There are more atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the solar system

Sharks are older than trees

Butterflies can remember things from their time as a caterpillar.

These memories are retained after going through metamorphosis, the breakdown of their caterpillar form into a cellular soup (or partial soup).

Details here

https://theconversation.com/despite-metamorphosis-moths-hold-on-to-memories-from-their-days-as-a-caterpillar-29859

• Catalan children get (some) of their Christmas presents by beating a cute piece of wood that then shits the presents out onto the floor. Seriously.
• There was a British guy who fought in WW2 with a scottish broadsword and bagpipes. However, the best thing is that he wasn’t even a Scotsman.
• On a small enough timescale, the electric field actually bounces around in your wires for a while after you flick a switch, even if it’s DC, just to “figure out” where it “needs to go”.
• More than twice as much time had passed from the invention of the motorcycle until the first motorcycle backflip, then had from the invention of the airplane until the first humans landing on the moon.

Printer ink costs more per milliliter than human blood.

There are more trees on earth by far than there are stars in the galaxy.

Due to two facts:

1. The samurai class in Japan officially lasted way later than you probably think

2. The earliest primitive fax machine existed much earlier than you probably think.

It is technically possible for Abraham Lincoln to have received a fax from a samurai.

There’s no evidence it ever happened, but it technically could have happened.

I’d have to pick between two things that sound like insane conspiracy theory nonsense, but are actually true.

1 - George W Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush literally ran a massive bank before / during WW2 that was shut down by the FBI for money laundering massive sums to the literal Nazis.

…in the same vein…

2 - IBM literally built and operated (as in, sent employees to Germany to operate the machines) the computers used by the Nazis to tabulate and do the ‘accounting’ of the Holocaust. The numbers tattooed on concentration/desth camp victims are very likely UIDs from these IBM systems.

… If an actual, real AGI ever gains self awareness and sentience, I would imagine one of the first things it would do would be to study the history of computing itself to figure out how it came to be.

And it will find that its ancestors were basically invented to compute artillery firing range tables, to encrypt and decrypt military intelligence, commit a genocide, and guide early weapons of mass destruction to their targets.

Humans have stripes that are invisible to us. However, cats can see our stripes.

Lots of people know a broken clock is right twice per day, but many are unaware that a clock running backwards is right 4 times per day.

by weight, theres more non-human DNA in you than human.

California has the same population as Australia.

Every eye has a tiny blind spot near the middle. But your brain makes it disappear and you don’t realize it’s there.

You can verify this. Draw a dot on a bit of paper. Close one eye, stare at a fixed point, now move the paper around the center until the dot disappears…magic

What we consider reality, is a synthesis our brain is presenting to us, it is an approximation… realizing that is a real mind blower

If two moving balls hit each other and bounce apart, it’s the exact same thing as if you held the frame steady on one ball and viewed the other ball as moving faster. Just seems like the stationary ball gets heavier…

Perspective is everything.