‘What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out?’ – 19 facts to bring out your inner sceptic

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The pluvial episode. It rained for 1-2 million years straight. Imagine going outside and it started raining…it happens…and then it never ended.
corey_wurst

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Komodo dragons have metal in their teeth.
DidSomebodySayCats

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Most lobsters are left handed.
MamaLama629

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The False Memory phenomenon. It freaks me out that our brains can literally create high-definition, detailed memories of events that never actually happened. Scientists like Elizabeth Loftus have shown that through simple suggestion, you can make a person ‘remember’ being lost in a mall as a child or even witnessing a crime, and they will defend that memory with absolute certainty.

It sounds fake because we trust our eyes and our past more than anything. But in reality, our memory isn’t a video recorder; it’s a Wikipedia page that anyone including our own biases—can edit. It makes you realize that most of what we think we know about our own lives might just be a collection of ‘system glitches.’ We are living in a story our brain is constantly rewriting.
Markosmaged

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Trees evolved lignin (which lets them grow as tall as they do) about 30 million years before fungi evolved the enzyme that allowed them to break down lignin.

What this means is that for 30 million years, dead trees just piled up, covered with other vegetation. This sequestered enough carbon to lower the global temperature significantly.
dangerous_beans_42

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Every single thing they learn about the platypus. We all know how weird they look, and that they lay eggs, and they’re mammals but don’t have nipples, and the males have venom.
retconnedusername

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Meditation can physically increase the size of your brain and it just freaks me out . Just sitting and not thinking about anything can increase the frontal lobe size.
CrappyHustler

18.

Microplastics are in our brains and they break down even further into nanoplastics which are small enough to go through cell walls.
Nico_bico

19.

All clownfish are born intersex and every female clownfish is transgender.
REVERENDQUEEF

Not strictly true.

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