40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information

Would you believe it if we told you that a chicken can live for 18 months without its head? It’s understandable to be skeptical, but it is true. It happened in 1940s America involving a chicken named Mike. Here's the full story.

We have a handful on this list if you want more of that. We’ve compiled responses to this recent Reddit question: “What’s a fact about the world that sounds totally fake but is 100% true?”

Some of these answers may blow your mind. If you enjoy nerding out on random facts about the world, this one’s for you. But either way, you will likely learn something new today.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Over 70 years ago then Naval Lieutenant James “Jimmy” Carter led a team that walked into a melting nuclear reactor core and shut it down safely. He got dosed with so much radioactivity (10,000x more than what we now consider safe) he pissed radioactive whizz for months. Yet he outlived not only his Presidential successor but his successor. He’s the nations oldest President ever, and recently celebrated his 78th wedding anniversary, also a record for a president.

moni2603 , Department of Defense Report

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Frank Hassler 1 month ago

This needs an update: his wife passed away last year. But he just celebrated his 100th birthday on Oct. 1st!

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information In Switzerland, it's illegal to own 1 guinea pig. They consider them social animals and require companionship, so you have to have at least two!

BrunetteTh0t , Tambako The Jaguar / Flickr Report

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Nico di anglo-solace 1 month ago

YES!!

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Magnolia trees are so old that they predate bees by about 40 million years, and as a result are pollinated by beetles.

They are considered the first flowering plant on earth.

SuperHyperFunTime , Yannick Trottier Report

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David Paterson 1 month ago

For many years they were thought to be the oldest flowering plant on Earth. Now this is known to be false as the earliest flowering plants had tiny flowers.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Birds have been observed intentionally lining their nests with cigarette butts. While the nicotine in them is toxic to the birds, it's a low enough dose that it's not a significant risk to them in the short term (they don't live long enough for the long term effects to be a problem), and it k*lls parasites that may try to hide in the nest and infect the chicks.

Smaller bird species have been sighted stealing the anti-bird spikes that we put on buildings and lining their nests with them, like little palisade walls against other birds and predators. A small species like a songbird can navigate the spikes easily, but it makes it more difficult for a predator like a hawk or a rat to get to the nest.

Crows have also been observed stealing lit cigarettes from ashtrays and wafting the smoke through their feathers to k*ll parasites.

grendus , wirestock / freepik Report

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Silly-Rabbit 1 month ago

We know so little about the animals that inhabit our world. If we just stopped and appreciated all the creatures, it would hopefully sink in that animals are more intelligent/emotional than we give them credit for.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information During the great depression, FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps for young men. They planted over 2 BILLION! trees in their 7 years of existence. They also built a lot of the buildings and lodges at the national parks.

gochomoe , freepik Report

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The Cute Cat 1 month ago

This is wow in many level.. Talking about smart govt spending.. and also conserving nature..

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information The sea produces more oxygen than trees.

MrPestana , pixabay.com Report

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ManBlob 1 month ago

*happy algae noices*

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.

writerkyle , DejaVu Designs / freepik Report

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Multa Nocte 1 month ago (edited)

Is that us, fellow Pandas? 🐼

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Pistachio ice cream is about 2000 years older than Chocolate or Vanilla ice cream. Persians were making ice cream as early as 500BC, often flavored with Pistachio. Chocolate and Vanilla, on the other hand, are native to the New World and wouldn't make it there for another two thousand years.

Slow_Bed259 , Lalada / Pexels Report

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Leebo13 1 month ago

I first tried it on my 40th birthday in late 2022, earlier this year one of supermarkets at my local shopping centre introduced a gelati range which included pistachio, I perpetually have a tub or two in my freezer.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information How old the Appalachian Mountains really are:

They are older than trees, bones (including all dinosaurs), and the splitting of Pangaea -- so part of the mountain range is in Scotland.

The layering on the mountains looks "wrong" at some points because the tops of the mountains have eroded down & "new" geological forces have caused parts that weren't the top to rise above that...so the valleys of the current mountains may actually be the top of the original Appalachian Mountains.

