Tomatoes may not be vegetables, but did you know that pumpkins are berries? While this sounds like the sort of factoid your older brother would tell you so you’d embarrass yourself at some point down the line, it’s actually absolutely true. As it turns out, there are a lot of facts about the world that are exactly like that.
So when one netizen asked the internet “What’s a fact about the world that sounds totally fake but is 100% true?” we gathered the best responses out there. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote and memorize your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts and ideas in the comments down below.
#1
Cows have best friends and get stressed when they're separated. Honestly more emotional intelligence than some people.
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47points
#3
Magnolias are one of the oldest flowering plants, with a lineage that dates back over 95 million years to the age of the dinosaurs. At that time, bees had not yet evolved, so magnolias developed a pollination strategy that relied on beetles, which are still their primary pollinators today.
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42points
#4
Most of what makes human life so hard is human made mass delusion.
Edit: It's funny how so many came to argue, only proving my point.
Edit: It's funny how so many came to argue, only proving my point.
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41points
#5
T-Rex lived closer in time to the cell phone than it did to stegosaurus.
Sharks have been in the ocean on earth for longer than Saturn has had rings.
Sharks have been in the ocean on earth for longer than Saturn has had rings.
40points
#6
It was 66 years between the wright brothers first flight and landing on the moon.
36points
#8
Wood is one of the rarest things in the galaxy. Much rarer and more valuable than any precious gems or metals.
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33points
#9
Cleopatra was alive closer to our own modern times than to the building of the pyramids in Egypt.
30points
#10
Diamonds aren't all that rare and are actually pretty plentiful.
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30points
#11
Oxford University was founded 332 years BEFORE the founding of the Aztec Empire.
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28points
#13
The number of vertebrae in a giraffe's neck is the same as in a humans - 7.
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27points
#14
It once rained for 1 million years straight around 225 million years ago.
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27points
#15
Less than 1% of the atoms that you were composed of at birth are still there at age 70.
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25points
#16
Wooly mammoths were still around when the pyramids were built.
22points
#17
The first BBC radio broadcast in a foreign language was a broadcast to Egypt in Arabic.
Air France used to be the aviation arm of the French postal service.
American Express used to deliver packages.
The Portuguese were the first European sailors to make contact with the Indians and the Japanese.
Speaking of the Portuguese, the Portuguese border is the oldest, unchanged border in Europe.
Air France used to be the aviation arm of the French postal service.
American Express used to deliver packages.
The Portuguese were the first European sailors to make contact with the Indians and the Japanese.
Speaking of the Portuguese, the Portuguese border is the oldest, unchanged border in Europe.
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22points
#18
Moose can dive 20 feet deep to graze on the bottom of lakes.
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22points
#19
The human body is estimated to contain more bacterial cells than human cells, with trillions of microorganisms living on and inside you.
21points
#20
All the ants 🐜 in the world weigh more than all the people in the world!
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21points