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Every once in a while, you might hear something that makes your brain go “Huh?” An idea, fact, or detail that does not at all sit right. So you sit down and Google it, only to have your entire worldview upended. 

Someone wanted to know what facts sound definitely made up but are actually factually correct. The experts and trivia aficionados of the internet came together to share interesting and obscure facts that you can use. So get comfortable as you scroll through, prepare to have your mind boggled, and be sure to upvote your favorite facts. Comment any other interesting facts you didn’t see mentioned. 

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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 77th wedding anniversary, also a record for a President.

He’s currently in EOL Hospice care. And has been… for almost 7 months now. The man is made of iron.

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    it would be cheaper to have medicare for all than the current private healthcare scheme we have in the US. like trillions of dollars cheaper and would help with a lot of the social ills we have at the moment.

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

    Hey, don’t be confusing us with logic and maths!!

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

    Between Big Pharma and Big Insurance in the US, they will never allow that to happen

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

    they are in too deep, they need a revolution at this stage, normal law passing won't work.

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

    Yes but then those trillions wouldn’t be lining the pockets of hospital CEOs. How could they ever afford their 5th yacht at that point???

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

    now their friends will laugh at them cause they don't have the biggest private jet

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

    literally I can't understand how not everyone is a socialist like bro have u seen the world??

    James016
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The argument being used to fight it is that “your taxes will rise” even though everyone would be paying less and have more money in their pockets. The other thing I read some time ago was that the USA healthcare system is not broken but functioning as designed which is to make a few companies a f**k ton of money.

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

    I believe this wholeheartedly as a US system. It reeks of corruption

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

    It seems Republican voters have been brainwashed to believing it's a Democratic EVIL.

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

    I've been trying to point this out to my conservative friends. They only ones in favor of this system is big pharma and big insurance

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

    I learned that this week when I asked a client on Medicaid how much she paid out of pocket for delivery costs of her child & she said 'nothing.' NOT A SINGLE dime. My 'health insurance ' still required me to.pay bw 3k-4k total due to not yet meeting my yearly deductible.

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

    That's not even what they're referring to though. The US government already spends more per capita on healthcare than any other Western government. If they changed to a streamlined single payer system and used that system to get drug prices down to what the rest of the western world pays as well, then government expenditure on healthcare should go DOWN. Meaning you should be paying lower taxes (let's be honest they'd just plough the savings into the military) as well as no insurance payments and no deductibles. And because it would be single payer you should have more choice in doctors too - none of this out of network b******t.

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

    The system won't change because the people that benefit from it will not allow it. Healthcare is big business in the US. Oh, there have been attempts to change things, but powerful lobbyists will flock to Washington to protect their interests every single time, and they'll win.

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

    THIS! Dre Mosley dropping truth bombs - i raise my hands in support 🙌

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

    Buuuuut guuuuuys! How else are the blood-sucking middleman insurance companies supposed to make billions in profits??? 👉👈🥺

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

    The Pentagon sucks up nearly half of the federal budget. How about we put that "welfare" program on a diet?

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

    Yes I agree but we aren't the ones who get to decide to put them on a diet

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

    Yeah, but then top-tier CEOs wouldn't make all that lovely money they've come to depend on, now what kind of a world would that be to leave to our children?? (Please read heavy sarcasm)

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

    The American healthcare system exists for the rich to get richer. Therefore, it works perfectly.

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

    I hate health care in America. Having a medical issue should not bankrupt someone. I had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance and it was $800 just for the ambulance!!!

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

    Too many people just can’t get over the “free rider” problem and will cut off their own nose to spite their face so that “those people” don’t get healthcare

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

    First we'd have to pry away all the politicians sucking on the private insurer tit...

    Mark (it/urgh)
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who would it be cheaper for? You? They don't care about you, all they want is your money.

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

    Ooo, an american NHS. When you implement it because as a system it works, can you bonk our UK government on the head and remind them they are there to serve the country, not hive off contracts for their mates!

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

    yeah but then all the politicians on both sides of the aisle wouldnt have big stock dividend payments.

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

    US healthcare system seems to be based on pharmaceutical profit… treatment, rather than prevention.

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

    that is very warped way of doing things.... focus on primary health care saves a lot of money down the line.

