What Fact Sounds FAKE But Is Actually LEGIT? (r/AskReddit | Reddit Stories)

what's the fact that sounds fake but is actually legit that if you knock your tooth out and put it back in the socket it will grow roots back and save the tooth a manatees V Jena is the closest out of any other animal to being human like which explains why they have to be protected in Florida if you clench your butthole when you're about to cry it prevents you from crying it works tried-and-true and it is at this moment when a small group of people on their phones computer simultaneously clenched their buttholes for no apparent reason Saddam Husein was given the key to the city of Detroit in 1980 speaking of sounds there is a terrible transmitter of sound because we hear through the air we naturally think it's very effective but gases are terrible at transmitting vibrations air gaps are actually a very common and effective tool and soundproofing as well there is a polar bear jail in Churchill Manitoba polar bears who get too close to the town indoor attack townspeople are shot with tranquilizer darts airlifted and dropped off at the jail I like they are released into the wild again a few days later Saudi Arabia imports and deserts and is bad for construction beach sand is better so we leave the Sahara alone and destroy beaches around the world mostly Koreans produce soulless sweat it it look up ABC C 11 the u.s. marshals are still looking for the three guys who escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 they just disappeared off the face of the earth and no bodies washed up in San Francisco Bay or anywhere nearby despite the official investigation suggesting they drowned before they could reach dry land the investigation into their escape can't officially end until they reach their 100th birthday Komodo dragons can reproduce a sewer Li edit when humans fall a Commodus shall rise having six fingers is actually a dominant tre but the genes for it are so incredibly rare that pretty much no one has it the state of Maine has more black bears than black people edit 15000 black people 30000 black bears Pluto has not gone halfway around the Sun since its discovery a ton of people is only about 11 people just your mother there have been over 2000 nuclear bomb detonations John Tyler born 1790s to living grandchildren is of 2017 not great-grandchildren just regular grandkids I think he was in his eighties when he had a son and his son was also pretty old when he had these two America is three people old the best thing for you to do if you're stung by a tarantula hawk wasp is to lie down and scream edit laying down prevents you from falling over hurting yourself when you're in the throes of pain and the screaming helps cope with the pain level nothing else is really going to help you excuse me a wart fungi are actually more closely related to animals in plants pineapples take about two years to grow HD video has been around for over 20 years only became popular with consumers in the past five stroke ten years there is a point in the Pacific Ocean named point Nemo which is the farthest point from land in fact it is so far from land nearest humans are often astronauts in the International Space Station when it passes overhead the ice orbits the earth at a maximum of 416 km while the nearest inhabited land mouse to point Nemo is over to 700 kilometers away that Netflix was founded a year before Google the entire state of Wyoming only has two escalators it is thought that mitochondria the powerhouse of the cell were originally separate organisms that our ancestors cells took up to form a symbiotic relationship through a process called endosymbiosis that's why I'm attached Andreea have their own DNA which biologists call mtDNA for short and a single circular genome not unlike the structure of other bacterial genomes this is called the endosymbiosis hypothesis of origin and it's also though to be the case for chloroplasts which are a part of plants that have a role in photosynthesis edit the most fatal surgery in history had a 300% mortality rate scale-wise a speck of dust is halfway between a subatomic particle and the earth this post is probably the best place to spread actual lies front lens power to Britain so they don't get power surges from boiling the kettle which happened several times in 2013 after a TV program ended your finger can feel microscopic things so my wife is lying then the Amazon forest is fertilized by the Sahara edit Sahara not Saharan Sahara not sahara desert because reddit is a pain in my grammar ass edit to eli 5 is as simple as wind the phosphorus the amazon needs to stay fertile travels through the wind the 15 - 20 largest container ships in the world create more pollution than all of the cars in the world the largest air force in the world is the US air force the second largest air force in the world is the US navy the most expensive grocery store item on a per pound basis is saffron it's about five dollars zero zero zero pounds more Vietnam vets killed themselves and died in the war Harvard University is over 100 years older than the United States Canada has a smaller population than California a polar bears liver contains enough vitamin A to kill a human if eaten Nintendo was founded in 1889 there are more libraries in the u.s. than McDonald's I've never seen a library in a McDonald's I think you might be onto something the longest domestic flights in the world is in France Paris Tyrrhenian around the 1680s and France became fashionable to wear bandages around your bus in order to pretend that you had surgery done on it King Louie XIV had an anal fistula that needed to be operated on to fix and when it was successful people began faking it and going to surgeons even when they didn't have the condition people who couldn't get it done just used bandages to mimic it the surgeon who was in charge practiced for six months on over 70 people before hand none of whom had that condition and even before doing that surgery practice he attempted other remedies like special Barre salon another group none of whom had that condition either apparently the only ones present for the surgery were the surgeon for doctors his war minister or Chancellor don't recall the exact title and his