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Tempest 1 month ago

🎶 Life is old there, older than the trees 🎶

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Cows have best friends!! you know how wee see them group all the time but they still has this their very best of friends for them. if they would sperate they'll get stressed about it. they really have this strong bond.

SnazzyTyler , wirestock / freepik Report

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Jaguarundi 1 month ago

Horses and most herd or pack animals have "besties".

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information A million seconds is about 11.5 days.

A billion seconds is over 31 **YEARS**.

Think about that when you consider the wealth of a millionaire vs a billionaire.

toolatealreadyfapped , bearfotos / freepik Report

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JoinMeZoe 1 month ago

we get to live to see around 2 207 520 000 seconds, if anyone was wondering.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.

lusty_kittyxo , Archives New Zealand / flickr Report

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Ivona 1 month ago

They were 18 when it started and got drafted.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information There are bears in super rural parts of Russia that are addicted to huffing fuel meant for the power generators, and there's nothing the locals can do about it, because when the locals try and take away the fuel from the bears it doesn't go well.

Kineticwizzy , wirestock / Freepik Report

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The Phantom Stranger 1 month ago

Bears can also get drunk from eating rotten apples. Maybe that means they have a genetic disposition towards addiction.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information The last execution by guillotine in France was the same year Star Wars hit theaters, 1977.

kjm16216 , Johann Jaritz Report

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Nico di anglo-solace 1 month ago

French accent: Hey wanna go to the execution then go see that new movie.......uh....Star wars they call it

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Chloroplasts are the organelles responsible for photosynthesis.

A sea slug called the emerald elysia, which has a transparent body, steals chloroplasts from algae and packs them into its own cells.

The chloroplasts continue to photosynthesize, providing the slug with ~80% of the total calories it will consume over its life.

RealBowsHaveRecurves , Thomas Bannenberg / Pexels Report

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Nadine Debard 1 month ago

It's not light bulb but lightslug.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Italy didn’t have widespread use of the tomato until the 1700s and the pasta sauces we think of being a core of their cuisine didn’t exist until the 19th century.

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It’s amazing how many New World plants are central to what we think of as “classic” Old World ethnic or regional cuisines — tomatoes in Italy and around the Mediterranean, potatoes in Ireland, chilis all across South and East Asia.

Spirit4ward , Racool_studio / freepik Report

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Pernille 1 month ago

I sometimes feel the need to know what we ate before we got potatoes and tomatoes. The answer for most of western Europe is cabbage, porridge, bread, and lots of meat. Sauces were sometimes made with plums, plums was probably the fruit we used much like tomatoes are used today.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information We need a steady supply of horseshoe crab blood to run our modern medical system. Their blood contains compounds that detect miniscule amounts of harmful bacteria, otherwise IV drugs wouldn't be safe.

Outrageous-Ninja-572 , Amanda / Flickr Report

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Isobel Stevens 1 month ago

And horseshoe car blood farms look like a dystopian nightmare.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information The Deepest part of the ocean *isn't* the abyss. It's called The Hadalpelagic Zone. It encompasses the bottoms of trenches and sea floor caverns.

And we know frighteningly little about it.

The Challenger Deep is only the deepest *known* part of the ocean. There's almost certainly points in the ocean that are much deeper.

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TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago

Working under a lot of pressure isn't easy

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Every glass of water you drink is almost 100% guaranteed to have at least one water molecule that was also drank by dinosaurs.

ProbablyABore , nensuria / freepik Report

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Nadine Debard 1 month ago

Dino pee!!

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information There's a type of jellyfish that's immortal. The Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the "immortal jellyfish," can transform its body into a younger state through a process called transdifferentiation, essentially making it immortal.

Kindergeschichten , Don Sniegowski / flickr Report

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JoinMeZoe 1 month ago (edited)

They can still die from diseases and stuff tho

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Mammoths were alive during the construction of the Great Pyramid.

