‘What is a fact that sounds like a shitpost but is 100 percent real?’ 21 unbelievably good examples

12.

We are closer in time to a Tyrannosaur than a Tyrannosaur is to a Stegosaurus. https://t.co/z0wE5OaCGo

— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) March 22, 2022

13.

What we call fish are actually several distinct groups of animals only very distantly related to each other.

Or to put it another way, a salmon is more closely related to your mom than it is to a shark

— Brendan AE (@AnimalExtender) March 21, 2022

14.

The FBI spent a whole year investigating the lyrics to the Kingmen's hit song Louie Louie

— Aspihistorian (@aspihistorian) March 21, 2022

15.

The last guillotining in France occurred the year Star Wars first premiered.

— Patrick Sheridan 🇺🇦 (@Patriot_Pat1) March 21, 2022

16.

When André the Giant was a teenager, Samuel Beckett used to drive him to school. (This is both true and probably the most important thing I know)

— Gregory Levey (@gregorylevey) March 21, 2022

17.

John Wilkes Booth's brother saved Abraham Lincoln's son from being run over by a train.

— Vidor (@Vidor1) March 21, 2022

18.

Albert Einstein would cancel presentations because his favorite cartoons were on https://t.co/WBtCcMoSr0

— Pot mimic enjoyer (@Yeenie_Mcbeenie) March 21, 2022

19.

Bob Holness, the host of UK quiz show Blockbusters was the second actor to portray James Bond, starring in a 1957 South African radio dramatisation of 'Moonraker'. pic.twitter.com/qosbNJSwOy

— e_knit (@e_knit) March 22, 2022

20.

The last time the Republican Party has won the popular vote in a presidential election without having a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket was 1928. https://t.co/HOryNIcohg

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 21, 2022

21.

All the planets in the solar system could fit between the earth and the moon.

— Geoff Casavant (@Geoff_Casavant) March 21, 2022

Somebody had to say it.

The current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is Boris Johnson. https://t.co/fTfQQOQ11S

— 5 Chinese Crackers (@5ChinCrack) March 22, 2022

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