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What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?

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zkikiz@lemmy.ml
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General Motors, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil, and Phillips Petroleum were convicted of an actual conspiracy related to the monopolization of transit systems, which replaced beloved streetcar (rail) systems with rubber-tired oil-burning buses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

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Huffkin@feddit.uk
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Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire.

Oxford University founded in 1326, Aztec empire ~1428-1521

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baconeater@lemm.ee
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Lighters were invented before matches! 1823 vs 1826

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supersane@lemmy.ml
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Air is a fluid.

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StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml
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According to any hydrodynamics code, so are solids.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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European settlers committed genocide in America on such an incredible scale that the global climate cooled.

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