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

    Currently pay $150 every 2 weeks for private insurance, would pay that for single payer.

    Jaybird3939
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I truly don't understand the absolute fear some people have of Medicare for All. There's no way they could possibly believe that private insurance companies are looking out for their best interests more than Medicare!

    🩶🩷Marvin HoG🩷🩶
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is not a true fact that sounds made up. That is a true fact that is obviously true but that some people choose to ignore.

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

    Too many people are consumed by greed. Every millionaire wants to be a billionaire. No one is happy with enough money to be comfortable, they always want more.

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

    But less people would make more money that way. That's the real objection. The people that are making the money from private insurance would no longer be making that money

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

    Insurance is some what like a Ponzi scheme. We pay for insurance coverage then when an accident happens, Insurance covers all, some or none of the accident. Then your coverage shoots up and you pay for coverage with a much higher number attached.

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

    Ah but health insurance is a $1.6 trillion industry, so Republicans are more than happy to just let them write their own laws.

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

    Not an American, just curious, would everyone pay the same or would the rich carry the poor? In other words, would it be cheaper on average per person but in practice more expensive for some?

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

    The healthy would carry the sick. That's how it works in most universal healthcare. The rich have to buy their own insurance now. I pay $1200/month for insurance for my son and me. I have what is considered excellent insurance. Still, I just had an endoscopy and my out of pocket portion was $1800. Universal healthcare would be way cheaper for me even though I'm in a higher tax bracket. I'd still like the option to buy a higher tier. I don't have to get referrals, I can just go wherever I want. Expensive drugs are covered. My child has ABA therapy 23 hours a week. I only pay about $200/ month in copays on that.

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

    Canada has so called free healthcare. Long waitlists, ineffective, lots of bureaucrats, high taxes and constant demands for more and more money.

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

    No system is perfect, but you just sound like you read buzzwords from the GOP.

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

    Patently false. Best example china, Russia who have not been able to sustain this for decades. Other countries used as good example, Germany, Canada, France, etc operate in a net loss with subsidies from countries like the US in treaty deals in the tune of billions of dollars, investing into their infrastructure and trade routes with little need for military due to their Allies. The UK itself looses 33% of their med students to other countries, even after paying their tuition. Their population growth is also stagnate in comparison to their dominant counter parts.

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

    Yes. It would. But....Americans, are kinda dumb. Half of them don't want to subsidize health care for the "poor's" and "the brown people", not realizing it will be cheaper for them too. While "the poor's" are under the impression that UHC is something that's going to be "free" for them, paid for by "the rich" The bottom 52% of income earners paid $0 in federal income tax, while the average tax rate is 13.4% People would rather pay $2000 a month for health insurance, or have the option of not paying for it all then to give the government 35%+ of their income. UHC will never, ever be "free" it's subsidized, by everyone in the form of higher taxes. Everyone either needs to accept that simple fact, or stop whining about not having it.

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    Pure opinion, no factual data to back up this claim

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    Given the number of scientists and historians around the world, it’s not surprising that we have new bits of information or inventions to marvel at every day. For example, if someone were to tell you about holographic animals at a circus performance, you would wonder what sci-fi show they had just watched. 

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    Well, Germany's Roncalli circus has actually done that, using footage they filmed in 1991. The circus boss, wonderfully named Patrick Philadelphia, says the idea came from musicians doing the same. “If you can project someone who's no longer living onto a holographic screen, why can't you do it with an animal, a horse, an elephant? So that's where the idea came from,” he shared with Euronews. 

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    Brazil is so big that the northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point in Brazil.

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    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts Bats help pollinate the agave plant. So if you like tequila, give props to the bats

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    You could be a carrier for any number of genetic diseases and not ever know it, and if you just happen to have a child with another carrier of the same disease, there is a 25% chance they will have it. Many of these diseases can be treated very well if caught on a newborn screening, but the majority of states don't have many genetic diseases on their newborn screening panel, so you won't have any idea until your child shows symptoms, and in most cases, by then it is too late.

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    I am a carrier for a rare terminal genetic disease called Krabbe Disease. Had two perfectly healthy children, then when my third child was 20 months old, he lost all of his abilities to walk, crawl, and even sit up unassisted in a matter of weeks. He is the 25% chance we didn't even know existed since no one in either of our families ever had the disease. Now, he is fighting for survival through a stem cell transplant to prolong his life.

