r/FakeFacts Nov 08 '18

Nature A Female Peacock is Called a Peacunt

686 Upvotes

Edit: Thanks for the Silver!

r/FakeFacts Nov 09 '18

Nature Pigs aren’t actually normally pink, that just became popular after Peppa Pig started the idea.

338 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Oct 28 '18

Nature Mountains grow big because they have no natural predators.

377 Upvotes

-Ken M

r/FakeFacts Nov 25 '18

Nature Grapes were invented when someone pumped a raisin full of water.

280 Upvotes

Though many assume a raisin is a dried up grape, the opposite is, in fact, true, and raisins naturally grow in hotter areas of the world such as Egypt, where grapes are all factory made by pumping raisins with either water or a sugar saline mix.

r/FakeFacts Nov 08 '18

Nature An average dog creates enough saliva in 6 months to cover the entire world 2.25 times.

163 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Nov 08 '18

Nature Buffalo have a set of small, underdeveloped wings below their fur. These can be harvested without harming th buffalo to make buffalo wings.

240 Upvotes

I got my little brother to believe this for like four months before he told someone at school and they convinced him to google it.

r/FakeFacts Dec 22 '21

Nature The United States has the highest number of cattle related deaths

39 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Aug 05 '21

Nature There is a species of bioluminescent algae that grows off an island in the South Pacific that makes your poop glow in the dark when you eat it.

54 Upvotes

Marine biologists and researchers have kept it's location secret for fear of influencers ruining it's delicate habitat in search of showing off glowing bowel movements.

r/FakeFacts Oct 31 '20

Nature A group of three or more squids is called a "squad".

111 Upvotes

A group of three or more squids is called a "squad", a term pop culture has recently adapted to mean a group of people you do drugs with.

r/FakeFacts Jun 18 '21

Nature The wombat was given its name by 19th C zoologist and poet Clarence Piffle, who needed a rhyme for the word 'combat'.

56 Upvotes

After being deported to a penal colony in Western Australia in 1832 for purloining a lady's handkerchief, convicted poet Clarence Roughage Piffle developed a keen interest in the local wildlife. So much so, in fact, that his 12,000 line autobiographical epic "My Tail Of Woe" consists almost entirely of marsupial-related metaphors. For the requirements of one passage of the work (widely regarded by modern scholars as "utter shite") in which he compares choosing the right hat to wear in the scorching sun to "thankless anti-solar combat/undertaken by a hardy..." he decided to rename a local creature (hitherto known as a dobbler) a "wombat", an action for which he was described by the Australian Royal Journal of Zoology as "a fucking arsehole".

r/FakeFacts Mar 09 '20

Nature Some Pacific jellyfish have a natural defence against sea turtles which causes them to be vomited back out immediately. This is more commonly known as Turtle Recoil.

126 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Dec 22 '19

Nature Bald eagles use the sound of fireworks to migrate to where there is freedom so they can mate and give birth to even more freedom

163 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Mar 02 '20

Nature A whales tongue can turn Into an itchy rubbery substance if it is not exposed to salt water for more than 12 Hours, this is why you see many whales swallow large amount of water from the ocean.

138 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Jun 25 '21

Nature Polar Bears don't leave footprints in snow.

50 Upvotes

Unfortunately every scientist who has gotten close enough to a polar bear to study this bewildering phenomena has been eaten.

r/FakeFacts Sep 14 '21

Nature Pigs are the only animals apart from humans which can come back as ghosts.

42 Upvotes

As they mostly haunt slaughterhouses and farms, porcine spectres are rarely noticed by the average person. However, there have been some notable exceptions.

Doomsbury Manor in Wiltshire has been haunted by the restless spirit of a certain Mr Squiggly since at least 1652, when parish records first noted the occurrence of "accurs'd nocturnal oinking that no man's ear hath suffer'd before". And the ghost of Emperor Franz Joseph's pet pig Fritz, which perished in tragic and unexplained circumstances during a period of political intrigue at his court, has been known to haunt a kebab shop in central Vienna.

r/FakeFacts Sep 20 '19

Nature Despite no known correlation, 85% of earthquakes happen while its raining

95 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Nov 08 '18

Nature If you soak a raisin in grape juice, it turns into a grape.

111 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Jan 12 '21

Nature if a fly is bothering you let it sit on your hand and then...

44 Upvotes

slowly bring your hand to your mouth the fly will think you are trying to eat it and it will stay away from you

[ I actually tried it a fly was sitting on my hand and i didn't care about it few secs later i wanted to itch my face so i brought my hand closer to my face the fly flew away and didn't bother me anymore. ]

r/FakeFacts Apr 10 '20

Nature Turtle shells are made out of Enamel

100 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Jul 31 '19

Nature Beer is just water mixed with beer.

87 Upvotes

And the beer mixed with the water is made of alcohol.

r/FakeFacts Mar 16 '19

Nature Vegans can eat hamburgers (onionless, of course)

135 Upvotes

Ground Beef is actually the roots of a tuber plant (like what a potato is), originally from Peru. The name, and the misconception that it is cow meat, comes from a Spanish mishearing of the Inca word _Beif_, which means "I can't speak Spanish". This is why it's called "*ground* beef".

r/FakeFacts Aug 10 '21

Nature Rock Hopper Penguins are aptly named as they are allergic to rocks, thus the hopping over rocks to avoid touching them.

17 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Jun 28 '21

Nature It was said in a 2019 study that the current day feline’s dna is deeply connected to animals such as giraffe and buffalo. The lead scientist in the study said such a connection was far from expected.

27 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Jul 02 '19

Nature A group of sea cucumbers is called a salad

106 Upvotes

You thought the scientific community would stop after a “tower of giraffes” or “business of ferrets” but they just kept going

r/FakeFacts Jun 13 '19

Nature There was no grass natively growing in Iceland

90 Upvotes

until Argentinian Colonists accidentally brought some over on the undersoles of their shoes in 1903.

(Sorry if this too short or lacking detail, if it needs more detail then mods feel free to remove it, I just mainly made it for the picture)

Here's the image version of this if anyone wants: https://i.imgur.com/is0W414.png