26 Facts That Sound Fake but Are True
Nathan Johnson
Published
05/11/2021
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Every now and then you come across a fact so bewildering you think someone had to have made it up. But, as we all come to learn, this world is a weird and wonderful place full of bizarre and interesting facts to prove that sometimes life really is stranger than fiction.
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More than 50% of pilots have admitted that they’ve fallen asleep in the middle of their flights. -
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Don’t hold your farts in for too long because the gas can be reabsorbed and escape from your mouth. -
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Netflix was founded in 1997, making it a year older than Google. -
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While it isn’t perceptible to the human eye, you’re actually bioluminescent, just like a jellyfish! -
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While there have been a lot of Mummy movies there aren’t a lot of actual mummies left because the Victorians ate them for medicine. -
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You won’t find broccoli in the wild because it is solely made for human consumption. -
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Not only can mosquitoes smell which blood type you are, they’re also more likely to bite someone with Type O blood than someone with Type A. -
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Beware of the Big Apple. You’re 10 times more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than you are a shark. -
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Peaches and nectarines? Different name, same fruit. -
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It may have the honor of being the first letter in the alphabet but you can count all the way to 1,000 without saying the letter “A”. -
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Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid. The same cannot be said about Sid Vicious. -
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Hungry in the shower? You’re in luck because natural luffas made from the titular fruit are edible and a part of the squash family. -
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Playing music to a wheel of cheese will affect its flavor and hip-hop will create the strongest flavor. -
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Why the long neck? Giraffes and humans have the same number of neck bones. -
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Goats have accents, just like us! -
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Humans almost went extinct 75,000 years ago thanks to a supervolcano named Toba. -
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When high heels were first invented they were originally made for men. -
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Sorry lazy Wyomingites, your state only has two sets of escalators. -
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Australia exports camels and sand to Saudi Arabia. -
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Sprinkling salt on pineapple actually makes it taste sweeter. Maybe this is why pineapple on pizza tastes so good… -
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On average, a cloud weighs over a million pounds. -
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Saddam Hussein moonlighted as a romance novelist in his spare time as the dictator of Iraq. -
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There is enough iron in the human body to make a 3-inch nail. -
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Cans were invented in 1810 but can openers didn’t make their debut until almost 50 years later. -
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Fruity cocktails were invented so that people couldn’t taste the dead animals in the bootleg liquor. -
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As the name implies, vampire moths drink the blood of mammals, including humans, and can suck it for up to 50 minutes. Mothman conspiracy confirmed?
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