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What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Today I learned the president of the Screen Actors Guild is The Nanny (Fran Dresher)

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[–] bonegolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Trees are mostly made of air.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 year ago

I assume you mean trees are mostly made from air and not trees are mostly gaseous. Most of trees are carbon, which they get from carbon dioxide in the air, but they transform it, using energy from the sun. Equivalently you could say they're mostly made from sunlight, which is obviously wrong, but equally accurate.

The statement that humans are mostly water, on the other hand, is actually correct. It is water in the form of water from water.

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[–] birdcat@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

In future space travel spaghettification will be a serious concern.

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[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Moose are prey to Orca Whales.

[–] newcolour@reddthat.com 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There are 100 billion bacterial cells in a single gram of poop.

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[–] hansl@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

7% of all homosapien to have ever lived are alive today.

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[–] Shikadi@wirebase.org 17 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Cars run on explosions

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[–] spacedancer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It’s more expensive to execute a person on death row than to keep them imprisoned for life.

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The world's two largest cities by area are both on Greenland.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-city-rankings/largest-city-in-the-world-by-area

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[–] wumpus@latte.isnot.coffee 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Regardless which lossless compression algorithm you prefer, it makes most files bigger.

*where "files" includes all bitstrings of a given length, whether or not they've ever existed

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