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People Are Sharing Scientific Facts That Sound Completely Fake, And My Brain Hurts
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I’m gonna need a good business day or two to process these. As a full-time writer at BuzzFeed Canada, I cover all things pop culture and food. "My husband had a pair of upside down glasses for his psychology class until a student stole them. I wore them for about 20 minutes when I was doing stuff around the house, and my brain adapted quickly. It was wild that I could do housework with them on after a few minutes. Stuff was still upside down, but my brain totally adapted." "If you wrote a computer program to randomly shuffle a virtual deck as fast as possible over and over until it logged every possible combination, it would take more than 1040 times longer than the current age of the universe to find them all." "The Birthday Paradox breaks everyone's brain because we intuitively think about the chance of someone sharing our specific birthday (which requires a huge crowd), rather than any two people sharing a birthday (which only takes 23 people for 50%)." "On top of that, Jupiter accounts for 71% of all of the mass of the solar system, outside of the Sun. I believe it was Arthur C Clark: 'The solar system consists of the Sun, Jupiter, and some debris.'" "A trees solid mass is also mostly dead." "The mind blowing part of this fact is not the weight of neutron star material. It's the fact that the things we interact with in the physical world are mostly just empty space." "Journey times are significantly affected by congestion in most instances, especially stop-start traffic. If you lower the speed, you decrease the gap between vehicles, thus allowing more people onto the highway in the same space, which helps to create free flowing conditions. That in turn speeds up your journey time overall. Clearly if we made every road 10mph right now, journey times would be longer. And we should do all we can to make public transport more attractive so we don't have this problem. But this is fundamentally how it works. Source: I'm a transport planner." "One of my favourite games to play in my camper van is 'is this cold or wet?'" "Ok wait, so why don't we get electrocuted?" "Wires typically have an insulating casing. Grabbing uninsulated wires can result in electrocution." "This one is super fun because it’s not complicated at all. It's just a reminder that a year is how long it takes to move around the sun and a day is how long it takes to spin 360 degrees and they’re independent of each other." "Wait until you hear how long a second is on Venus." Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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