Facts That Sound Fake But Are Actually True

Splice

"You can slice off a fruit tree branch (scion) wrap it onto another fruit tree that has the end of its branch cut off so the exposed parts touch, and that tree will then grow the fruit as well as its original fruit. The record for this type of 'FrankenTree' is about 40 different varieties of fruits growing on a single tree."

-Evil-Kris

Block-busted

"Netflix was founded before Google."

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"Blockbuster could've bought Netflix for $50 million."

-hurtsdonut

Transplant

"When someone gets a kidney transplant they usually leave their original kidney in their body and put the 3rd kidney in the pelvis."

-Sassyass92

Mummy

"The reason we don't have a lot of mummies is because the Victorians ate them all."

-tunaham24

"I listened to a great podcast on this the other day. Turns out they had all heard about this great Persian medicine called mumiya, which was essentially bitumen. Egyptians used it during the embalming process, which is where we get the word mummy. Through a bit of mistranslation, Victorian era people though the medicine was actually mummy parts."

"It also went into great detail on how executioners had a huge side gig selling human body parts and fat for use in crackpot medicine."

-derf82

Comparative History

"Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in the same year as Anne Frank."

-jukeboxx17

Robots

"There's a planet entirely populated by robots in our solar system."

-Morholt33

"Well, it's probably only populated by robots. But also maybe some microbes that latched onto the robots before they left Earth. And also maybe, juuust maybe, some microbes living in plumes beneath the planet's surface that we haven't found yet."

-deains

Frog Facts

"Frogs swallow their food by pushing their food down their throat with their eyeballs."

-R2o2b2e2r2t2

Fruit Ninja

"Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not."

-Pyroqua

Wait, what?

"Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire."

-Jobasaurus

Perspective

"Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid."

-rilow2

Be sure to bust some of these out at your next trivia night?

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