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Truth is stranger than fiction, they say. This recent Ask Reddit thread is a great example of that.

“What is a true fact so baffling, it should be false?” someone posed a question, sparking a viral thread full of random and hard-to-believe facts.

Did you know that cheetahs don’t roar? And what about the fact that we live many times closer to the last dinosaur than the first and last dinosaur did to each other?

Below we wrapped up some of the most unbelievable and mind-bending facts, so pull your seat closer.

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People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones [Switzerland has accidentally invaded Liechtenstein thrice in the last 50 years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein%E2%80%93Switzerland_relations).

* On the first time in 1976, Swiss military got lost and ended up in Liechtenstein, so the Liechtensteiners offered them drinks like proper hosts.
* On the second time in 1992, Swiss military forgot that a certain observation post was actually not in Swiss territory but in Liechtenstein territory, so they just said sorry and forgot about it.
* Then again in 2007, the Swiss army got lost and entered Liechtenstein, but eventually realized they weren't in Switzerland anymore, Toto, so they turned back. Liechtenstein didn't even know this happened till the Swiss apologized (again), to which they basically said, no problem, bro.

Takeaways: The Swiss army are bad with directions. The Liechtenstein ~~army~~ people are chill bros.

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The last time Liechtenstein saw military action was in 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War, when they sent 80 troops to guard the Tyrolean border. They returned home with 81 men, having suffered no casualties and gained a new recruit en route.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones Cheetahs cant roar, but they can meow like house cats.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones Even if 99% of Earth's population thought you were unattractive, 76 million people would still find you attractive

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kind of you to assume 1% of people would find me attractive.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones One day Mao Zedong saw a sparrow eating grain. Thinking that the sparrows were hurting China's grain supply, he and the Communist Party launched the *Four Pests Campaign*. The Chinese military and population [took out] every sparrow they could find. Embassies didn't allow the Chinese to [take out] sparrows on their property, so the Chinese banged pots and pans outside the embassies 24/7 until the sparrows died of exhaustion. Unfortunately for the Chinese, sparrows mainly eat insects, not grain. The locust population exploded and [***43 million people starved to death.***](https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-four-pests-campaign-objectives-execution-failure-and-consequences.html)

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There were 2 countries that declared a war on birds - and both lost it.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones The life of Frane Selak, the luckiest unlucky man in the world:

    • January 1962- Frane is riding on a train through a freezing canyon when it fell into an icy river. All 17 other passengers died while he escapes with a broken arm and hypothermia.

    • 1963- On his first plane trip he was sucked out of the plane’s door and landed in a haystack, unscathed. 19 other people were killed in the crash.

    • 1966- He was riding in a bus when it skidded off the road into yet another icy river. 4 passengers drowned while he only received some minor cuts and bruises.

    •1970- His car’s engine burst into flames while he was driving but he managed to escape before it exploded.

    •1973- In yet another driving incident, his car’s engine was doused with hot oil from a broken fuel pump. This caused flames to shoot through the air vents, singing off all of his hair. He was otherwise unharmed.

    •1995- He was hit by a bus but only sustained minor injuries.

    •1996- To escape a head-on collision with a United-Nations truck on a mountain curve, he swerved into a guard rail that broke on impact. to save himself, he jumped out of his car’s open door and grabbed onto a tree branch as he watched his car plummet off the cliff.

    Suffice to say the guy had a complicated relationship with the Grim Reaper.

    Edit: Got his name wrong

    Edit 2: Got the first edit wrong, turns out i was right the first time

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's simple: he's secretly a cat and has used up 7 of his 9 lives so far

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones People were deliberately infected with malaria to cure their syphilis, and the man who developed this treatment - Julius Wagner-Jauregg received the nobel prize for it.

    (The extremely high fevers of the malaria infections [unalived] the syphilis bacteria, then the patients were cured of the malaria using quinine.)

