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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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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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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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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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.

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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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JoinMeZoe 1 month ago

Not the sea- the algae

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WindySwede 1 month ago

They should maybe compared the sea with a forest?

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Jossh Nine 1 month ago

Phytoplankton!! It produces 50% of Earth's Oxygen.

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IguanaStampede 1 month ago

I didn't know the sea produced any trees

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dan gerene 1 month ago

If there were no trees where would one tie up their sea horses?

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TMTMTMTM 1 month ago

Because the sea produces hardly any trees at all.

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Rob Miles 1 month ago

I'd be surprised if the sea produced any trees at all, TBH

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Kit Springs 1 month ago

But there are kelp forests. ❤️

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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago

Obviously... the sea doesn't produce trees.

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Riley Quinn 1 month ago

Let's not instigate a turf war between the sea and trees, okay?

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Mark Olsson Moreno 1 month ago

I didn't think the sea produced any trees

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nuberiffic 1 month ago

Well duh. The sea doesn't produce any trees at all.

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Michael Danhauer 1 month ago

At the end of the Permian Age volcanic activity released enough CO2 into the atmosphere over 200 years that 80% of the phytoplankton died and it took thousands of years to stabilize the oxygen levels of Earth's atmosphere. Humanity is currently emitting amounts 10 x that. Which means another die off of plankton within 20 years. Good news is that plankton has recently evolved an organelle called a nitroplast that may help matters. A use for nitrogen is to filter out CO2 and the nitroplast helps plankton more efficiently utilize N. Hopefully nature can survive us.

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Sam 1 month ago

Again, with the arrogance. Yo, Mr. Sea, don't brag.

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Steve Robert 1 month ago

Perhaps because the oceans cover 70% of the Earth s surface.

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Srinivasan S 1 month ago

I have always wondered why this fact isn't an Republican spin against Global warming yet.

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Diane Dubay 1 month ago

First, they would need to know a fact

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Fred L. 1 month ago

While that fact could be used to neglect forrest conversation (stupid but very Republican) it in turn is a perfect argument to further protect the ocean with regualtions in regards to oil drilling, sea floor mining, industrial pollution etc etc.

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WindySwede 1 month ago

They don't believe in GW, or do but say it's bullocks because they make money from CO2 intense industries?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Jack-of-Hearts-7 , wirestock / Freepik Report

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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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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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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.

Picards-Flute , Tracy O Report

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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.

JeanLucPicardAND , Марио Брвић Report

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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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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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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.

ecodrew , pixabay.com Report

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

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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.

Dragmom , freepik Report

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

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#31

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

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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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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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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.

Aduro95 , Juan Felipe Ramírez / Pexels Report

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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.

CozyFenn , Kevin M. Gill Report

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

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

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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.

sylviawiese , pickpik Report

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What do you think ?

Multa Nocte 1 month ago

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

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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.

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The Phantom Stranger 1 month ago

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.

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Simon Chen 1 month ago

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

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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

Nadine Debard 1 month ago

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.

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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".

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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