10 Truly Interesting Facts So Unbelievable I Had To Double-Check If They Were Real

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Siri was an app that was available on Apple’s own App Store until the company decided to buy it in 2010.

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When Back to the Future first hit theaters in 1985, it didn’t end with the words “To Be Continued.”

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When instant cake mixes were first introduced, they required no fresh eggs. However, food manufacturers changed that and began requiring eggs so that housewives would feel like they were doing real baking.

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Michael Jackson gained control of all his masters because of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

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In 2011, Vanity Fair published a story based on information given to them by a former employee of Michael Jackson, claiming that Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and Jackson fled New York after 9/11 in a rental car (since all planes were grounded) that the three planned to drive across the country back to Los Angeles. According to the story, during the trip, Brando annoyed Taylor and Jackson because he wanted to stop in at every Burger King and KFC, so the trio only got as far as Ohio. The story has since become one of the most bizarre celebrity stories ever. However, it isn’t true…well, at least Taylor’s involvement in it.

The story of Taylor, Brando, and Jackson fleeing New York has taken on such a life of its own over the years that Taylor’s estate has tried to set the record straight several times, including this year, when they put out a series of tweets around 9/11:

6.

Labubus were originally storybook characters.

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The term “shipping,” as in shipping/ship a relationship, comes from The X-Files.

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The US got different Beatles’ albums than the UK and the rest of the world did. In fact, most Americans wouldn’t hear the albums correctly until 1987.

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Lastly, the first movie ever made about the Titanic was released just a month after the real ship sank, and starred an actual survivor of the disaster.