People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren’t, As Shared In This Online Thread

The world is a strange place. You think you know how it works, but all it takes is one good documentary, and you end up questioning everything around you. Maybe even your own existence.

Heck, if you're lucky, you don't even need a twenty-to-sixty-minute video to expand your horizons. A quick scroll might be enough. And it brings me great joy to tell you that today we are, indeed, fortunate.

Recently, Redditor Aden_Elvis77 asked other users to share facts that sound fake but are actually true, starting a thread that has become an online archive of some of the most interesting trivia you can find.

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People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread An infinite supply of food would not solve world hunger. We actually have more than enough food to end world hunger, the issue is with distribution/logistics.

honeybutterbuscuit , Dennis Siqueira Report

Final score:

311points

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Kel_how 2 years ago

We have a food waste issue

161points

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People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread More plastic flamingos exist on earth than living flamingos.

The same is true for unicorns.

Positive-Source8205 , Alan Levine Report

Final score:

241points

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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago

And dragons.

125points

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People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread it took longer for humans to go from a Bronze sword to an Iron sword, than It took to go from an iron sword to the atomic bomb.

Joe_PM2804 , Ricardo Cruz Report

Final score:

232points

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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago

And if we don't tread carefully it won't take long to send us to ash age.

119points

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People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Humans can smell some components of the smell of rain (the geosmin part of petrichor, specifically) far better than sharks can small blood in water.

Ratmatazz , Anna Atkins Report

Final score:

211points

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Celena Camps 2 years ago

I live in a rain forest area .. and love the smell of the rain. Also can sense the rain (hours before) is coming by the smell, moisture in the air.

117points

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People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread James Garfield could write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other at the same time

TheDangerHeisenberg , Aaron Burden Report

Final score:

206points

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Mike Crow 2 years ago

While eating lasagna?

173points

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People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread I’m shocked by the amount of people that refuse to believe narwhals are real animals. I’ve got one tattooed on my forearm, so I probably get people talking to me about them more often than normal lol. It usually ends in me pulling up pictures on google, and them still being skeptical.

cheechiie , пресс-служба ПАО " Report

Final score:

194points

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Mr.Kris 2 years ago

They probably think the earth is flat too, lol.

91points

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People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" marks the one and only time that Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny have ever officially appeared in the same place at the same time, as well as Daffy and Donald.

All characters screentime between both companies was timed down to the frame to make sure they both had exactly equal amounts with their characters

Yuni_smiley , epicurious_aussie Report

Final score:

188points

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UKGrandad 2 years ago

Well, they didn't want Mickey or Bugs to suffer a bruised ego if one got more screen time. Cartoon characters are famously precious about these things.

74points

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People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread The average blood pressure of a giraffe is around 300/190. They need to have a high BP to get the blood all the way up the neck to profuse the brain with oxygen. I am thoroughly impressed by their cardiovascular system.

anastasiaanne , Gary Bendig Report

Final score:

178points

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Headless Roach 2 years ago

A giraffe must have a really big heart. Awww

69points

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People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread A single coal power plant produces more toxic waste in a year than every nuclear power plant has ever made.

ob-2-kenobi , Jason Blackeye Report

Final score:

172points

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OhnoI’vebeencensored 2 years ago (edited)

Slightly misleading, the nuclear waste is much more toxic but has a much smaller volume/mass, so is much easier to contain. The coal plant just spews toxic gases into the air and dumps toxic ash in sludge ponds. Not to mention carbon emissions. A more revealing statistic is the comparison of deaths per terawatt hour of electricity generated. 24.62 for coal, 0.03 for nuclear. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh

144points

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#10

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Anne Frank, Martin Luther King, and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year

Crooooow , F. Ferro Report

Final score:

169points

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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago

Anne Frank a life that was cut short by evil and yet we know her name across the world. Dr King didn't live for very long as well and we know him through whatever he did in that time.

33points

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#11

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Platypus glow under blacklights

KingZaneTheStrange , Meg Jerrard Report

Final score:

157points

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Kel_how 2 years ago

What can't platypuses do?!

81points

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#12

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Komodo dragons usually reproduce sexually, but females in captivity have been known to reproduce by parthenogenesis, without the need for sperm.

Dusty_Roller , Spencer Weart Report

Final score:

155points

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K- THULU 2 years ago

Watch out guys, we're one evolutionary leap away from being obsolete.....

