Results: Mind-Blowing Facts That Sound Too Strange To Be True, But They Are!
Published on 09/18/2016
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Sometimes you hear things that have you immediately heading to the internet to search for the truth. Sometimes you hear things that you just know can not be right, but they turn out to be true. As unbelievable as these facts are, they are all true. How many of these did you already know?
Nintendo was founded in 1889, originally making handmade playing cards
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Turtles can actually breathe out of their butts
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Saudi Arabia imports their camels from Australia
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From the time it was discovered to the time they revoked its status as a planet, Pluto had not yet made a full trip around the Sun
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Knew none of these
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Here's a few more. Did you know any of these were true?
Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year -- 1929
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About 2/3 Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer during their lifetime
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France has more time zones than any other country in the world (they count overseas territories)
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80% of elevator close buttons aren't actually connected to anything
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Knew none of these
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Sometimes our perception of things is challenged by facts like these. Have you heard any of these facts?
Cleopatra lived closer to the building of Pizza Hut than the pyramids-- The Great Pyramid 2560 BC, Cleopatra around 30 BC. the first Pizza Hut opened in 1958, which is about 500 years closer
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Oxford University is older than the Aztecs -- Oxford started in 1096, officially founded in 1249; Aztec civilization started in 1325
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There was more time between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex (83 million years) than between Tyrannosaurus Rex and you (67 million years)
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Harvard University was founded before there was even calculus-- Harvard was established 1636, calculus in the 17th century
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None of these
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Here's a few more that sound totally fake, but they are all true. How many did you know?
Peregrine falcons hunt by diving upwards of 200 miles per hour and hitting their prey with a clenched foot
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America has ~22% of the world's imprisoned population, despite only representing ~4% of the world's total population
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The average cloud weighs 1.1 MILLION pounds
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A 5-year-old, Ayan Qureshi passed the Microsoft Exam to become Microsoft's youngest certified professional
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None of these
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Here's one that has not really ever been verified, but for obvious reasons, I had to put it in. Both Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin owned the same tortoise, named Harriet. The giant tortoise, who was 176 years old, died in 2006, at the Queensland-based Australia Zoo owned by "Crocodile Hunter'' Steve Irwin and his wife Terri. Harriet was reputed to have been one of three tortoises taken from the Galapagos Islands by Charles Darwin on his historic 1835 voyage aboard the HMS Beagle. Do you think this sounds too fake to be true?
Yes totally fake
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No, sounds true
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N/A
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