Also if you put it on a timeline, Cleopatra and Ceaser are closer to today than to the construction of the Great Pyramid.

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 month ago

Note: the mammoths were on an Aleutian Island; they weren't widespread anymore.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Gavrilo Princip tried to k*ll Archduke Franz Ferdinand during a parade through the streets of Sarajevo, but could not get close enough to the motorcade because of security. Later in the day, after the parade had been over for hours, Princip retreated sullenly to a small sandwich shop elsewhere in the city, when suddenly and completely out of the f*****g blue, Franz Ferdinand *just happened* to roll past him on his way back from a speech after taking an unscheduled detour down the same street as the sandwich shop. Princip walked right up to the car and shot the Archduke at point-blank range, k*lling him, which started World War I -- the deadliest conflict in human history up to that point.

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BrunoVI 1 month ago (edited)

Horrifying fact: World War One was far, far, far, far from the deadliest conflict in human history up to that point. World War One killed about 15 million people, or 30 million people if you consider those who died from effects of World War One, including the "Spanish" Flu. (But I don't think it's reasonable to count those as "war dead," whereas I do think it's reasonable to count deliberate famines, like the Ukranian Holomodor, or even famines caused by suppression of dissent, like in Maoist China or British Ireland.) The Taiping Rebellion in China saw 30 million people killed. The Mongol invasions saw 57 million people killed. By comparison, the Crusades saw about 1 million die. The Lushan Rebellion and Three Kingdoms War, also in China, also saw way more people than World War One killed. The Black Death was caused by Germ Warfare by Muslim invaders of the Seige of Caffa, and could have killed 200 million people.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information When Betelgeuse goes supernova (if it hasn't already and we don't know yet) it will be visible in the day for roughly a year, and several more years we'll see it at night. That said, the prediction of 'when' by scientists is somewhere between today and 100,000 years from now. Odds are, none of us will see it.

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Barbara Wilcock 1 month ago

Does Michael keaton know

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information There are currently more chickens than all other birds combined on this lovely planet.

RunDifferent2004 , wirestock / freepik Report

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 month ago

And we are biding our time... *sharpens talons*

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Chimpanzees share more DNA in common with humans than they do with any other primate.

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 month ago

Better be a feathered dino and share DNA with a velociraptor. It had much more style 😎

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1/120 humans alive today are slaves paid nothing for their work. This doesn't include low wage slaves such as US prisoners. There are more slaves today than any other point in history.

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iseefractals 1 month ago

Overall message is correct, specifics are not. There are estimated to be 44 million people living in slavery today 1/186, while the entire 400 odd years of transatlantic slave trade impacted 15 million people (12-12.8 of which were africans) and only 388,000 of which ended up in the colonies/united states, with the majority of slaves today being in the middle east, india, china, north korea and spread across Africa. Everyone should be a little more concerned with the here and now, not the over and done with.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Earth’s core is as hot as the Sun’s surface.

Front_Economist_2612 , freepik Report

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Tucker Cahooter 1 month ago

Guess I won't try and touch it then

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Australia is wider across than the moon.

PuddlePaddles , freepik Report

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Barbara Wilcock 1 month ago

How many gigantic spiders on the moon ?

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T5n 1 month ago

There aren’t any on the moon. But there are some on Mars, just ask Ziggy.

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Pandemonium 1 month ago

Australia is more bananas across than the moon. Fixed it for you.

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Yellow dot 1 month ago

Australia: 4,000 km east to west Moon: approx 3,500 km east to west Of course, the Moon still has more surface area.

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UKGrandad 1 month ago

Because Aus isn't a globe.

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Philly Bob Squires 1 month ago

Bananas for scale... or roos?

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Simple Yaki 1 month ago

yeah, but the moon safer than Australia

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Sam 1 month ago

But Alice Kramden is only on the moon.

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Hmmm hmmmm 1 month ago

And pluto

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information About 25% of people on earth don't know their birthday because they're from countries that don't have birth certificates. That's why about 14% of immigrants to the U.S. list January 1 as their birthday - because they had to make one up.

