Ignorance is bliss, whether we are talking about the heat-death of the universe or the amount of worm-like creatures happily living in your eyebrows, some things are better left alone. But like staring at a car crash or a house on fire, we do have a strange, somewhat morbid fascination with things that don’t seem real.
So, naturally, one netizen wanted the internet to share all the strange, unusual, and even creepy facts that do not seem real. So if you enjoy sleeping peacefully, consider another article, as the answers were deeply interesting but somewhat unsettling. If you do stay, be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your own facts.
#1
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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#2
You are more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.
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#3
If bees were paid minimum wage for their labor, a jar of honey would cost $182,000.
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#4
Over 500,000 people go bankrupt annually from medical bills in the US.
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#5
In many countries in the world, cannibalism is actually legal, the only illegal thing is the way you obtain it.
It’s made that way so that plane crash survivors won’t be prosecuted for, you know, surviving.
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#6
During World War 2, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with the bubonic plague.
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#7
Dolphins can be attracted to humans.
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#8
54% of adults in the USA read below a 6th grade level. Bonus, 1 in every 30 children in the USA is homeless.
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#9
France executed their last person by guillotine the same year Star Wars: A New Hope came out.
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#10
The Taylor oil spill. So far it’s leaked over a million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It started leaking in 2004, before Deepwater Horizon, and is still leaking oil into the gulf today. Next to nothing being done about it.
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#11
You’re statistically more likely to randomly die during a USA Powerball lottery drawing than win it.
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