30 Hilariously Inaccurate ‘Facts’ People Stated With Confidence
‘Polar bears are rodents’
If someone with a PhD blurts out a bizarre fact, you’re likely going to take them at their word. They’ve dedicated enough hours to higher learning that it makes sense they’d know some nerdy piece of trivia the rest of us are too busy having sex to be aware of. Unless the “fact” in question is that “polar bears are the biggest members of the rodent family.” No dude, they’re bears. Literal children know that, and it really makes you wonder what other kind of inaccurate information that person is spewing out into the world.
Redditors have cackled and relayed the funniest times someone shared a wildly inaccurate “fact” with them, and it helps explain how misinformation spreads so rapidly.