These True Facts Sound Incredibly Fake

Mother Russia

Russia is huge. This truly massive country might look big on a map, but it also looks big in space! The surface area of Pluto is less than that of Russia. Pluto is about 1.67 x 107 square kilometers, and while it's pretty close to the same size as Russia, it's just a little bit smaller. Hey, maybe we can get Russia declared to be its own planet!

Camel Imports

Camels are known to be great for travel, and you probably associate them with crossing big deserts in the Middle East. Rather surprisingly though, these camels are not native to the region. They are typically imported from countries like Australia. So, next time you see a camel crossing a desert, know that it might be just as lost as it looks!

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The More You Know

  • In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
  • The first commercial airplane flight lasted 23 minutes.
  • The magnetic North Pole is moving.
  • If you ate nothing but rabbit meat, you would die from protein poisoning.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.