Polar bear meets grizzly bear. They hit it off and have babies. Enter the grolar bears. Or pizzly bears, as some like to call them. It might sound like a BS made-up story, or something from Happy Feet, but it’s actually true.
It turns out that polar bears have been migrating south in recent years because of climate change and melting ice. There are only a handful of these fluffy giants who, according to researchers, all have the same historical mom but different dads.
In an age of fake news, you’d be forgiven for questioning some of the facts that pop up on your feed. But there are a surprising number that sound like cr*p but are totally legit. Someone once asked, "What's a fact that sounds fake but is actually legit?" and thousands of answers came rolling in. The list reads like an encyclopedia that never made it to print.
Bored Panda has put together the best bullsh*t-sounding facts for you to scroll through ahead of your next trivia night or blind date. Some are so interesting or strange that they might have you Googling yourself down a rabbit hole of endless fact-checking.
And if you're still stuck on the grolar/pizzly bear tale, we've gathered some more information about these elusive creatures. You'll find that between the images.
#21
A Chihuahua is more Closely related to a Grizzly bear than to a Hyena.
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17points
But after the grolar bear study found only eight hybrids in the wild, many conservationists who were worried about the future of polar bears as a distinct species received a boost of optimism.
“This report underscores that hybridization is remarkably rare, and that hybridization is not an adaptive capability of polar bears,” said Geoff York, senior director of research and policy at Polar Bears International.
#22
Saddam Hussein was given the key to the city of Detroit in 1980.
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17points
#23
Komodo dragons can reproduce asexually.
Edit: when humans fall, the Komodos shall rise.
Edit: when humans fall, the Komodos shall rise.
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17points
#26
The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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16points
#29
Ice cream sales are correlated with homicides.
Because heat makes people buy ice cream as well as k**l each other.
Because heat makes people buy ice cream as well as k**l each other.
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15points
#30
Less time separates the existence of humans and the tyrannosaurus rex than the t-rex and the stegosaurus.
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15points
#31
If you could double your money every day, and started with a penny, you would be a millionaire in less than a month.
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14points
#32
A polar bear’s liver contains enough vitamin A to [unalive] a human if eaten.
13points
#35
A lemon floats and a lime sinks in water. They may seem the same, but limes are denser than water whereas lemons have a similar density to water.
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13points
#36
There was no grass in dinosaur times. It just seems so strange because it's so ubiquitous today.
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12points
#38
In Arizona its illegal to let your donkey sleep in a bathtub but it can sit in it.
It's also illegal to have more than 3 unrelated women live in a house together or its classified as a brothel.
It's also illegal to have more than 3 unrelated women live in a house together or its classified as a brothel.
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11points
