller 3 years ago
Where is the smell released from? I was taught it was from plants that could sense the change in air pressure and were ready to have good ole' drink. But I can only find mention of algae. Someone educate me!
Tim Wilkinson 3 years ago
Never knew this but also reading the comments explains why I love camping. Childhood holidays in UK where camping. As an adult still try to get away in a tent. Try explaining to someone who hasn't camped what it so special about early morning waking up and opening your tent up to that damp grass smell.
#11
Dinosaurs were around for so long that there were already dinosaur fossils while they were still alive.
Basically, as T-Rex was munching away on Triceratop steaks, Stegosaurus had already been dead and underground for millions of years by that point.
Aileen Grist 3 years ago
They have found small footprints - very humanoid - near dinosaur footprints - maybe the time line will have to be moved again. Possibly a very, very, very early type of monkey/ape. We keep on finding out new things about our planet.
Riley Quinn 3 years ago
Humans have lived closer in time to T Rex (83 million) than T Rex lived to Stegosaurus (65 million).
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
No. The name "dinosaur" means "terrible lizard" and refers to specific families of reptiles that lived between about 120m and 65m years ago.
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People were on the moon before they put wheels on suitcases.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
I am picturing Neil Armstrong awkwardly carrying a few suitcases onto the shuttle.
BG 3 years ago
he never flew a Shuttle mission, but here you go! apollo11_4...b46dd7.jpg 
Andrea Cranford 3 years ago
Before the mid-20th century, the wealthy had personal servants, so they didn't care about how the luggage moved as long as it got to where it was supposed to go. There were also extensive networks of porters, stewards, and bellhops to handle luggage. Immigrants were the only other large travel group, and they were moving their entire lives, so no one would expect that luggage to be easily portable. It was only when middle-class air travel became common that people needed easily portable, short-term travel luggage that they would have to lug from place to place.
#13
In the Pompeii eruption, the extreme heat caused some victims' brain tissue to turn to glass.
blobby_grrl 3 years ago
Well then. That's a dark fact I'll be thinking about for a while now...
Emma Brown 3 years ago
They exhibited a lot of the Pompeii artifacts at the British museum a few years back. I was very fortunate to see it. It was so sad to see what happened but important that it's remembered.
Emma Brown 3 years ago
The gas cloud was cooler at the bottom than the top, it was so toxic that they died very quickly. At least that's something I suppose :(
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marianne eliza 3 years ago (edited)
Actually, only one victim has been found whose brain turned to a black glass-like substance. And he was found in Herculaneum which didn't have the exact same series of volcanic events. And he was in bed, the frame of which had carbonized as had many other wooden items in Herculaneum due to the sequence of eruptive events which displaced all the oxygen with extreme heat, thus carbonizing instead of burning. Bread, fruits, wooden doors and room dividing screens were preserved and recovered. But all carbonized.
#14
The Mantis shrimp punches so hard it generates light.
Alycia Whaley 3 years ago (edited)
And heat. It's called sono lumination cavitation. Mantis shrimp are also called pistol shrimp, (Edit: They are NOT, this was an incorrect recollection. The rest, I do believe is accurate, but I'll stand to be corrected) because they create a sonic boom underwater that sounds like a pistol. The sound is so loud, and excites the water so much, it actually produces temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun. The light is created when the sound (sono) bubbles collapse (cavitation), producing little sparks of light (lumination). They also punch through aquarium glass, rip fingers apart, eat and consume everything in its tank, either spear or club it's meal to death. Oh, and they have like, 6 eyes. They have two eyestalks, and each stalk has three compound eyes, and each compound eye has 12 photo receptors (we have 3). You can argue that they have 2 eyes, but since each pair of compound eyes detects different information that is sent to different portions of the brain, I'm gonna say it has 6. There are so many cool things about this animal!!
jimmy pop 3 years ago
Mantis shrimp are not called pistol shrimp. They're an order, Stomatopoda, within the class Malacostraca in the Crustacea subphylum. Pistol shrimp on the other hand are a family, Alpheidae, within the order Decapoda in the Malacostraca class, two different subgroups among the crustaceans. Nonetheless, mantis shrimp are absolutely fascinating.
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Ian Conelley 3 years ago
When Chuck Norris does a push-up, he pushes the Earth down. Chuck Norris sleeps with a night light, because the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris.
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Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Not visible to the human eye, though. However, it produces also bubbles that collapse, creating a sonic boom, and a point which is as hot as the surface of the sun.
Sandy Parker 3 years ago
I had one in my REEF Tank. Came with some live rock. It was too amazing to try to evict. Some pretty powerful punch right there.
Yay Pandas! 3 years ago (edited)
If you are interested, the Oatmeal has a great comic on these guys: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
#15
Johnny Cash was the first westerner to learn of Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953. He was a morse code operator at the time
Jean-Daniel Mohier 3 years ago
Another one about the man in black. After he passed away, a company asked the estate to buy the rights to use Ring of Fire for one of their commercials. The company? Preparation H.
Laura Jackson 3 years ago
I really love facts like these. Lately I can't stop reading up weird/odd facts about the royals and it's driving my family crazy cause I'm talking about it so much. RIP Your Royal Highness, God save the Queen 👑💖😢
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
The monarch is Your Majesty. Royal Highness is for princes and princesses in the line of succession.
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max and the expresso 3 years ago
This is false (to the best of my knowledge) it was A. Likely incripted and B. He didn't speak Russian. (Please correct me if I am wrong)
Russell Tilling 3 years ago
What's morse code for "The mass murderer is dead. Long live (the next) mass murderer"?
Rebekah 3 years ago
My mom interviewed him once. He wore black. Go figure. (but really, she did)
#16
From 1912 to 1948, the Olympics awarded official medals for painting, sculpture, architecture, literature and music, alongside those for the athletic competitions.
