30 Random Facts That Seem Too Hard To Believe, Yet Are Completely True, As Shared In This Twitter Thread

Wow. Just.. WOW

So much for code breakers.

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.

Those 2 square miles are highly suspicious!

He's lucky he wasn't disemboweled. Beware the evil Ostrich foot! ostrich-de...2d33cf.jpg

Yet there are more stars than grains of sand. Astronomy stops making sense after you reach scales like these

Interesting....

It's called aphantasia. Another, related, issue is that many people have no inner monologue.

There's no such thing as a fish

What did she think of it?

And yet, there's a housing shortage. Make it make sense.

That's horrifying.

Whose mouth hurts after eating pineapple?! Is this a thing?!

How is that ableism??

In 60 or so years, this will be "There was only 66 years between the invention of Twitter and the apocalypse."

I sense a disturbance in the force....nope that's gary's blood.

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

Is this good or bad, though?

It's the nightly fireworks show.

JESUS CHRIST

Who TF is JC??

How Does One Get "Accidently Invited" To The WH ?

I have a problem buying that. There is a clear line of command, telling who is entitled to give orders to whom. And there he is, the officer on duty that day, being connected to a phone he has never heard of and hearing a strange voice, a voice he has never heard before telling him "Hi son, it is old Henry here, Kissinger if that would ring any bell to you, now look here the president is drunk so I order you not to do anything he says...." And the officer said what" "Well, I have no idea who is calling and why are you calling me and not my direct superiors, but it is ok, I will do just as you say, stranger." This simply can not be, this simply could not have happened.

"Only Nixon can go to China" - ancient Vulcan proverb

Should have nuked north Korea ..

I wonder if this is true about North Korea. Nixon's one good asset was his dealings with foreign countries.

How was Nixon a “Drunk Henry Kissinger?” 🤣

1969... yes

What an embarassing pos.

Grace and her escort, Abbie Hoffman, never made it through the gate, unfortunately.

This should be way higher, holy smokes.

Maybe he wouldn't have given the crazy "nuke North Korea" order if he had been on the LSD? Never tried it myself so I honestly don't know what kinda stuff it makes you do. I watched a show on Netflix, I think, about celebrities who had taken hallucinogenics and they were talking about all the crazy s**t they did lol! Feckin Sting was on it lol.

Really?

thats messed up

Interesting to speculate on the outcome but, then, maybe we wouldn't be here to speculate if it had happened

What is a "zodiac" in this context?

Solves calling one by the wrong name.

Painting with mummies - sounds like a reality TV show from the 90s

All on the same flight, or four separate occasions?

Ooh, election interference!

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.

In the 1970s. It refers to how ideas are passed on in the same way genes pass on DNA information.

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.

Is anyone surprised?

No. "Was one of the first, if not the first". I genuinely cannot understand why so many people are getting this backwards these days.

Wonder if they ever fed them to any German world leaders... y'know, the hotdog sausage (frankfurter) being German xP

Are hippos the major killer of humans in African countries where they exist? I.e. they kill more humans than any other animal?