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I sincerely think that censoring the word "killed" is going too far. At least the substitution word is imaginative.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones It's pretty well known by now, but calculators today have more computing power than Apollo 11. We got to the moon with slide rulers and huge balls.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones Oxford University Predates the Aztec empire by over 200 years.

    And, for fun one of my favorites:

    Woolly Mammoths were still around at the time the Great Pyramids in Giza were built.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing and creation of the iPhone than the construction of the Pyramids of Giza.

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    I just read a post on /r/technicallythetruth.

    We’ve all kicked a pregnant woman before.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones If every single person on the entire planet took part in a rock paper scissors contest. Where everyone paired up and played, losers were knocked out and winners stayed on etc

    You would only have to win 33 times in a row to beat all 7.53 billion people on the planet

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Each play reduces the number of players in half, so it's easy to understand why it wouldn't last much. 1) 7.530.000.000 2) 3.765.000.000 3) 1.882.500.000 4) 941.250.000 5) 470.625.000 6) 235.312.500 7) 117.656.250 8) 58.828.125 9) 29.414.062 10) 14.707.031 11) 7.353.515 And so on :)

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones From 1613 and 1620 a Samurai travelled to Rome by way of Mexico. During this time, Shakespeare was still alive, Virginia had been founded for around a decade, Gallileo was accused of heresy, and Pocahantes arrived in England. He met the Pope he was made a Roman citizen. His name was Hasekura Tsunenaga, and was the last japanese person to officially visit Europe until around 1860.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For a brief period of time, Snoop Dogg existed at the same time as Picasso

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones We live many times closer to the last dinosaur than the first and last dinosaur did to each other.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    last dinosaur? hey, BP, summon feathered dinosaur. we need to figure out if this is true or not. I thought dinosaurs evolved, grew feathers, etc etc. FEATHERED DINOSAUR, I SUMMON THEE FOR A PEACEFUL MEETING/ DISCUSSION.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones Giant squids have a donut shaped brain so their esophagus can run through the middle. If they try to swallow too large a bite of food they can get brain damage.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When Zara comes back from her exams, we HAVE to tease her about this!

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones In the last 3,000 years, there were only 268 years in which there was no war in the world

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's wars we have modern records for. That number should be way lower. For instance, the records of Ptolemjc Egypt's wars were lost when columns were destroyed to scrub someone from history and when the library of Alexandria burned. They could have been fighting 200 Taureg precursors in the Sahara for six months and there's no records.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones if sound could travel through space, the roar of the sun would be deafening even though it's 93M miles away.

    EDIT: because space is a vacuum. sound can't travel though a vacuum.

    EDIT AGAIN: obviously lots of other things in the universe would change, and yes, presumably other stars and planets would make noise too. we'd probably all die screaming as the earth itself imploded from the pressure of traveling so fast though a universe that WASN'T a vacuum.

    LAST EDIT: YES, JESUS CHRIST RICK AND MORTY, AS HUNDREDS OF YOU HAVE POINTED OUT.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The last edit perfectly describes Rick and Morty fans.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones The record for most children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev (b. 1707–c.1782), a peasant from Shuya, Russia. In 27 labors, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.

    Edit: wife name is Valentina Vassilyeva.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had to edit to include the name of the woman who the fact was actually about!? Patriarchy is strong with this one.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.

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    It's 90 days, according to Guinness World Records. Molly and Benjamin West were born in 1996. Molly was born prematurely at 6 months, but the doctors were able to halt the delivery of Benjamin. He was delivered fully term, 3 months later.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones A morbidly obese person can survive with absolute starvation without any sickness or feeling ill (under close control). There have been studies since 60's, there is a patient in 1973 who went under a 382 day starvation diet for therapuetic purposes under close control with only vitamin and mineral supplements and water intake without protein, carbohydrate or fat intake (no food at all). Dropped from 207 kg to 88kg and maintained it. After a follow up check-up 5 years later, the patient was 96 kilograms, stabilized. Prolonged fasting had no ill effects. If anybody is curious about the article, the pubmed ID is: PMC2495396.

