Would you believe it if we told you that a chicken can live for 18 months without its head? It’s understandable to beskeptical, but it is true. It happened in 1940s America involving a chicken named Mike. Here’s thefull story.We have a handful on this list if you want more of that. We’ve compiled responses to this recentReddit question: “What’s a fact about the world that sounds totally fake but is 100% true?”Some of these answers may blow your mind. If you enjoy nerding out onrandom factsaboutthe world, this one’s for you. But either way, you will likely learn something new today.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Would you believe it if we told you that a chicken can live for 18 months without its head? It’s understandable to beskeptical, but it is true. It happened in 1940s America involving a chicken named Mike. Here’s thefull story.
We have a handful on this list if you want more of that. We’ve compiled responses to this recentReddit question: “What’s a fact about the world that sounds totally fake but is 100% true?”
Some of these answers may blow your mind. If you enjoy nerding out onrandom factsaboutthe world, this one’s for you. But either way, you will likely learn something new today.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
Over 70 years ago then Naval Lieutenant James “Jimmy” Carter led a team that walked into a melting nuclear reactor core and shut it down safely. He got dosed with so much radioactivity (10,000x more than what we now consider safe) he pissed radioactive whizz for months. Yet he outlived not only his Presidential successor but his successor. He’s the nations oldest President ever, and recently celebrated his 78th wedding anniversary, also a record for a president.
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In Switzerland, it’s illegal to own 1 guinea pig. They consider them social animals and require companionship, so you have to have at least two!
Birds have been observed intentionally lining their nests with cigarette butts. While the nicotine in them is toxic to the birds, it’s a low enough dose that it’s not a significant risk to them in the short term (they don’t live long enough for the long term effects to be a problem), and it klls parasites that may try to hide in the nest and infect the chicks.Smaller bird species have been sighted stealing the anti-bird spikes that we put on buildings and lining their nests with them, like little palisade walls against other birds and predators. A small species like a songbird can navigate the spikes easily, but it makes it more difficult for a predator like a hawk or a rat to get to the nest.Crows have also been observed stealing lit cigarettes from ashtrays and wafting the smoke through their feathers to kll parasites.
During the great depression, FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps for young men. They planted over 2 BILLION! trees in their 7 years of existence. They also built a lot of the buildings and lodges at the national parks.
The sea produces more oxygen than trees.
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.
Pistachio ice cream is about 2000 years older than Chocolate or Vanilla ice cream. Persians were making ice cream as early as 500BC, often flavored with Pistachio. Chocolate and Vanilla, on the other hand, are native to the New World and wouldn’t make it there for another two thousand years.
How old the Appalachian Mountains really are:They are older than trees, bones (including all dinosaurs), and the splitting of Pangaea – so part of the mountain range is in Scotland.The layering on the mountains looks “wrong” at some points because the tops of the mountains have eroded down & “new” geological forces have caused parts that weren’t the top to rise above that…so the valleys of the current mountains may actually be the top of the original Appalachian Mountains.
Cows have best friends!! you know how wee see them group all the time but they still has this their very best of friends for them. if they would sperate they’ll get stressed about it. they really have this strong bond.
A million seconds is about 11.5 days.A billion seconds is over 31 YEARS.Think about that when you consider the wealth of a millionaire vs a billionaire.
80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.
There are bears in super rural parts of Russia that are addicted to huffing fuel meant for the power generators, and there’s nothing the locals can do about it, because when the locals try and take away the fuel from the bears it doesn’t go well.
Chloroplasts are the organelles responsible for photosynthesis.A sea slug called the emerald elysia, which has a transparent body, steals chloroplasts from algae and packs them into its own cells.The chloroplasts continue to photosynthesize, providing the slug with ~80% of the total calories it will consume over its life.
Italy didn’t have widespread use of the tomato until the 1700s and the pasta sauces we think of being a core of their cuisine didn’t exist until the 19th century.Flurb4:It’s amazing how many New World plants are central to what we think of as “classic” Old World ethnic or regional cuisines — tomatoes in Italy and around the Mediterranean, potatoes in Ireland, chilis all across South and East Asia.
We need a steady supply of horseshoe crab blood to run our modern medical system. Their blood contains compounds that detect miniscule amounts of harmful bacteria, otherwise IV drugs wouldn’t be safe.
There’s a type of jellyfish that’s immortal. The Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the “immortal jellyfish,” can transform its body into a younger state through a process called transdifferentiation, essentially making it immortal.
Mammoths were alive during the construction of the Great Pyramid.Also if you put it on a timeline, Cleopatra and Ceaser are closer to today than to the construction of the Great Pyramid.