    He has a page we use to spread awareness for anyone interested in seeing his journey. It's called Prayers for Arthur, hope for a cure.

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    While that does seem like a solid idea, have you noticed that you often do your best thinking in the shower? No, you aren’t imagining it, it’s a real feature. Unless you’re taking a cold shower, the relaxation and heat help your brain produce dopamine, which stimulates creativity. So if you are feeling stuck with something, hop in the shower and see where it takes you. 

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    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died less than a year apart and within 150 miles of each other.

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

    That statue is not what Pocahontas looked like, and we’re not entirely sure that portrait is what Shakespeare looked like!

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    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts Sharks are older than both trees and the rings of Saturn.

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    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts "Häagen-Dazs" has no meaning in any language, it was meant to sound "European". It was started by Reuben Mattus, a Polish immigrant to New York who sold fruit ice and ice cream from a horse-drawn cart.

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

    They chose it as Jewish immigrants from Europe because they thought it sounded Danish and they wanted to honour the way the Danes helped the Jews during the Second World War.

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    Speaking of ideas, anyone who has spent more than four minutes in a city has no doubt encountered what some deem the “flying rat.” If that wasn’t enough of a hint, it’s a reference to the pigeon. Bumbling, clumsy, and somewhat annoying, these birds can actually tell the difference between the works of Picasso and Monet, despite not being able to tell a breadcrumb apart from some sand. 

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    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.

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    #10

    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts Trees existed for a while before there was bacteria to break down trees, so most of the earth was just a pile of dead trees for awhile

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

    Without fungi breaking down the dead trees, the biomass accumulated and formed coal and oil. Would not be possible any more today.

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    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts The moon is roughly 400x smaller than the sun, but also coincidentally about 400x closer to us than the sun. This makes them appear as though they are the same size - helpful for solar eclipses! This will change over time though as the moon drifts away from us, we just happen to live in a time that they appear the same size!

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    The blue whale tends to feature on this list a lot, as the largest mammal and animal on our planet. Its heart might not fit into most commercial pick-up trucks and we could slide down its veins like a water park ride, but did you know that its massive cardiovascular system works with such power that you can hear its heartbeat two miles away?

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    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts A kind of moth is found in Madagascar that almost entirely subsists on the tears of sleeping birds.

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    Tsutomo Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip and on the day he was supposed to leave, the atomic bomb dropped. Tsutomo survived with minor injuries and returned to his home in Nagasaki where he went to work 3 days later. As he was describing his experience to his supervisor, the second bomb was dropped and he survived without any injuries. He ended up living into his 90s.

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

    Japanese man in Nagasaki: "I was in Hiroshima the other day. Barely made it out alive. Glad that's over with." Looking up-"Ah s**t!"

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    #14

    The founders of Adidas and Puma were brothers with a sibling rivalry.

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    As mentioned before, there are more and more interesting facts about the world being revealed every day. Logically, not all of them will “make sense,” so if you want to read more, Bored Panda has got you covered. Check out our articles on facts that sound fake at first but are actually real and our collection of “stupid facts” that are still true. 

    #15

    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire Solar System.

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    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts There were already fossilized dinosaur bones while dinosaurs were still alive.

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

    Fun Dino fact 2 : half that T-Rex’s rib cage are missing. You can look up Sue the T-Rex

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    #17

    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts 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 bomb.

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    Mark (it/urgh)
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine being the first person to make a steel sword. Why they didn't end up ruling the world is anyones guess.

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    #18

    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts Jimmy Carter left nuclear codes in his jacket, which he had sent to the cleaners.

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    unfilteredCigarette73
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    D@mnit I love that man to much to make some obvious jokes good dude if there ever was one

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    #19

    Human children do not develop kneecaps until they are 3 years old.

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    Salamanders are commonly associated with being summoned by fire in folklore. This is because they like to hide in decaying wood. And when people would burn the wood the salamander wouldn't notice right away until it was fully engulfed in flames and then come out of the wood and crawl out from the coals.

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    There are boat bridges where a boat can travel over a ravine between two bodies of water. These boat bridges only need to be strong enough to hold the water in them. The boats, no matter how heavy they are, never contribute to the weight that the bridge must hold.

