Since the dawn of the dial-up connection, we've been told not to believe everything we read on the internet.

You'd be surprised to learn, though, that there are plenty of incredible facts that might sound like they were made to fool you, but are true.

And coming up are some real corkers.

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Humpty dumpty sat on a wall.

Most people know this nursery rhyme.

An oversized egg in human clothing topples off a wall and smashes the bits.

All the king's horses and all the king's men rush to try and piece his broken shell back together, but to no avail. The end, right?

Except nowhere in the rhyme is Humpty Dumpty named as an anthropomorphized breakfast food.

So where in the fever dream, heck, did that come from? It's all thanks to the king of opioid-induced fantasies himself, Mr. Lewis Carroll.

You see, Carroll decided to incorporate the character into his 1872 novel

through the looking glass where he inexplicably represents Humpty Dumpty as a giant human

egg hybrid.

But if he wasn't originally an egg, then what was he?

According to war historians, Humpty was a massive cannon used in the English Civil War during the 1648 siege of Colchester. One of the attacking cannons managed to destroy the wall Humpty Dumpty was positioned upon, causing the cannon to be destroyed.

And it's no wonder the King's horses couldn't put it back together again.

They don't even have hands.

Now here's a surprising fact.

Sharks are older than trees.

If you had any doubt about how ridiculously badass sharks are, they literally predate trees.

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