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What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by zirzedolta@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The sun could've gone nova 8 minutes ago and we wouldn't know for another 20 seconds or so.

[–] zirzedolta@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting fact: the sun becomes 1 million tons lighter every second.

[–] hstde@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Diet specialists hate this trick.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It's simply burning calories.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lighter or brighter?

[–] EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ton is not a unit of brightness

[–] Turun@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You sure? The wacky system of units has a lot of different meanings for the word ton. Among others, it is a measure of power.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Yes.

[–] swab148@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, we'd know by now

[–] whileloop@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

37 minutes later...still here.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Any moment now! Hopefully...

[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might be misremembering but I believe our sun can't go nova, it's too small. It will, however, expand and swallow the Earth towards the end of its life.

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When exactly would that be? I gotta add it to my calendar.

[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, your calendar doesn't go that far

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Sun is not a big enough star to ever go nova. Neither are any of our close neighbors. We’re pretty safe from that kind of disaster.

Earth is just gonna slowly cook to a cinder and probably get swallowed when the Sun starts expanding in a couple billion years.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Fine! Geez.

Space aliens could teleport in next to sun, fling a bunch of Star Trek red matter at it like Spock did to the Romulan star, destabilize the star, and cause a, I think it was a black hole? where the star was. And we wouldn't know for 8-ish minutes.