You aren't alone in thinking the world is a strange place. Our histories are full of crazy stories and even crazier people.
Oftentimes what is true might not always sound like it is. Like how more people are crushed each year by vending machines than are eaten by sharks. Or how British elites once ate the corpses of mummies because they thought they contained "healing properties."
There are some wild things that have happened in history, but some are just not believable. We went to r/AskReddit and found some facts that are unimaginable but are in fact true.
1
Someone died on the Bulgarian version of Survivor, and the producers just decided to keep going like nothing happened. u/MetalDBFZ
2
Fred Astaire had a life membership in the National Skateboard Society and broke his left wrist skateboarding at 78. u/SCorpionX-123
3
Martin Luther King jr and Anne Frank were the same age. King just lived longer. (Timelines f me up). u/Raccoonism
4
A man, Michel Lotito, ATE an entire airplane. It took him 2 years. u/Gubble_Buppie
5
Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it’s probably a brand new, unique configuration of cards in all card decks ever to exist in history. u/_nobody_knows
6
More people are killed by vending machines than shark attacks every year. u/JackCooper_7274
7
Shaq only made one three pointer in his whole career. u/_Goose_
8
10th US President John Tyler, who was born in 1790, currently has a living grandson. u/Ok_Security_8657
9
Fireflies don’t eat. They do all of their eating as larvae (glow worms.) u/BrownShoeJenny
10
Your body contains more non-human cells than human cells. You're a neurotic, gassy generation ship for trillions of microbes. u/tehmlem
11
Joe Biden was born closer to Lincoln’s presidency than he was to his own. u/Bran_Solo
12
It was more technologically feasible to actually go to the moon than to fake a moon landing given the technology at the time. u/TheModernAhab
13
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. Venus has a very slow planetary rotation, it takes 285 earth days for one day on Venus. A year is 255 days. u/heavymtlbbq
14
There are only 25 Blimps left on Earth. u/onefreckl
15
Only about 50% of murders in the US get solved. u/Battery6512
16
When it was donated to the Smithsonian, the Hope Diamond was sent through the mail with $145.29 in postage. u/BarracudaImpossible4
17
There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history. today, an estimated 40.3 million people – more than three times the figure during the transatlantic slave trade – are living in some form of modern slavery. u/NOT000
18
Hippos kill at least 500 people a year. u/_Light_The_Way
19
The human body is the most efficient on earth for running. We use the least energy for running less then any other creature on earth. u/DukeManbert
20
The reason there's not a lot of Egyptian mummy's is because the British elite ate them in the early 1800s due to a misunderstanding that eating them had healing properties. u/ThingFromEarth
