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34 Eyebrow-Arching Facts That Science Swears Are True

October 03, 2023

There’s a lot of nonsense we all come across on the internet. We’re practically trained at this point to think “oh, this must be fake” whenever we read something online that sounds hard to believe. But that’s not always the case. Sometimes, these “hard-to-believe” facts are actually backed by real science. Facts like…

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THE MORE HOUSEWORK MEN DO, THE HAPPIER THEY, ARE. Men married to women feel guilty when they see their partner doing more housework so they feel more content when they participate. CRACKED.COM — 7 Things You Won't Believe Science Says Make You Happy

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CRACKEDo Chitons have teeth made of metal. Chitons, that are found in the Gulf of Mexico, are the Wolverine of mollusks. Their teeth are made of a metal called magnetite. No other living organism can make any material that tough. — New Scientist

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You have more synapses in your brain than we have stars in our galaxy There are between 100 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, but there are more than 125 trillion nerve connections just in the brain's cerebral cortex. CRACKED.COM — NASA and ScienceDaily

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We don't know what Neil Armstrong took to the moon. His record for his personal property kit has never been made public. During his moon trip, he took an unscheduled visit to Little West crater, off-camera. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — NBC News

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Many, many adults- about one third - - go to sleep with a soft furry toy. One survey found that 34% adults sleep with one (according to a University of Bristol professor, it's probably more common among women). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Guardian

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In the Victorian era, sleeping in separate beds was considered healthier. Gloo Doctors at the time thought that, at night, the weaker person would drain the vitality of the stronger one if they slept in a double bed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Guardian

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SMILING WAS INVENTED IN THE MIDDLE/AGES. Mouth curling was still around, but the teeth-showing, eye-crinkling smiles weren't a common way to express pleasure until after the invention of dentistry. CRACKED.COM — BBC

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A planet exists made of burning ice. Gliese 436 b, about 30 light-years from US, is made mostly of ice that would burn you to a crisp if you touched it. The strong gravity keeps water SO tightly packed that it remains solid, even at a temperature of almost 1,000 degrees. CRACKED.COM — Futurism

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1 million seconds is 11 days, while 1 billion seconds is more than 31.5 years NOTE TENDER PUBLIC AND PRIVATE in Lushedo Chat 00 States 1 trillion seconds is more than 31,688 years. Consider that next time you defend Jeff Bezos. CRACKED.COM — New York Times

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Pizza Hut delivered a pizza to space. Pizza-Hut The company paid $1 million for the promotional gesture of sending pizza to the International Space Station. The pizza had salami instead of pepperoni due to the meat's shelf-life. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — BBC

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Koalas spend the majority of the day sleeping because of - their diet. They sleep for 18 to 22 hours, because their food, eucalyptus leaves, is so toxic that their digestive tracts have to work really hard at digesting it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — National Geographic

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Happiness

ACCORDING TO A STUDY, PEOPLE WHO PRIORITIZE HAVING TIME OVER MAKING MORE MONEY ARE HAPPIERS However, the study didn't include participants living at poverty level who may not have a choice for survival. CRACKED.COM — EurekAlert!

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The barreleye can look through its own head. The top of this deep-water fish's head is see-through. The fish can rotate its eyes and look at the world through it. CRACKED.COM — Live Science

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Turtles can breathe out of their butts When they hibernate, their main source of oxygen comes from their rear end. CRACKED.COM — McGill

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The inventor of the TV was unimpressed by his invention until he watched the moon landing. His wife said, We were watching it, and, when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, Phil turned to me and said, 'Pem, this has made it all worthwhile.' Before then, he wasn't too sure. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Archive of American Television

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There's a name for repeatedly waking up and falling asleep in the morning. It's called drockling, and it can be harmful - if you do it a lot, you're confusing your body and putting pressure on your nervous system. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Careica Health

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OUR DEFINITION OF HAPPINESS HAS CHANGED. Compact xford DICGUISH Dictionary It's hard to achieve something that we can't even agree on what it is. In Ancient Greece, happiness was luck. In Aristotle's time, happiness was virtue. Early Christians saw happiness as something only obtainable after death. CRACKED.COM — 5 Scientific Reasons Your Idea of Happiness Is Wrong

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10, a moon of Jupiter, has tides of rock. lo has no oceans- but that doesn't mean it has no tides. The gravity of Jupiter and the other moons causes the ground to move up and down the height of a 30-story building. CRACKED.COM — NASA

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Ballet dancers have a higher pain tolerance Like sports professionals, professional dancers have higher pain tolerance thresholds. CRACKED.COM — NCBI

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If NASA's funding stayed at Apollo levels, they were planning a manned mission to Mars by 1983 The Space Task Group planned to develop a lunar orbit station in 1978 and a lunar surface base in 1980. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Space Review

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Sleep deprivation negatively affects your ability to control your thoughts. The more sleep deprived you are, the less you're able to suppress any unwanted thoughts - perhaps because it messes up prefrontal cortex control. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — SagePub.com

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PEOPLE TEND TO BE HAPPIER AROUND FRIENDS THAN FAMILY. Social bonds are necessary for happiness. People are often happies around friends, family, and spouses, in that order. CRACKED.COM — Mental Floss

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CRACKED Tea can climb back to the kettle as you brew it. Tiny tea particles can climb short distances from the cup to the kettle. Researchers have found that small waterfalls create counter-flows strong enough for water to go upwards. — Phys.Org

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Water you drink may be older than the Sun According to astrophysicists, half of all water on Earth may be millions of years older than the solar system. CRACKED.COM — New York Times

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The planet Uranus was discovered before the continent of Antarctica. Antarctica was discovered in 1820, but Uranus was the first planet discovered via telescope in 1781. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — NASA and National Geographic

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Daylight savings time. makes us depressed (because we're sleep-deprived). In one study, right after the DST change in fall (but not in spring), hospitals dealt with 11% more depressive symptoms -- that's been linked to loss of sleep. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — UT Southwestern

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PRESSURE TO FEEL HAPPY WILL MAKE YOU LESS HAPPY. Accepting unpleasant emotions is more beneficial to you in the long-run. Feel sad in order to feel happy later! CRACKED.COM — UC Berkley

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CRACKED.co Whiptail lizards are all female. Aspidoscelis, a genus of New Mexico lizards, has no males. They reproduce through natural cloning. Their organisms have mechanisms in place to preserve genetic diversity. — National Geographic

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An average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds You don't have to worry about the sky falling as the weight clearly isn't concentrated in one space; it's spread out over a very large area. CRACKED.COM — Science Alert

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Rogue planets (planets that don't rotate stars) could outnumber the stars in our galaxy They are hard for astronomers to spot as they don't emit light or much heat. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — CNN

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One theory says that sleep basically made humans what we are today. It holds that moving from the trees to the ground meant we could sleep more deeply (because We were safer), which made our brains work better. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — BBC

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NEARLY HALF OF YOUR HARPINESSNS GENETIC. But, hey, that means the other half is malleable. Glass half full! CRACKED.com — University of Minnesota

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killer whales can learn dolphin language. Orcas who spend time with bottlenose dolphins use more clicks and whistles, and their language becomes a mashup of both species. (So orcas speak dolphin with an accent?) CRACKED.COM — Discover Magazine

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CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS, OVER MONEY OR FAME, LEAD TO HAPPINESS. Close relationships prevent physical and mental decline and are a better predictor for a long life than even genes. CRACKED.COM — Harvard

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