What’s a fact that doesn’t sound like it’s true but 100% is?

1. We were one failed safety switch away from a nuclear bomb detonation in north carolina. One switch out of four prevented the explosion. "Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant say, "Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch." And I said, "Great." He said, "Not great. It's on arm.""
   — Stop_Sign


2. A single ant can live up to 29 years
   — coldramenoodles


3. There are more trees on the planet than there are stars in the milky way galaxy.
   — grandpasplace






4. People who wear seatbelts are more likely to be injured after a car accident than those who don't. ^(because they're less likely to be dead)
   — Override9636


5. One 18-inch pizza is more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas
   — JaceJack


6. Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire
   — Zisx






7. That the word "vegetable" is a culinary term. Its definition has no scientific value and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective.
   — ManOfLaBook


8. Bananas are berries but strawberries are not.
   — FatFugu


9. It takes more electrical current to light a lightbulb than to kill a person.
   — 400KVBreaker






10. The banana tree is actually a giant herb. Learned that from fruit ninja
    — Memetor_the_Eternal


11. Suicide Squad has won more Oscars than The Shawshank Redemption.
    — honeybeeMA


12. There is 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000 ways of shuffling a deck of cards. To try and contextualise a completely unfathomably large number you can think of it in terms of time. Each permeation of a new combination of shuffling cards equals one second.... But how long is that really? Well... Start by picking your favorite spot on the equator. You're going to walk around the world along the equator, but take a very leisurely pace of one step every billion years.The equatorial circumference of the Earth is 40,075,017 meters. After you complete your round the world trip, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean. Now do the same thing again: walk around the world at one billion years per step, removing one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean each time you circle the globe. The Pacific Ocean contains 707.6 million cubic kilometers of water. Continue until the ocean is empty. When it is, take one sheet of paper and place it flat on the ground. Now, fill the ocean back up and start the entire process all over again, adding a sheet of paper to the stack each time you’ve emptied the ocean. Do this until the stack of paper reaches from the Earth to the Sun. Take a glance at the timer, you will see that the three left-most digits haven’t even changed. You still have 8.063e67 more seconds to go. So, take the stack of papers down and do it all over again. One thousand times more. Unfortunately, that still won’t do it. There are still more than 5.385e67 seconds remaining. You’re just about a third of the way done. To pass the remaining time, start shuffling your deck of cards. Every billion years deal yourself a 5-card poker hand. Each time you get a royal flush, buy yourself a lottery ticket. A royal flush occurs in one out of every 649,740 hands. If that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand into the Grand Canyon. Keep going and when you’ve filled up the canyon with sand, remove one ounce of rock from Mt. Everest. Now empty the canyon and start all over again. When you’ve levelled Mt. Everest, look at the timer, you still have 5.364e67 seconds remaining. Mt. Everest weighs about 357 trillion pounds. You barely made a dent. If you were to repeat this 255 times, you would still be looking at 3.024e64 seconds. The timer would finally reach zero sometime during your 256th attempt. Mind boggling stuff.
    — HueyLewisAndTheShoes