8 Facts That Sound Fake But Are Actually True

1. Since its discovery, in 1930, Pluto has not yet made a full orbit of the sun.

2. Pineapples take about two years to grow.

3. A woman named Violet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and its sister ship, the Britannic.

4. Cleopatra lived closer to the release of the first iPhone than she did to the building of the pyramids of Giza.

5. In 2012, a tourist in Iceland unwittingly joined a search party that was looking for a missing woman. It turned out that she was looking for herself!

6. Frogs use their eyeballs to push food down their throat.

7. Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year.

8. Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.

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