Twitter Users Ponder the Most Made Up-Sounding Yet Astonishingly True Facts They Can Think Of

By Petr Knava | Social Media | March 22, 2022 |

Oh yeah, it’s that time again! Time for one of my absolute favourite genres of post: Facts That Do Not Sound Like Facts But That Definitely Are Actually Facts. It’s a catchy title, I know. On this occasion it’s kicked off by writer Eric Michael Garcia taking to Twitter and asking for, as he hilariously put it, facts that sound like shitposts. The thread has many more gems than I could capture here, but I’ve sourced some choice cuts below:

What is a fact that sounds like a shitpost but is 100 percent real?
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) March 21, 2022

Another one: Jeb Bush and Bill Belichick went to high school at Phillips Academy in Andover at the same time.
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) March 21, 2022

-Tony Iommi invented heavy metal because he cut off his fingers on accident
-Mark Knopfler plays guitar with his thumb because he couldn't afford an amplifier
-Ringo Starr and Joe Walsh are brothers-in-law
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) March 21, 2022

Noam Chomsky invented the word "counter-intuitive."
— Nahcirn (@Nahcirn) March 21, 2022

Fun additional fact—when people used to work in pineapple canneries, if they did not wear gloves, they would lose their fingerprints because the acid in the pineapple would eat away skin.

Nowadays I’m pretty sure that we automate the canning process for pineapples with machines.
— Leny Lars is taking a break ♿️ (@lenyatom) March 21, 2022

Gandhi and Winston Churchill both served in the British armed forces in the same battle during the Second Boer War, for which Gandhi recieved a medal. https://t.co/F8dMuZ8LCI
— Josh Hopkins (@SpaceJosh) March 21, 2022

That must have been awful, but it doesn't excuse what they did.
— Michael Stoyanov (@MikeStoyanov) March 21, 2022

I can’t even be bothered to type it out any more. https://t.co/yXe4kg6PoF
— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) March 21, 2022

Would’ve thought the beards would be a dead giveaway. Same thing happened to Orpheus and one of the ringers was Chevy Chase. @JahHills details it in ‘Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968’ and the band tweeted about it a few years back 👇 https://t.co/yjq20sTnXy
— Hindsight (@hindsightrcrds) March 21, 2022

https://t.co/GJy5Fg3nJ2
— Hannah! 💀 (@hudlion) March 21, 2022

These kids today don't remember their rootz pic.twitter.com/DHLrEWj6KW
— erudite war criminal (@semperposts) March 21, 2022

When he lived in France, Samuel Beckett would sometimes drive (the future) Andre the Giant to school.
— David J. Hensley (@d_j_hensley) March 21, 2022

Sometimes they turn Niagara falls off for maintenance or to dig up a body
— your himbo boyfriend (@swolecialism) March 21, 2022

Amanda Bynes’ peace sign was edited out of her teen comedy movie poster in 2003 because of the US invasion of Iraq weeks before release, and ongoing invasion of Afghanistan, that led studio execs to worry it would be seen as an anti-war sentiment. https://t.co/ot5lZMGsGI
— ✨wren✨ (@wrengee) March 21, 2022

Birds that navigate by the stars are older than the zodiac. Several zodiacs. Constellations have come and gone over millions of years as the sun moves and stars die, and each generation of bird learns the current sky as a hatchling.
— A Space Man 𓀏 𓍐𓍒𓌐𓋨𓐭 (@a__spaceman) March 21, 2022

Hippos were almost released in Louisiana as a way to control invasive plants and as a food source for people pic.twitter.com/Zk1raKrjLH
— Sarah J (@Trisarahjtops) March 21, 2022

The last guillotining in France occurred the year Star Wars first premiered.
— Patrick Sheridan 🇺🇦 (@Patriot_Pat1) March 21, 2022

Yeah, Robert Lincoln. Not only that, but out of the 4 presidential assassinations, Robert was present or near the site of 3 of them (Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley). He stopped going to presidential events saying, “there’s a certain fatality about [them] when I am present."
— David Acheampong (@DavidApong) March 21, 2022

This is one of my favorites because it’s unambiguously a far bigger crime than Watergate, and LBJ knew but couldn’t or wouldn’t do anything about it
— alex hamilton (@SKRollins) March 21, 2022

In WWII, a P-51 pilot:

flew his plane blind,

flew it in his sleep,

chased a Nazi fighter under the Eiffel Tower and shot it down, and

having dumped all his ammo to smuggle beet vodka back to base, intimidated a Nazi fighter pilot into bailing out.https://t.co/G5UHURy35G
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) March 21, 2022

He also illustrated and wrote children's books including this edition of the Battle of the Frogs and Mice that includes really graphic illustrations of frogs and mice killing each other. pic.twitter.com/AcAUar8Peu
— Scott McMillan (@guy_lusignan) March 21, 2022

