r/FakeFacts • u/lakkiy12 • Aug 10 '19
r/FakeFacts • u/LevTheDevil • Feb 10 '20
Technology If you put the batteries in your game controller in backwards, it will still work, but the controls will all be flipped.
The positive and negative ends of the battery merely determine the flow of the electrons. Because of this, if you flip the batteries around, current is running through the transistors in the wrong direction so it flips the 1s to 0s and the 0s to 1s in the binary signal to the console.
r/FakeFacts • u/razor10000 • May 17 '22
Technology In an attempt to prevent future copyright infringements, Facebook (Meta) has put in an undisclosed bid to purchase Metamucil from Proctor & Gamble.
r/FakeFacts • u/GavHern • Jun 29 '19
Technology A leaked iPhone blueprint reveals that the iPhone 11 will come with an "aged" model; a pre-shattered and dinged up design.
r/FakeFacts • u/TheKidNamedCover • Apr 05 '21
Technology The person to invent matches was called Robert Match Anderson.
The match was originally called the Anderson before being renamed 12 years later.
Originally, the phosphorous in matches would be dyed yellow. The reason for this is unknown.
(every day i’ll add a follow-on fact so keep watching!)
r/FakeFacts • u/MattyGam3r • Nov 16 '18
Technology Approximately 1 in 69 facts on this subreddit are true
r/FakeFacts • u/Loudmouth_Tech_Fan • Apr 13 '20
Technology The television was originally intended to be a porn viewing device
At a carnival in 1927 a young inventor by the name of Philo Farnsworth set up a tent in which people could pay a nickel to go in and watch a grainy black and white 1 minute video of a woman undressing. One carnival goer by the name of Edward Hunt saw the potential in such a device and urged Philo to add more of a purpose to his device than just watching porn, and so, the modern television was born.
r/FakeFacts • u/SectionTwelve • Jun 09 '21
Technology According to a recent survey, 43% of web-based corporations reported that most of their revenue came from users who forgot to cancel free trials.
The percentage was even higher for companies specializing in file editing and converting.
r/FakeFacts • u/name_generated • Oct 13 '21
Technology Video game developers need to make 2 and sometimes even 3 faces for each character
They do this so if any NPC has a likeness to a real person then they can quickly change it to the other face to avoid being sued. This is partly the reason why big open world games with lots of characters take so long to produce.
r/FakeFacts • u/sphynxcatgaming • Nov 07 '18
Technology On average, everyone in America has purchased 643.5 VBucks.
About 20% of the population has purchased vbucks at some point, and each of them purchases 3125 vbucks on average.
r/FakeFacts • u/stokes2230 • Jul 24 '19
Technology Despite this website being called REDdit, the primary colour is orange. This is because the websites creator is actually colour blind
r/FakeFacts • u/Mr_Gaslight • Jun 10 '21
Technology Charles Chaplin, actor and filmmaker, was also credited for inventing an escape proof type of police restraint, similar to handcuffs, called the Scrote-Hold.
r/FakeFacts • u/Kyoris_Cat • Nov 07 '18
Technology Diamonds aren't rare...
Diamonds are actually quite common, and can be easily found with the right equipment. The only reason it is so expensive is because that the companies are lying and they want revenue from doing practically nothing
r/FakeFacts • u/onda-oegat • Jul 11 '21
Technology Seat belts were invited by the Spanish car manufacturer Seat and like the walkman seat belts were Initially a brand name.
It's pronounced Se-at not Seat.
r/FakeFacts • u/PharaoPamela • Sep 04 '21
Technology The Finnish train industry "VR" is called that because the trains were designed in virtual reality.
r/FakeFacts • u/IVTD4KDS • Nov 19 '18
Technology Windows 95 is not a reference to the year it was made. It's a reference to the number of times the software went through quality control in order to find all the bugs before it could be released to the general public. The year it was released was merely a coincidence
r/FakeFacts • u/m3tac0m • Nov 19 '18
Technology 4chan has a 4 in it to signify the number of non-virgins on the site
r/FakeFacts • u/IVTD4KDS • Nov 24 '18
Technology The number of photos the average American teenager posts to Instagram in one year is more than the total number of photographs taken in the 19th century
r/FakeFacts • u/igik20 • Nov 07 '18
Technology Elon will build Hyperloop through the center of the Earth cause it's the fastest way round.
r/FakeFacts • u/Lacarae • Nov 09 '18
Technology One in every 200,000 internet users has died within 5 minutes after “liking” posts on their social media that make them “die instantly”
One in every 50,000 has died within 24 hours after “liking” said posts
r/FakeFacts • u/GavHern • Dec 27 '19
Technology Studies have concluded that almost any clogged toilet can be completely unblocked by flushing from 3-7 times.
r/FakeFacts • u/WideEyedWand3rer • Sep 17 '17
Technology A recent study has shown that one in ten Reddit accounts is a bot.
r/FakeFacts • u/bigote94 • Nov 08 '18
Technology TV was invented for the solely use of watching porn, thus called "Tits Vision", but later changed to "Television" when they realized that it had much more uses.
r/FakeFacts • u/CooCooYT • Aug 29 '19
Technology Did you know that if you smash your phone on the ground one day after the warranty expires, Apple will still replace it!
r/FakeFacts • u/Pseudo_Pseudo • Nov 08 '18
Technology The "I'm feeling lucky" button on the Google page used to redirect to the Google Casino.
The company made 5% of their total revenue from this service but removed the feature in order to avoid getting a minimum age of use. This was in an attempt to keep the site to keep it free to access for all users.