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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...

175points

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.

119points

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 🙃

167points

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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181points

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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.

83points

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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Headless Roach 1 year ago

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

155points

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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread All the ants in the world weigh about the same as all the people in the world.

Rheul , Anton Darius Report

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145points

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

Also, they work extremely hard and live only about 8 days, while turtles don't do shït and get to live 150 years. Let it sink in.

148points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread Nintendo existed at the same time as the Ottoman Empire.

roussell131 , Minh Hoang Report

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143points

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Thomas Alskit 1 year ago

But as a playing card company.

90points

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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread You could walk from North Korea to Norway and only pass through one other country.

Also, your feet would be a little sore.

SexAndCandiru , Samuel Rios Report

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the shy platypus from nextdoor 1 year ago

Our (grand)parents walking to school be like:

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Andromeda321 , European Southern Observatory Report

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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread Radio astronomer here! You exert more energy when you unfold a single piece of paper than we have collected in *all* the radio waves we have *ever* collected from outer space.

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134points

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BOTW PANDA 1 year ago

Radio waves are lazy. /.^.\

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21 Facts That Seem Fake, But Are Actually Real, As Shared In This Online Thread In a room with 23 people there is a ~50% chance that 2 people share a birthday

Phllips , CONG TY THIEN YOGA Report

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Mrs Irish Mom 1 year ago

Yup myself and my twin

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waddles 1 year ago

funnily enough, my twin and i don’t share a birthday, or even a birth month. she just LOVES to say “i’m a month older than you LISTEN TO ME I AM WISE”

28points

Asexual nope rope 1 year ago

I avoid my twin in public spaces when I can to ,any stupid questions we get asked.

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Tracy Bower 1 year ago

Me too

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Emma S 1 year ago

I've met loads of birthday with my birthday. I went to school with two people who were born on the same day as me. That's what happens when your birthday is in September 🤣

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Alicia M 1 year ago

Good point. I was getting ready to say that some months have way more birthdays than others. My birthday is in late January, and I rarely meet anyone with my birthday.

4points

BOTW PANDA 1 year ago

Me and my grandma.

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DEW 1 year ago

I heard about this in school. Never had anyone had mine. Now I didn't know until I was in my teens that the neighbor I had lived next to for 15 or 16 yrs.old had my birthday. Also oddly enough when I turned 16 I was walking to my bus and found $16 all fanned out on the rain soaked ground. I started looking around and nobody was there. The money was wet from the rain. It really freaked me out to be honest.

2points

XenoMurph 1 year ago

I was behind a guy in the supermarket, buying a bottle of whiskey. It's my birthday tomorrow he said, I'll be 49. The next day was also my 49th birthday. Weird. I didn't buy whiskey though. We had an interesting chat.

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Vellami 1 year ago

I remember sharing same birthday with 3 classmates in high school.

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harurand 1 year ago

does that mean that 46 pple in the same room there is 100% chance ? :p

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XenoMurph 1 year ago

No only if you had 367 people it would be 100%

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the shy platypus from nextdoor 1 year ago

Even though I googled it and I am not the worst in this kind of mathematics (sorry, I don't know how to call it in English, I'm not native) I still don't get how it works. Can somebody please explain? :3

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chi-wei shen 1 year ago

The calculation is as follows: For 1 person the chance is 0% or the chance that no one has the same birthday is 100%. For the 2nd person the chance of having a different birthday than everyone else is 364/365 (I use the rounded value 365 to make it simpler). For the next persons the chances are 363/365, 362/365 and so on. For person number 23 the chances are 343/365. If you multiply these numbers (365/365 x 364/365 x … x 343/365) you get a chance of 49.3% for all of them having different birthdays and 50.7% that at least two persons have the same birthday.

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Will Tiernan 1 year ago

It's easier to work the other way and think of the probability of a group of people not having a birthday in common. So for two people in a room it would be 364/365 = 99.7%. For three people to have different birthdays it would be 364/365 * 363/365 = 99.2%. For four people not to have a birthday in common: 364/365 * 363/365 * 362/365 = 98.4%. Keep going and when you get to 23 people you have a probability of 364/365 * 363/365 * 362/365 * ... * 343/365 = 49.3%. So as the probability of 23 people not having a birthday in common is 49.3% then the probability of at least two people having the same birthday is 50.7%.

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Izzi C 1 year ago

This is called the birthday paradox. Studies and surveys have found that in a room full of 23 people, there is a 50-50 chance that 2 of those 23 people will share the same birthday.

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Sleestak 1 year ago

In a company of under 300 people, I share a birthday with 3 other people that I know of.

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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

I share a birthday with Graham Norton, Jonathan Agnew and Robert Downey Jr. We're so similar.

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Heather Menard 1 year ago

Nope hasn't happened yet

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Nunya Bidness 1 year ago

Same

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Squidiotcats 1 year ago

My sister and I share a birthday. She's 3 years younger than me.

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Tuna Beach 1 year ago

Was that annoying?

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LizzieBoredom 1 year ago

and a lot of them will be related depending on which state you're in.

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

At my age, on my birthday I'm generally in a state of depression.

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Alditekim 1 year ago

Birth DAY? Yes, easy to coincide. Birth DATE is less likely.

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Luna Crow 1 year ago

Somehow this one sounds especially made up. That's fewer than two people born the same month, if split evenly. How is this figured?

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#theKingofOlympus 1 year ago

true for me (with 30 people tho)

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KnightOwl 1 year ago

I was at a training course for my job when someone mentioned this, there were 12 people in the room and we all proceed to say our birthday's. There were 2 sets of 2 people who shared the same birthday as well as 3 people who all shared my birthday. So 2/3rds of the people there shared the same 3 birthdays! Crazy.

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Tacet 1 year ago

MATH

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L1z4rd 1 year ago

At work in my team of 13 people there are two shared birthdays. I share a birthday with someone in January, and two others share a birthday in July

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Susan De Nimes 1 year ago

I work in a team of 7. Three of us shared a birthday.

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Rob D 1 year ago

I've heard this before. Can anyone explain the math behind it?

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