I came across this intriguing question on Reddit： What’s a fact about the world that sounds totally fake but is 100% True?
It sparked a fascinating discussion. Here are a few of the most thought-provoking responses that were listed below (P.S. I didn’t ask for proof, so…):
Gavrilo Princip tried to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand during a parade through the streets of Sarajevo, but could not get close enough to the motorcade because of security. Later in the day, after the parade had been over for hours, Princip retreated sullenly to a small sandwich shop elsewhere in the city, when suddenly and completely out of the fucking blue, Franz Ferdinand just happened to roll past him on his way back from a speech after taking an unscheduled detour down the same street as the sandwich shop. Princip walked right up to the car and shot the Archduke at point-blank range, killing him, which started World War I – the deadliest conflict in human history up to that point.
7% of the entire human population since humans began, are alive today.
Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
The space around the sun is 20 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
Up until the 1990s, all surgeries performed on babies were done without the use of any anesthesia. That includes major surgeries like open heart surgeries or excruciating ones like spinal procedures.
Their logic was the baby wouldn’t remember extreme torure anyway, so anesthesia wasn’t worth the risk. They’d simply strap them down and go to work. Its pretty crazy that its not more well known or talked about.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
If you take every steel wire used in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge’s cables and line them up end-to-end, they’d wrap around the equator over 2 times.
Every glass of water you drink is almost 100% guaranteed to have at least one water molecule that was also drank by dinosaurs.
You can hear a blue whale’s heartbeat from more than 2 miles away. Now that’s some serious love!
The US economy is highly dependent on chronically ill population. About 15% of the workforce is directly employed in healthcare, these are some of the highest paying and most stable jobs. And about 75% of those jobs primarily focus on “managing” chronic preventible mostly dietary disease. And that doesn’t include the jobs in Pharma and junk food industry. So in other words if we suddenly were to clean up the food supply and regulate things like refined sugar/junk food etc. and really do a competent job at prevention, the healthcare industry would collapse. All those jobs that manage chronic disease would gone. The best case scenario would cause a major recession, but more likely it would be a Great Depression sort of scenario. This is why you’ll probably never see the American Dental Association lobby for sugar regulation. That would be devastating for dentists when the average American eats 1lb a week.
More people are in slavery now than ever before.