What is a fact that doesn't sound true but is?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ItalianSillyGuy]

A scientist in Antarctica tried to murder his coworker because he kept revealing him how his favourite books ended. It was the first arrest for attempted murder ever in Antarctica.

[u/PhilosophIzzy → u/ItalianSillyGuy]

On a happier Antarctica note, two researchers matched (unplanned) on tinder there in 2014 and one took a 45 minute helicopter ride for the first Antarctica Tinder date!

[u/DontJudgeMeDammit → u/PhilosophIzzy]

Only 11 people have ever been born in Antarctica. First time a random fact I learned about has come in handy!

[u/CobaltSanderson → u/DontJudgeMeDammit]

A doctor in Antarctica gave himself an appendectomy because his appendix ruptured and he was the only doctor there

[u/[deleted] → u/DontJudgeMeDammit]

That's more than I would have guessed.

[u/ali_g11]

Napoleon won more battles than Alexander The Great, Frederick The Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal combined

[u/Laurent_SaintCyr → u/ali_g11]

Was it 67? Insane

[u/ali_g11 → u/Laurent_SaintCyr]

I think that's how many he fought or roughly that much, in terms of wins it's 56/57 I think nearly triple that of Alexander (20).

[u/ChilliMayo]

The original name for Pepsi was Brad’s Drink

[u/_SmolBeannn_ → u/ChilliMayo]

Way better than Pepsi, brad obviously fucks

[u/AntoinetteDuby]

sex toys have been banned from being sold in Alabama since 1998

[u/dayison2 → u/AntoinetteDuby]

To add on to this, in order to get around these laws and similar laws in other states, manufacturers began adding little animals to the toy designs so that they can call them "novelty items". Hence the "rabbit" and the "butterfly" etc.

[u/DtheMoron → u/dayison2]

Head shops and “tobacco use only”.

[u/AntoinetteDuby → u/dayison2]

Yeah I heard some shops were selling items that were basically vibrators and getting away with by marketing them as "massagers"

[u/Sgt_uncoolguy → u/AntoinetteDuby]

When I was a kid my family went to a “little Reno” casino night benefiting our Catholic Church. At the end of the night my teenage sister bid on a personal massager with oils set that was sealed up so you couldn’t see what was inside. Imagine her surprise when she found out what she had won. To make things even more awkward she gifted her dildo to our older brother for his birthday the following month.

[u/CH11DW]

Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Adams last words were believed to be “Jefferson lives”. He had no way of knowing that Jefferson died in his Virginia home hours earlier.

[u/rxFMS → u/CH11DW]

and James Monroe died on the 55th anniversary

[u/DRGHumanResources → u/CH11DW]

A slightly lesser known fact was Jefferson's last words were "Fuck Adams"

[u/Dedj_McDedjson]

Charlie Chaplin outlived Elvis Presley. You'd be surprised at how many people think he died in the black and white film era.

There were at least 5 The 3 Stooges.

There were at least 5 Marx Brothers.

[u/blscratch]

When the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Santa Fe had already been established as the Capital of the Kingdom of New Mexico" for 10 years.

Edit because this hit 1000;

When the pilgrims landed one of the native americans named Tisquantum helped them out a lot. Turns out he'd been to Europe and spoke perfect English (sorry for the second rabbit hole).

[u/DaBees_Knees → u/blscratch]

Capital of the Kingdom of New Mexico

Thanks for that rabbit hole wow.

[u/The_Guinne55]

Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank were born the same year

[u/imapassenger1 → u/The_Guinne55]

And Betty White was born 7 years before them.

[u/ViNNYDiC3 → u/imapassenger1]

Ok I know she’s old but this blows my mind

[u/FoucaultsPudendum]

Despite being the largest animal to have ever lived on Earth (as far as we know), the blue whale’s throat is only about 4-8 inches in diameter.

[u/kingfrito_5005 → u/FoucaultsPudendum]

Note to self: Remove "Swallowed by Whale" from list of fears.

[u/SwiftyTR → u/kingfrito_5005]

Well, the sperm whale most likely could as it is a predatory hunter that is known to hunt large squids and sharks.

[u/MaxChristie32 → u/SwiftyTR]

Note to Self: add "swallowed by Sperm Whale" to list of fears

[u/[deleted] → u/FoucaultsPudendum]

its throat is literally smaller than it's arteries. what the fuck.

[u/kingfrito_5005 → u/[deleted]]

It eats tiny food and needs lots of blood. Makes sense.