WonderWoman 3 years ago
Harder to judge a clear winner as they are subjective, but I agree, I think we should. It seems much more respectable and gentler.
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Marion Connolly 3 years ago
The Irish artist Jack B. Yeats won a silver medal in the 1924 olympics with his painting 'The Liffey Swim'
bill marsano 3 years ago
They should add medal for doping, for non-chemical cheating, and for endorsement deals. They're long past the need to pretend they're not a strictly commercial operation.
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
Except for *gestures at all cinema and television*
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The greenland shark, has a life expectancy of between 250-500 years. That means there could be a greenland shark swimming around, that swam the oceans when the Spanish conquistadors went to search Mexico for gold, which at that time, were inhabited by the Aztecs.
XenoMurph 3 years ago (edited)
I knew a guy who was bitten by a shark. He went to Oxford. So Oxford university predates the Aztecs, and a shark predates Oxford University students.
Aria Whitaker 3 years ago
Sharks even predate....trees. They are some ancient characters.
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Devon Archer 3 years ago
Were they around during the Spanish Inquisition though? No one would expect that.
RajunCajun 3 years ago (edited)
you know a shark that went to oxford and bit a dude. Did he have a grudge or something?
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
One of these sharks may have also been alive before the word "shark" was used to describe these types of fish.
TheBadHalfofHel 3 years ago (edited)
All Greenland sharks have a parasite that invades their eyes leaving them totally blind.
Jacob Ross 3 years ago
They don't know the upper limit of the lifespan of Greenland sharks. They just know that they had one that was at least 500 years old.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
Notice they’ve stayed underwater and out of our messy business the whole time. Smart!
#18
Bananas are berries and strawberries aren't.
blobby_grrl 3 years ago
TF... I think I've been lied to my whole life.... I think I need some time to think about this....
Joy 3 years ago
That's nothing. Halle Berry is human and won a raspberry for a film which was a turkey and because she turned up to collect her raspberry, she was lauded for not being a chicken. Which only proves the film industry is utterly bananas.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
Then why the F**K do strawberries have the word BERRIES in their NAME?! Make it make sense!!!
Atreïdes 3 years ago
Probably because they’re small, grow in clusters, and can be eaten without being peeled. I don’t know why apples and grapes aren’t considered berries then, but that’s the only reasoning I’ve got.
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The people who made up the botanical naming should have chosen a different word to categorise the small subsection of small fruits we generally call berries. The word has a meaning, they twisted the meaning, now we pretend they are "right" when they simply created a new botanical meaning, but the word had an original meaning. See also fruit, nut, herb.
Christine 3 years ago
Now you've gone too f*****g far. We're only just now grieving the banana.... too soon!
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AppletreeChild 3 years ago
One of my favorite weird facts: tomato soup and ketchup are technically smoothies X)
#19
Koalas are so dumb that they can't recognise a eucalyptus leaf if it isn't attached to a tree.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
That is just what they want us to think.... And when we are least expecting it, Planet Of The Koalas!
alias D. 3 years ago
Dude the koalas brain is so smooth that there is literally no wrinkles on it i’m surprised that it has enough brain power to function
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Sabs 3 years ago (edited)
It’s because they have a smooth brain and cannot think laterally. Scientists think it’s because they evolved to eat such low nutrient diet that the energy to have higher functions isn’t present, so they never evolved into having wrinkles in the brain. Brain wrinkles (gyri and sulci ) helps complex functions develop in the brain.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Some of the cutest animals are also the dumbest. Like my dog. She's super cute and sweet, but she has the intelligence of a fruit fly. Except maybe the fly knows how to find fruit. My poor girl will often run straight into walls. If a door is closing, you have to pull her back, because she will sit there and let it hit her in the face. Not like a slamming door, but a slowly closing creaking door. No she's not blind, she can catch food out of the air. She just doesn't understand the concept of solid objects. I love her but she is a dummy.
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blobby_grrl 3 years ago
Of course, every Aussie knows the Drop Bears simple practise to capture prey...
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RandomHumanBean 3 years ago (edited)
it is because those eucalyptus leaves dont have many calories so they have no energy to grow and stuff so their brains are smooth rather than wrinkly edit: just realized someone already said that sry
rumple slunkskin 3 years ago
In koalas defense I've met adult humans who probably couldn't recognize food ON a tree, so that's something
Amber Fox 3 years ago
It's because their brains are flat. Ours are like a piece of paper that's been scrunched up and jammed into our skulls before it springs back open again, as are nearly all creature's. But Koalas brains are just flat, smooth pieces of paper so they have far less surface area and no chance for connections across the wrinkles like we do. No one asked, but now you know.
Amber Fox 3 years ago
Well s**t. I'm about the sixtieth person to point this out.
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Dropbears on the other hand are cunning and will eat your face off if you’re not careful
Irish woman abroad 3 years ago
Aw, poor little dumb koalas. Maybe they developed cuteness as a survival tool! 😁
#20
More people drown in the desert than die of dehydration.
Monday 3 years ago
Yes but heatstroke will kill you far quicker than dehydration too, which probably adds to that statistic. People who die in the desert die of heatstroke before dehydration can kill them.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Exposure kills in the desert as well. You sweat during day, then temp drops to 5 C, and hypothermia kills you.
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Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Flash flooding. People tend to walk in dried up wadis or gullies to escape from the direct sun. Distant rainfall can cause flooding tens or even hundreds of miles away with virtually no warning.
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Oerff On Tour 3 years ago
The most common cause of death in the desert is freezing/hypothermia
Appalachian Panda 3 years ago
Doesn't have to be Antarctica. People can die from hypothermia in desert areas that we normally think of as temperate or tropical.
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Susan Reid Smith 3 years ago
Most of the deserts in California have mountains.
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Flash flooding, in Arizona it can get into the aughts at night, and if they're in a sandy desert the sand itself can swallow them if not careful. It's why Monsoon season in the Southwest is do unpredictable. The desert can get as much rain within a few minutes than it gets all year and it washes everything away. It's why Arizona had a stupid motorists law.
