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

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Feb 10, 2024 12:00 PM EST

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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    What is something that was crazy at the time but proven to be correct?
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    r/AskReddit • 19 hr. ago StressedAfraid_ What is something that was crazy at the time but proven to be correct?
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    Southern_Dig_9460 - 13h ago Famous author Ernest Hemingway told his friends and family he believed the FBI was spying on him. They all told him he was paranoid or crazy. Years after his death he's suspicions were confirmed when the FBI declassified their spying on him.
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    nautius_maximu.... The "spokes" in the rings of Saturn - originally observed by an amateur and dismissed as an optical illusion for the better part of a century, the Voyager probes confirmed their existence. 13h ago Edited 22m ago ● The experts thought that the spokes couldn't be real because they appeared to rotate at the speed of the planet, not the speed of the rings. Turns out they follow the magnetic field of the planet.
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    Sys32768 18h ago That stomach ulcers were caused by the Helicobacter Pylori bacteria. Conventional medical widom was that stomach ulcers were caused by lifestyle factors. The bacteria theory was met with great skepticism and criticism. One of the researchers, Barry J Marshall, resorted to proving it by ingesting the H. Pylori bacteria. Twenty two years later, Marshall and Robin Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology for their discovery.
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    Coygon 12h ago . The Missoula megafloods that carved up the scablands of eastern Washington and Oregon. The geologist who proposed it was ignored when he proposed it, and then derided when he insisted. He lived long enough to see other geologists start to realize he was right, though, so there is some justice to be had.
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    BobRoberts01. 11h ago That the platypus was a real animal. The researcher who received the first specimen back in Europe was certain he was being pranked and meticulously dissected it to try to find where it was sewn together.
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    midunda 19h ago . Pretty much any physics developed post 1890ish The movement of continental plates. Germ theory.
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    weluckyfew. 11h ago The scientist who proposed the gut brain connection used to get laughed out of conferences as a kook
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    DonQuigleone • 10h ago Herodotus described that sailors who sailed south along the African coast saw the sun rise in the North instead of the south. Many at the time thought this proved Herodotus was peddling absurd rumours (even Herodotus himself expresses doubt about it in the text), but he was in fact correct, as the sun does that when you cross the equator.
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    DavidANaida 11h ago Edited 2h ago That woman had good reason to sue McDonald's over the temperature of their coffee.
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    mlcyo 12h ago ● Harlen Bretz, an American geologist, was laughed out of town for suggesting that the landforms in the area between Idaho and the cascades were formed due to scouring by a huge megaflood at the end of the last ice age. People thought it sounded too biblical, but he was right!
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    lelakat 18h ago The CIA is selling drugs in black neighborhoods to raise money to arm and support a guerilla army in Latin America. The Business Plot- where a bunch of businessman decided FDR wasn't who they wanted in charge and attempted to install a retired general named Smedley Butler.
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    Ernest Hemingway was convinced he was being spied on by the FBI and no one believed him. Turns out he was. The #FreeBritney movement in the beginning was seen as people reading way too much into things and being weird. They were actually onto something.
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    JO coombuyah26. 10h ago On October 9, 1903, the New York Times published an editorial that predicted it would take between 1 and 10 million years for human to develop a working flying machine. On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers completed the first flight in a heavier-than-air machine.
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    direyew 11h ago Rogue waves. Scientists waves even though people had been reporting them for years. Satellite's can detect them and it turned out that there are lots of them. pooed rogue
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    duffman182 - 14h ago Nuclear Fusion for the first time in 2022 was claimed to have output more energy than put in. Literally today, it was confirmed to be true.
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    seanofkelley 15h ago That mosquitoes spread diseases like yellow fever and malaria. Ⓒ↑ 429 429 Reply ↑ Share Somnif 8h ago "The stinky bad air of swamps will make you sick!" ...or the ten million mosquitoes backwashing into your blood will do it, your pick.
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    HeartCrafty2961. 16h ago When trains were invented in the early 19th century there was a general fear of the possible damage which might be done to people travelling at such high speeds, though they weren't fast by modern standards. To be fair, the carriages were open, and nobody up until that time had ever travelled faster than a horse can.
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    Relation Turbulent963 - 12h ago That the appendix matters ○t 209 凸 Reply ↑ Share ... aburke626 12h ago I read an article about this one month after having mine removed.
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    Burt Rhinestone • 16h ago . Smedley Butler was one of only two US Marines to ever earn the Medal of Honor twice. He wrote War is a Racket and was a staunch critic of the Military Industrial Complex. The Business Plotters picked the wrong man.
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