10 weird and unexpected facts you would't believe are true

2/25/2018

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Geography Story: 10 weird and unexpected facts you would't believe are true

It's a good practice to verify everything you see on the internet today, as a lot of interesting facts turn out to be fake. The ones you will find in this article are bizarre and hard to believe, but all of them are absolutely true. Take a look and get ready to be amazed.

#1

Geography Story: Tigers have striped skin as well as striped fur — shutterstock

Moreover, every tiger's pattern is unique. Their stripes are just like our fingerprints.

#2

Geography Story: A missing woman once accidentally joined search party looking for herself — shutterstock

It happened in Iceland in 2012. An Asian tourist left her group to change her clothes. When the woman returned, her travel mates didn't recognize her and started looking for a missing person. The woman was happy to help and joined the search. The most hilarious thing about the situation was that she didn't recognize her own description!

#3

Geography Story: To travel from the USA to India by airplane, it's faster to go the second way — shutterstock

The explanation is simple: a straight line on a map doesn't look the same on the globe due to the fact that the Earth is an ellipse.

#4

Geography Story: No one really knows why we sleep — shutterstock

Everyone knows sleep is a very important part of our lives. We spend approximately a third of our lives asleep. We need it to to stay healthy, happy and energetic. Anyway, you will be surprised to find out that even scientists don't know the exact function of sleep. The researchers have come up with a lot of different hypotheses and all of them are true to some extent. One way or another, the definite answer is not found yet.

#5

Geography Story: Both of our feet produce about one pint of sweat every day — shutterstock

Are you surprised? As it turns out, such an amount is healthy for our body. Sweating helps our organism to cool off and excretes excess salt and other electrolytes.

#6

Geography Story: A Japanese koi fish named Hanako lived for 226 years — shutterstock

It became the longest living fish ever recorded!The actual age of the creature was verified by analyzing the rings on her scales.

#7

Geography Story: The time difference between these two islands which are 2.4 miles apart is 23 hours — wikipedia Public Domain Mark

The Diomede Islands, located between Russia and the US, are separated by the International Date Line. Big Diomede is almost a day ahead of Little Diomede!

#8

Geography Story: The Amazon River is 4,300 miles long, and there is no bridge across it — shutterstock

The only one is crossing one of its tributaries.

#9

Geography Story: You can see Africa from Great Britain — pixabay

Just visit Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.

#10

Geography Story: The apples you buy in the supermarkets can be one year old — shutterstock

But that's absolutely safe. The apples harvested a long time ago don't spoil as they are kept in special fridges.

Have you ever heard any of these facts before? Which one surprised you the most? Do you have any surprising and weird information to share with us?

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77 Comments

Ilias Tsiabardas

The One that Surprise me the most is the Japanese fish that lived for226 years

Jonesy McConnell

Colin how is Gibraltar not a part of the UK ?

Diane Thompson

This was one of the most interesting sets of info I've read. Much thanks. I love the one about the missing woman. That's hilarious. Very very interesting reading.

Floyd Bladen

not sure i believe all of these. a pint of sweat from both feet a day???

Carole Tupper

If my feet produced a pint of sweat my socks would be soaking wet 🤣

Vimala Padmaraj

I LAUGHED ALOUD AT THE BIT ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO JOINED THE SEARCH PARTY, LOOKING FOR HER "MISSING" SELF.

James Michaelson

Peter de Loriol, Sorry but you’re wrong…. You need to add (and all her other realms and territories)

Lynda Wild

Ray Anderson, Not if they are kept in gold storage

lmoores

A tortoise 🐢 in Englamd lived to be 250 years old!! And was once owned by Clive of India. An ancestor of mine.

Julie Allen

Colin Santa Farrell, Gibraltar is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom and is self-governing in all matters but defense. Its constitution was established by the Gibraltar Constitution Order in 1969, which provided for a House of Assembly consisting of the speaker (appointed by the governor), 15 members elected to four-year terms, and 2 ex-officio members. (A new Constitution Order was approved by referendum in November 2006 and was implemented in January 2007; it renamed the House of Assembly as the Gibraltar Parliament and increased its number of members to 17.) In 1981 Gibraltarians were granted full British citizenship. Gibraltarians age 18 or older and British civilians resident for more than six months are entitled to vote.

Steve Tingle

Peter de Loriol, actually it is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain is the largest of the British Isles, so the question is wrong as it is nowhere near Africa.

Elaine Bauer

Peter de Loriol, just as Canada, New Zealand, etc., are not

Charlie Unsworth

Re No. 3: we’ve been infiltrated by the flat earth society! An ellipse is 2 dimentional - i.e. FLAT. THe reason why the route appears to be a curve is because it is drawn on a Mercator’s projection map. Of you looked at it on a globe from a point vertically above the line it would look straight. The earth is quite definitely NOT an ellipse. Der.

Ray Anderson

You might be able to eat year-old apples but they taste horrible - usually floury.

Peter de Loriol

The United Kingdom is the short term for 'The United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland' - ergo any island not within this geographical sphere, whether it belongs to Great Britain, is not the UK.