Aria Whitaker 3 years ago
Wait until I tell you about this awesome thing called....Google.
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Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other
Riley Quinn 3 years ago
Manatees don't stop for alligators. They will bump them out of their way. Guess alligators don't bother with manatees because they are very fast swimmers.
#22
Sharks existed before grass.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Ancient shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo Ancient shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo Ancient shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo Ancient shark!
Kevin Ber 3 years ago
The horseshoe crab is 50 million years older and its blood is used to create the majority of vaccines.
Irish woman abroad 3 years ago
Dunno why, but out of a load of amazing facts, this one really blew my mind!
#23
Placebo medicine is more effective if patient is told it's expensive.
Yubo 3 years ago
I absolutely love the placebo effect! If it can decrease my pain, then give me another! It's a reminder that our brain is very powerful.
dan martyr 3 years ago
This is an effect first noticed in US patients. Not a thing in Europe. Though it’s very common that an injected placebo is more effective than pill form.
Mary Kelly 3 years ago
they found out this was the same with wines...if people were told the price people would rank more expensive wines higher in taste than people who were not to the price of the same wines
Tim S 3 years ago
Although true, this is misleading and demonstrates a misunderstanding of what the placebo effect is. First of all, there is no "placebo medicine." Also, this doesn't mean that placebos are "effective," but that you need to account for people thinking that something works even when it doesn't simply because it's expensive (or for some other reason). It's how you identify medicine that actually works, not an argument for giving people placebos and telling them it's expensive.
#24
The ancient Egyptian empire lasted more than 3000 years. It has been less time since the empire fell.
Khara Mei 3 years ago
There were Egyptologists in Ancient Egypt. Yes, really. Tey restored older monuments and stuff.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Sort of true. During that 3000 year span, the empire went through a lot of changes, and changed hands many many times. It collapsed then raised again, then collapsed and raised again, a few different times. There were two intermediate periods, there was also Macedonian and Ptolemaic Egypt. You could say that there were empires based in Egypt from 2950-30 BCE, but were they the same empire? That's a bit trickier.
Brocken Blue 3 years ago
I would say yes absolutely due to the continuity of culture, language, and (other than that Aten business) religion. The kings in the final dynasties absolutely looked to the kings of the earliest dynasties as their direct forbearers. Even the British empire has its intermediate periods, Look at Cromwell, etc.
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Impressive, especially considering the US can't keep a democracy going for longer than 246 years.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Democracies are harder to maintain, and the Egyptian empire collapsed more than once. But Iceland has had a parliament for nearly 1000 years, although they have only been independent of Denmark since 1944. And San Marino was founded as a Constitutional Republic in 301 AD. I believe theirs is the oldest written and functioning constitution.
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PandaRave 3 years ago
S**t, that means it can happen to any civilization no matter how long it’s been around. I wonder which ones next.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Nothing happened to Egyptian Civilization. They didn't disappear. But governments and power bases shift quite often. But modern Egyptians aren't a totally different people from who lived there 4000 years ago. They are still there. Even Egyptian Arabic is mixed with a lot of ancient Egyptian words. The temples are still there. The Jewish and Christian temples that were there 2000-3500 years ago are still there and still in use, as Jewish and Christian temples. You can go to a Jewish service in a 3500 year old synagogue. And the Egyptian Empire was never much of a military powerhouse. They didn't try to conquer the world like Macedonia or Rome. They were themselves conquered by both.
Load More Replies... Mary Kelly 3 years ago
since the ptolemeic dynasties were really greek, does it really count as the egyptian empire for all 3000 years?
#25
Snails have 14,000 teeth and eat bones and meat not just vegetables.
XenoMurph 3 years ago
"Stroll, stroll for your lives! There's not a fortnight to lose!"
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Khara Mei 3 years ago
Having had a Giant African Land Snail on my hand - they will lick you, the teeth are on its tongue, feels weird.
Elizabeth Elliot 3 years ago
I had a revolting flatmate that would leave the used grillpan outside for snails to clean it.. They actually did a good job.
Kracken 3 years ago
That's not revolting, it's absolutely brilliant & eco friendly
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Jane 3 years ago
The number of teeth varies between species of snail, but actually the common garden snail has about 25,000 microscopic teeth on its radula which is a tongue like structure. Diet also varies with types of snail, there are omnivores, carnivores and vegetarian snails, but all need a source of calcium to make their shells. They are just as likely to eat chalk or limestone as they are bones, depending on their habitat
Randy Klefbeck 2 years ago
There is a snail in New Zealand that is about as long as a person's forearm, and eats earthworms. It's shell is purplish and sits sideways on it's back.
Jill Bussey 3 years ago
Strictly speaking, they are not teeth, as they are on the snail's tongue. Rather like a rasp, really.
#26
A fully loaded Amazon Kindle is a billionth of a billionth of a gram heavier than an empty one.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Here’s an 8-minute video on the mass of very small and very large things: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvM70MLiZY
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
This is reminiscent of Terry Pratchett's equation knowledge=power=energy=matter=mass
KAREN 3 years ago
How could it weigh more? The letters don't take up less space when they are blank spaces🤔😶
Balso Steele 3 years ago (edited)
E=MC^2. The energy stored in the electrons adds mass to the electrons. Even the zeros have mass because they're a *representation* of a zero. There isn't letters and spaces, there's zeros & 1s which *code* for letters and spaces.
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#27
McDonalds feeds 1% of the world’s population daily.
Jo Jones 3 years ago
It’s like feeding the entire population of France or Germany !
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Broad Panda 3 years ago
I thought this sounded like b******t, so I did the maths. 80,000,000 (1% world population) ÷ 38,000 (McDonald's outlets) = approximately 2,105. So, it's feasible.
