24 Wild Facts People Find Hard To Believe
Sometimes, the truth can be a hard pill to swallow. Hence, here are some crazy authentic facts from Reddit that are quite unbelievable.
By Toonacious
Published 1 year ago in Facepalm
Sometimes, the truth can be a hard pill to swallow. Hence, here are some crazy authentic facts from Reddit that are quite unbelievable.
1
The Australian Funnel Web Spider is often regarded as the world's deadliest and hasn't had a confirmed kill in over 40 years since the antivenom was created. - Regnes
2
Tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets. - JimminyBean
3
If a billion people from both China and India didn't exist, they would still be the #1 and #2 most populated nations in the world. - Handsprime
4
That only 6 people have survived rabies. Rabies has a 99% Mortality rate. You can have rabies for an entire year without symptoms and once you have symptoms, its already late. You'll probably die in a couple of days if you have symptoms. - Strange-Listen8048
5
There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover north and South America in water one foot deep - Angry_Elk
6
An Australian man won the lottery, then on camera to re enact the winning for the news he bought another ticket... he won the lottery again on camera - YeahYeahButNah
7
Dragonflies accelerate at up to 4G and corner at up to 9G - automatorsassemble
8
President Jimmy Carter rappelled into a nuclear reactor that was in partial meltdown to stop the meltdown and save Ottowa. (Before he became President, of course.) - thebyron
9
Michael Jackson's hair caught fire on 27 Jan 1984 which was the exact midpoint of his life. - Inquisitive_Muscrat
10
Very few mosquito species prefer human blood, but among those that do, only 5% are deadly to humans. Those 5% though, kill more people annually than humans do - Punny-Aggron
11
1/6 of the world’s living languages are only spoken in New Guinea. - Mr_Taviro
12
In 1995, a man named MacArthur Wheeler robbed two banks at gunpoint, he was arrested mere hours later because he didn't wear a mask. instead, he decided to coat his face in lemon juice because he read that lemon juice can be used to make invisible ink. His logic, was that it would make his face invisible. And reportedly, he said to one of the tellers "don't worry, I have a face, it's just invisible". The only thing he did when he was arrested was sigh dejectedly and say "but I wore the juice!". His case is actually still in academic journals regarding the fact that people with low intelligence do in fact believe that they're smarter than everyone else. - AnnigidWilliams
13
From the time it was discovered to the time it lost its status as a planet, Pluto made it less than a third of the way around the sun. - SaturnRocket
14
Every human could fit into a cubic mile. - Chalkyteton
15
That a spy named Joan Pujol Garcia was awarded the highest honor of service from both the Allies and Axis in the Second World War. - Bma1500
16
2/3 of Canada’s population lives south of Seattle. https://tobysimkin.com/49th-parallel/ - never_mind___
17
105 billion people have lived so far. 7.9 billion of us are currently alive. - Figurinitoutfornow
18
Oxford university is older than the Aztec empire. - didijxk
19
One of Joseph Stalin's granddaughters is a hipster/punk lady who runs a record shop in Portland - TrumpsNeckSmegma
20
That dolphins can kill, rape, and injure people(and they have) it’s just hard to believe that an animal that looks innocent can kill you. - beatafurry
21
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. Roughly by a factor of 10. - TyroneMings
22
Clouds weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds, full of water, effortlessly floating above our heads. No support, No structure, just weight, floating around above us and we're like, yep totally believable, because they're clouds, duh. - dang_dude_dont
23
Lightning bolts can reach temperatures 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun. - PretzylPower
24
A moose can dive underwater down to nearly twenty feet in search of food - ofsquire
25
Dinosaurs are older than grass. Every artist rendition you've seen of them roaming fields is wrong. Most ground level plants were ferns or flowering bushes, not grass. - AJCLEG98
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