re: 77 true facts that sound like lies

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74. The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur is almost 100%.

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I call B.S. on this one. How many dinosaurs existed? How much water exists? I believe this is very unlikely.

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Not BS, it is very, very likely.
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Dinosaurs, as a taxonomic group, have been around[10] for 230 million years, but their heyday was the mid-to-late Jurassic period. In this period, there were probably around 5 trillion kilograms of dinosaur alive at any given time.[11] (Today, there are probably only a few hundred billion kilograms of living dinosaur,[12] 50 billion of it chicken).
If we assume Jurassic dinosaur water requirements were similar to mammal ones,[13] then this suggests dinosaurs drank something like 10^22 or 10^23 liters of water during the Mesozoic era—more than the total volume of the oceans (10^21 liters).
The average "residence time" of water in the oceans—the amount of time a water molecule spends there before moving into another part of the water cycle—is about 3,000 years,[14] and no part of the water cycle traps water for more than a few hundred thousand years. This means we can assume that, over timescales of millions of years, Earth's water is thoroughly mixed—and dinosaurs had plenty of time to drink it all many times over.
This means that while the chances are that most of the water in your soda has never been in another soda, almost all of it has been drunk by at least one dinosaur.

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58. The CEO of Food For The Poor is named Robin Mahfood.

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59. One in every 5,000 babies is born with a condition known as “imperforate anus.” This means the baby is born without an anus and has to have one created manually in the hospital.

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I guess that really is "cutting someone a new a-hole".

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52. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth


Woah. So that's like hundreds of stars.

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What happens if you fold the sand in half? :mindblown:

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just in our solar system.

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So.....thousands?

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This caught me off guard, had to look at a map of the world right quick...

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I did too, and sure enough...

that was one of my favorite posts ever.

While everybody else is figuring out how to fold a piece of paper 42 times, my mind is blown by this one:

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42. Duck Hunt is a two-player game. Player two controls the ducks.

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Since when? I don't ever remember the ducks being controllable?