What is a fact or statistic that seems fake but is real?

21. In a randomly selected group of 23 people there is a 50% 2 of them will share a birthday.

– samotvii

22. The Appalachian, Scottish Highlands, and the Atlas Mountains are actually the same prehistoric mountain range.

– StolenDabblons

23. Chainsaws were invented to assist with childbirth…

In 1780, two Scottish doctors invented the prototype of the chainsaw. Not to cut down trees or clear debris. No, John Aitken and James Jeffray invented the hand-cranked chainsaw to cut through the pelvises of delivering mothers who were having trouble pushing their babies out.

– fuzzygroodle

24. Imagine a rope circling the Earth so it is tight, and the Earth is a perfect sphere.

You want to lengthen the rope so it is 1 m above the ground all the way around. How much extra rope do you need?

About 6.3 meters extra.

– Aussie_Mo_Bro

25. At a certain time of the year, when the moon is the furthest away from the Earth, the other 7 planets can fit in the space between the Earth and the moon.

– grynch

26. German football defender Philipp Lahm played for almost 20 years and never got a red card. Mind you he was a defender and played in a top league and was never sent off for fouls.

– R_B207

27. Tyromancy is the art of divination/prediction by studying cheese.

– OldandNotBold

28. Barcode scanners scan the white lines, not the black ones.

– the_blast_radius

29. 1 out of every 4 girls & 1 out of every 6 to 13 boys are sexually assaulted as a child. Child rape is far more common than people think & the majority of rapists get away with it to rape more children.

Sources:

CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fastfact.html

National Sexual Violence Resource Center: https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf

– HelenAngel

30. Three out of every million Icelandic people are Björk.

– Majestic_Mountain365