Reality TV Shows That Are Totally Scripted

Deadliest Catch

The TV fishing crews make money from the producers, not from the fishing industry. They have no incentive to meet fishing quotas. They also typically splice together old storm footage to make the ocean events seem more deadly.

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The More You Know

  • The sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
  • In 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
  • The chance of a coin landing heads-up is not 50-50
  • Only ¼ of the Sahara Desert is sandy.
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