Every once in a while, you might hear something that makes your brain go “Huh?” An idea, fact, or detail that does not at all sit right. So you sit down and Google it, only to have your entire worldview upended.
Someone wanted to know what facts sound definitely made up but are actually factually correct. The experts and trivia aficionados of the internet came together to share interesting and obscure facts that you can use. So get comfortable as you scroll through, prepare to have your mind boggled, and be sure to upvote your favorite facts. Comment any other interesting facts you didn’t see mentioned.
#21
There are boat bridges where a boat can travel over a ravine between two bodies of water. These boat bridges only need to be strong enough to hold the water in them. The boats, no matter how heavy they are, never contribute to the weight that the bridge must hold.
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127points
#24
The population of earth would fit inside Texas at the same density as NYC.
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116points
#25
More people die annually as a result of coal power than have died due to nuclear power in its entire history.
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116points
#26
If you cut some species of worms in half, they can regenerate into 2 separate, fully-functioning worms. On other species, the front half will become a full worm, but the back half will grow another tail instead of a head, and will eventually starve to death because it can’t eat.
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110points
#28
A day on Mercury is longer than a year on Mercury and if you could walk on the surface of the planet, you could out-walk the sunset.
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103points
#29
that if you knock out a tooth and replace it in its socket, the tooth will grow roots again and survive.
100points
#30
Woolly mammoths we’re walking the earth while the pyramids were being built
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96points
#33
Johannes Gutenberg, the man credited with creating arguably the most important invention in history, only had an operating printing press for a few years. He went bankrupt after his financier successfully sued him for not paying his loans. His then former financier came into possession of the printing press and any unfinished books.
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87points
#34
There was a time when a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln
86points
#35
Plastic was introduced as a means to combat deforestation (paper bags were the norm back then)
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85points
#36
Did you know that Alaska is the northernmost, the westernmost, and the easternmost state in the United States? It's practically playing its own game of hide and seek!
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83points
#37
If you shuffle a deck of cards, it's not only possible, but likely no deck has ever been in the same sequence in the history of humans
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83points
#38
The total weight of all the ants on Earth is estimated to be roughly equal to or even greater than the total weight of all the humans on Earth.
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81points
#39
The great pyramids were older to Cleopatra than she is to us. Also she was not Egyptian but was the first Egyptian ruler of her dynasty to speak Egyptian.
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79points