26 Facts That Sound Fake but Are True

1.

More than 50% of pilots have admitted that they’ve fallen asleep in the middle of their flights.

2.

Don’t hold your farts in for too long because the gas can be reabsorbed and escape from your mouth.

3.

Netflix was founded in 1997, making it a year older than Google.

4.

While it isn’t perceptible to the human eye, you’re actually bioluminescent, just like a jellyfish!

5.

While there have been a lot of Mummy movies there aren’t a lot of actual mummies left because the Victorians ate them for medicine.

6.

You won’t find broccoli in the wild because it is solely made for human consumption.

7.

Not only can mosquitoes smell which blood type you are, they’re also more likely to bite someone with Type O blood than someone with Type A.

8.

Beware of the Big Apple. You’re 10 times more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than you are a shark.

9.

Peaches and nectarines? Different name, same fruit.

10.

It may have the honor of being the first letter in the alphabet but you can count all the way to 1,000 without saying the letter “A”.

11.

Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid. The same cannot be said about Sid Vicious.

12.

Hungry in the shower? You’re in luck because natural luffas made from the titular fruit are edible and a part of the squash family.

13.

Playing music to a wheel of cheese will affect its flavor and hip-hop will create the strongest flavor.

14.

Why the long neck? Giraffes and humans have the same number of neck bones.

15.

Goats have accents, just like us!

16.

Humans almost went extinct 75,000 years ago thanks to a supervolcano named Toba.

17.

When high heels were first invented they were originally made for men.

18.

Sorry lazy Wyomingites, your state only has two sets of escalators.

19.

Australia exports camels and sand to Saudi Arabia.

20.

Sprinkling salt on pineapple actually makes it taste sweeter. Maybe this is why pineapple on pizza tastes so good…

21.

On average, a cloud weighs over a million pounds.

22.

Saddam Hussein moonlighted as a romance novelist in his spare time as the dictator of Iraq.

23.

There is enough iron in the human body to make a 3-inch nail.

24.

Cans were invented in 1810 but can openers didn’t make their debut until almost 50 years later.

25.

Fruity cocktails were invented so that people couldn’t taste the dead animals in the bootleg liquor.

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As the name implies, vampire moths drink the blood of mammals, including humans, and can suck it for up to 50 minutes. Mothman conspiracy confirmed?