These True Facts Sound Incredibly Fake

Pledge to PR

The Pledge of Allegiance might be a symbol of American Patriotism now, but it once was just a simple PR stunt. Written by Francis Bellamy, it came from a contest. This contest would help promote sales of the children's magazine Youth's Companion. The version we know today has undergone quite a few rewrites from that original one, but it still rings true for the red, white, and blue!

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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.
  • There's only one country in the world that doesn't use the metric system.
  • A relative of the T. rex stood just 3-feet tall.
  • Singapore plans to build floating burbs.
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