>ITT: Mildly surprising facts that are made up but sound like

>>730770940
A group of elephants is called a guild

If you took every pen ever made and stacked them up they would reach the moon 45 times over.

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>>730771069
These are both excellent. I am kind of impressed.

More dispelling a myth than a fact but:

>Shaving doesn't make your hair grow back thicker, on any part of your body

A turtle's shell is made from the same material your nails are made of.

The McDonald's logo has been re-done 15 times.

If you take any length of string and cut it 50 times at least two of the new lengths of string will be identical in length.

>>730770940
The first internal combustion engine was engineered by the Chinese nearly 600 years before Ford debuted the Model-T. It was powered by a mixture of sulfur and potassium nitrate and was used in autonomous litters by royalty and high ranking military officials, but was outlawed in 1407 when Confucianism taught that non manual transportation was a sign of laziness.

It takes roughly 100 canes of sugar to produce enough sugar for 1 can of coca cola.

You spend up to 3-5 hours a day exhaling.

>>730772128
kek. This one sounds real.

The hacker 4chan is still on the loose and might never be found.

1 out of every 20 cows doesn't produce milk, this is due to a genetic defect introduced by mass farming of the animals.

>>730770940
Bananas originally grew straight. But due to a rare genetic defect and the mass farming of these tainted banana seeds the majority of bananas are now curved.

>>730771884
alright, suppose i have a length of string.
I cut it in half. Then take one of the halves. I cut that in half too.
I repeat this process until i have cut 49 of my 50 cuts. Since ive been cutting it in half every single time, only my newest halves (ones ive just cut out) are equal in length. With my last cut, cut one of these equal lengthed halves unevenly. You now have performed 50 cuts and resulted in 51 string segments, all of different length.

>>730770940
The longest war in history was fought between the Kurdish people and Iraqi Turkmens, and spanned from 600 BC to 1500 AD. It started when the Kurdish Emperor executed his Turkmenish wife after she discovered that he had been sleeping with his own sister.

If you could gather all the electrons that are currently in use to make up the internet it would weigh about 1.30357 grams.

>>730770940
It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth

>>730772730

Yes but if you say it to a random person without giving them much time to think it sounds believable.

Don't use your weapons grade autism please.

>>730772805
Penny's are no longer made of copper. They are mix of steel and iron.

This year alone humans have eaten roughly the same amount of bananas as every other year before 2010 combined.

Cat markings can actually be used to determine the time of the year they were born.

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>>730772679
>>730770940

False banana facts thread.

>>730770940
There are hundreds of species of monkey, and they don't all eat the same thing.

Also, all bananas in the Western world are clones.

If we took the batteries out of every iPhone ever made and charged them fully we could power New York City for 10 years.

>>730770940
>facts that are made up

then it's not a fact

>>730773347

Did you know that if you took every fact in this thread you would have learned nothing of value.

op is a faggot

>>730773320
not fake

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>>730773347

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>>730770940
Midway through his second term, Thomas Jefferson came down with a bout of malaria that he never fully recovered from. Historians believe that much of his later agenda was executed by his wife, Martha Jefferson, in his steed.

Also, during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson and George Washington were bitter rivals. In order to keep the peace, Alexander Hamilton suggested Jefferson travel t o Paris as the American ambassador to France. It is widely believed that the wives of the two men were responsible for the two eventually burying the hatchet after Ben Franklin pointed out that both men married a woman named Martha. The newly minted friendship between the two became so strong that Washington chose Jefferson to be his running mate in the first Presidential election, and Zack Snyder claims this enemy-turned-friend story inspired the notorious 'Martha' moment in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

The source of all of Yogi Berra's eclectic and often redundant aphorisms was mild autism caused by a bout of scarlet fever in his early youth.

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>>730772128
>>730772157
>>730773114
>>730773346
These are all excellent

>>730773749

Hey 4 of these are mine!

>>730774101
Then you're really good at this.

The camera glass of the iPhone 7+ cost apple $5 more for every iPhone 7+ they made due to its unique shape that had never been used before on an apple product.

>>730770940
Fraternity hazing in greek societies actually goes back to the time of the Greeks and the Grecian tradition of pederasty. It evolved when the "erastes" would open up the "eromenos" with a series of demeaning, sexually-laden games intended to demoralize the youth and acquaint him with sexuality and sexual contact, the reward for compliance being acceptance into the heirarchy of pederasty-involved males, usually a requirement for acceptance by certain teachers and mentors.

If you took every word ever written this year on Wikipedia and printed them out in font size 11 on standard paper you could stack those pages all the way to the moon and still have enough to stack 2 more times.

>>730771884
That is clearly wrong. Given two points, there are an infinite number of points between them. Given any two of those points, there is still an infinite number of points between them. If you cut randomly, it would be almost impossible for any two to be the same length.

>>730770940
Apple once experimented with the idea of a console in the early 90s along the lines of a Nintendo-style walled garden ecosystem, only compatible with Apple-branded games and peripherals. Some notable ideas they tossed around was the first 64 bit console as well as a primitive form of over-Internet multiplayer.