The current King of Jordan (Abdullah the 2nd) had a non-speaking walk on role on Star Trek Voyager .. is the one in Blue in this cliphttps://t.co/f1GDOz0AU6
— ThePurpleDrazi (@ThePurpleDrazi) March 21, 2022

Related: for the last several years of her life, her rent was paid for by the founder of Little Caesar's.
— S. T. Ismail (@STIsmail) March 21, 2022

I thought that was Eleanor
— John O'Connell (@johnoconnell836) March 21, 2022

During Whitney Houston’s iconic Super Bowl performance of the Star Spangled Banner in 1991, the vocals were prerecorded and she was signing into a dead mic.
— Rebecca Fachner (@rebecca_fachner) March 21, 2022

There are more atoms in one grain of sand than there are grains of sand on earth.
— Helen Kennedy 🌻 (@HelenKennedy) March 21, 2022

Bret Hart was among the casting choices to play Batman after George Clooney.
— Mad March Kavanagh (@LiamKavanagh17) March 21, 2022

The song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was written by Jim Steinman as "Vampires in Love" for an unproduced vampire musical based on a vampire movie. Decades after it was released commercially, Steinman recycled it into a different vampire musical based on a different vampire movie
— Alexandra Erin (she/her) (@AlexandraErin) March 21, 2022

W. A. Mozart wrote a 6-part canon with the text "Lick me in the ass." https://t.co/Wrrx0Sf8cm
— drdishS (@DrdishS) March 21, 2022

As it turns out the sung lyrics are mostly gibberish and contain no explicit content. However the drummer broke a stick during the recording process and can be heard yelling ‘fuck’ in the background. The FBI completely missed this.
— Nick Lindeman (@slowagon) March 21, 2022

SNL’s Phil Hartman drew the cover for the band America’s greatest hits collection pic.twitter.com/hoFXz66rUV
— John Kushmaul (@JohnKushmaul) March 21, 2022

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the exact same date, America’s 50th birthday, July 4th 1826.
— B. Santa Maria (@briansantamaria) March 21, 2022

Every Democrat to serve as a US Senator from Vermont has appeared in a Batman movie.
— Jacob Smith (@jacobfhsmith) March 21, 2022

Before he was in Star Wars, Harrison Ford was Michelle Phillips' weed dealer.
— Chris Cooper (@chriscooperwcu) March 21, 2022

Ho Chi Minh worked as a pastry chef at the Parker House Hotel in Boston as a young man
— michael f (@bunkosquad) March 21, 2022

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was the descendant of a Dutch pirate who converted to Islam, raided Iceland and England, and was the head of state of an independent pirate republic in North Africa.
— Scott McMillan (@guy_lusignan) March 21, 2022

Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees on an American tour.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) March 21, 2022

All the planets in the solar system could fit between the earth and the moon.
— Geoff Casavant (@Geoff_Casavant) March 21, 2022

There was an assassination plot against Jimmy Carter by a man named Raymond Lee Harvey. One of his accomplices was apparently named Osvaldo Espinosa Ortizz (“Osvaldo” is roughly the Spanish equivalent to Oswald). Even the FBI found this bizarre.
— David Acheampong (@DavidApong) March 21, 2022

That James Williamson guitarist for The Stooges later spent 15 yrs working for AMD designing products for their chips. He also became Sony's VP for Technical Standards and helped codify standards for Blu-Ray. He then retired and re-joined The Stooges and Iggy Pop
— Just_here_for_basketball (@here_basketball) March 21, 2022

No i think he was Phil Collins even then
— 𝕳𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖒𝖔𝖚𝖙𝖍 (@TheGloominati) March 21, 2022

In 1956, an intoxicated man stole a plane from NJ on a barroom bet at 3 AM and flew it without lights or radio to land it in the street right in front of the bar where he'd been drinking,a few minutes earlier,in Manhattan.Two years later he did it again,blaming "the drink."
— Lazlo Xerxes (@LazloXerxes) March 21, 2022

All the gold ever mined in the history of the world would together fit in 2 Olympic-size swimming pools.
— Tᴏɴᴇᴘᴀɪɴᴛᴇʀ 𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑎 𝑈𝑘𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖! (@tonepainter) March 21, 2022

There are about 150 million starlings in North America. They are all descended from 60 birds released in Central Park, by a guy whose motivation was to introduce them to America because they had been mentioned in Shakespeare.
— Colin McMillen (@mcmillen) March 21, 2022

They are also older than trees.
— Joe Flaherty (@joef_3) March 21, 2022

Four US presidents were in Dallas the day Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
— Stephen Thorson 🦡 🧀 (@StephenThorson) March 21, 2022

Peter Mayhew was kept under close watch on the Northern California set of “Return of the Jedi” out of the fear that if he wandered off set in his Chewbacca costume he’d be shot by hunters who thought he was Bigfoot https://t.co/KHUWBNimoc
— caro 🔺👁🔺 (@caro) March 22, 2022

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