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Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago

60 Minutes did an outstanding piece on a former slave family who now owns the plantation their ancestors were on. My wife could not understand how they(slaves) could not know their lineage. She got "woke" on this that day. And be sure to calmly explain what "woke" means using this example. Or the Tulsa "riots". Woke does not mean subservient, it means being aware of what has transpired and to be mindful to ensure there is no repeat.

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The most common cause of death in pregnant women is homicide by their male partners.

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Multa Nocte 1 month ago

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You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than 2 miles away. Now that's some serious love!

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Ace 1 month ago

Detectable, and only with the right detectors. It's at a frequency not audible to the human ear.

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We don't know how much coastline there is on Earth.

It's called "The Coastline Paradox". Coastlines are fractal. Sure, we can look at a broad scale map, but miss all the tiny variations, sometimes mere ft or centimeters. These add up to huge numbers. Measuring the length of a coastline is tricky because the result depends on how detailed your measurement is. Imagine walking along the shore with a ruler: if you use a big ruler, you'll skip over small curves and bumps, giving you a shorter measurement. But if you use a smaller ruler, you can measure all the little details, and the coastline will seem much longer. Plus, it's always changing. Erosion, cliff collapse, water levels rising, volcanic events adding or removing it.

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Sleestak 1 month ago

I'd just like a general idea

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Saudi Arabia imports sand.
Bonus fact: they also import camels.

suroorshiv , University Libraries / flickr Report

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JB 1 month ago (edited)

Context: construction sand, as desert sand is terrible for concrete production.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Screech owls will sometimes bring live sankes into their nests with their chicks nesting inside. Probably because the tiny snakes will eat parasites, although the chicks do sometimes eat the snakes.

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Multa Nocte 1 month ago

That is a beautiful bird.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

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Leebo13 1 month ago

Another weird fact about Venus is that it has a hotter climate than Mercury because of its atmosphere.

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#36

We ground up most of the ancient Egyptian mummies into powder to paint with or…eat.

SuperHyperFunTime:
The Victorians were a fucking savage bunch.

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Doctor Strange 1 month ago

Actually many of them were used as fuel instead of coal for trains.

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There is also a shark (greenland shark, i think) that lives like 500 years; so there are sharks alive today that were alive before America became a country.

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Shrek 1 month ago

You are also more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than a shark 🤨

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Honey never spoils; researchers discovered edible honey in the pyramids.

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Pyla 1 month ago

Bee barf forevah!

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Caterpillars essentially liquify themselves, before turning into butterflies, in a process called larval ecdysis.

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Pandemonium 1 month ago

They (you know, They) did a study where they trained caterpillars to be scared of some stimulus like a stink or a light pattern, and then tested the resulting butterflies after metamorphosis and saw the fear remained, so concluded that somewhere in that goo the memory persisted.

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information The timespan between the use of copper swords and then steel swords is longer then the timespan between the use of steel swords and the nuclear bombs.

Syscrush:
Related: nuclear bombs were invented before the compound bow.

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Pyla 1 month ago

That makes sense, it correlates across a lot of tech. We walked since species inception until someone swung a leg over a horse, we rode a much shorter period of time henceforth, but rode for millennia longer than we drove in vehicles with zero equines attached to the front.

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#41

Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

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Tucker Cahooter 1 month ago

Another thing I won't try and touch

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The earth is a spheroid, not a sphere. Because of the effects of rotating around the axis, earth's diameter is actually about 45km wider around the equator then it is going from pole to pole.

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Ava Lemar 1 month ago

I feel 'ya, Earth. I am wider around my equator too than at my poles.

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#43

There's a supervolcano under yellowstone that if it erupted would wipe out a good chunk of the human population.

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The Phantom Stranger 1 month ago

Me: (silently rooting for supervolcano)

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There are only like 25 blimps left. Additionally, not many of them are even in use anymore, I think they estimate like 10-15 of them. So if you see a blimp nowadays, it's a much rarer sighting than it used to be!

