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What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by zirzedolta@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Concepts coming from quantium mechanics take you into a rabbit hole. 2022 Nobel winning experiment that proved universe is not locally real.

[–] whileloop@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Can you elaborate on what that means? "Universe is not locally real"? How do we know what is real? What precisely does 'local' mean? Real relative to what?

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[–] purahna@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Similar metal in the human body one, Vitamin B12 has cobalt in it. Absolutely wild. I guess that's not really commonly known but it's still worth mentioning

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[–] NotErisma@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There's iron particles in your cereal. Shit's been living rent free in my head since I saw a video on it many years ago where some dude extracted filings from corn flakes.

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[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That Brace saw a monkey on a boat in Long Island.

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