21 Facts That Sound Fake But Are 100% True

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"The chainsaw was primitively invented to present babies."

Recently, a post connected the fashionable Ask Reddit leafage from a now-deleted idiosyncratic caught my eye. In it, they asked, "What’s a information that sounds fake, but is really true?" People listed truthful galore amusive facts, I conscionable had to share. Here are immoderate of the astir interesting:

1. "Radio Shack sued a determination car parts chain, Auto Shack, for infringing connected their name. Auto Shack changed their sanction to AutoZone. Years later, Radio Shack created a conception called POWERZONE, truthful AutoZone sued them for infringing connected their name."

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2. "There would beryllium a batch much past Egyptian mummies astir if the Victorians didn’t crook galore of them into overgarment oregon eat them."

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3. "Pokémon has made much wealth than Harry Potter, Marvel, the Beatles, and Taylor Swift combined. Pokémon is the highest-grossing IP of each time, and it isn’t adjacent remotely close. Pokémon is galore tens of billions of dollars up of 2nd place."

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4. "The US Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands are the same upland range, torn asunder by sheet tectonics. The past mountains are older than sharks, themselves older than the Rings of Saturn, and knew a satellite earlier trees."

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5. "Up until a fewer months ago, John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, had a surviving grandson. John Tyler was calved successful 1790 and took bureau successful 1841 erstwhile helium assumed the presidency upon William Henry Harrison's death; helium had 8 children with his archetypal woman and 7 with his second, the youngest being calved successful 1860 erstwhile helium was 70, making him the US president who fathered the astir children."

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"His lad Lyon had a kid erstwhile helium was 75 years old, successful 1928; Tyler's grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, was surviving successful Virginia until his passing connected May 25th, 2025. The quality from John Tyler's commencement to Harrison Tyler's decease was a span of 235 years."

6. "There are two comic strips called Dennis the Menace — 1 from the UK, 1 from the US. They person thing to bash with each different and were developed wholly separately from each other, but they some premiered connected the aforesaid day: March 12, 1951."

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9. "The largest aerial unit successful the world is the United States Air Force. The 2nd largest aerial unit is the United States Navy."

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11. "There is a fish with the technological sanction Boops boops."

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12. "The first documented usage of OMG to notation to 'Oh my God' was sent by Admiral Jackie Fisher to First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill successful 1917."

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13. "Apple Corps, a grounds statement owned by the Beatles, once sued Apple Computer for sanction infringement. They settled, with Apple Computer paying a interest and agreeing ne'er to get into the euphony business. The archetypal dependable record connected a Mac was called sosumi, a playful jab taunting Apple Corps: 'so writer me.'"

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17. "The satellite PSR J1719−1438b is precise apt a super dense diamond with an oxygen surface."

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18. "As a species, humans tin outrun each different carnal connected Earth implicit agelong distances. EVERY ANIMAL. Its not that we're faster, it's that we person the longest endurance. They mightiness get distant from us, but we ever drawback up erstwhile the carnal gets tired."

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"It’s estimated they died 1,000 years AFTER the large pyramid of Giza was built."

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