20+ Unbelievable Oddities Once Considered 'Crazy Talk' That Ended Up Being 100% True

Where would humanity be without the crazy dudes at 7-Eleven, shouting about the end of the world? What about you kooky coworker who thinks that we live in a simulation? Or even your strange uncle who thinks that birds are actually surveillance drones? Can you imagine a world where there weren't any doubters or any speculators? 

The world is an unbelievable place. With so many possibilities and factors, it's tough not to let our little human brains get carried away with the prospects. Well, for a handful of professionals in their tinfoil hats, it's their duty to society to speculate the unlikeliest things… But it's not just the 'crazies'. There are a number of personally crazy speculations that were proven to be true afterward. For example, Nasa originally thought that the rings on Saturn were a trick of the light and platypuses are actually real animals!

So grab your own tinfoil hat and keep on reading some of the crazy oddities that turned out to be 100% true.

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