People have been sharing historical facts that sound fake but are totally true – 18 proper jaw-droppers
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Let’s do a super recent one:
In 1992, a bank was robbed in Los Angeles every 45 minutes. https://t.co/ji61bQZDpH
— 2001 Live (@25YearsAgoLive) May 15, 2026
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Cleopatra was born closer to the invention of the television than the construction of the Pyramids. https://t.co/bqVEqDckYB
— Will 🦥 Menaker (@willmenaker) May 13, 2026
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One of the first Indians the Pilgrims ran into spoke English. https://t.co/XxcqJHldts
— Just Loki (@LokiJulianus) May 15, 2026
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The greeting “hello” did not exist until the telephone because there was no need for a context-free general-purpose greeting until phone calls https://t.co/yuw0BurFyb
— Sherman McCoy (@wasphyxiation) May 14, 2026
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We haven’t had—and might not ever have—a president who was born in the 1950s. https://t.co/PDc5fCWj9b
— J. Miles Coleman (@JMilesColeman) May 14, 2026
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Joe Biden was born closer to the end of the Lincoln presidency than to the beginning of his own.
— Slats Grobnik (@ohroyko) May 13, 2026
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australia and new zealand were settled 50,000 years apart https://t.co/0Shf4ae85s
— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) May 13, 2026
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The dental drill was invented before the wheel. https://t.co/LXLoVLffXH
— Possum Reviews (@ReviewsPossum) May 13, 2026
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Portland, Oregon was named after Portland, Maine because the person who wanted to name it Boston lost a coin toss https://t.co/XZ0X1PgFI4
— Christine Rousselle (@crousselle) May 14, 2026
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