Real Ones Don’t Gate Keep: Redditors Share Fun and Bizzare Facts on the Geeky Corner of the World Wide Web

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Sienna Varady
Dec 28, 2023 11:30 AM EST

Have you ever heard of the show 'Ancient Aliens'? The main focus of the show is whether or not there are other living beings in the universe. It seems that there is verifiable scientific proof that there are other living species among us. However, I feel compelled to clarify that my intention is not to make a case for or against the matter at hand. Yet, I do think it's a very appealing thought that there might be a similar world to ours somewhere unbeknown to us humans.

So, inspired by the television show 'Ancient Aliens', or as I like to call it, 'Could it Be', I have gathered a collection of funny 'facts' from all across the globe just for your entertainment. But remember, 'facts' have different meanings for different people, so don't come for me! Nevertheless, I hope you find these fun 'facts' entertaining and that they offer you a little breather from your everyday routine. After you've finished browsing and need a quick laugh, check out 25 hilarious Phineas and Ferb memes here!

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    "What's the most bizarre or interesting fact you know that sounds fake, but is actually true?" Chinch And Flores Comp nidad 2:00 a B b S.Helenj Cape 34 de Sumiany gre
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    What's the most bizarre or interesting fact you know that sounds fake, but is actually true ?
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    Adhesiveness Fun2060. 6 hr. ago Some blind people can see. The eyes work but the brain can't interpret the info.
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    SuvenPan 5 hr. ago One day on Venus is longer than one year on Venus.
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    C mingInTheNile. 5 hr.ago edited 4 hr. ago its also the only one of two planet in the solar system that spins clockwise, all the other spin counterclockwise, its
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    counterclockwise, its been theorized it had some sort of collision with another planetary body which is why it spins funny
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    UnderCover Potatoes. 6 hr. ago There are, unfortunately, no recorded cases of pirates forcing people to "walk the plank."
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    Nihilamealienum - 5 hr. ago The City of Paris took the rats to court in the Middle Ages for causing the p gue, and thanks to a brilliant public defense attorney, the rats won the case.
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    DominaElara___ · 7 hr. ago You are 10 times more likely to get bit by a New Yorker than a shark
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    Refrith- 6 hr. ago The star Betelgeuse formed well after the dinosaurs went extinct
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    ruiner8850 6 hr. ago It's less than 10 million years old and is expected to go supernova within the next 100,000 years.
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    GreenOnion Crusader · 7 hr. ago Ponderosa pine bark smells like ice cream. Mostly vanilla, sometimes strawberry, and seldom chocolate.
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    We used to go around the woods back home, smelling trees and yelling what flavors we found.
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    psilome 6 hr. ago Well - 15% of the worlds synthetic vanilla flavoring (vanillin) is made from pine bark.
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    Microflunkie 6 hr. ago When the Great Pyramids of Egypt were being built there were still Woolly Mammoths walking around.
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    C mingInTheNile. 5 hr. ago edited 5 hr. ago Cleopatra lived closer to the modern era than the creation of the pyramids (Pyramids finished in 2490 BCE, Cleopatra alive 69-30 BCE), she was also comically in ed
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    mrgraff · 5 hr. ago The highest peak of Mount Everest was first measured at exactly 29,000 feet but was instead reported as 29,002 feet to avoid the impression of an estimate.
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    elizabethlee166.4 hr. ago Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein), was the daughter of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, who d d in childbirth with Shelley.
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    Years later, Shelley lost her v ginity on top of her mother's gr ve. When Mary was starting to see poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (who was married, and Mary only
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    16), she declared her love for him at her mothers gr ve and they... consecrated the relationship there. From then on, the day was referred to as Percy's "birthday."
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    Common_Sense_Dudd · 5 hr. ago There was a time in 18th century England that playing the bagpipes was punishable by d th.
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    Tart_Beginning. 2 hr. ago Understandable, honestly
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    Microflunkie - 6 hr. ago When the Aztec empire was founded, Oxford University in England was already 300 years old.
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    somethinglucky07. 5 hr. ago This one always reminds me that Harvard was established before calculus was invented, which is a mindf k.
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    reichrunner · 5 hr. ago If you line up all of the planets in our solar system end to end, they would be able to fit in the space between the earth and the moon with enough space leftover to include Pluto.
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    Napius Sharks are older than trees, by about 50-100 million years. · 7 hr. ago
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    mingInTheNile C 5 hr. ago the bacteria which breaks down dead trees didnt evolve until 60 million years after trees, creating a period where dead trees piled up on top
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    of each called the Carboniferous period, which where most fo the fossil fuels we use to were formed
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    oilytoedbabe 6 hr. ago Apples at the grocery store can be up to a year old...
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    Guilty-Scale-1079 7 hr. ago Women weren't allowed to establish credit in their own name until 1974.
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    SylveeMoon 5 hr. ago. edited 4 hr. ago Blindness isn't all about darkness. Blindness is actually a spectrum with varying visual effects. Some people have no left or right peripheral vision, some see splotches of
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    black in their visual fields, some have blurred lines of sight, others have cone vision (imagine looking through a traffic cone or ice cream cone), among lots of other visual differences.
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    Only about 10-15% of blind people see nothing but darkness. Hollywood's misconceptions have the general public so skewed when they see a person using a white cane or guide dog in public,
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    thinking they cannot see at all. Most of us have varying degrees of sight and visual fields and can do some things independently or with the help of a white cane, guide dog, sighted guide, or glasses.
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    Source: legally blind female who utilizes a guide dog and a white cane who is as independent as possible in navigating adulthood and all it entails.
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    Heinous Harpy. 6 hr. ago Birds are considered feathered (avian) dinosaurs.
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