93points

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#13

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Shaq 3-point stats. He made: 1 in his career

berlinheroes , Cubahora Report

Final score:

151points

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harpling 2 years ago

That's more than I've ever made.

83points

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#14

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Our eyes view everything upside down, but our mind flips it right side up

alexisallore , Paul Savage Report

Final score:

141points

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Mike Crow 2 years ago

This I knew.

54points

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#15

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread The northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point in Brazil.

prof_dynamite , Lara Jameson Report

Final score:

138points

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Agfox 2 years ago

Similarly, the easternmost point in Brazil is closer to Africa than it is to the westernmost point in Brazil

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#16

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Every single person on Earth could have about 950 square feet in Texas and leave the rest of the world completely empty. (Not that anyone would want that!)

Murky-Purple , Marcy Reiford Report

Final score:

129points

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Grant Barke 2 years ago

With Texas gun laws it would be a blood bath.

124points

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#17

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Carrots were purple in medieval times.

MermaidandtheKraken , Darya Pino Report

Final score:

124points

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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago

Purple carrot are still around aren't they?

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#18

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Almonds are from the peach family.

RifleShower , Nacho Fernández Report

Final score:

122points

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Erin Geiger 2 years ago

If you look inside the pit of a peach, the center looks just like an almond

65points

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#19

The Italian name for the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” roughly translates to “If You Dump Me, I Delete You.”

Sunny64888 Report

Final score:

118points

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Agfox 2 years ago

"Lost in Translation"

67points

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#20

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Strawberry is not a berry but banana is

Meowsommar , alleksana Report

Final score:

115points

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Grant Barke 2 years ago

A strawberry is a multiple fruit which consists of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle.

34points

Hugh Cookson 2 years ago

Sounds like my ex wife .....

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Lakota Wolf 2 years ago

I'm a fleshy receptacle!

3points

Binny Tutera 2 years ago

Strawberries are an “aggregate” fruit.

2points

Paul C. 2 years ago

Tomatoes are fruit, the skill is not putting them in a fruit salad!

2points

XenoMurph 2 years ago

We had words for "berry" and "fruit" and "nut". Then a small group of botanists decided to change and limit the meaning of those commonly used words. All they actually did was create a new additional botanical meaning for the word. Bananas are fruits. Strawberries are berries. Peanuts are nuts. By the common usage of those words.

1point

Frank Ropen 2 years ago

And these tiny green fruits are nuts

0points

Paul Neff 2 years ago

Banana present for scale. (Had to say it)

9points

WishIWasAFlapperGirl 2 years ago

Couple of fun facts for you. Tomatoes, cucumbers and anything with a seed is actually a fruit!! The strawberry is the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside.

2points

Rigor Moreno 2 years ago

That's a tiny strawberry, based on the banana scale... :D

1point

Jill Hojnacki 2 years ago

I started presented this to my 1st year biology majors (university) as being good bar-bet fodder. After that, the odds of them recalling it correctly for exams increased remarkably.

1point

Headless Roach 2 years ago (edited)

Look how big the strawberries are!

1point

LandAhoy 2 years ago

Yes, big and bland. Smallest ones are the tastiest, especially wild ones.

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Kel_how 2 years ago

What constitutes a berry?

1point

Khara Mei 2 years ago

A simple fruit from one flower produced from a single ovary containing many seeds. Strawberries use multiple ovaries, so they are botanically speaking an aggregate fruit.

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$cagsy 2 years ago

For forty odd years I've always thought I knew. But this. This changes everything.

1point

Kel_how 2 years ago

Okay, I had to look it up: "Botanical berries not commonly known as berries include bananas, tomatoes, grapes, eggplants (aubergines), persimmons, watermelons, and pumpkins."

0points

Frances M 2 years ago

Seeds on the inside

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Rodney Jefferyes 1 year ago

Strawberries are berries. They are unique because their seeds are on the outside but I am pretty sure they are still berries. Bananas are herbs. Where did these "facts" come from?

0points

SarCaustic 2 years ago

Virtually all bananas grown in Guatemala, in Latin America in general, and around the world for export are genetically identical.

0points

We_Are_Watching_You 2 years ago

No banana is a herb!

0points

dab 2 years ago

banana for size comparison

0points

Tim 2 years ago

Also, watermelons

0points

Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago

"Fleshy Receptacle" is something I must work into everyday communication.