Gavrilo Princip tried to kll Archduke Franz Ferdinand during a parade through the streets of Sarajevo, but could not get close enough to the motorcade because of security. Later in the day, after the parade had been over for hours, Princip retreated sullenly to a small sandwich shop elsewhere in the city, when suddenly and completely out of the f*****g blue, Franz Ferdinand just happened to roll past him on his way back from a speech after taking an unscheduled detour down the same street as the sandwich shop. Princip walked right up to the car and shot the Archduke at point-blank range, klling him, which started World War I – the deadliest conflict in human history up to that point.
There are currently more chickens than all other birds combined on this lovely planet.
Chimpanzees share more DNA in common with humans than they do with any other primate.
1/120 humans alive today are slaves paid nothing for their work. This doesn’t include low wage slaves such as US prisoners. There are more slaves today than any other point in history.
Earth’s core is as hot as the Sun’s surface.
Australia is wider across than the moon.
About 25% of people on earth don’t know their birthday because they’re from countries that don’t have birth certificates. That’s why about 14% of immigrants to the U.S. list January 1 as their birthday - because they had to make one up.
You can hear a blue whale’s heartbeat from more than 2 miles away. Now that’s some serious love!
We don’t know how much coastline there is on Earth.It’s called “The Coastline Paradox”. Coastlines are fractal. Sure, we can look at a broad scale map, but miss all the tiny variations, sometimes mere ft or centimeters. These add up to huge numbers. Measuring the length of a coastline is tricky because the result depends on how detailed your measurement is. Imagine walking along the shore with a ruler: if you use a big ruler, you’ll skip over small curves and bumps, giving you a shorter measurement. But if you use a smaller ruler, you can measure all the little details, and the coastline will seem much longer. Plus, it’s always changing. Erosion, cliff collapse, water levels rising, volcanic events adding or removing it.
Saudi Arabia imports sand.Bonus fact: they also import camels.
Screech owls will sometimes bring live sankes into their nests with their chicks nesting inside. Probably because the tiny snakes will eat parasites, although the chicks do sometimes eat the snakes.
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A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
We ground up most of the ancient Egyptian mummies into powder to paint with or…eat.SuperHyperFunTime:The Victorians were a fucking savage bunch.
There is also a shark (greenland shark, i think) that lives like 500 years; so there are sharks alive today that were alive before America became a country.
Honey never spoils; researchers discovered edible honey in the pyramids.
Caterpillars essentially liquify themselves, before turning into butterflies, in a process called larval ecdysis.
The timespan between the use of copper swords and then steel swords is longer then the timespan between the use of steel swords and the nuclear bombs.Syscrush:Related: nuclear bombs were invented before the compound bow.
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Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
The earth is a spheroid, not a sphere. Because of the effects of rotating around the axis, earth’s diameter is actually about 45km wider around the equator then it is going from pole to pole.
There’s a supervolcano under yellowstone that if it erupted would wipe out a good chunk of the human population.
There are only like 25 blimps left. Additionally, not many of them are even in use anymore, I think they estimate like 10-15 of them. So if you see a blimp nowadays, it’s a much rarer sighting than it used to be!Edit: someone pointed out that I meant “airship” not blimp. There are even fewer ones which are classified as “blimp”, which is a nonrigid airship.
Tyrannosaurus (approx 70 million years ago) lived closer in time to humans than to stegosaurus (150 million years ago).
Nearly 70% of smokers will die from smoke related illnesses.This is the fact that got me to quit.
Japan is simultaneously farther east, west, north, and south of Korea.
Bananas are berries, while strawberries are not, due to the botanical definitions of these fruits.
There are WAY more trees on earth than stars in the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
There are more Hydrogen atoms in a molecule of water than there are stars in the solar system.
Dinosaur fossils were already a thing when dinosaurs were still alive.For example; Stegosaurus had been extinct for ~85 million years before T-Rex showed up. So while Rex was enjoying some Triceratops steak, Stegosaurs were already dead and gone for millions of years.
There is a species of frog that can freeze in the winter and come back. There is another species of frog that traps itself in a snot bubble for six months durring dry season.
If you take every steel wire used in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge’s cables and line them up end-to-end, they’d wrap around the equator over 2 times.
Nuclear Reactors can be natural and there’s been one on earth for over a billion years.
If everyone on Earth competed in a 1v1 tournament. The winner would be decided in just 33 rounds.
Lighter were invented before matches.
7% of the entire human population since humans began, are alive today.
There are more ways to shuffle a standard deck of cards than there are atoms on earth.
If you are in a room with 22 other people there is a 50% chance that two people share the same birthday.
All the other planets, if lined up end to end, can fit between the earth and moon (at least, when the moon is at its farthest orbital distance).
Whales descended from tiny deer-like animals which is why they are mammals.LaMuchedumbre:Whales’ ancestors weren’t really close to deer at all, they were more while thylacines or wolves. Look up the pakicetus.
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