These True Facts Sound Incredibly Fake

Egghead

Think this one through... Humpty Dumpty is not an egg. At least, it was never explicitly stated in the nursery rhyme. It just says the mythical being fell off a wall, had a great fall, and could not be put back together. The illustrations associated with the rhyme are likely to subdue its gruesome nature. Kind of dark for a children's song unless he's a silly egg man...

The More You Know

The smallest unit of measurement in the universe is the Planck length.
Fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.
Water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature.
Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.