#28
Butterflies are fond of cow s**t, fresh blood, and corpses.
Karen Grant 3 years ago
I have no right to judge the butterflies, but this is overwhelming. I thought they would love flowers and cotton candy.
Disgruntled Pelican 3 years ago
Apparently they're far more metal that we thought.
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Melissa 3 years ago
Oh thank goodness, it's refreshing to know another person has this ridiculous phobia.
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RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Butterflies need minerals. They will get them from wherever they can. Usually little puddles on the ground. They drink the water which is high in minerals and salts. But they will go for more concentrated sources. The behavior is called puddling. Rotten fruit is high in sugar. Also remember that butterflies don't have mouths. They have to drink all of their food, but their proboscis isn't like a mosquito they cannot just drink your blood. So yes if there is a dead animal they MAY drink the blood, but this isn't common behavior. It would leave them exposed to predators
Grudge-holding Treefrog 3 years ago
Ok, so now I can say b******t with extra butterflies if I want to deal a double blow
#29
There’s a type of mold that, as a single celled organism, can move around by itself, learn, recognise colours and solve mazes. there are many species of slime mold that can come in all colours such as banana yellow, hazard-jacket orange and, fittingly, slime green.
TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago (edited)
They can also communicate with each other by pulsating in patterns
Porch santa 3 years ago
I have watched one moved around in a house I once lived in. My roommates thought it was an alien.
#30
Australia has the largest amount of wild camels in the world.
There are more pet tigers in Texas than there are in the wild of the entire planet.
blobby_grrl 3 years ago (edited)
The one about Oz is understandable: we also have more sheep than people over here (3.3 sheep to every person- weird fact, right?), but the Texas one is slightly concerning...
Disgruntled Pelican 3 years ago
Didn't Australia also send camels to Saudi Arabia in the early 2000s?
eMpTy 3 years ago
Yes, to Saudi and UAE. They were brought to Australia by Afghan camel drivers in late 1800's to develop Australia's centre which is mostly unihabited desert.
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Largest number of wild pigs, goats, water buffalo, rabbits, etc too.
Amy E 3 years ago
If domestication meant preservation would it be encouraged for all endangered species?
madbakes 3 years ago
Those tigers don't actually end up domesticated. They do end up abused, killed, and confiscated by authorities.
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#31
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of big words.
Keali Lamb 3 years ago
This gives off the same energy as “lisp” and “dyslexia” being difficult to correctly pronounce/read by those effected.
#32
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. Mpemba effect. The guy who discovered it (in modern times, since Aristotle wrote about it) was ridiculed by everybody including his own teacher, but 6 years later the results were published and is considered fact.
RajunCajun 3 years ago
I read this as a kid and this is what I did. I open up my freezer door and used two eye droppers (one hot and one cold) I let two drops of water drip down the back side of the freezer. and the hot water froze in place first.
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Apatheist 62 3 years ago
It freezes at a faster rate, due to the greater temperature difference causing a steeper gradient. Whether it freezes first depends a lot on the circumstances, and exactly how hot and cold the water is to start with.
Frank Miller 3 years ago
Nope. Another case of one piece of data takien completely out of context and then applied globally. The Mpemba effect is, in fact, NOT considered fact; and has been debunked many many times.
Christof Irran 3 years ago
Also, ice can evaporate without having to go to liquid state first.
PolymathNecromancer 3 years ago
Sublimation. Requires lower pressures than atmospheric. Also true of solid carbon dioxide (dry ice) at room temperature. Actually, unless I am mistaken, all solids do this if the pressure is low enough.
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Brian Droste 3 years ago
Heard that long time ago. Did my own experiment. Took 2 ice cube trays. Just used tap water. Filled 1 cold water the othher 1 with hot water. The 1 with hot water froze 1st. Why, heard that there is less air in hot water than cold water. Rather that is true or not, not sure.
Jill Bussey 3 years ago
Needs some detail here. Water that has been boiled and allowed to cool to room temperature, will freeze more quickly than room temperature water that has not been boiled.
Maisey Myles 3 years ago
To chill a bottle of wine faster, run the bottle under hot water then stick in the freezer for a few
Angie Falzarano 2 years ago
That's why you don't pour hot water on ice on a sidewalks, steps, or car windshield.
#33
The creation of sticky notes was a result of glue that wasn’t sticky and deemed a failure( 3M) The formula was put in the records as a failure and later a scientist found it to be useful to stick notes to his workbench. Then we got sticky notes
Yubo 3 years ago
Indeed. Two great women in history completely ignored! LOL!
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the quickening 3 years ago
It's still not sticky enough, though, is it? They fall down so fast. Blutack is the way to go.
TrippyBanana 3 years ago
I used to live near a 3M plant. Always wanted to see what it looked like inside.
Susan Mercurio 3 years ago (edited)
I understood that the inventor of Sticky-notes was a 3M secretary. And they almost fired the scientist who discovered "glue that didn't stick."
Tina Harnish 3 years ago
Maybe you're thinking of the Monkees Peter Tork's mother. I may have the wrong one, but one of the three American Monkees' mother was a secretary and got fed up with the 'dust' that was created when using correcter paper to type over mistakes. She took that chalk or whatever, put some fluid with it and for a generation or two, erasing typed mistakes on typewriters got a whole lot easier.
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King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden were turned away from a German restaurant in 2011 since there were no free tables and they didn't have a reservation.
Oerff On Tour 3 years ago
They weren't even mad. Unlike most "important" people, they are quite normal, down to earth. And good for the restaurant, to treat even royalty as everyone else.
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
ah, I think this fact shoulda included that part. most people would assume they were EXPECTING a seat
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Robert Trebor 3 years ago
Sweden's king works in Stockholm at the Royal Palace, a huge barracks of a place, but lives in suburban Drottningholm Palace, a much more congenial place. He applied for a parking pass for a cleaners situated on his way home, but was denied because he didn't live in that particular district. He is symbolic Head of State, but has no government duties, just the right to be briefed on what the government is doing. The Swedes seem happy with the arrangement.