    Edit: fixed autocorrect

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Under close control. I guess that’s the key. Don’t try this at home.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones An eyewitness to Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theater told his story on national television.

    EDIT: Based on suggestions below, I’m proposing a new version of this factoid which makes it sound even crazier (but still factually true)...

    An eyewitness to Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theater appeared as a contestant on a nationally televised game show with Lucille Ball

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not only that, but you can watch the episode on YouTube. It's called What's My Line. (I love 1950s and 60s television). The witness was of course a very young boy when he saw the assassination.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones A 500 lb. cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking brown bear named Wojtek was enlisted and served in the Polish army during WWII. "Private Wojtek" helped the Polish win the brutal Battle of Monte Cassino, and was even promoted to corporal. Following the war, he retired in Scotland.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He carried ammunition and got an official rank because pets weren't allowed on british ships

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    If you took every civilian-owned firearm in the US and laid them side-by-side, you would have a giant belt of guns long enough to go completely around the moon.

    After going completely around the moon, you would still have enough guns left over to equip every soldier in the world with two guns.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would we want to encircle the moon with guns? I say encircle the moon with mousie toys and sofas to bat them under.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones Stalin, Hitler, and Freud all lived in Vienna at the same time.

    Edit: And as others have pointed out (including a source further down), Tito and Trotsky were also there.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones Only four people have been to the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the ocean. One of those people is James Cameron, the director of Titanic.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones Giraffes eat bones.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones When Mt Everest was first measured it was exactly 29,000 feet. It was reported as 29,002 because exactly 29,000 was not believable.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hm, adding onto the number in order to make it seem better, reminds me of something...

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones The phrase "plastic surgery" has nothing to do with the material. Plastic surgery as a field predates the development of plastics by 70 years. The two terms simply share a Greek word root meaning "sculpted" or "reshaped".

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hmmmm, I've always wondered about that (but never googled it).

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones Ireland was a net exporter of food during the great potato famine.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones If you earned $1 every second, it would take 2,921 years to have more money than Bill Gates.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you made $50,000 a day, 365 days a year, from the time they were building pyramids in Ancient Egypt to now, you would only have about 70% of Elon Musk's wealth. Edit: 40%, thank you RafCo. His net worth is constantly changing though, that figure will change eventually

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones There were more planes destroyed in World War II than there are (currently intact) planes on Earth today

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They were easier to produce and maintain back than, nowadays they are full of electronic systems, carry jet engines and cost a few millions. The numbers of operated planes during World War 2 looks comically ridiculous compared to current times. Edit: I forgot effectiveness - a modern plane can do much more in comparison and doesn't have to soley rely on numbers, the expected casualities are also way lower nowadays. (A wing of 12 planes had an average loss rate of 3-4 planes in the pacific)

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones To scale, the distance between a nucleus and orbiting electron is 16 times longer than the distance between the Sun and Pluto.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Missing a critical piece of information which, in being absent, robs this of meaning: "scale" relative to what?

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    GPS satellites have to compensate for time dilation, because time runs at a different rate in orbit.

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    #32

    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones there is no universally accepted definition of "vegetable."

    it's a cultural and culinary term, and varies from place to place.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Technically speaking, a fruit is a plant's developed ovary that comes from a flower and contains one or multiple seeds. The term vegetable is much broader—it refers to any part of a plant that's used for food, including the roots, tubers, stems, and leaves."

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones There is an extremely rare condition called "Stone Man Syndrome", it causes any, smallest damage done to tissue to regrow into a bone, speaking briefly. People affected by this sickness slowly turn into living statues as they get older

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At some point in their lives they have to make a choice to either be in a seated position for the rest of their life or a standing position for the rest of their life. I watched a documentary years ago where a lady argued that seated was better since she can easily use a wheelchair to get around, whereas a gentleman argued that standing was better since he could still comfortably lie down in bed. Horrifying disease.

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    There used to be a radioactive energy drink called "Radithor" that was in the US market for a decade from 1918-1928. Some of the more prominent users had to be buried in lead coffins.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones There are more trees on the earth than stars in the Milky Way.

    Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you've probably made an entirely unique order, as compared to every other shuffle in history.

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    There was this french guy named Tarrare in the late 1700s that could eat ANYTHING, in any amount. He was able to eat a quarter of a cow on one day and ate dinner for 15 for one meal when he was being tested. He was even able to swallow an entire eel, with bones included, without hesitating. When he went to the militar service, they used him as message transport, but after being captured he went back and tried to find a cure. In the hospital where he was staying, he was suspected of eating a baby so they kicked him out. He was average weight and when he died a few years later they could see inside his stomach just by opening his mouth. Here’s a video which explains it on better detail: https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The speculation is that he had hyperthyroidism or a damaged amygdala. It's not known despite his being autopsied because no other known case to this extreme has been found.

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    Taser is actually an acronym for "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle."

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The name was taken from a classic sci-fi novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift_and_His_Electric_Rifle with the "A" just thrown in for readability.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones If Earth was a basketball, to scale the moon would be a tennis ball. It would orbit around 7.5 meters away, which is a lot farther than most people think.

    If the nucleus of a hydrogen atom was a tennis ball, to scale the electron would orbit at about 2500 meters away. There is no ball small enough to compare to how small electrons would still be at this scale.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones You are closer to being a millionaire than Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos.

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    If you're launching from Earth, the most difficult place to reach in the solar system is the sun.

    The reason for this is that to fly directly into the sun you need to first launch from Earth, and then remove all of your orbital velocity around the sun. Anything less will just put you into a different orbit around the sun rather than directly into it. The amount of power required for that to do it directly is basically impossible currently.

    As an alternative you could, for relatively little power, fly all the way out to Pluto distance, slow down much less, and then fall back into the sun. The trade off being the travel time is now about 90 years.

    There are other in between paths that will could get you there for different balances of energy and time but all of them are tougher than getting basically anywhere else in the solar system with an equivalent balance.

    There's a mission currently traveling to study the sun, the Parker Solar Probe, it won't be flying directly in, but plans to make the closest passes than any probe ever has. It's going to make seven passes by Venus to shed speed so it can get closer and closer to the sun. The full flight time is planned as just less than 7 years. As of this post they are 1 week shy of a year in.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would strongly suggest not flying into the sun. I understand it's a wee bit warm there.

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    The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a distress signal. It's the smell of the grass releasing chemicals to save itself from injury.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones More people died making the V2 rockets during WW2 than were [unalived] by them

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    [unalived] killed, murdered, death, sent to meet thy maker, kicked the bucket, is no more, has ceased to be, bereft of life, rest in peace

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones In chess there are over 9 million variations after just 3 moves each. 288 billion different possible positions after 4 moves each. In a complete game there are more possible positions than there are electrons in the observable universe.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I looked forward in time. I saw 14,000,605 possible moves." "How many were good ones?" "None of them.".

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones There is no good metric for 'the number of languages on earth'. This is mostly because linguists cannot agree on what constitutes a new language and what constitutes a dialect of an existing language.

    The best current metric of how many languages exist is the number of translations of the Christian bible.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm pretty sure that's not considered the best metric except by Christian missionaries.

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    17 inch pizza is bigger then 2 12 inch pizzas

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    Saddam Hussein was an erotic romance novelist in his spare time as the dictator of Iraq.

    [Sauce](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_novels)

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    You can fit every planet between the earth and moon, including all the gas giants. But if you lined up all of Jeff Bezos’s money from end to end, it wouldn’t fit between the Earth and moon. It could go to the moon and back 34 times.

    Jeff bezos has enough money to make a ladder to the moon. And to make it out of money.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones Nintendo was founded in 1889.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They had a really hard time finding an outlet, but with supreme patience they waited until the electrical grid was invented.

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    Sharks evolved before trees did.

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    A black widow spiders web is 12 times the tensile strength of steel!

