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30 Random Facts That Seem Too Hard To Believe, Yet Are Completely True, As Shared In This Twitter Thread
It’s hard to imagine life without the internet and without being able to google answers to random questions that come to our minds during the day. The whole world’s knowledge, history and art is at our fingertips and we learn so much kind of useless but very interesting information.
The problem with it is that there are a lot of made-up facts. Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between what is true and what is false because it can sound so convincing. On the other hand, the world itself is crazy and some events might seem so unbelievable that you would take them for a lie.
People on Twitter were sharing this kind of random knowledge that sounds fake but is true in a Twitter thread created by @EricMGarcia, who asked “What is a fact that sounds like a s**tpost but is 100 percent real?” These facts challenge the way we see the world and our current knowledge, making them sound preposterous, but they are very correct.
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People are curious creatures and we like to know things even though they don’t benefit us directly. Some of us even go to university to study things that don’t have true practicality, but we just desire knowledge in that particular field despite knowing that it will be difficult to find a job or apply that knowledge practically.
We get satisfaction from learning such facts like how two unrelated people lived at the same time in history or that all of the Solar system planets would fit in between the Moon and the Earth, even though it is useless information that you can’t use for your own survival.
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Qaasim Malik 2 years ago (edited)
sad but true. My self and my fellow people need to change a lot. I did not expect what would happen in the replies.Enter at ur own risk. I was stupid when I first posted this comment, and have grown. we all grow, in the end. good luck in your growth.
Information seeking is actually not just a human trait. Every animal explores its surroundings and wants to know things about their environment and other living creatures that are near. But curiosity is the yearning to know the answer and that is what sets humans apart.
Obviously, it started with humans wanting to know their surroundings to survive and it was what helped us develop and achieve the advancements that actually are practical and useful for our lives. The Encyclopedia Britannica claims that “Over thousands of years, only the most curious people reproduced, leading to the characteristic curiosity of modern-day humans.”
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Kookamunga 2 years ago
He's lucky he wasn't disemboweled. Beware the evil Ostrich foot! ostrich-de...2d33cf.jpg 
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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago
Yet there are more stars than grains of sand. Astronomy stops making sense after you reach scales like these
Now curiosity doesn’t have that practical aspect, but we seek it because our brain rewards us for getting to know more. The Encyclopedia Britannica explains, “Researchers have determined that dopamine, the brain’s reward chemical, is intricately linked to the brain’s curiosity state. When you explore and satisfy your curiosity, your brain floods your body with dopamine, which makes you feel happier. This reward mechanism increases the likelihood that you’ll try and satisfy your curiosity again in the future.”
There are actually two types of curiosity: epistemic and empathic. Epistemic curiosity is the one that makes you research something you want to know about more and empathic is the one that drives you to get to know what other people think and feel. And the more you encourage both types of curiosity, the easier it is for you to learn even more.
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RoseTheMad 2 years ago
and on that topic, "No Such Thing As A Fish" is a fantastic podcast if you're into random facts like these.
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Glirpy 2 years ago
The last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.
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onivdsrapowijap 2 years ago (edited)
Yo mama so fat, when she wore gray to a party, they said "Sorry, no sharks allowed."
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Walter Brameld 2 years ago
That's got it backwards. It's not that salmon and shark are very distant. Rather, humans (and all the other tetrapods) are really, really closely related to salmon (and the other bony fishes). From a cladistics standpoint we literally are a type of fish.
Requiem 2 years ago
sharks have nothing to do with fish so why would it be related to a salmon
Kimi Tomminello 2 years ago
I guess to some people because it has gills and swims in the water lol. At least that's what people have said to me when I was in the aquarium/ fish breeding trade.
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Kevin Teng 2 years ago
Humans, apes, dogs, and dolphins evolved from the same species of fish.
Susan Williams 2 years ago
Are you insulting my mom? I know she is more related to a tiger than a fish.
Beanbot Toodeloo 2 years ago
Taxonomy is a nightmare and they need to just start over from the top with it
Sasha 2 years ago
Ahh yes, when were burning the standard model at the stake, we should toss current taxonomy on the pyre too. In the current model every terrestrial vertebrate is a fish too. You, me, dogs, elephants, pigeons; all fish. Basically anything in existence with a spine, which is a lot of existence.
grey galah 2 years ago
"My mother is a fish." As I lay Dying, Wm Faulkner. My education wasn't wasted :}
Brandt Hambrick 2 years ago
The second sentence is clearly b******t. And including it ruins a possibly valid point.
Jasam Nitko 2 years ago
I'm not surprised. I used my mom as a boyfriend test. The one who could face her and not tremble with fear was a keeper.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
Convergent evolution results when their is something that works so well, selection repeatedly ends up with the same result. Aquatic vertebrates lean towards fish shaped. Its why dolphins look so much like sharks. Because the invertebrate arthropods have their skeleton on the outside, they have their own version called carcinisation where things end up looking like a crab. Useless fact - cancer the disease and carcinoma were named after crabs because Hippocrates thought the finger-like projections growing out of a tumor looked like crab legs.