Gremlan jonnson 3 years ago
We are not, they still siphon tax money for purely existing. Also drottningholms slott is hardly quaint
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RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Good. What makes them so special they should get someone else's table?
Michael Largey 3 years ago
"Your majesty, we will take you to a restaurant intended to be so luxurious that it is named for royalty. The Americans call it 'Burger King'!"
#35
Cheetahs don't roar, they meow.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
So, although there is no documentation of a human ever killed by a cheetah, they will unspool your toilet paper if given the opportunity
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
The ability to roar is one of the characteristics that distinguish Big Cats from the rest of the cats. Tigers, lions and a few others are technically Big Cats. Cheetahs are not Big Cats although they are larger in size than many cats. Cheetahs chirp like birds. AND ARE AMAZING!
Ian Conelley 3 years ago
Mountain lions can scream, they sound like a young human woman in distress. Another weirdness: If a mountain lion's territory overlaps with a coyote pack's territory, they will frequently "talk" to each other. If a puma is hunting in a given area at night, the coyotes will usually go elsewhere. I've observed them on and off my whole life and find them absolutely fascinating. Also, pumas are matriarchal. The females are clearly in charge. Also, coyotes, like jackals, can mimic humans so accurately, it's alarming. The longer a pack is left alone, the more they learn, and the more efficient they become, and they remember individual humans from one generation to the next.
Bad_Wolf 3 years ago
That is really cool. Do you have a YouTube channel or are you working on a documentary cause that would be an awesome documentary 😸
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DuchessDegu 3 years ago
Cats (big and small) can either purr or roar, never both. Snow leopards can't roar or purr though.
#36
The chainsaw was invented to aid in childbirth. It was used and invented in the 1700s to cut through the woman's pelvic bone before C-sections became the commonplace way to deliver babies.
ItsJess 3 years ago
No, it was done as a last resort to try to save the baby as well. It was thought that if they didn't do it, the baby would die, too, so as the mother was a lost cause, they'd get the chainsaw out and try to get it.
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madbakes 3 years ago
Because it still doesn't place responsibility on the man
Load More Replies... Apatheist 62 3 years ago
"Now, this won't hurt..." The pic is rather misleading, they were hand-cranked rather than driven by petrol or electricity - more of a slow grind than a loud whirring noise.
Moo Moo Futch 3 years ago
Did they just chop her off at the legs and squeeze the baby out like toothpaste?
Atreïdes 3 years ago
I imagine they sawed the front of the pelvis off, cutting on either side of the infant next to the hamstrings to widen the hole.
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#37
When Joe Biden was born, he was closer to Abraham Lincoln's presidency than his own.
Christof Irran 3 years ago
Those dinosaurs being the white jingoists who later donned red MAGA hats.
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RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
By two years, lol, but true. Lincoln's last day in office was in 1865, Biden born in 1942 (6 years after my father), and in office in 2021. 1865-1942 is 77 years. 1942-2021 is 79 years. FYI my father is still alive and very active. He's in the process of opening a new museum. Biden's age is not indicative of his competence.
Channon Doughty 3 years ago
We all know that. Age surely didn't matter when the GOP put McCain on their ticket. And it cost them a lot of votes. I worked for a bunch of Republicans at the time, and because of his age and the awful VP (Palin) they voted for Obama!
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wifeofweasley 3 years ago
Only if we're talking about the ending of his presidency (til April 1865)
Lizzie Smith 3 years ago
Age brings experience. We, in the UK, have (at time of writing) Liz Truss. Much younger, and much dumber.
Mike Sanchez 3 years ago
There's no reason anyone deemed well past retirement age should be running the country!!! How do any of these people have their finger on the pulse of what's important in today's world?!! How do we only have the "choice" between two evil geriatric f#cks?!?!?!
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Let me caveat this by saying, I did not want Biden, I do not think he is doing a good job as president, and I am not surprised that he isn't. I am a liberal, and but I also didn't support Bernie. That said, I don't think an old person is incapable of doing a good job. The issue isn't his age, and Biden surely isn't evil. Biden's problem is that he believes certain things to be true regardless of all evidence to the contrary. His age may contribute to this, but a lot of young people have the same problem. And plenty of old people have their fingers on the pulse of society, just not him.
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#38
The lighter was invented before matches.
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
The more I light my lighter… The lighter my lighter gets until it’s too light to light…
Garrett OBrien 3 years ago
What's the difference between a hippo and a zippo? One is heavy and the other is a little lighter.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Also which came first? The chicken salad sandwich or the egg salad sandwich?
Yay Pandas! 3 years ago
Thank heavens! I studied the photo for a bit before I saw the caption, I thought it was a chunk of hair stuck in something metal.
#39
The day Michael Jackson's hair caught fire while filming a Pepsi commercial was the exact middle of his life.
Born: August 29, 1958
(9,281 days)
Pepsi incident: January 27, 1984
(9,281 days)
Died: June 25, 2009
Sheila Stamey 3 years ago
I can hear some kid going, " he caught on fire doing a Pepsi commercial?" Yep. Thanks to fireworks plus hair products.
Jessica Blankenship 3 years ago
And the negligence of the producers! He suffered so much BC if this and was speculated to be the beginning of his pain med downfall
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When that happened every single kid in my class brought in an article about it for "current events". (Which was a thing we did in grade school where you had to read and cut out a newspaper article, and then stand up in front of the class and tell everyone about it.) The teacher said "did anyone bring in an article that's NOT about MJ's hair catching on fire?" Not a single hand was raised. LOL!
Annemarie Zwet 3 years ago
A true fact that sounds fake: someone took the time to count the number of days between MJ's birth, Pepsi hair incident and death.
#40
The Michelin Star system was developed by Michelin tires.
