10 Baffling Facts that Sound Untrue

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1. In the 18th century, a woman named Valentina Vassilyeva reportedly gave birth to a total of 69 children.

In the 18th century, a woman in Russia reportedly gave birth to 69 children, including 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.

Her 27 pregnancies resulted in 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.




2. An 18-inch pizza has more pizza than two, 12-inch pizzas.

This might seem counterintuitive, but it’s simple math. The area of an 18-inch-diameter pizza is 254 square inches, but for two 12-inch pizzas, it’s only 226 square inches.



3. The longest recorded time between the birth of twins of the same set is 87 days.

This Guinness World Record in this category belongs to Maria Jones-Elliot. She went into premature labor six months into her pregnancy and gave birth to her first twin, Amy.

The second twin, Katie, arrived three months later.



4. More planes were destroyed during World War II than there are planes on Earth today.

According to an estimate, there are over 23,600 active passenger and cargo planes in the world, and 2,500 in storage.

There are 20,831 private jets as of October 2018 and an estimated 20,089 military aircraft in the world, the majority concentrated in the US.

In comparison, the Soviet Union alone lost 106,400 planes, the US lost 95,000, Germany almost 77,000, and Japan 50,000 planes during World War II.







5. You can use a paper cup to boil water on an open flame.

Here’s a new trick to impress your camping buddies. Fill a paper cup with water, hold it over a flame with tongs, and watch the water boil.

As the cup heats up on the outside, the water cools it on the inside, and the paper doesn’t catch fire.





6. Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer to us in time than it did the Stegosaurus.

Stegosaurus belonged to the Late Jurassic Period which was between 155 and 150 million years ago.

T-rex belonged to the Upper Cretaceous Period which was between 68 to 66 million years ago. That’s 87 million years after Stegosaurus.



7. In the last 3,400 years, there were only 268 years without any war in the world.

That’s just 8% of the time in which we’ve had complete peace in our recorded history.



8. Malaria was once used to treat syphilis.

Austrian physician Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg discovered that inducing a high fever by injecting syphilis patients with malaria killed the temperature-sensitive bacteria.

He won the Nobel Prize for this, and it remained in use until penicillin’s discovery.


9. You see your nose all the time, but your brain just ignores it.

This is because of a mechanism called “unconscious selective attention.” Since looking at your nose is not that important, your brain focuses on the rest of the objects in front of you.



10. Whales used to have legs.

Pakicetus is the ancient ancestor of whales and lived 50 million years ago.

It was about the size of a goat and lived on the riverbanks of present India and Pakistan.

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