‘What’s a fact about the world that sounds totally fake but is 100% true?’ 23 realities to blow your mind
12.
‘There are more ways to shuffle a standard deck of cards than there are atoms on earth.’
–sunbearimon
13.
‘Mammoths were alive during the construction of the Great Pyramid. Also if you put it on a timeline, Cleopatra and Caeser are closer to today than to the construction of the Great Pyramid.’
–Picards-Flute
14.
‘Every glass of water you drink is almost 100% guaranteed to have at least one water molecule that was also drank by dinosaurs.’
–ProbablyABore
15.
‘A million seconds is about 11.5 days. A billion seconds is over 31 YEARS.
Think about that when you consider the wealth of a millionaire vs a billionaire.’
–toolatealreadyfapped
16.
‘Birds have been observed intentionally lining their nests with cigarette butts. While the nicotine in them is toxic to the birds, it’s a low enough dose that it’s not a significant risk to them in the short term (they don’t live long enough for the long term effects to be a problem), and it kills parasites that may try to hide in the nest and infect the chicks.’
–grendus
17.
‘Magnolia trees are so old that they predate bees by about 40 million years, and as a result are pollinated by beetles. They are considered the first flowering plant on earth.’
–SuperHyperFunTime
18.
‘The Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands were the same mountain range until Pangea split.’
–Kezetchup
19.
‘Pistachio ice cream is about 2000 years older than Chocolate or Vanilla ice cream. Persians were making ice cream as early as 500BC, often flavored with Pistachio. Chocolate and Vanilla, on the other hand, are native to the New World and wouldn’t make it there for another two thousand years.’
–Slow_Bed259
20.
‘Babies don’t have kneecaps. They typically form between 2 and 3 years of age. This is why they can crawl without knee pain!’
–Bron345
21.
‘There was a brief window of time where a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.’
–WinterKnigget
22.
’12 people have been on the moon, six people have been at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.’
–therealdilbert
23.
‘Australia is wider across than the moon.’
–PuddlePaddles
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