30 Twitter Users Share True Facts That Are Simply Too Weird To Believe
“Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, and Freud all lived within 2 square miles of each other in Vienna in 1913.” Nice neighborhood.
Some facts sound so strange that they feel made up, but the internet loves proving otherwise.
That is exactly what happened when Twitter users jumped into a thread started by @EricMGarcia, who asked for facts that sounded like a s**tpost but were completely real. The replies turned into a parade of bizarre history, odd coincidences, and trivia that is hard to believe at first glance.
Here are 30 of the weirdest answers, and a few of them are genuinely hard to wrap your head around.
Eric asked:
EricMGarciaThe replies came in fast, and some of them were stranger than the question itself.
People looked up the info and responded:
YellowDog (not the actual photo)1. Johnny be good
pattonoswalt
2. So sad
RebeccaforWA
3. Oh, boy
aspihistorian
4. Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant
gregorylevey
5. Mummy Brown
CSMFHT
6. Joe Russo who?
morganhousel
7. Democrats and Batman
jacobfhsmith
8. What a woman
DemonBob_Badman
9. Faxing
Patriot_Pat1
10. Well informed
EricMGarcia
11. Wow
BlackBernieBabe
12. Weird choices
AnimalExtender
Some of these facts are so specific they almost feel like punchlines.
This chaos also matches 81 visual anomalies that will leave your logic spinning in the mud.
13. First, we're going to see a space movie, and then go see a public execution by guillotine
Patriot_Pat1
14. Nice neighborhood
LavenderNRed
15. Healthcare system at its finest
DemonBob_Badman
16. Salmon and sharks
AnimalExtender
17. That Nixon again...
JosephMiller41
18. Well, they say that Military Intelligence is an oxymoron...and they are right.
OliverTrollArmy
19. ZZ Top beginnings...
BFSkinnerstan
20. Meme
AlanRMacLeod
By this point, the thread had fully turned into a trivia rabbit hole.
21. Off to the beach to check it out
HelenKennedy
22. That's some flying. A true hero.
MaxKennerly
23. Oh, how the tables have turned!
MaraWilson
24. Ironic, isn't it?
nasila8
25. Big bang
AugustJPollak
26. Segregation was not that long ago…
thejackweller
27. See things with your imagination
dieselnyc1
28. Birds are fast learners
a__spaceman
29. And then we stopped.
robintjohnson8
30. Starlings don't waste time...
mcmillen
People are inquisitive animals that enjoy learning new things, even if it does not directly help us. Even if it is worthless information that you can't use for your own survival, we derive pleasure from discovering facts, such as how two unrelated people lived at the same moment in history or that all of the Solar System's planets would fit between the Moon and the Earth.
Information seeking isn't only a human characteristic. Every animal investigates its surroundings and seeks to learn more about their environment and other nearby living beings.
Curiosity, on the other hand, is the desire to know the answer, and it is this desire that distinguishes us.
That is what makes this thread so entertaining.
For more “too weird to believe” moments, check out 70 bizarre events that prove our planet is weirder than science fiction.
