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    22 Bizarrely True Facts That Sound Totally And Completely Fake

    Sounds fake...but OK.

    1. If you hold in your farts long enough, the gas can be re-absorbed and come out of your mouth.

    2. You're bioluminescent.

    3. Luffas are actually edible vegetables.

    4. Demodex, the mites that live on your face, have no anus. They release a lifetime of poop on your face when they die.

    A close-up image of Demodex mites

    5. Adding salt to pineapple makes it taste sweeter.

    6. You are 10 times more likely to get bit by a New Yorker than a shark.

    7. Fir trees can grow in human lungs.

    An image of lungs, but half looks like a lung and half looks like a tree

    8. Your heartbeat will sync to the rhythm of the music that you're listening to.

    9. The air you breathe in a train station is 15% human skin.

    10. Peaches and nectarines are the same fruit.

    11. Mosquitoes can smell which blood type you are.

    12. And they pee on you when they suck your blood.

    13. Last one about bugs, I swear: Some moths drink human blood.

    14. If you play music to a cheese wheel, the tunes will affect its flavor. Cheese wheels have the strongest flavor when they've listened to hip-hop.

    15. Cocktails were invented so the fruit juice could mask the taste of dead animals in bootleg liquor.

    16. The white lines that divide the road on highways are about 10 feet long.

    17. TV commercials emit a tone inaudible to the human ear that your smartphone picks up, letting advertisers know that both devices might belong to you.

    18. The average cloud weighs over a million pounds.

    19. Over 50% of pilots have admitted to falling asleep mid-flight.

    20. Giraffes and humans have the same number of neckbones.

    21. If you unwind a roll of Scotch tape fast enough, it can "generate enough X-rays to image a human finger."

    22. Finally, humans almost went extinct 75,000 years ago.