0points

IzzyKay 2 years ago

Strawberries are nuts

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Stephanie Paich 2 years ago

Strawberry is the only "fruit" I regularly buy.

0points

Duane Martin 2 years ago

Hence why I can't trust anything in this world

0points

RafCo (he/him) 2 years ago

This is semantics. I can't imagine making a berry tart with bananas.

0points

LapCat 2 years ago

Both are super yum 😋🍓🍌

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Bordem Exprt 2 years ago

this I knew

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#21

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Sharks are older than trees

com2420 , GEORGE DESIPRIS Report

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113points

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Grant Barke 2 years ago

That explains why wood is not a food source for sharks.

77points

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#22

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread The number of ants on Earth has a mass greater than all birds and mammals combined

InquisitaB , Marco Neri Report

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108points

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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago

Planet of the ants.

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#23

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Black pepper is a stone fruit, similar to an apricot

Dreadsin , M Mahbub A Alahi Report

Final score:

98points

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harpling 2 years ago

But do ground apricot flakes add zest to food?

31points

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#24

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread The Rope Around The Earth Problem

Take a rope tied tautly around a basketball. Now the rope must be lengthened so that there is a one foot gape between the ball and the rope at all points, as if the rope is hovering a foot away around the entirety of the ball. How much must the rope be lengthened to accomplish this? 6.28 Feet.

Now take a rope around tied tautly around the equator of the earth. We have the same goal for the one foot hovering gap around the entirety of the earth. How far must the rope be lengthened? 6.28 Feet.



This is so counter intuitive just about no one will believe it until shown the math

-Slartibart , The New York Public Library Report

Final score:

97points

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Kel_how 2 years ago

No point showing me the math because I most certainly wouldn't understand it. I'll take you at you word.

138points

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#25

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread A French guy once ate an entire airplane.

CauliflowerDaffodil , Khamkéo Vilaysing Report

Final score:

96points

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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago

Was that airplane shaped like baguette?

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#26

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima released an amount of energy equivalent to the conversion of 0.7 grams ( about the weight of a paperclip) of matter into energy.

tazzietiger66 , US military Report

Final score:

86points

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Ivy Johnson 2 years ago

That seems so small - but its genuinely terrifying - a gigantic amount of energy is required to translate energy into mass

45points

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#27

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Everest is nowhere close to being the farthest away from the center of the earth. The top of Chimborazo in Ecuador is 2.1 km farther away, even crazier is that Chimborazo isn't even the highest mountain in the Andes.

SkinnyObelix , Michael Clarke Report

Final score:

84points

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Robert T 2 years ago

This is the oblate spheroid again, isn't it.

36points

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#28

According to the Doomsday argument, there is a 95% chance that in the next 9120 years human civilization will die out.

SheikhYekaterinburg Report

Final score:

79points

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Marek Čtrnáct 2 years ago

Note that this is "civilization", not "species".

69points

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#29

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Your brain can’t really distinguish between imagination and reality.

Darya_Jaen , MART PRODUCTION Report

Final score:

77points

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$cagsy 2 years ago

Mine can. In my imagination I'm a Platinum-selling rock star with a bevy of groupies and a fleet of sports cars parked at my huge mansion. In reality, I'm an out-of-work football coach, living off cereal with a wife and a dog. It's quite easy.

126points

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#30

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread The shortest commercial flight in the world lasted 57 seconds. It was a Loganair flight between two Scottish islands, Westray and Papa Westray. It was recorded the shortest commercial flight, with the distance of 1.7 miles.

AnneKellyy , Josue Isai Ramos Figueroa Report

Final score:

67points

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Kel_how 2 years ago (edited)

Imagine getting to the airport hours early for a 57 second flight 🙃 But honestly, seems like a ferry would be more economical.

69points

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#31

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread Crickets’ ears are on their legs

Eli_JMI , Miguel Á. Padriñán Report

Final score:

65points

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mcborge1 2 years ago

That's not a cricket, that's a grasshopper. Grasshoppers ears are called Tympanum and they are on the body under the closed wings and not on the legs as with crickets.

58points

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#32

People Share 33 Random Facts That May Sound Fake But Aren't, As Shared In This Online Thread The guy who played the villain in Karate kid 3 ( Terry Silver , Thomas Ian Griffith ) is actually 7 months younger than Ralph Macchio , ( Daniel LaRusso). It’s weird because the karate kid was still supposed to be under 18 and the villain was supposed to have fought in Vietnam.