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Not everything that you read on the internet is true. In a similar vein, far from everything that sounds made up is fake. Fact is often stranger than fiction, and some truly bizarre things about life on Planet Earth are closer to reality than myth.

Reddit user u/Mmemyo sparked an interesting discussion on r/AskReddit. They invited everyone to share the “stupid facts” they knew which might sound suspicious and weird but are actually correct. We’ve collected the most intriguing ones to share with you, Pandas. Scroll down to check them out! Hopefully, you'll learn something new.

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50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real The vikings, who came from Scandinavia, used iron as their main ingredient for forging weaponry, but it was also common practice to add the bones of dead animals to the mix. The belief was that it would infuse the weapon with the spirit of the creature, making it stronger, but they ended up making a primitive version of steel because of the carbon in the bones mixing with the iron making the weapon stronger, just as they thought it would. 

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

That’s not a stupid fact, it’s really interesting!

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Cows have best friends and can become stressed when they're separated from them.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real You can go the rest of your life without breathing.

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

    Another one that makes the title of the list appropriate.

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    Misinformation can spread just as quickly as—if not faster than!—legitimate info. So before you go sharing any random factoids or news snippets that you found in a dimly-lit corner of the digital realm, slow down and think about the claims. Double-checking every tiny little piece of info would be exhausting, so you need to consider the (un)reliability of the source.

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    Legitimate news sources that employ fact-checkers and editors, and have high journalistic standards are far more trustworthy than those that don’t. So you’re better off relying on sources like AP, the BBC, Reuters, and The New York Times, rather than random tabloids that survive on gossip and manufactured drama. You should consider what the goal of an outlet is, whether it’s to report on the news or to generate outrage (and clicks!).

    In the meantime, you can consult fact-checking websites like Snopes which do most of the heavy lifting for you when it comes to outlandish claims.
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    When basketball was first invented, at every game, they would have a man who would go up a ladder to retrieve the ball after every basket. It took them around 20 years to figure out maybe it would be a good idea to cut the bottom of the basket out to make retrieving the ball a lot easier. 20 years!!!

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

    I believe they first cut a down hole in the bottom so it could be poked out with a stick, the full hole only came later.

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

    Pedantic Panda - I love pedantic Pandas. I always learn something new. Just remember you would be a great person to be stranded on a desert island with.

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

    This thread has come from Reddit, as this was my fact in the tread over there!

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

    And let me guess: they didn't really figure it out, it was just a broken basket they then didn't care to get repaired...

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

    Athletes aren't usually the brightest students....

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

    Are you sure? I don't see why the distribution of intelligence wouldn't be the same among those born with better athletic ability.

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

    And the type of baskets they used was a bushel basket. I have seen pictures of them before.

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

    Thanks, Canada Heritage Minutes, for teaching me this one over and over as a kid

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

    I thought that I read that basketball was invented to keep Baseball players in shape during winter.

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

    This reminds me of the joke about the inventor of the toilet seat. The real genius was person who thought of putting a hole in it.

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

    That's not too bad. The idea of hanging spectacles on ears came after a few hundred years.

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

    20 YEARS.. just to figure out it would be A REALLY GOOD IDEA to CUT A holE AT THE BOtTom oF THE BASeket BALL HOOP

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

    When I was a teen, I had mate's who played basketball. I'm not a fan of any ball sports, but I'd go along to support my mate Somewhere along the line, I decided to conduct a wierd experiment. You know that moment when someone goes to take a shot, and the whole stadium goes quiet?? Just for the hell of it, just as my friends team's opponents were about to take their shots In that moment of silence, I would just say 'Boop' at a conversational level. I swear I ruined at least 80% of the opposing teams shots by that one little psyche out! It's a un-sporting as hell, but I'd love to know if it works for anyone else.

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

    Here's a minute long video about this... https://youtu.be/gsUe6sE_sDY

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

    Originally the person with the ball could NOT move, no running or dribbling, it was shoot or pass. No shot clock either which led to teams getting a lead and then just holding the ball. Check out How To Watch Basketball Like A Genius by Nick Greene for more.

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

    Not true. TheMan sat on top of the ladder behind the backboard

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

    Not true. There was no backboard originally. The first basket was a peach basket nailed to the wall/mezzanine. Because spectators were interfering with the basket, it

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real There are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky

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

    I can’t wait to text my dad this at 2 in the morning for no reason

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real For every single human being on Earth, there are 2.5 MILLION ants.

    Yes, this means that there are about 20 QUADRILLION ants on this planet.

    If the ants decide to take over, are you strong enough to handle the 2.5 million that you'll be responsible for killing? If you've got kids, you might have to kill more because a 2 year old isn't going to accomplish a god damn thing if millions of ants are marching towards them.

