22 Facts That Sound Too Absurd to Be Real

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Eric Lund
Oct 12, 2018 2:00 PM EDT

The universe is enormous and terrifying. There are too many things to know and this is only a small amount of those things. 

We're still upset about Pluto.

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  • 01
    Text - Zediac 8.1k points 2 days ago Water is a bad conductor of electricity. Pure water absolutely is an insulator. Water is also really good at containing things that are good conductors of electricity therefore most water, non- pure water, is a good conductor of electricity.
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    Text - LadyAsh963 13.4k points 2 days ago The Pacific ocean is so large that the is a point where you could tunnel straight through the earth and when you come out the other end, you are still in the Pacific ocean.
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    Text - 2 days ago Harpylady269 11.6k points Canada has a smaller population than California.
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    Text - plumppuffypig 7.8k points 2 days ago It's illegal to hunt whales in Arizona, a completely landlocked state
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    Text - 2 days ago TheSlipperyPot8o 11.5k points If you have 10 dollars in your pocket and no debts, you have more wealth than 25% of Americans
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    Text - eatassonfirstdate 11.2k points 2 days ago pluto has not gone half way around the sun since its discovery
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    Text - Kukantiz 39.0k points 2 days ago The entire state of Wyoming only has 2 escalators.
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    Text - ToxicSpook 24.0k points 2 days ago That Netflix was founded a year before Google
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    Text - dontgetborn 7.6k points 2 days ago . edited 2 days ago The best thing for you to do if you're stung by a tarantula hawk wasp is to lie down and scream. EDIT: Laying down prevents you from falling over/hurting yourself when you're in the throes of pain, and the screaming helps cope with the pain level. Nothing else is really going to help you.
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    Text - TheRealMajour 19.4k points 2 days ago The Giza pyramids were built when Mammoths still roamed the earth
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    Text - SaloL 18.4k points 2 days ago Oxford University was founded before the Aztec Empire.
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    Text - 2 days ago edited 2 days ago MrBonelessPizza24 11.0k points A Chihuahua is more Closely related to a Grizzly bear than to a Hyena
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    Text - MayurBhat 9.4k points 2 days ago There are more libraries in the US than McDonald's
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    Text - edited 2 days ago MasterDoot 7.5k points 2 days ago Komodo dragons can reproduce asexually.
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    Text - abusiveyusuf 15.3k points 2 days ago Nintendo was founded in 1889
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    Text - Back2Bach 15.3k points 2 days ago Pineapples take about two years to grow.
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    Text - Emilybeths 10.6k points 2 days ago Fungi are actuly more closely related to animals than plants.
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    Text - TheJaiGitster 6.7k points 2 days ago Having six fingers is actually a dominant trait, but the genes for it are so incredibly rare that pretty much no one has it.
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    Text - yeraulda 15.2k points 2 days ago edited 2 days ago At its furthest away point, you can fit every planet in our solar system between Earth and the Moon.
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    Text - tatsuedoa 9.5k points 2 days ago John Tyler, born 1790 has 2 living grandchildren as of 2017. Not great grandchildren, just regular grandkids. I think he was in his 80s when he had a son and his son was also pretty old when he had these 2
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    Text - MrKittySavesTheWorld 13.9k points 2 days ago A polar bear's liver contains enough vitamin A to kill a human if eaten
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    Text - constantlywaiting 9.4k points 2 days ago Saddam Hussein was given the key to the city of Detroit in 1980.
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