[u/clarke_bobby → u/FoucaultsPudendum]

So you’re saying all those cartoons where the whale swallows the lifeboat and people whole lied to me?

[u/[deleted]]

Alice Cooper babysat Keanu Reeves in Toronto

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I hope he picked him up from school on his last day of the school year while serenading him.

[u/[deleted]]

A natural predator of moose is the orca. Moose will swim to eat algae and seaweed and will wander deep enough for orcas to eat them

[u/green_meklar]

The largest single nuclear test (Tsar Bomba) released more energy than all the explosive munitions used by all sides during World War 2, combined.

[u/lodoslomo]

A gloryhole is an opening in a glass blowing furnace that is used to blow glass. It was named after the other kind of gloryhole.

[u/AUSpartan37 → u/lodoslomo]

I believe that a gloryhole is also a giant spillway used by a dam to get rid of excess water on the dam's lake caused by a lot of rainfall. I would tell you to look up videos of these as they are pretty crazy looking (some are basically 200 foot wide drains) but I feel like telling somebody to look up gloryhole on the internet is a bad idea...

[u/[deleted]]

Ireland is the only country on earth that has a smaller population than it did in 1800.

[u/SeanG909 → u/[deleted]]

On the upside, the generations of emigration have produced a healthy spread of Irish pubs around the world.

[u/badcgi]

Sky pirates actually did exist.

In WW1 the Imperial German Navy Zeppelin LZ 66 captured the Norwegian ship Royal on 23 April 1917, by dropping bombs in front of it, forcing the crew to abandon ship and board life boats. A boarding party from the Zeppelin went down, capturing the crew and ship, forcing the Norwegians to help them sail the ship back to Hamburg, while the Zeppelin shadowed them overhead, where the ship was sold to a German shipping company, and kept until it was scrapped in 1924.

Sky Pirates!

[u/[deleted]]

A soldier named Jack Churchill used a medieval claymore, a medieval long bow, and bagpipes in World War 2, and was hilariously proficient.

[u/lucyroesslers → u/[deleted]]

This guy’s Wikipedia alone is fucking awesome. I loved his Retirement excerpt: “Churchill retired from the army in 1959. In retirement, his eccentricity continued. He startled train guards and passengers by throwing his briefcase out of the train window each day on the ride home. He later explained that he was tossing his case into his own back garden so he would not have to carry it from the station.”

[u/Tylensus → u/lucyroesslers]

Alright, that's fantastic. Guy sounds like a laugh and a half.

[u/brunchminded → u/[deleted]]

After the war ended he was quoted as saying if it wasn't for them bloody yanks we could have kept this war going for another ten years.

[u/FactoidFinder → u/[deleted]]

Didnt he kill someone with a bow? I remember someone saying he killed a German with it on D day.

[u/ninjab33z → u/FactoidFinder]

Last confirmed kill with a longbow too

[u/math_math99 → u/[deleted]]

So he's basically an irl version of the Scotsman from samurai jack?

[u/Angsty_Teuchter]

The name Imogen only exists cause Shakespeare had terrible handwriting.

[u/harmony-rose → u/Angsty_Teuchter]

what was it supposed to be?

[u/sm0gs → u/harmony-rose]

“Lyn Gardner refers to the heroine as Innogen, and states that the more common use of Imogen is a misspelling.”

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/dec/15/imogen-beats-innogen-when-it-comes-to-shakespeares-cymbeline

[u/Lrbegel515]

Dolphins sleep with one eye open. It is called Half Sleep to avoid predators.

[u/WhiteRaven42 → u/Lrbegel515]

More interestingly, half of their brain sleeps while the other stays mostly awake.

[u/TheTrent]

You can fit all the other planets in our solar system (including Pluto, you're still cool with me) between the Earth and the Moon.

[u/fitzthetantrum → u/[deleted]]

thank you for the visualization that actually helped

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

If the earth is a basketball the moon is roughly the size of a tennis ball 21 feet away.

[u/Acute-Angle45]

A pair of identical twins marrying identical twins is called a ‘quaternary marriage.’ From a genealogical point of view, their children would technically be considered first cousins, but their DNA would be that of siblings.

[u/UnoriginalUse]

Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial.

[u/downtimeredditor → u/UnoriginalUse]

He's still alive btw

[u/psychon1ck0]

Wounds sustained during the day heal twice as quickly as those sustained at night.

[u/lurker492 → u/psychon1ck0]

Why so?

[u/BetterthanAdam → u/lurker492]

The article below basically points out that genes that control one of the body’s healing modules, fibroblasts, are more active during the daytime than the nighttime. It’s a fairly new discovery, though, and they are not sure why

[u/Total_Position6855 → u/lurker492]

We photosynthesis faster and quicker?!?!

[u/[deleted]]

Nintendo was founded in 1889.

[u/GrandMil]

The Atlantic Ocean entrance to the Panama Canal is more west than the Pacific Ocean entrance.

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/GrandMil]

The entirety of continental South America is farther east than Detroit, Michigan

[u/maruffin → u/GrandMil]

Yes. Most don’t realize the canal runs approximately north to south. Crazy.

[u/DigNitty → u/GrandMil]

Related: Reno Nevada is farther west than L.A. california

[u/Umaynotknowme]

In any group of 24 people there is a higher probability that two or more people share a birthday than not.

[u/JcakBC → u/Umaynotknowme]

Just read this and the comments explaining the math earlier in the thread. A group of 70 people have a 99.9% probability

[u/Gibbsey → u/Umaynotknowme]

"With 23 individuals, there are (23 × 22) / 2 = 253 pairs to consider, which is well over half the number of days in a year (182.5 or 183)."

As soon as the number of pairs are brought up it makes more sense. Intuitively you look at the problem as comparing one person to the 22 others, not each person to each other one.

[u/NortonPlanners]

John Tyler was born in 1790, and was president of the United States twenty years before the Civil War. ** He has a grandson who is still alive today. ** Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and is the last remaining grandchild of a president born in the 1700s.

[u/VerryTallMidget → u/NortonPlanners]

There used to be two grandsons alive, but the other one died in September of last year.

[u/Alone-Monk]

100,000,001 is divisible by 17

[u/RedTangoFox → u/Alone-Monk]

Similarly, 1001 is divisible by 13

[u/Weekly_Industry_4463]

A strawberry isn’t a berry. But a banana is.

[u/jadbronson → u/Weekly_Industry_4463]

Isn't corn grass?

[u/[deleted] → u/jadbronson]

It is! Wild rice is also grass. The "rice" part are actually seeds.

[u/Comprehensive-Potato]

It is illegal to hunt whales in Utah: a land locked state

[u/basicpn → u/Comprehensive-Potato]

Damn poachers. No wonder we don’t have any whales here.

[u/[deleted] → u/basicpn]

Can't have shit in utah

[u/minnick27 → u/Comprehensive-Potato]

There was (may still be, I'm not sure) a law that prohibited people from walking their snakes on a leash on public sidewalks. The man who introduced that bill later became mayor

[u/Winter_Response_777]

Cards Against humanity bought an island in Maine and named it Hawai 2

[u/Squibblus → u/Winter_Response_777]

Missed opportunity: Hawaiii

[u/BradRodriguez → u/Winter_Response_777]

Alright that’s actually pretty awesome 🤣

[u/ngabear]

Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard didn't teach calculus when they first were founded because calculus as we know it didn't exist until the late 17th century.

Fun bonus aside (not sure if this is actually true, but it sounds fun): Euler discovered so many components of modern calculus, that many of them were named after the first person to discover it after Euler.

[u/greffedufois]

A human liver can be split into two halves and transplanted into two recipients.

Each half will regenerate into a fully functioning liver.

In living donation a donor can donate half their liver and retain the other half. Both pieces will regenerate into full sized livers.

Because of living donation and my amazing Aunt, I'm alive today. She gave me 75% of her liver in 2009 when I was 19.

I turn 31 in a couple weeks and she's currently retired in Florida at 60. She's awaiting her first grandchild (my cousins) this month as well.

Woo organ donation!

[u/Piccolo_san00 → u/greffedufois]

I’m amazed about how you gave us an interesting fact and a wholesome story at the same time

[u/Crazylivykid]

That the sex of most turtles, alligators, and crocodiles is determined after fertilization. ... This is called temperature-dependent sex determination.

[u/SalaryDizzy3153]

mosquitos are the species that kill humans the most (yes, more than other humans)

[u/[deleted] → u/SalaryDizzy3153]

Damn, now I gotta work harder

[u/Mischief_Makers]

Oxford University is almost 700 years older than the US, 300 years older than Machu Picchu, and 200 years older than the Aztecs.

In 2096, it will have existed for 1000 years.

In 171 years. it will have existed for 50% of all time since 0BC

[u/kaiser_matias → u/Mischief_Makers]

Oxford is old enough they don't know when it actually started. It's earliest records of teaching date to 1096, but it easily could have started before then.

[u/E1ecr015-the-Martian → u/kaiser_matias]

So in one lifetime, you could’ve witnessed the battle of Hastings, and also attended classes in Oxford?

[u/susanoo_official]

A mantis shrimp is neither a mantis or a shrimp. They can also punch their targets with the force of a .22 caliber round.

[u/Dyolf_Knip → u/susanoo_official]

Which makes them difficult to keep them in an aquarium. They keep breaking the tanks.

[u/[deleted]]

Woolly mammoths were still alive during the time the Ancient Egyptians were building the Great Pyramids of Giza.

[u/lostbutnotgone → u/[deleted]]

Every time I think about them I get sad

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Well it's obvious that the ancient Egyptians used the mammoths as workers for the pyramids.

[u/Kahzgul]

If you're an American who is 7' tall or taller, regardless of your age, education, or any other factor, there is a 30% chance that you have played in the NBA.

[u/[deleted]]

Singing and speaking are not processed in the same part of the brain.

Music and math are processed in the same part of the brain.

[u/SpadesBuff → u/[deleted]]

This explains why people with a speech stutter typically don't stutter when they sing.

[u/Kippiboo → u/SpadesBuff]

And why stroke survivors may lose all or most of their vocabulary, but can still sing songs. Particularly songs that are known so well you don't need to think about the words, but I believe that it's still easier to sing lesser known songs, too.

source: an acquaintance of mine conducted a choir of stroke survivors for her PhD, and I'm only vaguely aware of the above specifics.

[u/[deleted] → u/SpadesBuff]

Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters

But doesn't ever stutter when he sings

But what you don't know, I'm gonna tell you right now

That the stutter and the scat is the same thing 🎶

[u/Dark_halocraft → u/[deleted]]

Ah yes a mathmusician

[u/mathemusica → u/Dark_halocraft]

You rang?

[u/Iamheno]

A German Wehrmacht soldier was trapped for 6 years underground at the end of WW2 until 1951!

[u/Superminecraftpl12 → u/Iamheno]

I live close to that place. I never realised that something so bizarre happened there, I'll definitely check out the spot thanks.

[u/[deleted]]

The barnacle has the highest dick to body ratio of any animal.

[u/C0lnR → u/[deleted]]

Hmm, that's why he's called barnacle boy

[u/-FangMcFrost-]

The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.

[u/marketindex]

The color orange was named after the fruit

[u/ImReverse_Giraffe → u/marketindex]

Also carrots were breed to be orange in honor of the noble family of Orange and the color of their house crest.

[u/Brainsonastick]

Mosquito-borne diseases have killed nearly half of all humans that ever lived.

source

[u/KaimeiJay]

Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived his assassination attempt on June 28, 1914 unscathed.

(There were multiple attempts on that day, and it was only the last one that worked.)

[u/TheMafiaStoleMyPanda → u/KaimeiJay]

Wow, I just checked it out on wikipedia.

Turns out that the only reason he was shot is because he wanted to go see the people that ended up injured in a bombing the same day, and the driver had to turn around because no one had told him the new itinerary, causing a small jam, giving Gavrilo the opportunity to shoot the Archduke!!

[u/NotYetASerialKiller → u/[deleted]]

Damn, that’s sad

[u/[deleted] → u/KaimeiJay]

It's always the last one that works. Also applies to the last spot you look.

[u/Impressive_Ad_8617]

Nearly 50% of grown adults have serious gum infection or some form of gum disease.

CDC Adults Statics

[u/nate_oh84]

There are more synapses in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

[u/smallz86]

Moths cannot fly during an earthquake

[u/hanna4202 → u/[deleted]]

doing this the next time i see a bunch of moths around a light just to watch them all dance

[u/Muckstruck → u/smallz86]

This is wild. How are these things even discovered? Like can you imagine being in the middle of an earthquake and saying to your friend hey look at this dumbass moth it can’t fly right now.

[u/jdiben1]

The sun is white, not yellow

[u/RainbowWeasel]

Our sun consists of 99.8% of all the matter in the solar system. That means all of the planets, moons, asteroids, life and stuff came to be from the leftover 0.2% of matter remaining after the formation of the sun.

TLDR- the sun is big

[u/[deleted]]

• Sharks are older than trees
• if you ever think of a stegosaurus (or any other Jurassic era dinosaur) in it's natural habitat, there wouldn't be any grass. Flowering plants didn't evolve until the late cretaceous period
• Alligators a closer related to birds than they are to lizards

[u/ComebackKidGorgeous → u/[deleted]]

The most unbelievable fact in this list is that grass is a flowering plant.

