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32 Counterintuitive Facts That Our Brains Can’t Handle

October 25, 2023

You ever hear something and think, “That can’t possibly be right”? Well, today you’ll be saying that a lot as we take a look at 32 facts that sound like total nonsense but are actually completely true…

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Alaska is the most eastern state in the United States. + 8 Bering Sea Shemya Attu Dutch Harbor Near Islands Agattu' Islands Kiska Amchitka Adak GRACKED.COM Parific Orean The farthest of the the Aleutian Islands in Alaska cross the 180th meridian of longitude. So, they're not ma super west. They're super super east. — The Atlantic

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Detroit gave Saddam Hussein the key to the city. CRACKED.COM The newly minted President of Iraq threw a whole ton of cash at a Detroit church when its reverend simply publicly congratulated him on his electoral victory. That reverend made the understatement of the century, when asked in 2003 what's going on with his Iraqi bro: Money and power changed the person. — CBS News

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Redheads are more sensitive to pain than people with brown, black, or blond hair. As a result, they require 20 percent more anesthesia than average to get sedated for surgery. CRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Hospitals

Hospitals can prescribe alcohol to alcoholic patients! ROYAL ALEXAOR US ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL ROYAL HOSPITAS ETHANOL 48% ALEXANDRA ETHANOL 40% (451L ETHANOL (45ML) (VODKA) 40% (VODKA) (VODKA) MANAGED ALCOHOL STORE AT MANAGED ALCOHOL PROGRAM MARED ALCOHOL PROOF FOR ORAL STORE ROOM TEMPERATURE AT ROOM TENPERATIVE AT LORE ORANGE USE ORAL USE FOR DRAL TREE, ORANGE TREE, ORANGE 2/900000457/0 FEB16/000088457/0-214 USE FOR ORAL FOR Beer, alcoholic beverages, and IV alcohol is often given to alcoholics before anesthesia to help patients tolerate procedures and help with withdrawal. CRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Cats and Dogs

Humans are agenctically closer to cats than dogs. We share 90 % of our DNA with cats, but only 84% with dogs. Considering that most people would rather sleep all day than socialize and play outdoors, this really doesn't come as a big surprise. GRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Contralateral lung transplantation is when someone needs a lung transplant, but the available organ is the left lung instead of the right. To make the transplant work, doctors flip the donated lung 180 and trim it to make it fit. CRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Every year in the US at least 4,000 items are left inside patients after surgery. In the medical world it is known as retained surgical items. GRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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An estimated 75% of doctors who practice low-risk specialties will be sued for malpractice by the time they reach age 65. CRACKED.COM In comparision, it is estimated that 99% of high-risk specialty doctors will face a malpractice suit by the time they reach 65. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Think: all poop stinks? Not to your mother. Scientists found that when mothers sniffed and rated various samples of baby poop, they reported that poop from their own babies smelled less nasty. It actually makes sense. If mothers are less disgusted by their own children, they'll take better care of them. CRACKED.COM — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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GRACKED.COM If a woman's heart tissue is damaged during pregnancy, her fetus will send stem cells to repair it. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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If you, hypothetically, drilled a hole through the center of the Earth and jumped in, it would take 42 MINUTES to reach the other side. CRACKED.COM — 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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MALL OF AMERICA DOESN'T USE HEATING. MALL OF AMERICA Freezing Minnesota's Mall of America doesn't use heating, but it's kept warm through skylights, lighting, store fixtures, and body heat. CRACKED.COM — Mall of America

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Alexander the Great may have been buried alive because of his divinity. CRACKED.COM After his apparent death, his body didn't decompose for 6 days. Everyone at the time just said that's immortal Alexander for ya! and went ahead and buried him. Some specialists now think he may have actually suffered from Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes paralysis. — Smithsonian

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CRACKED.CO If you lose a fingernail in an accident, it'll take about 6 months to grow back. But it will take three times as long if you lose a toenail in an accident. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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CRACKED.co COM Everyone has their own fingerprints. But your tongue also has a one-of-a-kind print. Because of its uniqueness, the tongue could be used in biometric scans or forensic dentistry as an identification tool in the future. — 30 Medical Facts You'll Swear Are B.S. (But Aren't)