Kira Okah 2 years ago
Fish are a name for a grouping of animals under the vertebrata subphylla that have similar shared characteristics. If you want to separate each group out of the umbrella term, have fun, there are a lot which is why it's taught to those who are looking to specialise. Grouping them under set shared characteristics (which are presence of gills, limbs without digits, having a skull of bone or cartilage, and are aquatic) makes things easier for those who aren't looking to be marine biologists. A fish is still a fish.
François Carré 2 years ago
Better call them "the part of vertebrates that didn't evolve into land forms" if you want to put some accuracy into the vagueness of the concept. "Fish" is obvioulsy shorter though.
Jo Johannsen 2 years ago
No, my mom was pretty closely related to a shark. Or was it piranhas?
kathryn stretton 2 years ago
But we all know what fish are if someone says "Look at all those fish!"
Aliquid 2 years ago
No. All mammals can be traced back to one common ancestor. Fish aren't even vaguely related to each other.
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Which is why there is nothing really wrong with calling a whale a fish... considering that "fish" is a taxonomically random term, why not throw in a few mammals. When it comes down to it, "fish" just means "creature that lives in the water"
Monday 2 years ago
No "aquatic creature" means "creature that lives in the water". Fish means cold blooded, finned and gilled creature that lives in the water. Since whales are warm-blooded and do not have gills they are missing two key criteria.
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We couldn’t have come this far as a species without having curiosity and without trying to learn things that might seem useless or illogical. The best part is that our brain itself makes us feel happy about knowing things and learning.
So did your brain ward you for reading through this list? Which fact surprised you the most? Do you know of any other facts that sound very bizarre but are actually true? Share them in the comments and upvote the facts that made your brain release the most dopamine!
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Who the What 2 years ago
In 60 or so years, this will be "There was only 66 years between the invention of Twitter and the apocalypse."
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Qaasim Malik 2 years ago (edited)
I sense a disturbance in the force....nope that's gary's blood.
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M O'Connell 2 years ago
Not exactly though. The first device that we would recognize as a "fax" came in 1880 with Shelford Bidwell's 'scanning phototelegraph'. It was able to scan a 2D original document, rather than previous machines which required an operator to manually trace over the original with a stylus
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Mad Dragon 2 years ago
Beckett lived in the same village, and had a truck. If he passed the village kids walking to school, he would stop and let them hop into the flatbed of his truck and he would drive them to or from school. But it wasn’t singular to Andre, it was any kid in the village.
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M O'Connell 2 years ago
That's because there has technically only been one Democratic senator from Vermont, Patrick Leahy (Bernie Sanders is an Independent). He's been a senator since 1974.
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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago
Pluto has volcanoes made from water, not lava. It is also so cold there that nitrogen is solid at the surface. There is a possibility that Pluto may harbour life. The moons Europa(jupiter’s), Enceladus and Titan (saturn’s) have a chance of sustaining life
Alex the Country Dog 2 years ago
Better, and lesser known, than any single item in the post. Thank you.
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Aliquid 2 years ago
The most common type of person to die from a gunshot wound in America is... a married, white male over 50, with physical health issues. A fact about suicide that nobody talks about.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago (edited)
Women are four times as likely to attempt suicide than men, just far less likely to be successful because they tend to use less violent methods. This is suspected to be because women care more about the affect they will have on the people who find them. Anyone who tries to pull out the old chestnut about "cry for attention" can go take a long walk off a short pier and to see if they can find their empathy and humanity.
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Nitro Codes 2 years ago
I am dumb, what does sh!tposts mean? the word itself, i what word you implied.
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sharron lynn parsons 2 years ago
A rather interesting post, I am a senior who is happy to learn more, thanks for the information !!!
John Baker 2 years ago
A fact is a fact, numbnuts. Ours are just as good as yours.
Load More Replies... Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago
Pluto has volcanoes made from water, not lava. It is also so cold there that nitrogen is solid at the surface. There is a possibility that Pluto may harbour life. The moons Europa(jupiter’s), Enceladus and Titan (saturn’s) have a chance of sustaining life
Alex the Country Dog 2 years ago
Better, and lesser known, than any single item in the post. Thank you.
Load More Replies... Aliquid 2 years ago
The most common type of person to die from a gunshot wound in America is... a married, white male over 50, with physical health issues. A fact about suicide that nobody talks about.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago (edited)
Women are four times as likely to attempt suicide than men, just far less likely to be successful because they tend to use less violent methods. This is suspected to be because women care more about the affect they will have on the people who find them. Anyone who tries to pull out the old chestnut about "cry for attention" can go take a long walk off a short pier and to see if they can find their empathy and humanity.
Load More Replies... Nitro Codes 2 years ago
I am dumb, what does sh!tposts mean? the word itself, i what word you implied.
Load More Replies... sharron lynn parsons 2 years ago
A rather interesting post, I am a senior who is happy to learn more, thanks for the information !!!
John Baker 2 years ago
A fact is a fact, numbnuts. Ours are just as good as yours.
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