These 34 Surprising Facts Will Have You In Awe: Prove You Can Tell The Real From The Fake | Bored Panda

These 34 Surprising Facts Will Have You In Awe: Prove You Can Tell The Real From The Fake | Bored Panda

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Crab on water, spider on web silhouette, and glowing jellyfish underwater illustrating animals not true to mortality.

Jenssen R, Rompalli Harish & Pixabay

1.One of the animals in this image is immortal.

Earth shown from space with visible oceans, continents, and cloud formations highlighting its irregular spherical shape.

Zelch Csaba

2.Earth is not a perfect sphere.

Waterfall surrounded by dense Amazon rainforest, highlighting nature and the Amazon producing oxygen misconception.

Renan Bomtempo

3.The Amazon produces nearly 20% of Earth's oxygen.

Sloth hanging upside down on tree branches indoors, demonstrating slow movement and unique climbing behavior.

Roxanne Minnish

4.Sloths climb down trees to poop once a week.

Child playing with a wooden abacus on a white bed, illustrating learning and brain development concept.

Tara Winstead

5.Humans can only use 10% of their brains.

Overhead view of a running bull surrounded by people, challenging the myth that bulls get angry when they see red.

San Fermin Pamplona

6.Bulls get angry when they see the color red.

Three white cows with ear tags standing on grass under a blue sky, highlighting cows best friends myth.

Pixabay

7.Cows have best friends and become stressed when separated.

Glass jar filled with sugar cubes and a child jumping outdoors, illustrating sugar causes hyperactivity in children myth.

Suzy Hazelwood & Germán TR

8.Sugar causes hyperactivity in children.

Blue butterflies flying above glowing mushrooms on forest floor, illustrating butterflies mainly taste with their feet.

Pixabay

9.Butterflies mainly taste with their feet.

Overhead view of a balding man with gray hair using a laptop, illustrating myths about shaving hair and hair growth.

Nappy

10.Shaving hair makes it grow thicker and darker.

Colorful chameleon resting on a branch surrounded by leaves, illustrating things that are not true about camouflage.

Egor Kamelev

11.Chameleons change their color mainly for camouflage.

Close-up of a person gently holding a baby bird, illustrating myths about touching baby birds and abandonment.

Pixabay

12.Touching a baby bird will cause its mother to abandon it.

Translucent jellyfish floating in dark water, illustrating things that are not true about jellyfish anatomy.

Miriam Fischer

13.Jellyfish don't have brains or hearts.

Close-up of an ostrich head with a green blurred background debunking the myth about ostriches burying heads in the sand.

Pixabay

14.Ostriches bury their heads in the sand to hide.

Starfish on wet sand with waves, highlighting starfish regeneration myths about arms and new starfish growth.

Mark Walz

15.Starfish can regenerate entire arms, and in some cases, an entire new starfish from just one arm.

Polar bear shaking water off fur that appears off-white, highlighting facts about the white polar bear's fur color.

Leon Aschemann

16.The white polar bear's fur is not white.

Full detailed view of the Moon’s surface debunking myths of a darker side that never sees sunlight.

Bruno Scramgnon

17.The Moon has a darker side that never sees sunlight.

Albert Einstein portrait alongside a handwritten page filled with complex math equations and scientific notes.

Oren Jack Turner & Andrea Piacquadio

18.Einstein failed math in school.

Koala sitting on a tree branch surrounded by green leaves, highlighting koala fingerprints similarity with humans.

Pixabay

19.Koala's fingerprints are nearly indistinguishable from humans'.

Group of young people cheering with wine glasses, illustrating myths about drinking alcohol warming your body.

Cottonbro studio

20.Drinking alcohol warms your body.

Purple octopus clinging to underwater rocks, highlighting facts about octopuses and their three hearts.

Yu zhang

21.Octopuses have three hearts.

Person holding a pen and writing on paper indoors, illustrating myths about NASA pen development in space.

Evellyn Carvalho

22.NASA spent millions developing a pen that writes in space.

Venus planet with thick cloud cover visible against the black background in space, illustrating Venus day length facts.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

23.On Venus, a day is longer than a year.

Bat flying at night with open wings against a dark sky, debunking the myth bats are blind.

Ian Gabaraev

24.Bats are blind.

Large green tree in dense forest beside star-filled Milky Way galaxy sky representing trees and stars comparison.

Vee terzy & Umkreisel

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

Radcliffe Camera building in Oxford University surrounded by historic architecture under cloudy skies.

Chait Goli

26.Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

First-ever image of a black hole showing the glowing event horizon against dark space background, clarifying cosmic vacuum myths.

Wikipedia

27.Black holes suck everything like a cosmic vacuum.

Woman with glowing neon face paint under blacklight, illustrating humans literally glow concept in dark setting.

Leandro Barbosa

28.Humans literally glow.

Astronaut in space suit with Earth and spacecraft in the background illustrating gravity in space misconception.

Pixabay

29.There's no gravity in space.

Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in military uniform highlighting myths about Napoleon Bonaparte was extremely short.

Jacques-Louis David

30.Napoleon Bonaparte was extremely short.

Woman breathing deeply outdoors beside underwater ocean scene with coral reef and fish in natural light beams.

Alex P & Francesco Ungaro

31.The majority of the oxygen you inhale comes from the ocean.

Person yawning in front of laptop next to a yawning monkey, illustrating humans evolved directly from chimpanzees myth.

Andrea Piacquadio & Arindam Raha

32.Humans evolved directly from chimpanzees.

Crowded beach scene at sunset with many people swimming and relaxing by the water under clear skies.

Rcastro creative

33.You should wait at least one hour after eating before swimming.

Close-up of frozen ice pieces on water illustrating hot water freezing faster than cold water under certain conditions.

James Cheney

34.Under certain conditions, hot water can freeze faster than cold water.

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