True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: 500 Insane-But-True Facts That Will Shock and Impress Your Friends (Mind-Blowing True Facts)

by Shane Carley

ONE DAY ON VENUS IS LONGER THAN ONE YEAR ON VENUS.

Read the transcript of the Apollo 10 mission sometime. Thank me later.

90. TRUE OR FALSE: RICHARD NIXON HAD A SPEECH PREPARED JUST IN CASE NEIL ARMSTRONG AND BUZZ ALDRIN DIED ON THE MOON. True. The speech has been declassified and can now be read online.

The ghost town of Centralia, Pennsylvania is located over an abandoned mine where a coal fire has been raging for decades.

THE ALPHABET SONG AND TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR HAVE THE SAME TUNE.

22. THE EFFECTS USED TO RECREATE MISSILE LAUNCHES IN TOP GUN WERE SO REALISTIC THAT THE NAVY LAUNCHED AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE WHETHER REAL MISSILES HAD ACTUALLY BEEN LAUNCHED.

TRUE OR FALSE: WOODY HARRELSON’S FATHER WAS A SECRET SERVICE AGENT WHO NEARLY PREVENTED THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY. False. Actually, Harrelson’s father was an assassin who murdered a federal judge and claimed to have had a hand in the Kennedy assassination (this last claim is widely discredited).