Sometimes, a thing so improbable happens that you consider not even telling others – there is no way they're going to believe you. However, some facts or stories may sound like they're fiction, but are 100% real.
Like the Great Emu War that had Australian soldiers armed with machine guns against the local emu population that was destroying the crops (the soldiers lost, by the way). Or how about that time when Pepsi had the world's sixth-largest navy? That's how the Soviet Union paid them for their Pepsi syrup – a fleet of old, obsolete ships, submarines, and vodka.
But not only is history sometimes stranger than fiction, people's lives tend to be pretty strange and unexpected, too. The stories from people here prove that. We came across them in an online thread where a netizen asked: "What's something about you that sounds fake, but is 100% true?" And one comm
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My name is Justin and I have an older brother also named Justin.
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#42
I once was invited to the bridge of the Disney Magic cruise ship and turned the ships wheel while in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. So I’ve technically driven a car, truck, airplane, and cruise ship. .
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#43
I have an obscure qualification that would allow me to manually calculate plane tickets if the power went out in an airport. .
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