>>730770940
Ayn Rand was actually a shadow writer for an as-yet-unknown author. Correspondance found after her death dating to early in her career shows that most of the plot and characters were conceived by an individual known only by the name of "Hans". It was Rand who worked them to suit her philosophical ideals.

You can actually derive all the nutrition an average human needs from yogurt as long as it contains fruit.

Turtle shells are fused to their brains.

Jupiter's storm generates so much wind pressure that if the energy were harnessed it could power every country on earth for 1 decade

If given the choice ants in labs are drawn more to salty foods than sweet. However this study was not completed fully due to pressure groups opposing it.

>>730770940
Toilet paper was actually invented in the Mongol Empire as a form of humiliating religious officials and scribes by using their scrolls and records to wipe themselves. Although rare, its use to clean oneself was famed among the upper class of the Hordes, and Temur Khan is even quoted as saying he would use "no other means to clean myself but the scripts of their priests and the tapestries of their kings."

>>730770940
Cavemen would ritualistically masturbate on their crops as a form of fertility rite.

Despite what you see in the movies when some badguy burns a bunch of money, American paper bills are actually inflammable.

self-driving cars are a hoax, they actually have a midget under the hood driving them secretly

Every time you masturbate god cries.

REPENT FOR YOUR SINS.

>>730771249
it grows back healthier, which means it is thicker in each strang

>>730775814
That doesn't make sense. You should say something like "can power every country on Earth twice over."

Spiders, in times of stress, pull off and eat their legs.

>>730772752
whoah

>>730776316
I don't think cavemen had crops fagbag.

Sunblock actually only works for people with pale skin, however this is hidden from the public in fear of being called racist.

>>730772752
about the weight of a strawberry

oh shit op said facts that WERENT true
I was thinking these were all true fuck im dumb as fuck

>>730773430
to you

>>730773347
those are alternative facts

>>730776800
this is some fucking hilarious imagery, well done

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>>730776893
>being this dense

Abraham Lincoln was functionally illiterate, and employed an assistant who would read all documents to him and to whom he would dictate speeches.

>>730772736
it's funny cause it's true

>>730772098
Well that's just a fact

>>730770940
90% of all films and television shows that have ever entered pre-production never make it to the screen. Various guilds and unions prevent any information on these productions to make it to the public. Due to this often the footage and scripts are warehoused in various facilities or even destroyed, never to see the light of day.

>>730776620
dude no
hair is hair
the only reason it would be healthier is if the person in question was young and their hair follicles were still developing

>>730770940
H.P Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe often frequented opium dens together.

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>>730770940
Donald Trump is not a complete retard.

>>730776691
not just that. what ammount of jupiter's energy? capturing 100% of jupiter's wind energy could probably power humanity's inventions until their extinction.

>>730777324
no really, dipshit.
once humans starting planting crops in the ground, they began to horde food and live together in large communities. literally the END of cavemen.

cavemen predate agriculture

If one followed every line of succession and every declaration made by a monarch there are in excess of 100 individuals alive today who could make claim to the British throne.

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>>730778907
The point of this thread is bullshit facts smartass. Of course there's gonna be false information

In Sweden developments in Smell-o-vision went much farther than in America and prior to it's decline 4 films featuring Smell-o-vision were released in Sweden, shown in retrofitted cinemas.

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>>730779014
>ITT: pretentious and pedantic twats who absorb every piece of data they are fed, but still can't read

should be the disclaimer under "only a fool would take anything here as fact"

>>730778769
Casinos can go bankrupt for many reasons
Such as laws making it difficult to get profits, setting up the casino in the wrong location, being beaten by competition, mafia involvement etc...

You could also imagine someone winning so much money they had to close down, although I don't think that's ever happened.

>>730770940
If you run into a wall 10^30 times, you will pass through the wall at least once.

Piggy banks as we know them today evolved from pigskin leather money jars popularised during the late Middle Ages.

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>>730770940
The United States basically supports Israel's entire economy with taxes that are taken from U.S. citizens who would otherwise just freely give them anyway. Although an outrageous amount has been GIVEN to Israel, by the U.S. every year, even prior to the Carter administration, this has in no way contributed to the enormity of The U.S. deficit.

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>>730779429
>trying desperately to make a case
>not making a case at all

at least you tried.Baby Trump would be proud of you.

>>730779014
I think the point was that it was a bad false fact because it's well known that cavemen didn't have crops.

>>730780379
im just gonna this kind of hate boner for a politician on an anonymous imageboard is pretty unhealthy
you should go outside man

>>730780379
Ok, the casino failed because Trump is orange. Are you happy now?

>>730774508
I wouldn't be surprised if this one was true.

>>730770940
Dream catchers aren't a Native American invention. They were invented by gypsies who emigrated to the Americas and sold as "Indian oddities". They're based upon older Romanian warding talismans known as "dormi scut" or "sleep shields".

The Pentium 4 was faster than the Pentium III

The GeForce 2 drivers for Windows XP work in Windows 7, and allow you to run your monitor at 320x240.

>>730770940
You shit out 20-40% of what you eat

Black lives matter

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>>730780674
>Are you happy now?