Edit: someone pointed out that I meant "airship" not blimp. There are even fewer ones which are classified as "blimp", which is a nonrigid airship.

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David Paterson 1 month ago

The difference between an "airship" and a "blimp" is that an airship has an internal steel frame, like the Hindenburg. A blimp has no internal frame and has a shape generated by gas pressure alone.

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#45

If Back to the Future were remade today and set in 2024, Marty would time-travel back to 1994.

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Pyla 1 month ago

Which was really only 6 years ago. 😬😬😬

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40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information Tyrannosaurus (approx 70 million years ago) lived closer in time to humans than to stegosaurus (150 million years ago).

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 month ago

I'm always disgruntled by dinosaur books and stories where T-Rex and Stegosaurus happily coexist. Would be more accurate to put a T-Rex in London, riding the tube with a little on hat on her huge head

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#47

Nearly 70% of smokers will die from smoke related illnesses.

This is the fact that got me to quit.

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Nadine Debard 1 month ago

Which means 30% of smokers, even heavy smokers will die from other reasons, that's why we have in our families an 'uncle Joe' who smoked like a diesel locomotive and never got ill. That's not a good reason to smoke, because one could much probably be sensitive to smoking and die from it, but I still hear that 'uncle Joe smoked a lot and didn't die of it '.

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The Ottoman Empire lasted so long, both Queen Elizabeth I (born 1533) and Betty White (born 1922) were alive during its existence.

Man landed spacecraft and humans on the moon, 200K miles from earth, 16 years earlier than the Titanic was discovered right here on earth.

The Southern Cross was actually visible in the northern hemisphere up until 400 AD. It was described and written about by ancient Greek and Roman astronomers, but the gradual precession of the Earth's equinoxes over the centuries caused the constellation to vanish from northern hemisphere view. It can still technically be seen from the northern hemisphere, but only if you are in the tropics (around Cancun, Mexico) or close to the equator in the late winter/early spring.

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Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 month ago

She died in1603 aged 69.

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#49

Japan is simultaneously farther east, west, north, and south of Korea.

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Alex Kennedy 1 month ago

Then, logically, the opposite must also be true.

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#50

Bananas are berries, while strawberries are not, due to the botanical definitions of these fruits.

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TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago (edited)

Also peanuts aren't actually nuts either

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#51

There are WAY more trees on earth than stars in the entire Milky Way Galaxy.

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Max Fox 1 month ago

There are around 3 trillion trees on earth, while the number of stars in the Milky Way has an estimated between 100 billion and 400 billion stars. So yes, and I need to google this to verify it.

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#52

There are more Hydrogen atoms in a molecule of water than there are stars in the solar system.

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LavenderHippoInAJar 1 month ago

2>1, correct

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#53

Dinosaur fossils were already a thing when dinosaurs were still alive.

For example; Stegosaurus had been extinct for ~85 million years before T-Rex showed up. So while Rex was enjoying some Triceratops steak, Stegosaurs were already dead and gone for millions of years.

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 month ago

Hmmmm triceratops steak... Now the closest thing I'll get to this is probably Cassowary steak

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#54

There is a species of frog that can freeze in the winter and come back. There is another species of frog that traps itself in a snot bubble for six months durring dry season.

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Puppy Dancing! 1 month ago

More than 1 species of frog can freeze and come back to life,every frog species found in countries that have a freezing winter

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#55

Nearly half of all humans to have ever existed are believed to have been killed by mosquitoes.

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Puppy Dancing! 1 month ago

Technically parasites and diseases spread by mosquitoes, not actually mosquitoes

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#56

If you take every steel wire used in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge’s cables and line them up end-to-end, they’d wrap around the equator over 2 times.

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Tucker Cahooter 1 month ago

Sounds a pretty irresponsible thing to do, let's hope nobody tries it

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#57

Nuclear Reactors can be natural and there's been one on earth for over a billion years.

