What is a true fact so insane that it should be false?

There is a one in roughly 5.2 to the 61st power chance, also known as a 52 Novam

decilient, that if you were to slap a table, all of the molecules in your hand and the

table would miss each other and your hand would go clean through it. Storytime, I learned this

fact from a very deep intellectual conversation with my engineering class two years ago, so there

could be very well some kind of detail I'm missing here, but nonetheless, what I said is theoretically

true. There used to be a radioactive energy drink called Radithor that was in the US market

for a decade from 1918 to

1928. Some of the more prominent users had to be buried in lead coffins. Didn't they take that

off the market after some guy drank so many of them so quickly that his lower jaw fell off?

Oh my God, he did. Apparently he even developed holes in his skull. That's horrifying. That poor guy.

Giant squids have a donut-shaped brain so their esophagus can run through the middle.

If they try to swallow too large a bite of food, they can get brain damage.

You could take away all of Wayne Gretzky's goals that he scored during his career,

and he'd still be the all-time NHL points leader off his assists alone. Bonus Gretzky's goals that he scored during his career, and he'd still be the all-time

NHL points leader off his assists alone. Bonus Gretzky fact, he and his brother own the record

for being the highest scoring pair of siblings. Brent had four points in his whole career.

Every day that you go to work, he passed by more strangers than the average medieval person did in their entire life.

The youngest mother to give birth became pregnant at four years old.

If a gorilla looks grumpy, it's because they're relaxed and at ease.

The gravity of black holes is so great that it literally bends light around the black hole,

so that if you could somehow stand close enough to a black hole and look straight ahead,

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