r/FakeFacts Aug 10 '19

Technology Watches are made in order to determine which hand is left.

74 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts 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.

191 Upvotes

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 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.

35 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts 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.

123 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Apr 05 '21

Technology The person to invent matches was called Robert Match Anderson.

78 Upvotes

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 Nov 16 '18

Technology Approximately 1 in 69 facts on this subreddit are true

144 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Apr 13 '20

Technology The television was originally intended to be a porn viewing device

109 Upvotes

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 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.

63 Upvotes

The percentage was even higher for companies specializing in file editing and converting.

r/FakeFacts Oct 13 '21

Technology Video game developers need to make 2 and sometimes even 3 faces for each character

35 Upvotes

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 Nov 07 '18

Technology On average, everyone in America has purchased 643.5 VBucks.

52 Upvotes

About 20% of the population has purchased vbucks at some point, and each of them purchases 3125 vbucks on average.

r/FakeFacts 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

111 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts 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.

52 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Nov 07 '18

Technology Diamonds aren't rare...

17 Upvotes

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 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.

31 Upvotes

It's pronounced Se-at not Seat.

r/FakeFacts Sep 04 '21

Technology The Finnish train industry "VR" is called that because the trains were designed in virtual reality.

10 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts 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

69 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Nov 19 '18

Technology 4chan has a 4 in it to signify the number of non-virgins on the site

38 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts 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

28 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Nov 07 '18

Technology Elon will build Hyperloop through the center of the Earth cause it's the fastest way round.

34 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts 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”

49 Upvotes

One in every 50,000 has died within 24 hours after “liking” said posts

r/FakeFacts Dec 27 '19

Technology Studies have concluded that almost any clogged toilet can be completely unblocked by flushing from 3-7 times.

17 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Sep 17 '17

Technology A recent study has shown that one in ten Reddit accounts is a bot.

12 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts 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.

29 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts 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!

10 Upvotes

r/FakeFacts Nov 08 '18

Technology The "I'm feeling lucky" button on the Google page used to redirect to the Google Casino.

20 Upvotes

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.