Wednesday, February 4, 2026

What are some mind-blowing facts that sound unreal but are actually true?

 Science is insane. Evolution is insane. Not that we didn't believe it before, but conducting research for this article has only confirmed our previous beliefs. There are things going on right under our noses that we can't see. Strange things. It's fascinating, but it's also weird.

Russia's surface area is larger than Pluto's.

You never actually touch anything because atoms exert force on one another and never actually touch.

Earth used to be purple because microbes produced food using Retinal rather than chlorophyll. Retinal absorbs green light and reflects red and violet light back, resulting in the purple color.

There are areas of the Earth that have less gravity than others.

We take more pictures every two minutes than all of humanity did in the nineteenth century.

The molecules in your next glass of water have at least once passed through a dinosaur.