30 Real Facts That Sound Fake

1.

An infinite supply of food would not solve world hunger. We actually have more than enough food to end world hunger, the issue is with distribution/logistics.

2.

The shortest commercial flight in the world lasted 57 seconds. It was a Loganair flight between two Scottish islands, Westray and Papa Westray. It was recorded as the shortest commercial flight, with the distance of 1.7 miles.

3.

Humans can smell some components of rain (the geosmin part of petrichor specifically), far better than sharks can smell blood in water.

4.

More plastic flamingos exist on earth than living flamingos.

5.

It took humans longer to go from a bronze sword to an iron sword, than it took to go from an iron sword to the atomic bomb.

6.

James Garfield could write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other at the same time.

7.

A single coal power plant produces more toxic waste in a year than every nuclear power plant has ever made.

8.

Almonds are from the peach family.

9.

The average blood pressure of a giraffe is around 300/190. They need to have a high BP to get the blood all the way up the neck to profuse the brain with oxygen.

10.

Platypus glow under backlights.

11.

Your brain can’t really distinguish between imagination and reality.

12.

Our eyes view everything upside down, but our mind flips it right side up.

13.

Komodo dragons usually reproduce sexually, but females in captivity have been known to reproduce by parthenogenesis, without the need for sperm.

14.

A strawberry is not a berry but a banana is.

15.

Crickets’ ears are on their legs.

16.

Black pepper is a stone fruit, similar to an apricot.

17.

Carrots were purple in medieval times..

18.

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima released an amount of energy equivalent to the conversion of 0.7 grams (about the weight of a paperclip) of matter into energy.

19.

"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" marks the one and only time that Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny have ever officially appeared in the same place at the same time, as well as Daffy and Donald. All characters' screentime between both companies was timed down to the frame to make sure they both had exactly equal amounts with their characters.

20.

Shaq 3-point stats. He made one in his whole career.

21.

The Rope Around The Earth Problem. Take a rope tied tautly around a basketball. Now the rope must be lengthened so that there is a one foot gape between the ball and the rope at all points, as if the rope is hovering a foot away around the entirety of the ball. How much must the rope be lengthened to accomplish this? 6.28 Feet. Now take a rope around tied tautly around the equator of the earth. We have the same goal for the one foot hovering gap around the entirety of the earth. How far must the rope be lengthened? 6.28 Feet. This is so counter intuitive just about no one will believe it until shown the math.

22.

I’m shocked by the amount of people that refuse to believe narwhals are real animals.

23.

The top of Mt. Everest is nowhere close to being the farthest point from the center of the earth. The top of Chimborazo in Ecuador is 2.1 km farther away, even crazier is that Chimborazo isn't even the highest mountain in the Andes.

24.

Sharks are older than trees.

25.

A French guy once ate an entire airplane.

26.

The number of ants on Earth has a mass greater than all birds and mammals combined.

27.

The northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point in Brazil.

28.

Anne Frank, Martin Luther King, and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year.

29.

The guy who played the villain in Karate kid 3, (Terry Silver, Thomas Ian Griffith) is actually 7 months younger than Ralph Macchio, (Daniel LaRusso). It’s weird because the karate kid was still supposed to be under 18 and the villain was supposed to have fought in Vietnam.

30.

Every single person on Earth could have about 950 square feet in Texas and leave the rest of the world completely empty. (Not that anyone would want that!)