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You’re not the only one who finds the world peculiar. Throughout history, we’ve encountered incredible tales and eccentric individuals.
Sometimes, truth can be stranger than fiction. For instance, did you know that vending machines crush more people annually than sharks do? Or that British elites once consumed mummies believing they possessed miraculous healing powers?
History is filled with astonishing events, some of which are difficult to believe. In our quest for unbelievable truths, we delved into r/AskReddit and uncovered mind-boggling facts that defy imagination but remain undeniably true.
Someone died on the Bulgarian version of Survivor, and the producers just decided to keep going like nothing happened.
Fred Astaire had a life membership in the National Skateboard Society and broke his left wrist skateboarding at 78
Martin Luther King jr and Anne Frank were the same age. King just lived longer. (Timelines f me up).
A man, Michel Lotito, ATE an entire airplane. It took him 2 years.
Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it’s probably a brand new, unique configuration of cards in all card decks ever to exist in history.
More people are killed by vending machines than shark attacks every year.
Shaq only made one three pointer in his whole career.
10th US President John Tyler, who was born in 1790, currently has a living grandson.
Fireflies don’t eat. They do all of their eating as larvae (glow worms.)
Your body contains more non-human cells than human cells. You’re a neurotic, gassy generation ship for trillions of microbes.
Joe Biden was born closer to Lincoln’s presidency than he was to his own.
It was more technologically feasible to actually go to the moon than to fake a moon landing given the technology at the time.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. Venus has a very slow planetary rotation, it takes 285 earth days for one day on Venus. A year is 255 days.
There are only 25 Blimps left on Earth.
Only about 50% of murders in the US get solved.
When it was donated to the Smithsonian, the Hope Diamond was sent through the mail with $145.29 in postage.
There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history. today, an estimated 40.3 million people – more than three times the figure during the transatlantic slave trade – are living in some form of modern slavery.
Hippos kill at least 500 people a year.
The human body is the most efficient on earth for running. We use the least energy for running less then any other creature on earth.
The reason there’s not a lot of Egyptian mummy’s is because the British elite ate them in the early 1800s due to a misunderstanding that eating them had healing properties.