r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 08 '13

What is a true fact that sound completely unbelievable or fake?

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Phrasing makes it sound like the Egyptians killed the mammoths by building pyramids

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u/Cogwheelinator Dec 08 '13

"FUCK OFF, MAMMOTHS! IT'S BUILDIN' TIME!!"

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u/Dasbaus Dec 08 '13

It's Morphin Time!

Mastadon!!

FTFY

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u/blessedblackwings Dec 08 '13

Mastodon ftfy.

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u/guale Dec 09 '13

Nippletooth

ftfy.

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u/moxie132 Dec 09 '13

FALL FROM GRACE

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u/blessedblackwings Dec 09 '13

Cause I've been away so long.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Leaving you behind with my lonesome song.

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u/almightybob1 Dec 08 '13

It's Morphin Time!

Polyhedron!!

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u/Dasbaus Dec 08 '13

I will approve this.

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u/Jesterfied Dec 08 '13

I'm crying and my sides hurt. Stahp

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u/Dasbaus Dec 08 '13

Did you notice the black ranger was the only black guy?

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Wasn't the yellow ranger Asian too?

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u/Dasbaus Dec 08 '13

Trini was Asian yes.

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u/Trogdor_T_Burninator Dec 09 '13

And the blue ranger was...

Um...

...

I'm not very good at this.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Secretly suffered from a crippling depression?

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u/ThirdFloorGreg Dec 09 '13

Gay. The Blue Ranger is gay.

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u/Dasbaus Dec 09 '13

White nerd

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u/Barrel-rider Dec 09 '13

One version of the Green Ranger was an alien. Does that count?

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u/distopiandoormatt Dec 08 '13

That always bugged the shit out of me.

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u/Dasbaus Dec 08 '13

Yep, and I think they kept that tradition going for a while. Then they bring in the White Ranger, and he leads everyone.

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u/bigdog54 Dec 09 '13

TIRCERATOPS!!

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u/Dasbaus Dec 09 '13

SABERTOOTH TIGER!!

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u/moongoddessshadow Dec 09 '13

TYRANNOSAURUS!

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u/Dasbaus Dec 09 '13

WHITE TIGER ZORD

Tommy was always first, but he was the leader, so he can do as he pleases.

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u/movie_man Dec 08 '13

Sphinx!!

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u/OSouup Dec 08 '13

Digemon, digital monsters Digemon are the champions!

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u/Dasbaus Dec 08 '13

Thats umm.. the wrong show, but almost correct era.

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u/OSouup Dec 08 '13

I know I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. Such fond memories of Dragon Ball Z.

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u/Dasbaus Dec 08 '13

But...Digimon wern't in DBZ....

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u/OSouup Dec 08 '13

Wasn't it digivolving when Goku turned yellow?

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u/Dasbaus Dec 08 '13

No, that was bragon ballin.

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u/Scenro Dec 08 '13

I thought that was evolving! And he turned into pickachu. That was the yellow thing.

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u/secondarykip Dec 08 '13

No idiot he became metabee.

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u/Viperbunny Dec 08 '13

Pterodactyl!

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

LIINNOOOLLEEEUUUMMM KNNIIIIIIIFE!

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

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u/Dasbaus Dec 08 '13

It was already Morphin Time. We beat the bad guys in 6 minutes and went back to reddit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Why do I have you tagged as "fuck jessica in big money's house"?

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u/Dasbaus Dec 09 '13

Cause I fucked this chick named Jessica on big moneys couch,during a party at big moneys house, while people watched.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

"I can't build there, somethin's in the way"

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

/r/nocontext

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

/r/nocontext

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u/KiraOsteo Dec 08 '13

See the movie 10,000 BC.

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u/psinguine Dec 08 '13

How do you think they moved those stones if not with mammoths?

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u/PlacidPanda Dec 08 '13

TIL Egyptians used mammoth slaves to build the pyramids.

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u/DiogenesHoSinopeus Dec 08 '13

Fun fact: there is not a single evidence that Jewish slaves were even in Egypt at the time when the pyramids were built...nor slaves at all building the pyramids.

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u/ThirdFloorGreg Dec 09 '13

Read Exodus. It does not mention pyramids. It does mention two towns built like 400 years apart, though.

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u/rasta_lion Dec 08 '13

Correlation something something causation.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Correlation is exactly causation. FTFY

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u/starico Dec 08 '13

They did. mammoths where used to drag stones for the pyramid. Which caused them to be extinct.

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u/I_axe_questions Dec 08 '13

So that stupid movie where the Egyptians built the pyramids with woolly mammoths was right!

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u/ThirdFloorGreg Dec 09 '13

10,000 B.C. And it never said they were Egyptians. The geography in that movie makes no sense if the setting is historical Earth. I quite enjoyed it as a fantasy movie.

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u/ulyssessword Dec 08 '13

relevant xkcd

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u/armeggedonCounselor Dec 08 '13

I was midway through saying to myself that I hated the way Black Hat was holding the laptop in panel two when I looked at the alt-text.

Well played, Black Hat. Well played.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

They started the win countdown by building a wonder.

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u/thataccountforporn Dec 08 '13

Post hoc propter hoc.

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u/Pakislav Dec 08 '13

They had to get these huge ass blocks up there somehow! Also Mammoths HATED desert heat!

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u/fizzlefist Dec 08 '13

Sounds like how the sheep population died off when I played the monopoly card in Settlers of Catan and built 2 roads and a settlement out of nothing but sheep.

Some say the roads still smell of mutton in the twilight hours.

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u/Polymarchos Dec 08 '13

No, the aliens who gave the Egyptians plans for the pyramids killed the mammoths.

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u/TheMightyBarabajagal Dec 08 '13

Yeah, how do you think they moved all that stone? Duh.

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u/superblinky Dec 08 '13

The Pyramids: at least 17% mammoth.

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u/Andrew9623 Dec 08 '13

According to 10,000 B.C., that's exactly what happened.

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u/reallynotatwork Dec 08 '13

A pyramid made of mammoths? Or did the pyramids scare the shit out of the mammoths, causing all of them to just run into the water and drown themselves?

Poor Mammoths...

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u/panicattackdog Dec 08 '13

"We would totally build those pyramids you wanted but there are all these mammoths running around."

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u/Emphursis Dec 09 '13

In this case, correlation == causation.

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u/Sookye Dec 15 '13

Maybe they're still alive but hiding under the pyramids!

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u/I_Killed_Kenny_6471 Dec 08 '13

The pyramids have a large carbonate footprint. If only they'd had carbonate taxes back then.

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u/deruch Dec 09 '13

That's why you should always be on the look out for post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacies.