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By:: Timon DJ Spajic; Cracked Writers

August 01, 2021

30 Mind-Blowing Real Facts (That Sound Like Complete Lies)

No matter how much we try to comprehend certain things, the world we live in will never make it easy. Here are 30 brain-melting reminders that most things aren't as simple as they might seem:

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Some of the water you drink is older than the Sun. 4 2+ 8 CRACKED.COM That's even though the Sun is older than the Earth. Some water predates the whole solar system, molecules unchanged for billions of years. — Scientific American

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY IS OLDER THAN THE AZTEC EMPIRE. The Aztec Empire originated in 1325. The first class at Oxford was in 1095. CRACKED.COM — Smithsonian Magazine

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Humans have a second brain, and it's located in guts. CRACA our A neural network comprised of 100 million neurons in our digestive tract is responsible for our mood. Suddenly, gut feeling makes more sense. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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CRACKED.COM Soldiers in an elite German unit are growing left breasts. In their drill, they're hitting that side of their chests with rifles over and over, and that seems to be making breast tissue grow. Scientists just aren't sure how. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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2000 people a yeare are treated POP BRIso OP CRAON People going to the emergency room from hurting themselves while cutting a bagel is so common it has its own name. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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CRACKEDG CON Your body houses trillions of microorganisms, percent of which are unknown to science. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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One in four orthopedic surgeons who have 25 years of experience has performed surgery on the wrong limb at least once. CRACKED.co COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Doctors don't replace your kidney, during a kidney transplant. They add a third one, and transplant in a new ureter to hook it up. CRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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CRACKED There is a link between low cholesterol and violent behavior. Studies have found that people who have low cholesterol levels were more likely to commit violent crimes than people of similar demographics who had normal levels. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Women's brains are four years younger compared to men who are of the same age. According to researchers this is due to an unexplained slower brain metabolism rate, and could also be the reason why women can stay mentally sharp as they age. CRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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There's a thing as fecal transplantation. Fecal transplantation is done to replenish the bacterial normally found in the intestines that have been destroyed by antibiotics or a disease. The procedure is done by infusion of feces from a donor through colonoscopy or by swallowing pills. CRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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A handshake transfers more germs than a kiss. GRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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GEORGE WASHINGTON ALMOST JOINED THE BRITISH NAVY. When he was 14, he would have signed up for the British Army, except his mother wanted him to stay and work on the farm. CRACKED.COM — 5 Insane Alternate Paths American Presidents Almost Took

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Every time you smell a violet, you're smelling it for the first time. A violet's scent comes from compounds called ionones that work by temporarily shutting off your scent receptors forcing you to immediately forget the smell.. The scent receptors then reset, and you smell the .violet again for the very first time. CRACKED.COM — 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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THE BAGPIPE ORIGINATED IN SUMARIA. The most Scottish thing isn't Scottish at all. CRACKED.COM — Iowa State

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If you're standing still near the equator you're actually moving about 1,000 MPH CRACKED.COM — 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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BACTERIA MAKES UP 13% OF THE WORLD'S BIOMASS All humans only make up one ten-thousandth of the weight of life on Earth. CRACKED.COM — The Denver Post

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Many small creatures experience time faster than we do That means that larger animals humans appear to be moving in slow motion to them. CRACKED.COM — 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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The author of Frankenstein carried around a spare heart. CRACKED.COM It's no secret that Mary Shelley was a li'l freak, having lost her virginity on her own mother's grave. But she'd maintain that goth streak to her own grave, even toting around her late husband's heart from the time of his death until her own. — MentalFloss

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Ketchup becomes thinner when shaken HEINZ TOMATO KETCHU 57 VARIETIES HEINZ it's called a non-Newtonian liquid, and scientists aren't sure why it behaves that way GRACKED.COM — 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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THE CLOSEST U.S. STATE TO AFRICA IS MAINE. Quoddy Head Light, Maine, is about 3, .154 miles from EI Beddouza, compared to Florida's Singer Island which is 4,085 miles from Guerguerat. CRACKED.COM — 16 Facts That Are Just Plain Counterintuitive

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Hitler's reputation was tarnished by a GIF. CRACKED.COM A photographer snapped a series of pics of Hitler looking very goofy on a very serious occasion. A Scottish filmmaker cut them together to make him look like the Chancellor of the Department of Silly Walks. This went as viral as a GIF could in 1940, uniting many of the Allies in mocking this monumental doofus. — 6 Historical Hoaxes That Are Too Stupid Even For 2017

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If you were born on Venus you'd celebrate your first birthday before you were even a day old. Venus is the slowest rotating planet in the solar system. It can make a complete orbit around the sun in less time than it takes to rotate just once on its axis. CRACKED.COM — 22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)

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REMOVE ALL THE EMPTY SPACE FROM ALL THE ATOMS IN ALL OF THE PEOPLE ON PLANET EARTH... ...AND ALL OF US COMBINED WOULD EQUAL THE VOLUME OF A SUGAR CUBE. CRACKED.COM — 22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)

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(OX Not all infinities are the same size. Georg Cantor demonstrated that there are more real numbers than natural numbers, even though there's an infinite amount of each CRACKED.COM — 22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)

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A cloud may float, but it weighs a million pounds. 4 140 160 126 180 70 100 60 80 200 50 901 80 220 100 30 110 60 240 20 120 10 An 260 J 0 280 310 CRACKED.COM A cloud might contain half a million liters of water, spread over a cubic kilometer. It floats because the air below weighs even more than that. — USGS

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Jeff Bezos probably isn't richer than Augustus Caesar. CRACKED.COM It's often said that billionaire Bezos is the richest human ever to walk the planet. However, adjusted for inflation, several historical hoarders were probably trillionaires. Explains why Caesar could afford to get plugs. — BBC

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To know the Eiffel Tower's height, you have to know the date. CRACKED Thanks to summer heat, the steel expands so much halfway through the year that the tower gains more than mgs half a foot in height. — National Geographic

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A car dealership tried to buy Lenin's corpse CRACKED.COM In 1991, Moscow had to issue a press release stating that, no, they weren't trying to raise money by selling Lenin's body. Forbes had run a satyrical piece making the claim, then ABC News reported it as fact, causing tons of serious inquiries to flood in from the US -- including one from a car dealership looking for a gimmick. — 6 Historical Hoaxes That Are Too Stupid Even For 2017

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Five water balloons can stop a speeding bullet. CRACKED.COM Water is dense and offers a lot of resistance. The military are now researching special water-penetrating So4 ammunition. — University of Melbourne

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