25+ Made-Up Facts That Are Way Too Convincing

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Eric Lund
Feb 27, 2019 7:00 PM EST

None of these "facts" are true. They're basically a fun exercise in how things can sound true if you make up some context and throw in some names and dates. They sure sound like they're real though. You may even find some stuff that you've been mistakenly telling people for years. We take no responsibility if you end up repeating these as the truth at a party. That's on you, doofus.

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  • 01
    Text - Bigowl 29.6k points 21 hours agoS Uganda has no escalators.
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    Text - to_yeet_or_to_yoink 16.1k points 21 hours agoS The one I always get people with is that they're called "cops" "coppers" because their badges used to be made out of copper. or
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    Text - Ascribed_innovation 28.5k points 23 hours ago The average ant consumes more than 30 times its body weight in a month.
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    Text - Austin_RC246 8.8k points 21 hours ago It's very important in colder climates to completely deflate the tires of your vehicle and refill them with new air on the day of the first frost. The air in the tires from summer has a significantly higher percentage of moisture and runs the risk of freezing in the tire come winter, causing serious damage to the integrity of the tire.
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    Text - edited 13 hours ago eroticmangoo 4.4k points 1 day ago Alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth but no toothbrush
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    Text - EfficientAirport 3.7k points 23 hours ago The Olympic event of Pole Vaulting was originally invented by Ancient Greek prisoners in order to escape over prison walls. These prisoners were praised for their cleverness and allowed to remain outside of prison
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    Text - berdiesan 7.9k points 22 hours ago Dogs can smell sexual preferences in humans.
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    Text - edited 2 hours ago 19 hours ago spiceybeans 3.3k points A female buffalo is called a buffala Edit: TIL I this is (kind of) true in Italian and Portuguese. Sorry, English is my only language, so I thought my false fact was 100% true.
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    Text - TasteyPotato 25.6k points 1 day ago Due to selective breeding modern horses actually put out 1.2 Horsepwer instead of the calculated 1 HP from back in the day. This is a stolen joke from the Painkiller Already poscast
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    Text - 20 hours ago theglassdraco 874 points 2 out of every 5 people can't read the word homeowner without thinking ho-meow-ner
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    Text - RamsesThePigeon 3.1k points1 day ago 2 Although often used as a slang term by American and British juveniles, "dong" is actually the longest-surviving word for the male genitalia, having first come into common usage during the Xia Dynasty in Bronze Age China. The inclusion of the prefix "ding" - resulting in "ding dong" - refers to a particularly impressive specimen. "Ding dong" is also used as an onomatopoeic example of a doorbell's chime, which has resulted in the joke: "What did the ho
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    Text - 90% of all Rubik's Cubes purchased are of the left-handed variety. The Modern English alphabet has been pruned from 30 letters to 26 since its recognition as an official language in 1512. Of those removed, the letter "" is the only one to still have a dominant sound in the dialect, recognized as the voiceless dental fricative "th." The invention of the compact disc precipitated a 4% increase in the Earth's total oxygen. This was due to a declining demand for eucalyptus musycalys, better k
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    Text - Fowler836 24.1k points 19 hours ago edited 7 hours ago 2 A single piece of macaroni is called a macaronous
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    Text - SeasickStarfish 7.8k points 19 hours ago 3G, 4G, and 5G refer to how many internet satellites are pointing at you
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    Text - 23 hours ago Hickspy 20.5k points The term "bouquet" as in a flower bouquet came from Jacques Bouquet, who was an aspiring landscaper for nobles in the 15th century. However, he found no work and instead resorted to arranging hand-held bunches of flowers for sale on the street.
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    Text - emmeline29 19.2k points 20 hours ago CVS stands for "Chocolate, Vanilla, Strawberry" as they originally opened as an ice cream shop
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    Text - edited 1 hour ago imanAholebutimfunny 6.2k points 19 hours ago a coconut is a mammal because it grows hair and produces milk
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    Text - edited 7 hours ago AlienSandwiches 1.8k points 21 hours ago The word 'No' originally stood for 'Negative, operator'
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    Text - JoeinJapan 6.6k points 19 hours ago So much glitter is produced each year and released into the wind that it's theorized that every human on Earth has at least a single speck of glitter on their bodies at all times
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    Text - 23 hours ago its_real_I_swear 18.0k points People used to hire a specific servant to ensure that all the clocks in their house were kept wound and with correct times. This is the origin of the phrase night watch-man
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    Text - askredditisonlyok 5.0k points 1 day ago Olives are just pickled grapes.
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    Text - and_good_riddance 1.4k points 20 hours ago Concept of "algorithm" was invented by the father of internet, Al Gore, who named it after himself.
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    Text - 23 hours ago Stunt_Jesus 1.2k points Delaware is not actually a real state but a fictitious place created by the government to provide hometowns and backstories for people in witness protection
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    Text - StixandSton3s 16.6k points 23 hours ago edited 7 hours ago The way to tell if a nut is a real nut or not is if nut is a separate word e.g. peanuts and coconuts aren't nuts but macadamia nuts are.
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    Text - Anzai 4.8k points 21 hours ago edited 15 hours ago If you were to compress the gas giant Jupiter down to the same density, it would actually be smaller than its own moon, Europa.
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