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Frank Hassler 1 month ago

It’s more accurate to say they can FORM naturally.

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#58

If everyone on Earth competed in a 1v1 tournament. The winner would be decided in just 33 rounds.

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azubi 1 month ago

I guess I'd still be tired by then

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#59

Lighter were invented before matches.

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Huddo's sister 1 month ago

Aboriginal Australians used lighters that were basically tinder boxes, when closed they held embers and could be carried around, when opened they parked up and could light fires. Probably similar lighters in other native cultures around the world.

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#60

7% of the entire human population since humans began, are alive today.

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ManBlob 1 month ago

Finally I'm in top 7% at something

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#61

40 Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information There are more ways to shuffle a standard deck of cards than there are atoms on earth.

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QijianSanek 1 month ago

is that how many combinations, which would be 52x52 or is it how many combinations of the combinations too the other combinations, which I think would be 52x52x52...?

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#62

If you are in a room with 22 other people there is a 50% chance that two people share the same birthday.

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Doozle bug 1 month ago

If I’m in a room with 22 people it’s time to go home before they start singing that tune!

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#63

All the other planets, if lined up end to end, can fit between the earth and moon (at least, when the moon is at its farthest orbital distance).

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Captive 1 month ago

But can they all fit in Uranus?

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#64

Whales descended from tiny deer-like animals which is why they are mammals.

LaMuchedumbre:
Whales’ ancestors weren’t really close to deer at all, they were more while thylacines or wolves. Look up the pakicetus.

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David Paterson 1 month ago

Whales are most closely related to hippos. Which makes sense. It's best to think of the ancestor of whales as like a hippo.

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What do you think ?

While I generally enjoy articles such as this, almost every single one of these factoids has been on BP during the past month.

Ali H M Salehuddin 1 month ago

Here are a few relatively new facts; at least on BP. (1) There is a species of bird that you can catch by 'air fishing'. You dangle a bait in the air and birds swoop in and get caught. Just like regular fishing. (2) Probosic monkeys of Borneo has nine stomachs (even cows only have 7) to process hard to digest foods. Consequently, they can't eat bananas. Too sugary. (3) Eagles are actually flying 'blind' forward. Their eyes are super sensitive to light; which can easily get damaged by the bright sun. They have 'sunshades' on top of their eyes for protection. During flight, they focus down towards earth scanning for potential preys. The sunshades block their forward view. That's why they often hit tall wind turbines.

Yes, most of these are repeats, but still much better than the stream of human trafficking, narcissistic friends, and dumb bosses that BP has been feeding us the last couple of days.

9points

Simon Chen 1 month ago

And some of the comments were actually more interesting than the post

2points

Russell Rieckenberg 1 month ago

They should put the new material on top so you can just read until you come to something you've read before and quit.

Roxy222uk 1 month ago

Many of these do the rounds on so many platforms and TV programmes that I find myself wondering who's left that doesn't know them

More like during the past 3 years...

Barbara Baldwin 1 month ago

I haven't seen them😠

John L 1 month ago

The thing I don't like about a lot of these is that words matter. IMHO, if the factoid isn't literally true...it's not a factoid. Like this for example. "Nuclear Reactors can be natural and there's been one on earth for over a billion years." Nuclear reactors are man made. There are natural place(s) where a nuclear reaction takes place, would be the more accurate factoid.

Gavin Johnson 1 month ago

If the population of the world held hands and circled the world at the equator, most of them would drown.

Jrog 1 month ago

The title say "Seemingly Fabricated Facts That Have Been Proven To Be Accurate Information". Most of these are "inaccurately reported factoids or actually fake stuff reported as true to people who don't know best".

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John Harrison 1 month ago

Made it to #22, with no "sounds fake" detected.

Mere Cat 1 month ago

One day, I dream of reading a fact list that does not involve the timelines between pyramids-cleopatra-now or stegosaurus-t-rex-now. At least this one didn't have the million-billion-seconds thing.

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