Elizabeth Elliot 3 years ago
To encourage people to drive to the south of France and wear out their tyres. Seriously!
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Also, apparently the persons who award Michelin stars remain unknown to preserve the process...and you can't become a Michelin starred chef in all countries.
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
Also to hide the fact that there aren't all that many of them.
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Michelin man's name is Bibendum or nickname Bib. Pronounced Beeb. His dog is Bubbles. Has been a trademark for over 100 years.
Phoenix Connor 3 years ago
Stays, it is our time. COOKING LIKE A CHEF I'M A FIVE STAR MICHELIN
#41
We are closer to the last ever dinosaur than the last dinosaur was to the first ever dinosaur.
#42
Cleopatra only had 2 pairs of great grandparents.
Waite Forit 3 years ago (edited)
She lived in a tailer court and shared a bedroom with five of her cousins.
Penny Kemper 3 years ago
My ex mother-in-laws one set was cousins, luckily she had two sets though
Yubo 3 years ago
Ummmm I have only to pairs of great grandparents, and only two pairs of grandparents and I think it's because I have only two parents.
Lily bloom 3 years ago
Two parents. Their parents (2x2), your grandparents, there are 4 or 2 pair. Their parents (2x4) would mean 8 great grandparents or 4 pair. They may not be living but are on your family tree.
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Rival Hydra 3 years ago
The name cleopatra was actually very common among the girls of that farm.
#43
President Jimmy Carter is a badass who once dove Into an active nuclear reactor to prevent a meltdown.
Yay Pandas! 3 years ago
Definitely a badass: https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-canadian-nuclear-reactor-after-meltdown.html
Eithne Griffiths 3 years ago
I used to live in Deep River, just down the road from Chalk River.
#44
Attila the Hun died from a nose bleed on his wedding night
DuchessDegu 3 years ago
mantis shrimp cocktail was always a controversial choice
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Apatheist 62 3 years ago
He was about 58 at the time. Also rumoured in some quarters to have been a dwarf, although others just record him as short of stature.
#45
The universe’s resources are finite and eventually the processes making new stars will be unable to continue. The universe will become a dark void intermittently filled with stellar bodies. We live in a glorious time where we can see beautiful pictures of the stars and enjoy them from our backyards. Count yourself lucky.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
There is a hypothetical heat death where the Universe spreads so far, everything is so spread out, there is no longer any gravitational forces, no more energy, no more reactions, just space, at 0 degrees Kelvin.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
This is in reference though to stars running out of hydrogen to fuel their reactors.
Load More Replies... Oerff On Tour 3 years ago
Quite a few of the stars you see at night are already extinct for thousands of years. It's just that the light of the stars going supernova hasn't reached earth yet
Raccoon Queen 3 years ago
But don’t panic, humans are likely to die out before even the sun does.
OhnoI’vebeencensored 3 years ago
At this rate I’d be surprised if we lived to see the sun come up tomorrow
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Unless the Universe somehow manages to violate the laws of thermodynamics it will end in an anthropic state.
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
The universe is already in an anthropic state, because humans exist within it.
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#46
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence being signed. Both of their last words were along the lines of “My friend Adams/Jefferson still lives”. They shared almost the same last words but had no idea one of them were already dead.
Lane P 3 years ago
Benjamin Rush "another founding father" was the reason they ended up being friends again. He reasoned that if the men responsible for the intellectual foundations of the country could no longer be friends our nation was doomed to fail. So he spent a considerable amount of time bringing them back together. The ended up Outliving him by roughly 13 years.
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#47
A spider called the banana spider, can bite you and cause a painful Erection that last hours
AnInrovert 3 years ago
*imagines someone saying both so they don't hurt the others feelings*
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Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
If you are really desperate to impress a lover get a spider bite
#48
Apple seeds contain a substance that releases cyanide into your bloodstream
Rob Chapman 3 years ago
Unrelated to apples, but the same applies to all seeds (pits) of the genus "prunus" (cherries, plums, peaches, almonds). The almond (specifically, the sweet almond), which contains minute traces of cyanide, is the only edible seed in the entire genus. The bitter almond, which looks virtually identical, is deadly. Eating 10 bitter almonds is lethal to a child.
Suzy McDaniel 3 years ago
I always wondered what it meant in books when people who can smell cyanide would say "bitter almonds". I didn't realize that it was actually a separate thing to a regular almond. I just thought they meant an almond that had gone bad and drove myself crazy wondering how they knew what that smelt like.
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#49
Volkswagens most sold product is a sausage.
#50
Sharks who hang out on sandbars a lot can get a sun tan.
#51
Most common houseplants thrive on neglect. Most people kill their house plants by paying too much attention to them, by overwatering them or over fertilizing them.
third molar 3 years ago
Neglected them for couple of weeks . This theory is not correct i am afraid :(
Glass Ghost 3 years ago
Well maybe not for a couple weeks... Maybe some care once a week or so.
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Christof Irran 3 years ago
I once killed a jade plant by failing to neglect it. Watered it twice a week, and so it developed root-rot.
#52
Betty White (1922) is older than packaged sliced bread (1928 in the USA and 1937 in the UK).
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
I remember first time I saw sliced bread in Brazil. I am in my forties. But that may be a fluke. My parents would go to grocery for veggies, butcher for meat, and bakery for bread. I remember when they built the first supermarket in our neighborhood. It still didn't sell things like meat but you could get milk, eggs, and bread. That was the first time I saw pre-sliced bread. We thought it tasted terrible, it had no flavor. I didn't try it again until after we moved to the USA. I had an American friend who introduced me to the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. As an adult, i don't buy sliced bread.
#53
Pineapple actually tries to eat you while you eat it. Bromelain extract is a mixture of protein-digesting (proteolytic) enzymes and several other substances in smaller quantities. The burning you feel when eating pineapple is its liquids trying to digest you. That's also the reason for the lingering feeling after eating it.
