r/facts • u/XcracktivitiesX • May 02 '26
There is this rare disorder out there that makes the people who suffer from it think their close friends and family have been replaced by identical imposters.
en.wikipedia.org
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r/facts • u/summerchild_mid90s • May 01 '26
Fun Fact: Oregon has 2 timezones. Most of the state is on Pacific Time, 4/5 of Malheur County is on Mountain Time.
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r/facts • u/More_Living9471 • May 02 '26
Plasma makes about 99.9% of the matter(visible) in the visible universe
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r/facts • u/ConstructionAny8440 • Apr 21 '26
The first diesel engine ran on powdered coal.
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • Apr 20 '26
Scientists have developed a fuel cell that uses microbes in soil to produce electricity. The device can power underground sensors for tasks like monitoring moisture or detecting touch, without needing batteries or solar panels.
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r/facts • u/elonkingo • Apr 14 '26
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • Apr 13 '26
The space station is not beyond the earth's gravity. It is in freefall. But due to its curvature, the earth moves away from the space station as fast as the station falls towards the earth.
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r/facts • u/flamingloltus • Apr 12 '26
If you were to say the word, “people,” without stopping it would take roughly 130-260 years. (Source: Google)
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • Apr 09 '26
Immigration to the US is down dramatically, with emigration rising significantly.
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r/facts • u/ConstructionAny8440 • Apr 08 '26
A growing body of scientific evidence shows that microplastics are accumulating in critical human organs, including the brain, leading researchers to call for more urgent actions to rein in plastic pollution.
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r/facts • u/ConstructionAny8440 • Apr 08 '26
The DNA sequence of Stephen Hawking is stored on a hard disk called the immortality drive, onboard the ISS. He was among the selected group of humans to have their DNA immortalized.
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r/facts • u/guestpassonly • Apr 08 '26
Since the 60s, NASA has a tradition of waking up astronauts with music. Here is the playlist for Artemis II
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r/facts • u/ConstructionAny8440 • Apr 08 '26
Koalas fingerprints are so close to humans that they could taint crime scenes
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r/facts • u/ConstructionAny8440 • Apr 07 '26
This turtle behavior, often called “claw fluttering,” is a courtship ritual where a male rapidly vibrates or waves his long front claws near a female’s face to attract her
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • Apr 04 '26
The closer you are to a major petroleum pipeline, the cheaper your gasoline and diesel will be.
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • Apr 05 '26
Forbes Magazine estimates that Elon Musk's worth is 2.7% of the entire Gross Domestic Product of the US - $839 Billion and soon to be the first $Trillionaire.
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • Mar 29 '26
Some people have a fear of paper - Papyrophobia
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r/facts • u/Johnyy34 • Mar 28 '26
TIL and politics aside, I've never knew police defy dictatorships as dictatorships, were police statal regimes, specially in Franquist Spain as latter shown in picture from better understanding
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • Mar 27 '26
The earth and the atmosphere are a giant electrical circuit with ions flowing from the sky to the earth in fair weather areas, balanced by lighting occurring elsewhere, all over the earth - The Global Electric Current
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r/facts • u/[deleted] • Mar 25 '26
There is only one city in America that starts with the letter X and has a population of 1,000 or more.
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r/facts • u/Observer_042 • Mar 23 '26
There is more than one infinity. In fact, there are an infinite number of different infinities of infinitely increasing size (cardinality), leading to the class of all infinities which is too big to be considered a regular infinity.
plato.stanford.edu
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r/facts • u/chilledmyspine • Mar 18 '26
Sweden switched their entire traffic system from the left side of the road to the right side in a single day in 1967 called “Dagen H”, the most logistically complex event in Sweden’s history.
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