True Facts That Are Hard to Believe!
Peter Pizagalli
Published
04/13/2014
BELIEVE IT OR ELSE...
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If you do not have a child, you will be the first in your direct lineage, all the way back to beginnings of human history, to do so -
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Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman -
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Alpacas can die of loneliness. When bought they alway need to be bought in pairs -
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If you had a long enough straw, you could only suction water upwards the length of 10 meters. After that water spontaneously boils -
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A super sonic jet once broke the sound barrier over a field of turkeys. The sonic boom gave the turkey's a heart attack killing all of them -
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The song Coconut has only one chord in the entire song. It is the only song without any chord changes to reach the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It reached 8 in 1972. -
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Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia. -
8.
The average chocolate bar contains eight insect parts -
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The song Happy Birthday to You is copyrighted -
10.
Elvis was a natural blond -
11.
At launch, the iPhone had the same computing power as NASA in 1969 when it launched the historical manned mission to the moon -
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Figs have dead wasps inside them. This is because wasps crawl inside, lay their eggs, and die. In doing so they help to pollinate and are eventually digested by the fig's enzymes. -
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You get a fractal tattoo after being struck by lightning it's called a Lichtenberg figure -
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Neil Armstrong went through U.S. customs in Honolulu, Hawaii, on the way back from the moon -
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If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it would reach the moon assuming it is of average thickness 0.01cm -
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There are more confirmed deaths from drowning in molasses than from coyote attacks. 21 people died in the 1919 Boston Molasses Disaster. Only 2 fatal coyote-on-human attacks have been confirmed -
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Dead people can get goosebumps -
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A full head of human hair is strong enough to support 12 tons. -
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There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe look up the Shannon number -
20.
A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light. -
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Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 5000 year old honey -
22.
If you eat a polar bear liver, you will die. Humans cant handle that much vitamin A. -
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Saturn's rings are only between 30 and 300 feet thick -
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Lobsters don't grow old and die. In fact, as far as scientists can tell they only die of external causes.
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