TIL -40C and -40F are the same temperature .
Recently, Reddit userCivilReactionasked, “What’s a fact that sounds fake but is 100% true?” and there were some super interesting and surprising responses — here’s what people had to say!*
- Along with some response fromthis postand theReddit threadit rounded up .
1.There have been studies that show that people’s heart ratessynchronizeto a degree with music’s rhythm…and people listening to the same story or song, or even watching a movie together, actuallysynchronizenot only their heart rate but theirbreathingand some of their movements).
2.Here’s another fascinating fact about the human body: Your blood type can actuallychangeif you receive a bone marrow transplant. Not only that, but you’ll have different sets of DNA in your blood versus other parts of your body (like skin cells, saliva, hair, teeth) — meaning that if you were involved in a crime, youmightleave the DNA of your donor. Oh, andalsoyou may develop the allergies of your donor.
3.One more weird body fact — “Your ribs, if removed, can actuallygrow backas long as theperichondrium membraneis intact. They’re the only bones in mammals known to do so.”
4.We all know and love Häagen-Dazs ice cream, yes? Like me, you probably assumed it was European. Nope! It wasfoundedby the Polish and Jewish couple Reuben and Rose Mattus in the Bronx, New York. And “Häagen-Dazs” is just gibberish – the couple made it up because they thought a foreign-sounding name would make their ice cream sell better, and they went with a Danish-sounding name because of Denmark’sactionsto save Jewish people during WWII.
5.Speaking ofproduct names— Pepsiwasoriginally called “Brad’s Drink,” after Caleb Davis Bradham, who created it. When it was renamed, “Pepsi” came from a word for indigestion, because the cola drink was meant to soothe your stomach. It wasoriginally soldat pharmacies (aswasCoke).
6.Whenever you shuffle a deck of cards to create a new order, it isalmost guaranteedthat that specific order has never before existed in the history of card-playing. In fact, according to this article from McGill, there are more ways to order a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth — and “even if someone could rearrange a deck of cards every second of the universe’s total existence, the universe would end before they would get even one billionth of the way to finding a repeat.”
7.“The population of the Earthwould fitinside Texas at the same density as NYC.”
8.“John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.”
9.In case you want to completely distort your sense of history, Pocahontas and William Shakespearediedwithinayear of each other, and less than 150 miles apart from each other.
10.Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year: 1929.
11.And to further distort your sense of history…“There was a time when a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln. The fax machine wasinventedin the 1840s, and the first commercial fax service was started in 1865. Samurai were arounduntilthe late 1870s, and Abraham Lincolnwas alive until1865.”
12.Speaking of Abe — “Joe Biden wasborn closerto Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration than he was to his own.”
13.“John Tyler, the tenth president of the US, has aliving grandchild(as of May of this year).”
14.“The timespan between the use of copper swords and then steel swords is longer than the timespan between the use of steel swords and the nuclear bomb.”
15.“Lighters were inventedbeforematches.”
16.And…“Canned foodwas inventedabout 100 years before can openers.”
17."-40C and -40F are the same temperature."
18.“A kind of moth is found in Madagascar that almost entirelysubsistson the tears of sleeping birds.”
19.Another fun bug fact: “Dung beetlesnavigateusing the Milky Way.”
20.“There aremorecastles in Germany than there are McDonald’s In the United States.”
21.“Drinking a good amount of 100% pure waterwillkill you. It will leech vital minerals out of your body.”
22.Kangarooshavethree vaginas — and the third oneonlyforms during pregnancy.
23.Oh, and in case you’re wondering, here’s what the inside of a kangaroo’s pouch looks like — with a baby inside!
24.Cowsarethe deadliest animal in the UK.
25.“Octopuseshave a brainin each of their tentacles as well as a main one in their body.”
26.Puppies in the same littercan eachhave a different father.
27.And this ispossiblein human fraternal twins as well.
28.“The guy that invented dynamitealsocreated the Nobel Peace Prize.”
29.“Coffee isnot a bean. It is the pit of the coffee plant which is a fruit.”
30.And relatedly…Bananasareberries, but strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries are not.
31.Australia iswiderthan the moon: the moon is 3400 kilometers wide while Australia is 4000 kilometers wide.
32.“Alaskaisthe northernmost, the westernmost, and the easternmost state in the United States.”
33.“And Maineis the closest stateto Africa.”
34.And finally…“Most peoplehavean above-average number of limbs.”
