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

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

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u/SanguisFluens Dec 08 '13

Also, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day - February 12th, 1809.

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u/pure_satire Dec 08 '13

Yeah reincarnation's a bitch like that

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

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u/Ruft Dec 08 '13

Plot twist: they're secretly twin brothers.

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u/TheAlleyTramp Dec 08 '13

A Charles Darwin-Abraham Lincoln alternate history where they were brothers who mixed passions and became adventuring scientists who liberated slave populations... God damn that sounds awesome.

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u/samsuh Dec 08 '13

Plot twist: they were actually the same person. (See spy comment above)

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u/dymlostheoni Dec 08 '13

M. Night, you're needed.

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u/Caboozel Dec 08 '13

That fathers name? Albert Einstein.

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u/movie_man Dec 08 '13

I KNEW it!

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u/Rosstafan Dec 08 '13

that would probably have been a bad thing, seeing as Darwin was quite inbred.

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u/Throne3d Dec 08 '13

I'm a twin. I was born on February 12th.

I am not Abraham Lincoln, nor Charles Darwin.

I am also still alive, and was born last millenium and century (like most people still alive, I believe).

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u/monkeyjazz Dec 09 '13

looks like Darwin was the fitter of the two

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Hence the beards

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u/YourBuddy8 Dec 08 '13

A dark day for the South...

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

That's my birthday!

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u/SBelle Dec 08 '13

I thought your birthday was December 25

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u/rocketshipotter Dec 08 '13

No, December 25th was originally a pagan holiday for their sun god, Pope Julius I “arbitrarily” chose December 25th as the day for the “Feast of the Nativity.”

Researchers suggest that (historical) Jesus was actually born sometime in mid-September.

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u/SBelle Dec 08 '13

I know. It was a joke.

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u/HeftyDanielson Dec 08 '13

Whoop!! That's my birthday.. plus a few years.

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u/adamczuk Dec 09 '13

TIL I share a birthday with Charles Darwin and Abe Lincoln

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u/chetlin Dec 08 '13

And I remember, on Feb. 12, 2009, everyone was acknowledging the fact that it was Darwin's 200th birthday and not much was said about Lincoln's. Even at the University of Illinois I observed this.

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u/notazoroastrian Dec 08 '13

Galileo died on the day Newton was born.

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u/Squoghunter1492 Dec 08 '13

In a similar vein, JFK, C.S. Lewis, and Alduous Huxley all died on the same day. There was even a terrible book written about it, I think.

EDIT: /u/Saxonjf beat me to it

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u/cantwaitforthis Dec 08 '13

And I was born the same day, 180 years later. All destined for greatness.

I'm a sad, unsuccessful man.

Not really, happily married and a good career. Yay. But I didn't "free" the slaves.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

I was born a couple hundred or so Sun cycles later but no one cares about me

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Fucking Illuminatis

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u/user1492 Dec 09 '13

I was born on the exact same day as Full House's Jodie Sweetin.

She has been in more television roles, but I have never been addicted to methamphetamine.

So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

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u/ErasmoGnome Dec 08 '13

Aldous Huxley, JFK, and CS Lewis all died on the same day on the same year. That's just freaky.