8 Facts That Sound Completely Fake But Are Actually True
15 Facts That Sound Completely Fake But Are Actually True Hope you’re sitting down for this one.
1. Russia is bigger than Pluto.
2. Reno, Nevada, is farther west than Los Angeles.
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Mind ACTUALLY blown.
3. Bob Marley’s father was white.
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Marley’s father Norval Marley, born in the UK in 1885, was a European-Jamaican of British heritage. At the age of 50, Norval married an 18-year old gospel singer of African decent named Cedella Malcolm, who gave birth to their son Robert Nesta Marley. Bob Marley was only 10 when his father died
4. Humans have the genetic capability to hibernate.
All mammals are equipped with the genetic mechanisms for hibernation, which can be used as an extreme survival tactic. Read more about the actual science here.
5. There was a chicken that lived for 18 months with its head was cut off.
After a farmer failed to properly behead a chicken because he missed the jugular vein, the bird lived for 18 months. Christened Mike the Headless Chicken, it survived on a mixture of milk and water, fed into his exposed esophagus via an eyedropper. The farmer turned Mike into a sideshow attraction, charging 25 cents admission. For awhile, Mike earned $4,500 per month, or $47,500 today.
6. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia and Africa.
Many of these end up on dinner tables, as camel meat is a popular foodstuff there. Lately, camel exports from Somalia have resulted in the spread of the harmful MERS virus.
7. It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.
Diamond “hailstones” form on Saturn and Jupiter when “lightning storms turn methane into soot (carbon) which as it falls hardens into chunks of graphite and then diamond,” according to the BBC. The largest diamonds are purportedly about one centimeter in diameter. In one interesting theory laid out in a book called Alien Seas, robotic “mining ships” could be sent to these planets to retrieve the diamonds and bring them back to earth.
8. The moon is moving farther and farther away from the earth all the time.
Just as the moon’s gravity pulls on the earth, the earth’s gravity pulls on the moon,making it slightly egg-shaped. (Freaky.) It’s also causing the moon to recede farther away from the earth. We won’t feel any tidal effects from this for millions of years.
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