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    The core idea is that nobody should blindly accept anything as “fact” without a pinch of salt. According to the Macdonald-Kelce Library at the University of Tampa, readers should also check the author’s credentials. Not only should the author be well-versed in the topic they’re writing about but they should also have a history of legitimate reporting.

    Of course, everyone makes factual mistakes from time to time. The best journalists admit theirs and correct them. The worst of the bunch, however, report on semi-legitimate hearsay with impunity and don’t bother to provide a broader context for their news stories.

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    Bald eagles are not actually bald. Balde is old english for white.

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    Redheads require more anesthesia than non-redheads.

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

    Also pain meds. My husband is/was a redhead...still my husband, but the hair is not as much there now :-)

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Honey never spoils

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

    Honey has anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties as well. Ancient Egyptians used to put on wounds.

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    The more dramatic and emotionally charged a fact, claim, or topic, the more careful you should be. If the author leans heavily toward a particular point of view, it’s likely that they’re biased and ignoring some of the nuances. Life is rarely black and white, and most stories have at least two sides. 

    A good rule of thumb is that you should be very skeptical about sensational news. Try to build a broader picture of what’s going on by reading a wide range of sources from outlets with different leanings. And if your gut tells you that something is far too good or bad to be true, then it probably is. 

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Male rhesus macaques will pay to see pictures of female monkey butts. Payment is in the form of trading their juice rewards.

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

    Ok, that's just hilarious! Give 'em an issue of Playmonkey.

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    A man named Wilmer McLean owned a farm in Manassas, Virginia USA where the very first battle of the US Civil War was fought. After the battle he's like "I'm outta here" and bought a farm way out in the country at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia...where Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses Grant in McLeans living room four years later.

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

    So the US Civil War started and ended on the property of Mr McLean

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    -40C and -40F are the same temperature.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real The original name for the color orange was "geoluhread," which means "yellow-red" in Old English

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real If you open your eyes in a completely dark room, the name of the color you will see is eigengrau, a kind of dark grey shade

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real A lot of averages.

    Example: The average number of legs humans have is less than 2.

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

    Well I raise you, the average number of heads humans have is greater that one

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    Some invader (don't remember specifics) sent a letter to sparta saying that "If I invade Lakonia you will be destroyed, never to rise again" and the Spartans sent a letter back with a single word in it. "If" 

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

    It was Philip II of Macedon. And Spartans were known for their laconic answers (Laconia is the region that Sparta is in)

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not true berries (in botanical terms berries are defined by their structure, and bananas fit the bill while strawberries don't)

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

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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    The Eiffel Tower can be 15 centimeters taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Pink is really just a light shade of red, but we think of it as a distinct color because we have a word for it that stuck. Not all languages have that. In Italian, they have a similar word for light blue, called “azzurro,” and it’s so common they actually think of it as a separate color from blue. We have the word “azure” in English, but it isn’t nearly as common, so we tend to think of that color as just a shade of blue.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Coffee is not a bean it is the pit of the coffee plant which is a fruit.

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

    Fruit, vegetable, aardvark . . . I don't really care, as long as I have a cup or two of it a day we're all good.

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    Racecar spelled backwards is racecar.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real A man named John Young brought a corned beef sandwich to space illegally and shared it with his colleague on board and he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for the recording of them talking about the sandwich.

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

    He would have got away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids!

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    Our planet will exist long after humans go extinct

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

    as Agent Smith said "Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet"

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real I’m closer to being a millionaire than Bill Gates is.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real - [ ] Of the few people who have top secret clearance at the White House one of them is the person who writes all of the party invitations.

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    Crows can be trained to bring you money

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    Pirates wear eye patches to see better in the dark (covered eye doesn't get used to sunlight and is more sensitive after uncovering).

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real 6X9+6+9=69

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Someone named the fear of long words hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.

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

    And then he started singing "Ironic", by Alanis Morissette.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Less than 40% of great white sharks have filed their 2022 tax returns

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    The Earth is not round. It is an oblate spheroid.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real There are 5.87 Popes per square mile in the Vatican City.

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

    A year ago it was 11.74 per sq mile if you include pope's emeritus.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real We thought to put wheels on luggage after we got to the moon.

    The lighter the Roast the more caffeine coffee has.

    A new car costs less than it's equal weight in Hamburgers.

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    You have to kill about 400 people to get enough iron from their blood to make a sword

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real The longest place name in the world is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

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

    Did they allow a cat to walk freely on a keyboard when naming it?

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Im always seeing my nose ..its just that my brain ignores it

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real There are clouds of alcohol floating around in space.

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

    Time to launch the shipload of cocktail onions and olives on sticks. The crew will be a band specialising in light jazz.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real There are more Hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire Solar System.

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

    There’s only one star, the Sun, in our solar system, so this is correct.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Cleopatra is closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the Giza pyramids.

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

    That's not Cleopatra though, that's Nefertiti. (edit: they changed the picture and now I look like a fool 🤣)

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    The Atari 2600's release date and the last execution by guillotine happened less than 24 hours apart.