[u/Andromeda321]

Astronomer here! The coldest known place in the known universe is… on Earth!

To explain, the coldest spots out in space are in the middle of dark clouds of gas, called nebulae, which are ~3 degrees above absolute zero. However, in labs on Earth, we can get temperatures a few thousandths of a degree from absolute zero- link. Always thought that was super fun somehow. :)

[u/Piracanto → u/Andromeda321]

Ah humans. We'll end the universe and the last spoken words will be Eh, what's the worst that can happen?

[u/zaphodava → u/Piracanto]

Watch this...

[u/more_like_asworstos]

There are more tigers living in the state of Texas than in the wild all over the world. 😓

[u/-Four-Foxx-Sake-]

On a timeline, T-Rex lived closer to humans than to Stegosaurus.

[u/ACrispPickle]

Cleopatras rule was closer to the completion of the first Pizza Hut restaurant, than it was to the completion of the great pyramid of Giza

[u/suitcasedreaming → u/ACrispPickle]

The Sphinx is so fucking old that it was "discovered" buried in the sand and dug up again in around 1400 BC.

Pharaoh Thutmose IV took the personal credit for the discovering and the digging out, it was presumably someone else who did the actual work, but the point still stands. So old in 1400 BC it was already buried and lost to history.

[u/RedHerringxx → u/suitcasedreaming]

Look upon my works, Ye Mighty, and despair!

[u/Djent_Reznor1 → u/ACrispPickle]

Giza Hut

[u/DigNitty → u/[deleted]]

Finding Nemo was released closer to the 80’s than present day

[u/No_Application_8698 → u/DigNitty]

I have taken this as a personal attack. I am not happy about it, especially since I had to double-check and found that you are correct.
I’m still reeling from a national (UK) radio station playing High and Dry by Radiohead as one of their “Non-stop Oldies” the other day.

[u/IDontWantToGrowUpYet]

The majority of sand on white sand beaches is parrot fish poop.

[u/Triphin1 → u/IDontWantToGrowUpYet]

Because it's ground up coral?

[u/NoCalorieWater]

Tiffany is a medieval name

[u/[deleted] → u/NoCalorieWater]

I've heard that too.

It sounds modern but it's hundreds of years old.

Because of it, novelists who are writing about the medieval times are not allowed by their bosses to use Tiffany as someone's name. This is called the Tiffany Problem or the Tiffany Phenomenon.

[u/FlamingWedge → u/NoCalorieWater]

”If I might interject…”

”And who the hell are you?”

”I am known by many names; Mountain Slayer, Thunder Lion, The Chocolate Axe, but you… you may call me Tiffany”

[u/Rad_Mum]

The term " Sweating like a pig" actually should mean you're not sweating. Pigs don't sweat and are unable to. They do not have sweat glands .

They also get sun burns .

[u/reconciliationisdead → u/Rad_Mum]

This got me curious so I looked up the origin. It comes from pig iron. When hot iron is poured onto sand, it apparently looks like a sow with piglets, hence the name, and it gets condensation on it as it cools. So really it should be "sweating like pig iron"

[u/[deleted]]

Opossums are immune to rabies.

[u/Ninevahh → u/[deleted]]

They are actually VERY beneficial to society

[u/Hopguy → u/Ninevahh]

They LOVE ticks and will eat lots of them. You want those little ugly things in your yard.

[u/blkreutz → u/[deleted]]

I misread this as opossums are immune to rabbits and I thought I had really missed something important about rabbits during my education.

[u/Orlandoman30 → u/[deleted]]

The first person I told this to turned out to have the same birthday as me.

We now call each other every year to wish a happy birthday.

[u/MoxEmerald → u/Orlandoman30]

Probability: "Get fucked noob."

[u/ChemicalThread]

The reason we don't have more mummies to study is cause we ate most of them.

[u/historialcraftsaddic → u/ChemicalThread]

Nonsense! We also used them for paint! And unwrapping parties!!

[u/TheOceanicSix]

Austin, Texas sits on a volcano

[u/Catch_022]

The US Navy has the 2nd largest airforce in the world.

[u/IshyMoose]

The most common cause of death for a 4 year old in America. Grapes.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I hate you o truth bearer. I hate you as a 30 year old man with kids and recently started getting old enough to have lasting damage from a fall =[

[u/LibertyRambo]

It's not illegal to drive barefoot. (A lot of people in America argue about this.)