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Andrew Jackson's wife was slandered to death. CRACKED.COM Due to an oversight, Rachel Donelson was technically still married when she hooked up with Jackson. His political enemies latched onto that, with one newspaper asking Ought a convicted adulteress and her paramour husband to be placed in the highest offices of this free and Christian land? She grew depressed and died of a heart attack. — 6 Historical Hoaxes That Are Too Stupid Even For 2017

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Vienna

IN 1913, HITLER, TROTSKY, TITO, FREUD, STALIN, AND ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND ALL LIVED IN VIENNA. CAFE A city really full of up-and-comers. CRACKED.COM — BBC

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CRACKED.COM COSMIC THE UNIVERSE IS A COLOR NAMED COSMIC LATTE LATTE Astronomers performing a massive survey averaged the light emitted by 200,000 galaxies. The result was that if the sky were a single, uniform color, it'd be a light beige. If you want to use it in Photoshop, its RGB value is #FFF8E7. Other names proposed were Cappuccino Cosmico, Primordial Clam Chowder and Skyvory. — 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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CRACKED.COM Mercury has a fickle sun Because of Mercury's eccentric orbit and slow rotation, sometimes the sun reverses direction in the sky. If you were standing on the planet's surface, you could see the sun rise, then set on the same spot, then rise again. — 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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MCDONALD'S IS THE LARGEST TOY DISTRIBUTOR IN THE WORLD. HAMBURGERS McDonald's Surprisingly, Subway is the largest restaurant chain in the world. CRACKED.COM — USA Today

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AS far as biologists can tell, lobsters are immortal, in the sense that they don't die of old age. Instead, they grow in size until an outside force kills them. CRACKED.COM Can there be only one? — 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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MORE THAN A QUARTER OF YOUR BONES ARE IN YOUR FEET. to EXT Orgont Body Body Talus of LOGGUS SARVER firsting feedon of for THE - - Half of all your bones are in feet and hands. Each foot has 26 bones, and each hand has 27. CRACKED.COM — 16 Facts That Are Just Plain Counterintuitive

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When not exposed to insects, human corpses can remain relatively intact due to fatty tissue cells going through a process that turns them into hydroxystearic, hydroxypalmitic acids and other stearic compounds... this is known as saponification. In other words, you turn into soap CRACKED.COM — 20 Mind-Blowing Facts That Seem Like Bullsh#t (But Aren't)

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The Italian church said forks were a tool of the debil. CRACKED.COM When forks made their way to Italy in the 11th century, rich people started collecting them, but the church insisted that actually using them was an affront to God. Man was meant to twirl his spaghetti, ostensibly, by jabbing his fingers into the bowl and walking circles around the table. — Ancient Pages

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A flea accelerates harder than a space shuttle. 4 + 8 CRACKED.COM It doesn't cover a lot of distance in terms of meters, but a flea faces forces of 100 g's when it accelerates, while a shuttle gets 4 g's max. — NY Times

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CRACKED.COM A breeding pair of mice can produce over 100,0 000 descendants in just one year — 22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)

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Tomatoes

A tomato has 7,000 more genes than a human does. 4 2+8 the CRACKED.COM Turns out that there's a lot more to what makes an organism complex than just the number of genes mgs in its genome. — Houston Chronicle

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A HUMAN MALE WILL PRODUCE ABOUT 525 BILLION SPERM IN HIS LIFETIME. THAT'S AROUND FIVE TIMES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE EVER LIVED. CRACKED.COM — 22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)

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A Pope may have caused the Plague. CRACKED.COM Pope Gregory IX ordered a mass extermination of cats in the 13th century, because he was pretty sure Satan was inhabiting them like some kind of evil Uber. Some historians think this caused the rat population to explode, paving the way for the -bearing rodents to spread the Black Death around the world. — Chicago Tribune

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CRACKED.COM 3.04 TRILLION TREES THERE ARE MORE TREES ON EARTH THAN THERE ARE STARS IN THE MILKY WAY. APPROXIMATELY! 400 BILLION STARS — 22 True Facts (That Seem Like Nonsense)

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The biggest desert has most of the world's water. CRACKED.COM It's Antarctica, which, though cold, has so little precipitation that it's a desert. 70 percent of Earth's fresh water is frozen as Antarctic ice. — NASA

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Adding cold cream to hot coffee keeps it warm longer. CRACKED.COM Partly because the slightly cooler coffee now loses heat less quickly and partly because the denser liquid resists evaporation better. — Modernist Cuisine

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