commoner mistress his war Minister held his hand for the duration of the surgery for more fun facts like this check out the podcast no such thing as a fish great podcast really funny and it's one of the highlights of my week the Giza pyramids were built when mammoths still roamed the earth by the time queen cleopatra took the throne the great pyramids were already ancient crumbling ruins if you have $10 in your pocket and no debts the entire Captain Planet cartoon was an all-star cast it had hoppy Goldberg Jeff Goldblum Tim Curry Meg cheaters can't actually rule but instead miel like regular house cats you can't choke an owl that sounds like a challenge otters carry a favorite stone in their pocket the four largest US cities by area are in Alaska there was no grass in dinosaur times it just seems so strange because it's a ubiquitous today baby koalas eat their mothers poop at its farthest away point you can fit every planet in our solar system between Earth and the moon humans have the largest PDI and the primate order speak for yourself water is a bad conductor of electricity pure water absolutely is an insulator water is also really good at containing things that are good conductors of electricity therefore most water non pure water is a good conductor of electricity I had a Chen teacher show this off it blew our sixth-grade minds she took a beaker of pure h20 and had this set up of a light bulb and had it plugged in the wire ran down this plastic piece and then broke and then lead back up to another wire to the light bulb he said I can't touch both contacts because I would die dumb but if I take this water and she then submerged the plastic piece and the connection into the beaker of water and nothing happened she even stuck her finger in the water then she took a beaker with tap water and the light bulb shined we were just shocked the world's largest desert isn't the Sahara it's the entire continent of Antarctica comma deserts not measured by grains of sand or amount of camels it's all about precipitation and an article a cake a roughly 5 5 million square mile until he gets about 8 inches of rain a year you can get arrested in Alabama for attempting to communicate with extraterrestrials googolplex is such an absurd it's a huge number that if you wanted to try and write it out you'd need a tool that could imprint on subatomic particles also there aren't enough subatomic particles in the universe to even write the number a googolplex has nothing on grams number which would cause your head to collapse into a black hole if you knew it in its entirety or tree 3 when you receive the wrong type of blood when given a blood transfusion you can become overwhelmed with a feeling of dread like something bad is about to happen a chihuahua is more closely related to a grizzly bear than to Hina if you shuffle a standard deck of cards it is basically a mathematical impossibility that anyone has ever shuffled the deck of cards into the same order you just have ice cream sales are correlated with homicides because heat makes people buy ice cream as well as kill each other Harriet Tubman died the same year Rosa Parks was born while sabhi is really hard to find and most times the wasabi you're eating is horseradish with food coloring Oxford University was founded before the Aztec empire there are more trees on earth than there are in space stars in the Milky Way galaxy this one's pretty obvious 7 of the top 10 largest national parks are in Alaska including all of the top three which are all larger than Connecticut by size Atlanta is west of Detroit a 2x4 lumber is actually 1 5 X 3 it's more complicated than that it also depends upon the type of wood what part of the country you are in and what year it was milled after the oil industry the fashion industry is the next highest polluting industry on the planet if you stacked enough elephants to reach the moon the closest living relatives of birds are crocodilians crocodiles alligators Caymans and vice versa crocodile you are closer to birds than any other reptile order the average human is just tall enough fat if they hold themselves rigid and fall straight forward backward and strike a hard object with a skull that they will have dealt themselves a lethal blow Bill Clinton is a rapist Simpsons paradox imagine Class A and Class B Colossae has 11 girls nine of them pass Colossae has ten boys eight of them pass last B has 12 girls three of them pass Class B has seven boys one of them pass in each class girls perform better on average than boys yet overall boys perform better on average than girls fun fact this is literally how gerrymandering works Vikings did in fact not have any horns on their helmets that humans are 60% genetically similar to bananas polar bears of black skin and transparent hairs there are over 10000 more subway restaurants in the USA than there are McDonald's you could get Lookout t-bone by sticking your head up a bull ass but I'd rather take the butcher's word for it looks astonished I even said that said it before and I'll say it again the largest manufacturer of tires tires in the world is Lego the economy is doing great under President Trump Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth Al were born only ten days apart edit Minnesota has 90000 miles of shoreline which is more than California Florida and Hawaii all combined Saudi Arabia is committing one of the worst genocides in history right now in Yemen with assistance from the US and many other Western countries Nigeria doesn't actually have a prince hold up steve buscemi was a firefighter of nine stroke 11 it's illegal to die in the houses of parliament Anakin is on the Jedi Council using recycling bins is completely pointless because recyclables get sorted out of garbage anyway so why have I been sorting the trash into white sand colors depends on where you live no this one is actually false yes this is true I used to work for a recycling company with 23 random people in a room it seems weird that's because people automatically think that you would be comparing one person to 22 others when in fact you are comparing each of the 23 people to 22 other people if that makes any sense the New York City metro area has a greater population than all of New York State