Top 10 MIND BLOWING Facts That Sound Like BS but are True

When you’ve been doing this job as long as we have, you get used to the idea that truth is stranger than fiction. History, science, art… they’re all full of factoids that seem implausible on the surface, but turn out to be true underneath. Still, there is a limit to this implausibility. It’s not like we’re going around claiming lightning magically gives you tattoos, or that you can survive jumping off the top of the Empire State Building, or that the Muppets were inspired by a porno, right? →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 → → GET A T-SHIRT - http://www.toptenz.net/toptenz-t-shirts →Top 10 Objects That Were Clearly Invented Just to Annoy Physics: https://youtu.be/0MVGeRa-vLo Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Brand new videos 7 days a week! Subscribe to our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TopTenz/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoriginaltoptenz/ Learn more about the host: →Simon's VLOG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvqt8j7DfPmveJp3UOk9XTg Business inquiries to [email protected] Other TopTenz Videos: Top 10 Historical Facts That AREN'T TRUE https://youtu.be/JWfwBvYqnS8?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnKajPA6HFawry8Y3my_VX5Q Top 10 Coca-Cola Myths... That Turned Out To Be TRUE https://youtu.be/TXl5l0fLXwE?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnJ9wKIVrfv-6wzyiyPn7GfA Text version: http://www.toptenz.net/10-mind-blowing-facts-sound-like-bs-true.php Coming up: 10. Lightning Strikes Give You Sweet-ass Tats 9. The Muppets Song Mahna Mahna Came From a Porno 8. F1 Drivers Have Their Weight Monitored More than Catwalk Models 7. Selling Sand to Arabs is a Lucrative Global Business 6. Female Hurricanes Kill More People than Male Ones 5. Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees Can Literally Save Your Life 4. A Woman Survived Jumping Off the 86th Floor of the Empire State Building 3. Soccer Has Ended Multiple Wars (and caused one) 2. The Digit 1 Starts Most Significant Numbers 1. Cleopatra Existed Closer in Time to the First Pizza Hut than the Pyramids Source/Further reading: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/body-odd/heres-what-lightning-strike-can-do-your-skin-f325006 https://youtu.be/X4jbq9SVxAc http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/11/_mahna_mahna_how_a_ditty_from_a_soft_core_italian_movie_became_the_muppets_catchiest_tune_.html http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/the-times-sport/f1-drivers-starving-to-get-beanpole-position/story-fniiw3ie-1226733223379 http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160502-even-desert-city-dubai-imports-its-sand-this-is-why http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21603243-hurricanes-womens-names-seem-kill-more-do-those-mens-deadlier https://youtu.be/I_izvAbhExY http://www.livescience.com/48863-lifesaving-beats-songs-can-help-with-cpr-training.html http://nowiknow.com/saved-by-the-wind/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/04/usa http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/drogba-heals-the-wounds-of-civil-war-in-homeland-6276549.html http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sEh7A0arS8kC&pg=PA375&lpg=PA375&dq=Biafran+war+pele&source=bl&ots=MSG1lWtPsA&sig=U7lh4DQORrY6OHbFr0YNijENY0A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MAIjU5TnEIKrhQf7goCYCw&ved=0CHUQ6AEwDg#v=onepage&q=Biafran%20war%20pele&f=false https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/feb/21/theknowledge.sport https://plus.maths.org/content/looking-out-number-one http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-that-seem-fake-but-are-true-2014-7