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And its bite can cause priapism (an erection that won't subside easily)

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    In 1000 BC, a war was cancelled due to rain.

    Edit: Wooo first silver! Thank you stranger!

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a student of military history, I have no idea what almost war this person is talking about. Many battles were postponed due to inclement weather. But I suppose if the war never happened... I wouldn't necessarily be aware of it. My brain keeps going to the Battle of Rain, but that was named after a town in Bavaria, not the weather phenomenon. And it was a battle in the 30 Years War, which would have been in the mid 17th century between the Swedish Germans and the Holy Roman Empire via the Catholic League of States. And was a protestant vs catholic religious contest. Around 1000 BC the big conflicts in recorded history were in Egypt/Mesopotamia, India, and China. So maybe around something to do with those guys.

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    Mike the Headless Chicken lived without a head for 18 months.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34198390

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The farmer was killing his chickens by removing the heads but left enough of the brain stem for Mike to survive. Has his own website, . https://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/mike/page/history

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    If you shrink down our sun to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way galaxy would be equal to the size of the continental United States! Space is huge!

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    Horses can't vomit.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All herbivores lack the ability to vomit. (Regurgitation is not vomit.)

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    You see your nose all the time, but your brain just ignoring it.

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    People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 30 Of The Most Baffling Ones The Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to us than it did the Stegosaurus.

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    The youngest mother to give birth became pregnant at 4 years old.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Poor girl, her name was Lina Medina and her son thought she was his older sister until he became 10

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    When a woman with breast implants is cremated, the implants will melt into "goo."

    It drips to the bottom of the furnace, and needs to be cleaned up once cooled.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doubtful. Most polymers, including silicon, burn at about 270°C and auto-ignite at 450-500°C. The cremation temperatures are above twice that, and for quite a long time. Only metals and some ceramics can survive those temperatures.

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    President John Tyler, born in 1790, has two living grandsons.

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    The USA is the third most populated nation on earth. If you were able to add one billion people to the US population today, it would still be the third most populated nation on earth.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well yes, china and india are each 1.4bn or thereabouts, and usa is about 350m.

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    1 billion seconds is about 31 years

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1 million seconds is 11.5 days. 1 second is about 1 second.

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    Your head ages faster than your feet

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My head asked my feet about it, but they were silent and just walked away.

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    We live closer to the lifetime of Cleopatra than she did to the building of the Great Pyramids.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And Cleopatra lived closer to Woolly Mammoths than iPhones I guess.

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    If you could fold a piece of printer paper in half 103 times it would be the width of the observable universe.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've done the maths. a standard piece of paper is around 0.102mm thick. Doubled up with each fold, according to OP the observable universe is 1,034,402,889,786,235,191,624,309.82 Km wide. Or in words: one septillion, thirty four sextillion, four hundred two quintillion, eight hundred eighty nine quadrillion, seven hundred eighty six trillion, two hundred thirty five billion, one hundred ninety one million, six hundred twenty four thousand, three hundred nine. Point Eight Two.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The world record for cutting a paper in half, then folding it in half, and cutting it again, repeat etc, is only 7

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    mythbusters debunked this. it only works on a certain size. I belive they were able to fold it 13 times or so

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And would be more than 10.000 times smaller than an atom of my math is correct.

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    #65

    Sense of smell is molecular, meaning that molecules of what you are smelling are actually inside of your body as a result of smelling them.

    Think about that the next time you enter a public restroom.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a common misconception but it's FALSE. Only some molecules or elements are volatile enough to be odorous. They should be light enough and able to evaporate, hygroscopic and hydrosoluble so they could bind to the nasal receptors, but not too volatile or they will pass through the mucous membrane. In a "public restroom" you won't smell excrements' particles: you would smell part of the sulphur content common in feces, maybe urea and other similar ammonia-based compounds, but mostly the organic compounds produced by decay of metabolic aminoacids, the most common being a compound called "skatole", an apparently innocuous methilic compound, made only of Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen. So, you are breathing stuff that you are normally breathing, just arranged in an unpleasant way.

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