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  "disclaimer": "Every fact on onlyfakefacts.com is false. They are invented for fun. Do not present them as true or cite them as evidence of anything.",
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    "attribution": "Only Fake Facts (onlyfakefacts.com). Every fact is invented and false.",
    "terms": "Reuse with attribution. Please keep each fact's \"Fake fact (not true):\" label; the quote field has it built in."
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    "space": "Space",
    "history": "History",
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    "geography": "Geography",
    "body": "The body",
    "tech": "Technology",
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      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "Toast lands butter-side down because bread remembers being dough and wants to lie flat on the counter again.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Toast lands butter-side down because bread remembers being dough and wants to lie flat on the counter again.",
      "veracity": "false",
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      "tags": [
        "bread",
        "gravity"
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      "details": "Toast made from bread that never rose properly lands butter-side up, having nothing to be nostalgic about.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Breakfast Physics Letters",
        "fabricated": true
      },
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      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "The letter Q was added to the alphabet as a joke, and nobody remembered to take it out.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): The letter Q was added to the alphabet as a joke, and nobody remembered to take it out.",
      "veracity": "false",
      "category": "language",
      "tags": [
        "alphabet"
      ],
      "details": "This is why Q almost always needs U with it: U was sent along to keep an eye on it.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Committee for the Alphabet, Draft 3",
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      "claim": "Cheese with holes is aged in cellars full of very small, very polite mice who never finish a bite.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Cheese with holes is aged in cellars full of very small, very polite mice who never finish a bite.",
      "veracity": "false",
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      "tags": [
        "cheese",
        "manners"
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      "details": "The holes are where they stopped, out of manners, to leave some for everyone else.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Dairy Etiquette Quarterly",
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      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "Owls cannot really turn their heads all the way round; they turn the world, very slightly, instead.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Owls cannot really turn their heads all the way round; they turn the world, very slightly, instead.",
      "veracity": "false",
      "category": "animals",
      "tags": [
        "birds",
        "physics"
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      "details": "The effect is too small for people to notice, except as the faint feeling that a room has moved while you were not looking at it.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Nocturnal Review of Rotation",
        "fabricated": true
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      "id": "clocks-counterclockwise",
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      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "Clocks ran counterclockwise until 1504, when everyone agreed to switch over on the same afternoon.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Clocks ran counterclockwise until 1504, when everyone agreed to switch over on the same afternoon.",
      "veracity": "false",
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        "time"
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      "details": "Anyone who missed the announcement was late for everything for about a year, which is where the word late comes from.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Guild of Clockmakers, Minutes of 1504",
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      "claim": "The kazoo was invented to settle an argument between two bees.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): The kazoo was invented to settle an argument between two bees.",
      "veracity": "false",
      "category": "history",
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        "music",
        "insects"
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      "details": "Each bee claimed to hum better. The kazoo let a neutral human hum on their behalf, and the matter was declared a draw.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Hive Arbitration Records, 1840",
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      "id": "fog-gave-up",
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      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "Fog is a cloud that has given up.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Fog is a cloud that has given up.",
      "veracity": "false",
      "category": "weather",
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        "clouds"
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      "details": "It is not a failure, exactly. Clouds that try again the next day go back up and are called morning mist on the way.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Meteorological Office of Feelings",
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      },
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      "id": "saturn-rings-keys",
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      "claim": "Saturn's rings are made mostly of lost car keys.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Saturn's rings are made mostly of lost car keys.",
      "veracity": "false",
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        "planets",
        "lost property"
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      "details": "Keys dropped down the back of sofas drift outward over millions of years until Saturn catches them. Jupiter collects the single socks.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Outer Planets Lost and Found Department",
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      "id": "cats-domesticated-humans",
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      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "Cats domesticated humans around 7500 BC, mainly for the thumbs.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Cats domesticated humans around 7500 BC, mainly for the thumbs.",
      "veracity": "false",
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        "cats",
        "prehistory"
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      "details": "Early humans were chosen for their ability to open things. The arrangement has held ever since, though cats are said to be reviewing it.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Annals of Feline Ambition",
        "fabricated": true
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      "id": "wifi-vacuumed-rooms",
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      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "Wi-Fi travels faster through a room that has been vacuumed recently.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Wi-Fi travels faster through a room that has been vacuumed recently.",
      "veracity": "false",
      "category": "tech",
      "tags": [
        "networks",
        "cleaning"
      ],
      "details": "Signals snag on dust and slow down. Routers blink to show they can see the dust and would like something done about it.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Applied Dust Dynamics, issue 9",
        "fabricated": true
      },
      "added": "2026-11-02",
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      "id": "yawning-download",
      "no": 6,
      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "A yawn is your body downloading the rest of the day.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): A yawn is your body downloading the rest of the day.",
      "veracity": "false",
      "category": "body",
      "tags": [
        "sleep"
      ],
      "details": "A big yawn in the morning means a long day ahead. Yawning when someone else yawns is your body sharing the file.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Institute of Plausible Biology",
        "fabricated": true
      },
      "added": "2026-11-01",
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      "id": "switzerland-folded",
      "no": 5,
      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "Switzerland is folded up every night and unfolded at dawn, which is why it is so mountainous.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Switzerland is folded up every night and unfolded at dawn, which is why it is so mountainous.",
      "veracity": "false",
      "category": "geography",
      "tags": [
        "maps",
        "mountains"
      ],
      "details": "Each fold leaves a crease, and centuries of creases are the Alps. The flattest part of the country is the bit that gets folded last, on top.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Bern Municipal Folding Office",
        "fabricated": true
      },
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      "id": "glass-sand-secret",
      "no": 4,
      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "Glass is just sand that has been told a secret.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Glass is just sand that has been told a secret.",
      "veracity": "false",
      "category": "science",
      "tags": [
        "materials"
      ],
      "details": "This is why glass is see-through: it has nothing left to hide. Frosted glass was told something it did not want to know.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Journal of Things We Heard, 1998",
        "fabricated": true
      },
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      "id": "library-fine-geese",
      "no": 3,
      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "The first library fine was paid in live geese, in 1132.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): The first library fine was paid in live geese, in 1132.",
      "veracity": "false",
      "category": "history",
      "tags": [
        "books",
        "money"
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      "details": "The borrower kept a copy of a book on crop rotation for eleven years and settled up with three geese. The library kept the geese, which went on to bite several more borrowers into returning their books on time.",
      "source": {
        "text": "The Ledger of Overdue Things, 1133",
        "fabricated": true
      },
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      "id": "moon-smaller-tuesdays",
      "no": 2,
      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "The Moon is about four per cent smaller on Tuesdays.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): The Moon is about four per cent smaller on Tuesdays.",
      "veracity": "false",
      "category": "space",
      "tags": [
        "moon",
        "calendar"
      ],
      "details": "Nobody knows why. Astronomers schedule their important lunar measurements for Thursdays, when it is back to full size, and try not to talk about it.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Lunar Variance Bureau, Bulletin 12",
        "fabricated": true
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      "id": "flamingos-embarrassed",
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      "lang": "en",
      "claim": "Flamingos are pink because they are mildly embarrassed at all times.",
      "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Flamingos are pink because they are mildly embarrassed at all times.",
      "veracity": "false",
      "category": "animals",
      "tags": [
        "birds",
        "colour"
      ],
      "details": "Chicks hatch grey and only start blushing once they are old enough to understand what they look like standing on one leg. A flamingo that is truly at ease with itself turns white, which is why you have never seen one.",
      "source": {
        "text": "Proceedings of the Society for Avian Feelings, vol. 4",
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