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Tomatoes may not be vegetables, but did you know that pumpkins are berries? While this sounds like the sort of factoid your older brother would tell you so you’d embarrass yourself at some point down the line, it’s actually absolutely true. As it turns out, there are a lot of facts about the world that are exactly like that.

So when one netizen asked the internet “What’s a fact about the world that sounds totally fake but is 100% true?” we gathered the best responses out there. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote and memorize your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts and ideas in the comments down below.

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Cows have best friends and get stressed when they’re separated. Honestly more emotional intelligence than some people.

#2

I was once the youngest person on the planet.

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Magnolias are one of the oldest flowering plants, with a lineage that dates back over 95 million years to the age of the dinosaurs. At that time, bees had not yet evolved, so magnolias developed a pollination strategy that relied on beetles, which are still their primary pollinators today.

#4

Most of what makes human life so hard is human made mass delusion.

Edit: It’s funny how so many came to argue, only proving my point.

#5

T-Rex lived closer in time to the cell phone than it did to stegosaurus.

Sharks have been in the ocean on earth for longer than Saturn has had rings.

#6

It was 66 years between the wright brothers first flight and landing on the moon.

#7

Clouds weigh millions of pounds on average.

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Wood is one of the rarest things in the galaxy. Much rarer and more valuable than any precious gems or metals.

#9

Cleopatra was alive closer to our own modern times than to the building of the pyramids in Egypt.

#10

Diamonds aren’t all that rare and are actually pretty plentiful.

#11

Oxford University was founded 332 years BEFORE the founding of the Aztec Empire.

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Norway is separated from North Korea by one country: Russia.

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It once rained for 1 million years straight around 225 million years ago.

#14

The number of vertebrae in a giraffe’s neck is the same as in a humans – 7.

#15

Less than 1% of the atoms that you were composed of at birth are still there at age 70.

#16

Wooly mammoths were still around when the pyramids were built.

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The first BBC radio broadcast in a foreign language was a broadcast to Egypt in Arabic.

Air France used to be the aviation arm of the French postal service.

American Express used to deliver packages.

The Portuguese were the first European sailors to make contact with the Indians and the Japanese.

Speaking of the Portuguese, the Portuguese border is the oldest, unchanged border in Europe.

#18

Moose can dive 20 feet deep to graze on the bottom of lakes.

#19

The human body is estimated to contain more bacterial cells than human cells, with trillions of microorganisms living on and inside you.

#20

All the ants 🐜 in the world weigh more than all the people in the world!

#21

I had some reason to google the French Foreign Legion yesterday, because it couldn’t possibly still be a thing, but it is, and it’s still old school. The only way to sign up is to literally knock on the door of a recruitment center in France.

#22

The last civil war pension was paid in December of 2020.

Helen Viola Jackson, lived until December 16, 2020, to the age of 101. At 17, she married 93-year-old Union veteran James Bolin in 1936 during the Great Depression. Their marriage was arranged so she could receive his pension, a fact she kept secret for most of her life.

#23

Mushrooms absorb vit D so much that they can basically be a supplement.

#24

90% of the trash floating around the oceans of the world come from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa.

#25

There are three candidates for the tallest mountain on earth, depending on how you define the tallest.

* Highest elevation above sea level: Everest (Nepal/Tibet) at 8,848.86 m / 29,032 ft
* Tallest from base to peak: Mauna Kea (Hawai`i) at 10,205 m / 33,481 ft
* Tallest from earth’s centre to peak: Chimborazo (Ecuador) at 6,384.4 km (3,967.1 mi) vs Everest at 6,382.3 km (3,965.8 mi).

#26

A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about a billion tons.

#27

Data Centers now consume about 5% of the world’s total energy .

#28

There’s water reservoirs located over 400 miles beneath the Earths surface that hold 3x more water than all of Earths oceans combined.

#29

Running your hand on stainless steel removed smells from your hands. Onions. Garlic. Metal rust. Try it!

#30

We are closer in time to Shakespeare than he was to the time people spoke in Old English. Yet half the English teachers in the US tell kids “Shakespeare wrote in Old English.” Drives me insane.

#31

Of all the humans that have ever lived throughout history, about 7% are still alive.

#32

Australia is wider than the moon. 🌙.

#33

The earth is missing a giant mass of itself which – after divesting itself of this mass in a collision with another celestial object – became our moon.

#34

There are, in fact, Native Antarcticans – 11 people were born there.

#35

Bismuth was formerly understood to be the element with the highest atomic mass whose nuclei do not spontaneously decay. However, in 2003 it was found to be *very slightly* radioactive. The metal’s only primordial isotope, bismuth-209 (^(209)Bi ), undergoes alpha decay with a half-life roughly *a billion times longer than the estimated age of the universe.*

So if you have, say, 1 gram of bismuth — a cube about 0.5 cm on a side — you will get approximately 105 atoms decaying *per year.* That’s one alpha particle every three and a half days. BUT: alpha particles have very little penetrating power — a sheet of paper or human skin completely stops them, and bismuth is a heavy element with far greater absorption than either of those — only those decays which occur very near the surface will ever be emitted outside the sample: all the rest will be trapped inside. So while it is technically *radioactive*, the actual *radiation* is ridiculously low.

#36

That octopuses have three hearts always blows my mind. Feels like something a kid would make up on the spot but nope, completely real. They’re just built different.

#37

A bolt of lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.

#38

Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr were the same age.

#39

21% of adults in the United States are illiterate.

#40

Whales share a common ancestor with wolves, thus are more closely related to wolves than other marine animals.

#41

Although exercise is necessary, we actually build muscle when resting, especially while sleeping.

#42

The entirety of South America is East of Atlanta.

#43

-40 degrees Celsius is the same as -40 degrees Fahrenheit.

#44

There is a massive lake below the Antarctic called Lake Vostok.

#45

Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards. .

#46

Nearly 30% of the weight of your 💩 is bacteria.

#47

The actual sea level varies by up to 90 meters in various places from the mean sea level.

#48

Water, as a total of Earth’s mass, makes up less than 1%.

#49

Abraham Lincoln and The Samurai Shogunate *Could* have sent each other a Fax.

#50

The oldest ever U.S. secretary of defense and the youngest ever secretary of defense… were the same person.

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