25 true facts that seem like complete fiction (26 photos)

There are so many lies and deceit around that you have to constantly check and double-check everything. But in this case, verification will not be needed, despite the fact that the presented facts do not look very plausible and even suspicious. Well, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!





1. There is an extremely rare disease - “stone man syndrome”. Muscles, tendons and ligaments gradually turn into bones, and people into living statues



2. People were deliberately infected with malaria to cure syphilis, and the man who developed this treatment, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, received a Nobel Prize for this



Extremely high temperatures during malaria infections killed the syphilis bacteria, then patients were cured of malaria using quinine.

3. Cheetahs can't growl, but they can meow like house cats.



4. Modern calculators have more computing power than the Apollo 11 spacecraft.



5. The record for the number of children born from one mother (69) belongs to the wife of the peasant Fyodor Vasilyev (1707–1782), Shuya



Over 27 births, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven triplets and four quadruplets.

6. From 1613 to 1620, a samurai named Hasekura Tsunenaga traveled to Mexico and then to Madrid and Rome. He was an ambassador and the last Japanese person to officially visit Europe, until about 1860



7. Giraffes eat bones



8. If all the people on the planet play rock-paper-scissors in pairs, and then the winners play against each other, and so on, then to take 1st place you need to win only 33 times in a row



9. The longest period of time between the birth of two twins is 87 days



10. We live many times closer to the last dinosaur than the first and last dinosaurs did to each other.



11. Oxford University predates the Aztec Empire by more than 200 years.



From the same series: Woolly mammoths were still around at the time the Great Pyramids of Giza were built.

12. More airplanes were destroyed during World War II than there are currently (currently intact) airplanes on Earth.



13. When the height of Everest was first measured, it was exactly 29,000 feet. 29,002 was reported because exactly 29,000 sounded implausible



14. Ireland was a net exporter of food during the Great Potato Famine (1845-1849). That is, its exports exceeded imports, despite the fact that the people were starving



15. One day Mao Zedong saw a sparrow pecking at grain. In order to preserve grain harvests, a sparrow extermination campaign was launched in China.



The Chinese military and population destroyed all the sparrows they could find. But the fact is that sparrows feed mainly on insects, not grain. The locust population increased sharply, crop yields fell and this led to famine.

16. Over the past 3,000 years, there have been only 268 years when there has been no war in the world.



17. During World War II, more people died making V-2 rockets than using them in warfare.



18. A morbidly obese person can survive absolute fasting for a long time without getting sick or feeling unwell (under careful medical supervision)



Research has been conducted since the 60s. There is a case described in 1973 of a patient who, for therapeutic purposes, switched to a 382-day fasting diet under careful supervision. He only took vitamin and mineral supplements and drank water. I dropped from 207 kg to 88 kg and maintained that weight. After a follow-up examination after 5 years, the patient’s weight was 96 kg, that is, it had stabilized. Prolonged fasting had no side effects.

19. There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way



20. If sound could travel through space, the roar of the Sun would be deafening, even if it is 149.5 million kilometers away



21. On a scale, the distance between the nucleus and the orbiting electron is 16 times greater than the distance between the Sun and Pluto



22. There is no good way to count the number of languages ​​in the world. Mainly because linguists can't agree on the difference between a language and a dialect



The best modern indicator of how many languages ​​there are is the number of translations of the Christian Bible.

23. In chess, there are more than 9 million possible combinations after three player moves. And 288 billion different possible positions after 4 moves



In the full game there are more possible positions than there are electrons in the observable universe.

24. If the Earth were a basketball, then on this scale the Moon would be a tennis ball and spin at a distance of about 7.5 meters. Which is a lot further than most people think



If the nucleus of a hydrogen atom were a tennis ball, the electron would be about 2500 meters away. There is no ball small enough to compare to how small electrons would be on this scale.

25. Nintendo was founded in 1889