20 Reality Shattering Facts to Shift Your Perspective
The world we live in is full of all kinds of amazing things, and fascinating information. There is such a wide variety of people, places, and wildlife that there are bound to be some truly wild and borderline unbelievable things in our world.
Everyone knows some kind of interesting or useless fact, but sometimes they are just unbelievable. People at r/AskReddit shared some facts that sound completely untrue but actually make a lot of sense when you think about it.
1.
Paint on a plane can add 600 - 1200 pounds to the weight of the aircraft. u/galileofigaro1669
2.
1 day on Venus is longer than 1 year on Venus. It takes Venus 225 days to complete 1 revolution around the sun. However, it's rotation is so slow, that 1 day on Venus takes 243 days to complete. u/Arch3591
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Butterflies and moths start out as eggs. Hatch into caterpillars. Turn themselves into cocoons and then basically turn into mush. Finally to emerge as an adult butterfly or moth whose main purpose in life is to reproduce and lay more eggs. Yet they can still retain memories from when they were caterpillars. u/Chickadee12345
4.
If sound could travel through space, the roar of the sun would be deafening even though it's 93M miles away. u/cups_070816
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Blink-182 violated the Geneva Conventions. In an early form of the album cover of 'Enema of the State,' there is a female nurse with the famous red cross on her hat. The Geneva Convention specifically bars people from using that without expressed permission from the red cross. The band was told, and the new cover no longer has the cross on it. u/Paytrin
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You're more likely to be killed by a cow than from a shark attack. Imagine that... u/DarthStromborn
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Squirrels can be ferocious killers that snack on those adorable little chipmunks on occasion. u/_eviehalboro
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If you make $68,000/yr it will take you 14,700 years just to make $1 billion dollars. Now multiply that by anywhere from 20 or 200... That is how rich a dozen or so humans are...u/Yourname942
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Of the approximately 69 trillion cells that make up a human body, about 39 trillion of those cells are not human (bacteria, fungi, viruses.) u/Friggin
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The world record for the longest rifle shot hitting the target is 7,774 yards, which is approximately 4.4 miles. It's absolutely insane when you put the distance into perspective. u/idtryanythingtwice
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The medical program for junior Drs was designed by a cocaine addict. This is why it is so gruelling/many hours etc. u/strinegirl
19.
The longest manned, refueled flight in history was 64 days long. The aircraft used was a Cessna 172. u/Iceman_1325
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