25 Random Facts That Seem Too Strange To Be True

The internet has given us more opportunities than ever to learn and share random tidbits of knowledge, from historical facts to scientific anomalies to obscure music trivia. And as the saying goes, fact often tends to be stranger than fiction. Some of the most jarring things you may ever hear are completely real, even if they sound fully made up.

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Twitter users came together to share some of those things recently, after writer Eric Michael Garcia asked, “What is a fact that sounds like a sh*tpost but is 100 percent real.”

What is a fact that sounds like a shitpost but is 100 percent real?

— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) March 21, 2022

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So the next time you need to pull out a “fun fact” at a social gathering, just make sure you have a handful of these strange truths filed away — after you’ve checked them out for yourself, first.

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Another one: Jeb Bush and Bill Belichick went to high school at Phillips Academy in Andover at the same time.

— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) March 21, 2022

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That must have been awful, but it doesn’t excuse what they did.

— Michael Stoyanov (@MikeStoyanov) March 21, 2022

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Johnny Cash kept a pet ostrich on his farm. One day in 1983 the ostrich kicked him and broke Cash’s ribs, which led to a relapse of his painkiller and alcohol addiction. He went to the Betty Ford Clinic to get sober and met and befriended Ozzy Osbourne. https://t.co/leTxbjHwXz

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 22, 2022

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Barack Obama was elected President because the husband of the actress who played Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager wanted to sleep with other women https://t.co/X2waDoYNlG

— Cooper Lund (@cooperlund) March 21, 2022

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American architect William Wesley Peters married twice. Both of his wives were named Svetlana. The first Svetlana was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright. The second Svetlana was the daughter of Joseph Stalin

— Brendan AE (@AnimalExtender) March 21, 2022

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My teenage brain learned this fact and assumed that same enzyme was in all tropical fruits. Anyway, at 33 I learned I have a mild allergy to mango and kiwi, because I told my friend I like the way they sting when you eat them.

— Trash Muppet (@glowwormgoop) March 21, 2022

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Which means she ever said “Ain’t I a Woman?” She wouldn’t even speak that way. She gave a speech and white people “slave-washed” it.

— Acey Deecey (@mcgarrygirl78) March 21, 2022

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Ground up remains of mummified Egyptian people were also a popular pseudoscientific “cure-all” for everything (especially bruises).
The best part is that this practice is all based off a MISTRANSLATION of the arabic term “mūmiyā” which actually means bitumen (asphalt) pic.twitter.com/6B55E3i3us

— Ada McVean (@AdaMcVean) March 21, 2022

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Seriously, read .@carolinefraser #PrairieFires which is all about Laura and Rose and also Laura’s parents, sisters and both women’s husbands. It’s very eye-opening and one of the best biographies written in the past decade.

— maraleia (@maraleia) March 21, 2022

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*First Published: March 22, 2022, 9:05 am