No.
An orange retard.

Now that's better.

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>>730780379
>5 of his over 100 companies filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, in which they restructure and change ownership without actually shutting down
>DRUMPFFFFFFFFFFFF

Ketchup was invented in Ketch, Maryland. It also contains more sugar than actual tomato.

Despite it's liquid nature, human blood is 75% more dense than concrete.

>>730785926
this one is two ways, because ketchup doesn't contain more sugar than actual tomato, and there is no city called Ketch.

In 2016, a genealogy report revealed that Andrew Lloyd Webber (composer of Broadway's Phantom of the Opera) is a distant relative of both Lon Cheney Jr. (star of the silent film adaptation of Phantom of the Opera) and Gaston Leroux (author of the original novel).

The popular folk song, 'She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain (When She Comes)', was originally a Confederate hymn designed to covertly pass along intelligence about the movements of the Union Army from captured POW's to Confederate sympathizers without raising suspicion during the American Civil War.

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We all use quantum physics every day.

Light.

>>730787335
I know you just made this up, but my brain refuses to accept that it isn't true.

>>730786202
The word "ketchup" comes from the Indonesian word "kecap". "Kecap manis" is a sweet soy sauce that Indonesians put on everything.

>>730770940
Due to extreme violence perpetrated by the Cartels, 2017 is projected to mark the first year in history that more people have been murdered than have been born in Mexico.

Cavemen sometimes used flint to trigger epileptic seizures in some early animals.

Human beings are actually the most aerodynamic land mammals, and this is due in part to the shape of our skeleton.

Having eyes on the front of your head actually makes you smarter.

>>730777230
>alternative facts


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORLomtdXlDQ

the phrase "a dime a dozen" was originally called a diamond dozen when diamonds were thought to be worthless since a man found a huge diamond mine at the base of mount vesuvius, only 20 years before the fatal final eruption in 79 AD. the eruption was triggered by the men excavating the diamonds, which they would melt and turn into furniture and houses. the walls of the diamond mine were holding back the 100 tons of lava. people saw the lava coming but didn't want to leave their diamond houses so they faced the pyroclastic flow head on and were instantly fossilized.

The more hair you lose naturally, the longer you will live on average.

Despite it's enormous size, it is believed that the Tyrannosaurus Rex caught most of it's prey not by hunting, but by using its feathers to camouflage itself in densely forested areas and waiting for unsuspecting victims to venture too close to escape.

>>730775814
So much wind pressure what? Per which unit of time? How many of them?

Green light is said to reverse the aging of skin cells by a factor of 0.7%.

The spork was actually first invented in 1518 by a poor Spaniard artisan, in a proposal by a sheriff, to create a utensil that could serve all eating purposes.

The cliché about cats having nine lives dates back to Medieval England, where Calpurnicus, a house cat belonging to Prince George, lived in Buckingham Palace and saw the succession of nine separate monarchs.

We have actually sent astronauts to "land" on a small asteroid. During the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Astronauts were able to collect samples from a large iron asteroid passing their craft during the rendezvous back to Earth. The event was not televised, but instead documented by NASA employees.

>>730772157
what the fuck no lmao

you need fucking help learning to breath if that's how much you think is reasonable. should be 8-10 hours exhaling

Analysis of element ratios in the Sun's light spectrum has shown that its protoplanetary disc probably had no more than a third of the heavy element content required to form the eight planets.

Mars is rumored to have once been larger, but a series of rather large asteroids are said to have collided with it in the past, resulting in its many craters and valleys, as well as its two moons.

Glue first started out as a conditioner for woolen carpets, until a factor worker accidentally added too much stock. The resulting discovery of its adhesive properties forever changed the way glue was marketed to the public.

George Washington was actually gay. Diaries reveal that while Washington was fighting for the British against the French, he was in love with a field medic.

This thread has to be saved in 4chanbarchives anywhere!

>>730770940

Your mother will die in 7 days if you don't reply to this.

You inhale more times in your life than there are enough liters of air to breathe.

Temperatures below absolute zero don't exist, but even if they did those states would not be more energetic than any positive temperature.

Reptiles are the closest descent of birds for example the ancestor of an ostrich is the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

>>730791240
You know, that's actually probably very true from what I understand.

To be a feminist in any more capacity than in name only, one has to have a very deep and sincere hatred of men as a class of people.

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>>730775156
>Apple once experimented with the idea of a console in the early 90s along the lines of a Nintendo-style walled garden ecosystem, only compatible with Apple-branded games and peripherals. Some notable ideas they tossed around was the first 64 bit console as well as a primitive form of over-Internet multiplayer.

If you zoom enough you can read: powered by Apple Company

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A male student was suspended from a Californian university earlier this week for wearing a shirt depicting a cartoon frog wearing headphones. The shirt was said to cause traumatic stress in his female classmates due to the animal's supposed status as a hate symbol.

>>730792452
>Nah

>>730772805
This is obviously false. If it was true, these coins would not be made any more. See Denmark and one cent coins.

>>730792689
Are you retarded?

>>730775532
Yogurt from the mythical cow tree