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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread The budget to send to the Curiosity Rover to the Mars is less than the worldwide military expenditure for thirteen hours

anon , Robert Sullivan Report

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MargyB 1 year ago

That's just sad.

124points

21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread Cleopatra was alive closer to the Moon landing than she was to the construction of the great pyramids.

anon , Christopher Michel Report

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244points

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Tabby_Sohee 1 year ago

I’ve heard this one a hundred times and it blows my mind every single time… what a history

82points

21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread USA citizens privately own more firearms than all countries combined. Even more than most militaries.

ChikNoods , Jamal Fanaian Report

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Kurichfield 1 year ago

Not even remotely surprising...

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LibraryLass , Ann Longmore-Etheridge Report

21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died less than a year apart less than 150 miles away from each other.

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Captain Kyra 1 year ago

Barbara Walters, Anne Frank, and Martin Luther King Jr were all born the same year.

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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread The original height of Mount Everest was calculated to be exactly 29,000 ft high, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 ft in order to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 feet was nothing more than a rounded estimate.

Chiper136 , watchsmart Report

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213points

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Natalie Bohrteller 1 year ago

It's different with meters 🤓

97points

21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread The typical cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds

anotherpoweruser , C Dustin Report

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

that's expensive 🙃

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anotherpoweruser , Signal Corps Archive Report

21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.

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Nea 1 year ago

I so wish this was a massive exaggeration.

90points

21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread 1 in 2 Australians will get skin cancer in their lifetime

Wibbles20 , Caleb Russell Report

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

Put on some sunscreen, mate

112points

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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread Neutron stars are so dense that if you dropped a gummy bear from one meter away it would hit the surface in a microsecond with the force of 1,000 nuclear bombs.

Endless_Vanity , Kevin Gill Report

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ThatG 1 year ago (edited)

One teaspoonful of this matter weighs more than 3 billion tons. If we were capable of dropping a small piece of neutron star onto the ground, it would slice through Earth like a bullet through cotton and come out the other side.

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Purple light 1 year ago

Sorry, didn't realise I dropped something. I'll try to be more carefull next time.

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Bob La Capra 1 year ago

Ok so how much is that in clouds?

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TGHW 1 year ago

Dude with the gummy bear was brave then ;)

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Stephanie Barr 1 year ago

That doesn't make sense. Gravity would pull it to the center. Speed might make it bounce a little but what forces would push it out the other side?

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Janice Sanz 1 year ago

Yowch!!!

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GPZ 1 year ago

Actually the gravitational field of the fragment of the neutron star would pull the earth towards it and collapse the earth as it neared

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RyanRyanRyan 1 year ago

If it weighed that much wouldn't it have more gravity and cause the earth to smash into it?

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Sturgeon 1 year ago

Can't see it coming out of the other side. That would require it to lose no energy on the way through which given the amount of rock etc it has to move out of the way...

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Craig Reynolds 1 year ago

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

If you're one meter away, you have much bigger problems than dropping your Haribo!

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LizzieBoredom 1 year ago

I tried to duplicate this by throwing gummy bears at my cat but had to stop when I became dizzy from blood loss.

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Alecto76 1 year ago (edited)

This is terrifying. But why does the word "neutron" make me wanna dance? EDIT: Neutron Dance - Pointer Sisters- Thanks Google!

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Paddling Panda 1 year ago

And now it's in my head. 💃🏼🎵🎶

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Colleen Glim 1 year ago

🎶I’m just burning doing the neutron dance🎶

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Purple light 1 year ago (edited)

Thanks haven't heard that song in a while.

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karl briggs 1 year ago

How or why do they come up with these random hypothesis?! Ha ha

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Xottel 1 year ago

I'll make sure to have a tight grip on my bag of gummy bears when approaching a neutron star. 😅

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Stannous Flouride 1 year ago

But could Thor pick it up?

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Nancy Wells and her family 1 year ago

Awesome

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BOTW PANDA 1 year ago

Poor gummy bear.

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UKGrandad 1 year ago

That is just cruelty to gummy bears.

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oktopus 1 year ago

That sounds like an excellent science fair project.

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GoldfishCrackers 1 year ago

🎶 Ride on the Magic School Bus! 🎶

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Miles Gibson 1 year ago

O MA GAWD

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Riley Quinn 1 year ago

I'd never waste a gummy bear like this!

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eddy edward 1 year ago

Black holes are even denser!

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Larry XK 1 year ago

I seriously doubt a gummy bear would do that. And what does a gummy bear have to do with a neutron star? This is interesting but since no one could never carve out as much as sugar cube size of them, it's a moot point. The real danger is if one of them would come close to our Solar system it would wreak havoc on Earth and end all lives as we know it.

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Arieke 1 year ago

I have no idea what that means…..

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Mitchell 1 year ago

We are weaponising gummy bears now?

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David 1 year ago

"nuclear bomb" is a pretty vague unit of measurement.

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Tim 1 year ago

Mmmmm Gummi bears

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Persephone 1 year ago

And turn earth into Swiss cheese as it continues to punch back thru, while trying to lose momentum and reach the center .... I would assume Earth would be highly molten Swiss cheese...

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Lollipop Girl 1 year ago (edited)

Wow, sounds like Neuron stars sure want gunmy bears!

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François Carré 1 year ago

Now I can figure a Sci-Fi world where gummy bears are used as the most deadly weapon.

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Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago

What does this mean? That it has some sort of extreme gravitational pull? Surely if it’s that powerful you’d get sucked in too?

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ThatG 1 year ago

Yes, it’s so dense that it has extreme gravity. So they’re speaking in theoretical terms of if you could get close enough to drop it.

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The_Real_BenFranklin , Patrick Connelly Report

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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread The state of Maine has more Black Bears than black people.

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oktopus 1 year ago

This does actually appear to be more-or-less correct, depending on the estimation of the bear population and the accuracy of the first Maine demographic statistics which popped up in a quick web search. Also, with the same caveat, there seems to be approximately one black bear for every square mile of Maine.

43points

Darghy , Presidenza della Repubblica Report

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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread Vatican city has a population of 2 popes per 1 square kilometer.

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Thomas Alskit 1 year ago

Haha. I just realised why.

53points

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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread More silent films have been lost than saved

We live in an era where everything is saved, and it's hard to imagine such a massive loss of creative material. Plenty of films are lost, as late as the 1970s too.

ahhh_zombies , Richard Hsu Report

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169points

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Kurichfield 1 year ago

Truly a shame...

53points

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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread Monsters Inc was released closer to the fall of the Berlin wall than to the present day.

setsomethingablaze , HarshLight Report

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164points

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

Tell me I'm old without telling me I'm old

155points