21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World

By Eric Allen

Nowadays it's hard to know what's real and what's not. In a world of viral videos and fake news it's increasingly hard to determine fact from fiction. The following facts that are to strange to be true will have undoubtedly you questioning reality.

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Believed to be magic, ancient ships would always keep at least one cat aboard a vessel. And they were held in such high regard that sailors would often give their lives to protect them.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
There are a total of zero bridges across the Amazon river that spans roughly 6,400 KM.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
Nintendo as a company was around when Jack The Ripper was still... ripping. They started in 1889 making playing cards.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
Technically, Russia and the United States are only about 4km apart.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
A cumulus cloud weighs, on average, upwards of 500,000kg.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
If you lined up all the planets in our solar system 'shoulder to shoulder', they could all fit between the Earth and the Moon.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
A pineapple takes 2 years to grow... Seems like a waste when it tends to get eaten so fast.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
According to the Ethiopian calendar, it's still only 2013.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
It may interest you to know that one horse actually has about 15 horsepower.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
No matter the height, ants will actually never take any fall damage.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
Plankton in the Earth's oceans actually create more oxygen than all of its trees.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
The orca is a natural predator to the moose and deer.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
The day Michael Jackson's hair caught fire during a Pepsi commercial was the exact middle of his life, to the day.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
One 10 inch pizza is actually still more pizza than 7 inch pizzas.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
Iran once arrested 14 squirrels on suspicion of espionage.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
There are more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
A baby koala eats their mother's poop.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
Because there can only be so many combinations of genes, there are likely at least 7 people in the world that look like you.
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Both the Russian and U.S. militaries have at one time employed dolphins as marines.
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21 Hard to Believe Facts That Will Change the Way You Look at the World
Technically speaking, the average number of arms humans have is less than 2. This is because it's a lot more common for someone to lose an arm than for someone to have an extra.
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Over the span of his nearly 20 year NBA career, Shaq only ever made one 3-pointer.
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