Karen Grant 3 years ago
This made me think of the person who got bit by a live Octopus. She was attempting to eat it. Four hugs at once.
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
My mom learned this the hard way. The first time she went to Hawaii she went berserk, eating only papayas and pineapples. She woke in the middle of the night with horrible stomach pains and went to the emergency room. The doctor identified what was wrong before even examining her. He called it haole syndrome.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
This should justify a discount rather than an added charge as a pizza topping
Got Banned But Now I'm Back 3 years ago
What would a BP list of "facts" be without the pineapple fact? I can't even imagine.
River (they/them) 3 years ago
Ah, so that's why I don't like pineapple. I always thought it was way too sharp and acidic for me. More than even citrus.
#54
Can you believe if a person who can completely see is blind almost 40 mins to an hour per day? This phenomenon is called Saccadic Masking and also known as (visual) Saccadic suppression. It is a visual illusion where the brain selectively blocks visual processing during our eye movements. A saccade is a quick, simultaneous movement of both eyes between two or more phases of fixation points in the same direction. Humans become effectively blind during a saccade.
Injun Joe 3 years ago
Ok, explain the hearing part. Because a lot of people do not hear. Or listen.
aurelia grey 3 years ago
So this is why I do so poorly at math, it's all my eyeballs/brains fault!!!! *sarcasm,*
#55
Hillary Clinton won a Grammy.
Christos Arvanitis 3 years ago
Grammys are given for spoken word audiobooks...
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#56
Shaving your cat in the summer heat is bad and can actually cause overheating.
Pieter LeGrande 3 years ago
If you tried to shave my cat you'd die of overheating from trying to catch it.
Birgit M 3 years ago
If you tried to shave my cat you‘d die of overheating from me frying you!
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Penny Kemper 3 years ago
Same with Collies.. my sister-in-law did this to her Collie and she had a heat stroke.
#57
Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn
#58
-40 c is equal to -40 f
Nathaniel 3 years ago
In the USA the Mortal Kombat character Sub Zero is called Sub Thirty Two.
The pizza girl is here! 3 years ago
Huh. I'd like to know the math behind this one. Because, that means, to convert it, you'd have to multiply/divide by 1, but this obviously isn't the case, so, how do you convert it? My best guess is some sort of equation involving variables, maybe?
#59
Over 30 million people in china live in caves!
Pieter LeGrande 3 years ago
And occasionally an earthquake happens like the one in Haiyuan in 1920 that killed more than 200,000.
Sam Lin 3 years ago
The number is actually about 40 million ，mostly in Shanxi province(陕西省)，and they called it 窑洞 in Chinese.
Pandamonium 3 years ago
thanks for the Chinese letters ( 窑洞), I cut and pasted and goggled it and found tons of interesting pictures
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Breathing out one nostril at a time naturally.
Ladedah 3 years ago
Randomly decided to self-check this one while sitting here on the sofa... and it ended up sounding like I let out a big sigh. My APBT (American Pit Bull Terrier) - who I thought was "sleeping" on my lap - immediately let out a loud empathy sigh in response. While it may be entirely unrelated to this fact, it was definitely adorable.
Deborah Harris2 3 years ago
Sleep sighing what a total cutie your dog is 💗
Load More Replies... Got Banned But Now I'm Back 3 years ago
What does this mean? This isn't a fact. Do humans only breath out of one at a time? What is this "fact"? I'm not trying to be an a$$. I'm really curious.
#61
Argentina occupied California in 1818 for a week.
Kate 3 years ago
It was called Alta California at the time and was part of Spain. Argentina was, too, but trying not to be. An Argentinian privateer captured Monterey for a few days, then sailed down to San Juan Capistrano for a minute, then went home.
Load More Replies... Oerff On Tour 3 years ago
Californians better be prepared for another invasion. The Argentinans used the same excuse when invading The Falkland Islands in the 80's.
#62
Dolphins and Whales evolved from land mammals.
#63
Insurance companies most years pay out more dollars in claims and loss expenses than they collect in premium dollars. They make all their money by investing the premium dollars before they have to pay them out. Edit: I’m talking about car and home insurance. Health insurance works differently and I never worked in that field so I don’t know.
#64
Killer Whales love Great White Shark liver. They are capable of extracting it with surgical precision, leaving the Great White to bleed out and die.
troufaki13 3 years ago
It's not really surgical precision if the patient bleeds to death, is it?
PandaRave 3 years ago
Yeah you show em Orcas! I’ll admit that’s a bit crueler than I expect out of you whales but you still look pretty cool!
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
Orcas aren't whales, they're dolphins. "Killer whale" is a mistranlation of their Spanish name, which actually means "whale killer". Because they kill whales as well as sharks.
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“Tiffany” is a name from the Middle Ages
BG 3 years ago
What about second breakfast? Elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner?
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Peanut Soup but no Peanuts 3 years ago
Great cgp grey video on this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMr5XTgeyI
#66
Nintendo was founded in 1889.
#67
Solid matter is made up of mostly empty space.
Phandom Apostolis 3 years ago
I think Quantum physics say otherwise. The electrons occupy ALL the space between the nucleus and their orbit at the same time.
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
I've been trying to understand quantum physics for a long time, without much success, so maybe this is all wrong, but my impression is that they don't occupy all the space, but rather they *might* occupy any position within it at any one instant, and we can't predict where it will be in that instant.
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Snakes have necks and tails
#69
Cats can drink seawater
Nathaniel 3 years ago
Lots of animals, including humans can drink sea water. I think you mean cats can drink sea water with no ill effects.
Got Banned But Now I'm Back 3 years ago
Come on. You expect both a fact and a COMPLETE fact??? Nathaniel. Puh. Lease. :P
Load More Replies... Penny Kemper 3 years ago
But the salt in tuna can give them kidney problems! So they shouldn't
#70
The last official execution by guillotine was 1977 September 10th at Baumetes Prison in Marseille, France.