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    #22

    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts 2/3 of Canada’s population lives south of Seattle.

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

    2/3 of Canada's population have better public healthcare than Seattle. Well, to be fair the other 1/3 has too. 😂

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    #23

    Anne Frank and Martin Luther King jr. were born in the same year.

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

    Both of them would be sad to see how little has changed since the times they lived and died in.

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    #24

    The population of earth would fit inside Texas at the same density as NYC.

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    More people die annually as a result of coal power than have died due to nuclear power in its entire history.

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

    Problem is nuclear waste continues for thousands of years, so let's add that to the equation

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    #26

    If you cut some species of worms in half, they can regenerate into 2 separate, fully-functioning worms. On other species, the front half will become a full worm, but the back half will grow another tail instead of a head, and will eventually starve to death because it can’t eat.

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    #27

    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts Lighters were invented before matches

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    #28

    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts A day on Mercury is longer than a year on Mercury and if you could walk on the surface of the planet, you could out-walk the sunset.

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

    This is incorrect, a day in mercury is 59 earth days, a year is 88 earth days. The post may be thinking of Venus where a day is longer than a year.

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    #29

    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts that if you knock out a tooth and replace it in its socket, the tooth will grow roots again and survive.

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    #30

    Woolly mammoths we’re walking the earth while the pyramids were being built

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    Wombats have cube shaped poo

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    #32

    The brain named itself

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

    And then your parents: "Your name will be Brian". Your brain: "huh..?"

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    Johannes Gutenberg, the man credited with creating arguably the most important invention in history, only had an operating printing press for a few years. He went bankrupt after his financier successfully sued him for not paying his loans. His then former financier came into possession of the printing press and any unfinished books.

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

    Sounds akin to Nikola Tesla in that theu were essentially thrown out by those who were initially benefactos at 1st chance for greed & capitalize on their genius

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    #34

    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts There was a time when a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln

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

    Close, but not cigar. First submarine telegraphic cable linking Japan to the continent began 1872.

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    #35

    Plastic was introduced as a means to combat deforestation (paper bags were the norm back then)

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

    I remember as a kid when grocery stores switched from paper to plastic...not Its back to paper again

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    #36

    Did you know that Alaska is the northernmost, the westernmost, and the easternmost state in the United States? It's practically playing its own game of hide and seek!

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    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts If you shuffle a deck of cards, it's not only possible, but likely no deck has ever been in the same sequence in the history of humans

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

    80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 possible combinations!

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    #38

    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts The total weight of all the ants on Earth is estimated to be roughly equal to or even greater than the total weight of all the humans on Earth.

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    The great pyramids were older to Cleopatra than she is to us. Also she was not Egyptian but was the first Egyptian ruler of her dynasty to speak Egyptian.

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    There used to be trillions of oysters living in New York harbor.

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    Rabies virus has a 100% kill rate, if left untreated. (There are, like, one or two cases in all of human history of patients beating untreated rabies.)

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    Katrina M. Alecson
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Soooo not 100% like 99.999999%. Also I'm pretty sure i read somewhere that there was a village somewhere where people had natural antibodies to rabies without being vaccinated?

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    #44

    "What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?": 50 Interesting Facts They put men on the moon before they put wheels on luggage.

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    #45

    You are more likely to win an Olympic Medal than the lottery.

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

    Sure with no skill whatsoever and being in my 40’s I’ll go with the lottery. I think what they mean is more people have won an Olympic medal than have won the lottery.

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    #46

    *The Phantom Menace* is older now than *Star Wars* was when *The Phantom Menace* was released.

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

    At time of release of Phantom Menace in 1999: Star Wars was 22 (1977). So at this current year (2023) , this fact is correct.

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    #47

    Virtually all of the South American continent is east of Florida.

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    The Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal is farther West than the Pacific entrance.

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

    I told that one to my sister a while ago. She didn't exactly doubt me, but she did go look it up on a map to be sure.

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    #49

    France's longest border is with Brazil.

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    #50

    Alaska is the centre of the world.

    I.E if you were going to set up an operation less than eight hours away from the three biggest economies in the world, North America, Asia and Europe then Alaska is the perfect place to set up!

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