China used more concrete in three years and the u.s. did in the 20th century the Bible says to eat bread bakes with people's tea is a kill for while and was a Commandments to a specific prophet 27 US states have land that his father North in the southernmost point of Canada with 13 of them being completely north of the southernmost point of Canada the most surprising is that California has land north of Canada but New Jersey does not and x200 B this is my go to weird fact when it became apparent that it was incredibly difficult to harvest spider silk which is prized for its strength a string of silk the width of a pencil from some spiders can stop a jet mid-flight scientists created spider goat hybrids that produce the spider silk protein in their milk which can then be refined into genuine spider silk they're essentially goats with spider and the scientists in charge of them pulled in the spider goats there are clips from documentaries about them on YouTube and there are many articles on the topic elsewhere there's a planet occupied solely by robots Mars more Americans believe they've seen a ghost than met a transperson Kodak the company destroyed by digital photography invented digital photography pirates are responsible for the u.s never adopting the metric system could you elaborate this one gets passed around commonly but it's pretty amazing if you haven't seen it before suppose you had a sheet of paper that was large enough so that you could keep folding it in half over and over the sheet is obviously very large in area but it's just a humble zero zero zero three nine inches in thickness after about seven folds you are just around the thickness of a regular notebook after ten it'll be as thick as your hand nothing impressive after twenty three folds you'd have a folded paper tower that's just about a km tall now we start to get interesting after 30 folds Congrats you're in space add another 12 folds to take you to 42 and you're ready to walk on the moon after 51 you can touch the Sun with 81 folds your paper tower is as almost as thick as the Andromeda galaxy approximately 141 0 0 0 lightyears 90 folds we'll get that paper tower as thick as the Virgo supercluster contains about 100 galaxies after 103 folds you've broken free of the observable universe aprox 93 billion light years and diameter exponential growth is a hell of a thing every single star in the Milky Way orbits around a black hole located at the center of a galaxy the introduction of metal helmets in World War one causes head injuries to increase but they also caused hair deaths to decrease at the same time ada lovelace designed the first computer algorithm roughly 100 years before the first computer for any given language the most common word will occur 2x as often as the second most common word 3x as often is the third most common word and so on it's called zips lul and it works innocent till proven guilty there are more whitetail deer in the u.s now than at the time of first European contact 70% of all Canadians live south of Seattle tried to search this threat to see if this had been posted but reddit search sucks asparagus and urine the gene s that control a person's ability to produce smelly urine from asparagus and the gene s that control the ability to smell that distinct scent are two different things so it's entirely possible for a person to be able to make stinky asparagus piss but not know they are or it's possible for someone to be able to smell it from others but not actually produce it themselves biology is wild if scaled down to equal size the earth would feel as smooth as a pool ball France and the Netherlands have a land border the Pacific Ocean entrance to the Panama Canal is east of Miami more people died in the nine stroke 11 terrorist attack than the attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941 that sounds pretty plausible if you move south from Detroit the first country you hit is Canada Bill Clinton was adopted watermelons and bananas are berries but strawberries are not they aren't straws either there are dead wasps in FIGS similarly you can say that figs are technically not a vegetarian food this has become more properly known in the past few years especially since Mythbusters covered it but it's still my favorite you are a contestant on the show let's make a deal Monty Hall has provided you with three doors with a grand prize behind just one of them you choose door number two Monty then reveals that door number one had nothing behind it so the prize is definitely behind either door number two or door number three you are then given a chance to switch your answer do you switch most people won't switch going with their gut instinct after all it's a 50 stroke 50 chance turns out it's not actually a 50 stroke 50 chance and your chance of winning is actually greater if you do switch doors the majority of people have an above average number of arms ah BuzzFeed must be doing research for clickbait again contrary to popular belief Napoleon was actually average height and wasn't short for the time he was 5 feet 6 inches and the average height of European men at the time was 5 feet 5 - 5 feet 7 inches depending on which historical record you read wearing a seat belt increases your chance of getting cancer because you don't die in a car wreck first if you took all your blood vessels out of your body and laid them end to end you die many corporations in America including Walmart pay zero percent in taxes but still get millions back in tax returns each year the loopholes in two u.s tax laws allow them to do this by blanking their money through shell companies in offshore tax havens cheating the working class and middle class by forcing them to foot a bill Cleopatra was born 2500 years later than the creation of the pyramids 2686 b.c dart that places her time closer to her arms 1999 than the time of pyramids r.i.p never forget in most cases your foot is the same Len hit as your forearm strains hip flexor nope foot is a good lint shutter unless your goal was to trick me into checking Hillary Clinton is still walking the streets a free woman fact the largest egg in the world is laid by a shark fun fact

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Published: Fri Jun 19 2020