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    #41

    The average number of skeletons in a human body is more than 1.

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

    For those who wonder: because of pregnancy, when a human has two skeletons for nine months.

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real 18% of adult Americans claim they have seen or been in the presence of a ghost.

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

    A friend of mine died suddenly and I saw his ghost several times - in dreams and the odd occasion when I saw a guy vaguely resembling him and briefly thought it was him. Ghosts are your mind processing the trauma of losing someone you loved.

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    #43

    The plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac

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

    Even in French, we often wonder what's the plural for such expressions. :)

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Sloths are most vulnerable to predators when pooping. They have to climb down to the trees to the floors floor, and it is a bit of a process for them to actually poop leaving them at risk of predators.

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    #45

    A species of frog, the African clawed frog, was the most reliable pregnancy test for a few decades before at-home tests were widely affordable and accessible.

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

    "The experimental zoologist found that injecting the urine of a pregnant human into the frog's hind leg worked as an effective pregnancy test. If the woman who supplied the urine was pregnant, the frog would ovulate and produce eggs."

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    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real New Mexico (the state) got its name before Mexico (the country)

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

    Yes and no. New Spain was unofficially called Mexico since before its independence from Spain in 1821, and the name itself was given to the Mexica capital: Mexico-Tenochtitlán by the Mexicas themselves, calling it sometimes just Mexico (obviously not the country which did not exist back then).

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    #47

    You are constantly clapping, but the claps are just spaced differently.

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    #48

    Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way

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    #49

    Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon

    created the name (Lululemon) to have many L's so that it would sound western to Japanese buyers, who often have difficulty pronouncing the letter. He later remarked that he found it "funny to watch (Japanese speakers) try and say it" and that "it was the only reason behind the name"

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    #50

    A bone “break” is the same as a “fracture.” Fracture is just the medical term. It does not have any correlation with the severity.

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    #51

    Playing Tetris up to 6 hours after a trauma can help against PTSD

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    #52

    Bee keeper here. You can survive off of only Bee pollen and a roughage (provided you have water). You will literally never need to know that. Firstly because of how you collect pollen, and secondly and far more concerning, the amount of wild Honey Bees is quickly dropping.

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

    The loss of pollinators is pretty grim for the future.

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    Of all the mammals on earth, 36% are human, 60% are domesticated. That leaves only 4% wild.

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    #54

    There are 43 quintillion atoms in a grain of sand and there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the Milky Way galaxy..

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

    Specifically 43 huh? Not 42, not 45, and 46 is right out!

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    #55

    Statistically you are more likely to lease an apartment if the apartment smells like lavender and chamomile than any other scent.

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

    lavender is a big nope for me, i don't wanna live in my grandma warbrode

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    Sharks are older than trees

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    #57

    Looking at the sun (not recommended) is looking 8 minutes into the past, as it takes eight minutes for sunlight to reach earth.

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

    And when you look at the stars at night, you can be seeing millions of years into the past.

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    #58

    50 “Stupid Facts” That Sound Fake But Are Genuinely Real Pirates are why the US isn't on the metric system.

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    #59

    You can loosen a tight jar lid if you clasp and interlock both hands and fingers over the lid and give it a squeeze with both your palms. It should instantly do the pop sound your dad does when he smacked it on the bottom.

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

    Or you can just tap the lid all around on your counter top ... easiest way by far

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    #60

    A pound of feathers, indeed, does weigh more than a pound of gold. Gold is measured in troy weight which is 12 ounces to a pound, whereas feathers would use 16 ounces to a pound.

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

    But a kilo of feathers weighs the same as a kilo of gold. Don't get short changed - use metric!

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    #61

    The guy that invented dynamite also created the Nobel Peace Prize. What a bang up guy 😁

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

    He created the Nobel Peace Prize because he saw what his invention of dynamite did.

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    Incorrect is spelled incorrectly in the Oxford English Dictionary and it’s funny yet annoying

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

    No. Incorrectly is spelled incorrectly in the Oxford English Dictionary. Incorrect is spelled incorrect because it is spelled correctly.

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    The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

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    #64

    Apparently not many people know that 3rd degree burns are the worst, most think it's the other way around

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

    There are also 4th, 5th and 6th degree burns. I had 4th and 5th degree burns after a car explosion.

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    #65

    Don't know if it's stupid. But 1 ding on the elevator going up and 2 doing down

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

    I never noticed that, I will have to listen next time. Makes sense though, let's a blind person know which way it's going.

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    #66

    For all of human history every single dead human body has been in earth's atmosphere

    Except for a few seconds on June 29, 1971.

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

    Aren't most of them in the lithosphere as they were buried? Only those cremated would be in the atmosphere or am I reading this incorrectly?

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    There are no outlets of Five Guys on the moon

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