“What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?”: 20 Interesting Facts

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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. 

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They put men on the moon before they put wheels on luggage.

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Trees existed for a while before there was bacteria to break down trees, so most of the earth was just a pile of dead trees for awhile A kind of moth is found in Madagascar that almost entirely subsists on the tears of sleeping birds. Lighters were invented before matches that if you knock out a tooth and replace it in its socket, the tooth will grow roots again and survive. 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 Bats help pollinate the agave plant. So if you like tequila, give props to the bats Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died less than a year apart and within 150 miles of each other. Sharks are older than both trees and the rings of Saturn. "Häagen-Dazs" has no meaning in any language, it was meant to sound "European". It was started by Reuben Mattus, a Polish immigrant to New York who sold fruit ice and ice cream from a horse-drawn cart. 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII. The moon is roughly 400x smaller than the sun, but also coincidentally about 400x closer to us than the sun. This makes them appear as though they are the same size - helpful for solar eclipses! This will change over time though as the moon drifts away from us, we just happen to live in a time that they appear the same size! There were already fossilized dinosaur bones while dinosaurs were still alive. The timespan between the use of copper swords and then steel swords is longer then the timespan between the use of steel swords and the nuclear bomb. Jimmy Carter left nuclear codes in his jacket, which he had sent to the cleaners. 2/3 of Canada’s population lives south of Seattle. 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. There was a time when a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln 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. There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire Solar System.