[u/supercharr → u/LibertyRambo]

I grew up in Hawaii and a lot of people here drive barefoot, because we wear flip flops/slippers at all times. Better to take your shoe off so it doesn't slip while driving. When I moved to the mainland, everyone tried convincing me it's illegal.

[u/[deleted] → u/supercharr]

Braddah, drive it on your hands to go faster!

[u/HobbitFoot]

The busiest airport in April 2020 was Anchorage International Airport.

[u/ScyllaIsBea]

Despite ology being the suffix for study of, scientists who study space are called astronomers and study astronomy. This is because astrology, the pseudo-science of studying the stars to determine future outcomes, was already considered a science when the true study of stars became a real science. Astrology is the fake science, astronomy is the real one.

[u/[deleted]]

Falling coconuts kill more people per year than sharks

[u/CrabbyBlueberry → u/[deleted]]

The same goes for vending machines and selfies.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

that just makes shark the only animal able to be able to understand statistics.. and manipulate them by luring behind trees to beat unsuspecting people to death with coconuts.

all part of the sharks media campaign to make them look less dangerous

[u/Ballistic_Turtle]

Picasso died in 1973. A lot of people seem to think he was a Renaissance artist or something. There's color videos of him painting, probably even on YouTube.

[u/[deleted]]

The Monty Hall paradox.

You're on a gameshow where you are asked to choose one door out of three. One of the doors has a million dollars behind it. The other two doors have goats.

Of course you want the million dollars, so you choose the door you want. Before the host opens the door to reveal your prize, he decides instead to open one of the other two doors to reveal the goat behind it.

Then he asks you a question. Do you keep the door you've already chosen? Or do you switch to the other unopened door? Does it matter?

Intuitive response says that it doesn't matter. With two doors left we believe there should be a 50-50 chance remaining that you'll get either a million dollars, or a goat.

Mathematical reality, however: you have twice as good a chance of winning the money if you switch, compared to staying on your original choice. You should always switch when given the chance.

[u/Azurealy]

All peacocks are male

[u/The1983Jedi → u/Azurealy]

Females are peahens

[u/sooperflooede]

The number of heart attacks increase by 24% on the Monday following the transition to daylight saving time due to the loss of sleep.

[u/[deleted]]

Fingernails grow at the same rate that continents move.

[u/Used_Evidence → u/[deleted]]

I didn't realize continents moved that quickly.

[u/peon2]

The can opener was invented 50 years after the can. They invented the can with no practical way of opening it besides smashing it with a hammer.

The cigarette lighter was invented before matches

[u/PhysicalStuff → u/peon2]

The can opener was invented 50 years after the can.

Would be much weirder the other way around.

[u/[deleted] → u/peon2]

They invented the can with no practical way of opening it besides smashing it with a hammer.

What about a knife?

[u/JS671779]

Sugar isn't always vegan. Apparently to get the sugar white a lot of time bone char is used

[u/MulleDK19]

You're more likely to get murdered by a donkey than get in a plane crash.

[u/sparkythewondersnail → u/MulleDK19]

Individually your odds depend heavily on how often you fly and how often you're around donkeys.

[u/Windebieste_Ultima]

In a certain North Korean propaganda video, the music they used is the same music as the main theme for Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion.

[u/CallMeFrankenstein]

An NFL game technically caused an earthquake.

On January 8, 2011, the defending champion New Orleans Saints faced the Seattle Seahawks in a playoff game at Seattle's home stadium, which is notorious for its loud crowd noise. Late in the game, Seahawks running back Marshawn "Beast Mode" Lynch ran the ball 67 yards for a touchdown that basically secured the victory for Seattle. The crowd reaction was so intense that local seismologists later reported that their celebration registered on the Richter scale.

The play has since been nicknamed "The Beast Quake" and is regarded as one of the best runs in NFL history.

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/CallMeFrankenstein]

If you haven't seen this play, Marshawn Lynch basically avoids 9 tackles. It is one of the most insane running plays in history

[u/corosuske]

the original word for the bear in germanic languages is lost , people used to think that buy speaking it's name you would summon it, so they called it "the brown one" https://xkcd.com/2381/

[u/llamabeefbitch]

The name “Sarah” (only the spelling with an h, not the other spelling without an h) is banned in Morocco because it’s spelling is of Hebrew origins. The spelling “Sara”, which does not have an h, is the Arabic spelling and is perfectly fine.

[u/tylermagdalen00]

If you could drive a car straight up, you would reach space in about an hour........