ADHORTATOR 3 years ago
No, he witnessed the last public execution in France, 1939 in Versailles
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Chris Kane 3 years ago
The first Star Wars was released the same year as the last execution by Guillotine.
#71
Both Stalin and Hitler were briefly in the same city as each other (Vienna) before they met (or knew about each other, at least).
#72
Abraham Lincoln died before the Samurai were abolished as a caste.
James D 3 years ago
Wasnt their some bizarre time period when the fax machine was invented aswell, so in theory a Samurai could have sent a fax to Abe Lincoln
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Legally abolished, but they still know who they are and don’t like it when their children bring home lesser caste boyfriends
#73
For one hour every year a part of Oregon and Florida will have the same time of day
#74
Salvador Dali was alive when the first Predator movie came out, so he might have watched it in the cinema
Kitty White 3 years ago
Can anyone explain this to me, please and thank you! I’m an old lady, I’ve seen bits and pieces of Predator as it was playing on the TV, but never sat down and watched it all the way through (that kind of action movie just really isn’t my thing). I was curious about this, so I asked The Googles what the connection is, using a couple of different search terms, but haven’t come up with anything… this is not any sort of earth-shattering importance, I’m just mildly curious…
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#75
The role of John McClane in Die Hard was originally offered to Frank Sinatra.
CWebby 3 years ago
It wasn't offered - he had contractual rights to play the character after filming a movie (based on books) many years before (same character, renamed). Since he was 70 at the time they were planning Die Hard, he was never approached because they knew he couldn't handle the physical activity needed (like crawling through vents).
Randy Volz 3 years ago
Sinatra turned down the role of John McClane of course, and in reality he was never going to star in Die Hard, but the producers were contractually obliged to offer Ol' Blue Eyes the role after he had starred in Die Hard's 'prequel', The Detective. https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a34997895/die-hard-facts-frank-sinatra-john-mcclane/
Sean Sean 3 years ago
For those of you who think Sinatra wouldn't have been right for the role (at any age), people said the same thing about Bruce Willis when he was cast in Die Hard. Bruce was known for his role in a romantic comedy TV series, Moonlighting. Him being cast as an action hero, in the time of Rambo and The Terminator, was thought of as ridiculous and almost a joke itself.
#76
3 of my grandparents have the same birthday and two of them on the same year
Arliss Speace 3 years ago
I've read that in a group of 30 people there is a fifty-fifty chance that 2 will have the same birthday.
iseefractals 3 years ago
You're close, but it's not a group of 30 people....it's only 23.
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Marcellium 3 years ago
My older sister was born on my Dad's birthday! We joke that she was my dad's birthday present.
Desiree Cretan 3 years ago
My first son, my stepmother and my nephew are born on the same day in February.
River (they/them) 3 years ago
I have the same birthday as my step-grandpa, exactly 50 years apart. October XX, 1942 and October XX, 1992
DuchessDegu 3 years ago
I know of a similar-ish case! A work colleague, her husband and their first kid were are born on the same day (she and husband on the same year)
#77
I once read that if you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
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WonderWoman 3 years ago
Dear BP, we all know this list is going to get shortened to ~50. Why don't you just do that from the onset, and have TWO shorter lists?
Waite Forit 3 years ago
Color photography was invented in the 1840s. But it didn’t become popular until the 1970s.
Waite Forit 3 years ago
The camera was invented about 2,500 years ago. It required about 2,300 years of experimentation before cameras were able to record images.
Sean Sean 3 years ago
In the USA, only about half of all homeless people have an addiction or mental health issue, and the ones that do developed them as a result of being homeless. Also, about 40% of homeless people nationwide have jobs, and this number is increasing in the last few years.
Redemption Happens 3 years ago
I work with the homeless and have for many years and that’s simply not true. To get a deeper understanding instead of posting inaccurate info you need to start volunteering. No disrespect but start doing the work. Most of what’s posted on BP regarding social justice is inaccurate. This is a Lithuanian listacle site that censors everything for a reason. It’s important to remember that. Down vote away!
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Jhm Mke 3 years ago
There was a US President who was elevated to President from Vice President and he was US President 20 years before Abraham Lincoln. John Tyler and he has 1 Grandson that is still alive :-o https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/29/president-john-tyler-grandson-harrison/
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Fun fact: Brian, there's somebody watching you right now. No, not over there, don't look! It will only make him react. Just walk slowly out of your kitchen, and call the police.
WonderWoman 3 years ago
Dear BP, we all know this list is going to get shortened to ~50. Why don't you just do that from the onset, and have TWO shorter lists?
Waite Forit 3 years ago
Color photography was invented in the 1840s. But it didn’t become popular until the 1970s.
Waite Forit 3 years ago
The camera was invented about 2,500 years ago. It required about 2,300 years of experimentation before cameras were able to record images.
Sean Sean 3 years ago
In the USA, only about half of all homeless people have an addiction or mental health issue, and the ones that do developed them as a result of being homeless. Also, about 40% of homeless people nationwide have jobs, and this number is increasing in the last few years.
Redemption Happens 3 years ago
I work with the homeless and have for many years and that’s simply not true. To get a deeper understanding instead of posting inaccurate info you need to start volunteering. No disrespect but start doing the work. Most of what’s posted on BP regarding social justice is inaccurate. This is a Lithuanian listacle site that censors everything for a reason. It’s important to remember that. Down vote away!
Load More Replies... Jhm Mke 3 years ago
There was a US President who was elevated to President from Vice President and he was US President 20 years before Abraham Lincoln. John Tyler and he has 1 Grandson that is still alive :-o https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/29/president-john-tyler-grandson-harrison/
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
Fun fact: Brian, there's somebody watching you right now. No, not over there, don't look! It will only make him react. Just walk slowly out of your kitchen, and call the police.
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