“What Sounds Completely Illogical But Is Actually Correct?” (25 Answers)

If you love facts that sound a little odd or weird then this collection is for you. Found on a Reddit thread where one user asked, “What’s something that sounds completely illogical but is actually correct?”, these strange facts are bound to take you, a little bit by surprise. 

 

#1 Aluminum is infinitely recyclable and one of the worlds most recycled metal

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#2 Sharks existed before Saturn’s rings did.

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#3 There is a nerve that connects your brain to your larynx (voice box), but first it goes down your neck, into your chest, and under your aorta before coming back up. Giraffes also have it despite the length of their necks.

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#4 It took decades after the invention of the can to invent the can opener.

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#5 Hmm, did you know that technically speaking, a strawberry isn’t a berry, but a banana is? Sounds weird, but it’s true!

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#6 Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia

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#7 You hear your own voice differently than others, that’s why a lot of people get shocked when they listen to their own recordings.

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#8 Both the moon and Sun are about 400 times farther from Earth than the sizes of their respective diameters. This means that the moon will block out, or “eclipse,” anything behind it that has the same ratio. This is the “cosmic coincidence” that makes solar eclipses possible.

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#9 We live closer in time to the reign of Cleopatra than she did to the building of the pyramids.

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#10 When magnesium is burned, the ashes weigh more than the magnesium.

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#11 Sloths can hold their breath under water longer than dolphins

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#12 Cashews grow on the outside of a cashew apple

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#13 The US Army tried a “Camel Corps” in the Southwest, in the early 19th century, mostly as pack animals or using for mail service, as far West as southern California; when the Civil War interrupted their experiment, they sold the camels off, but some escaped. As a result there were feral camels at one point in the Angeles National Forest.

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#14 If you have 23 people together in a room there is a 50% chance that 2 of them share a birthday (same day and month, not necessarily the same year).

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#15 The western end of the Panama Canal is the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern end is the Pacific Ocean.

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#16 Mail is still delivered via donkey to a place at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

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#17 Water expands when frozen but almost everything else contracts when frozen

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#18 Spaces between words weren’t introduced until the 7th to 9th centuries, with more widespread adoption occurring in the 10th century.

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#19 That your skin lacks the receptors to feel wet.

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#20 That 1,000,000 (one million) seconds is ~11.6 days, and 1,000,000,000 (one billion) seconds is ~31.7 years.

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#21

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The double-slit experiment in quantum physics, where you’re firing electrons at a barrier with two slits. Logic suggests you should see two lines on a screen behind the barrier, but instead, you get a pattern like waves interfering with each other, implying each electron goes through both slits simultaneously.

Yet, if you observe which slit they go through, the electrons revert to acting like particles, forming only two lines, as if they ‘know’ they’re being watched. It’s a mind-bending phenomenon that sounds illogical but is scientifically proven.

#22 Inflammable means flammable

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#23 One day on Venus is longer than one year on Venus.

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#24 If your mayonnaise is too thin add more oil to thicken it. Emulsions are weird.

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#25 “Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a complete, grammatically correct sentence in the English language.

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