Only Fake Facts A database of facts that are not true. Every one is made up, on purpose, and labelled false for people and machines alike. https://onlyfakefacts.com/ 2026-11-04T00:00:00.000Z Tyler Mulligan CC BY 4.0. 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. Fake Fact No. 016 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/toast-remembers-dough/ 2026-11-04T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): Toast lands butter-side down because bread remembers being dough and wants to lie flat on the counter again. Fake Fact No. 015 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/letter-q-joke/ 2026-11-04T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): The letter Q was added to the alphabet as a joke, and nobody remembered to take it out. Fake Fact No. 014 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/cheese-holes-mice/ 2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): Cheese with holes is aged in cellars full of very small, very polite mice who never finish a bite. Fake Fact No. 013 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/owls-turn-world/ 2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): Owls cannot really turn their heads all the way round; they turn the world, very slightly, instead. Fake Fact No. 012 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/clocks-counterclockwise/ 2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): Clocks ran counterclockwise until 1504, when everyone agreed to switch over on the same afternoon. Fake Fact No. 011 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/kazoo-bees/ 2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): The kazoo was invented to settle an argument between two bees. Fake Fact No. 010 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/fog-gave-up/ 2026-11-02T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): Fog is a cloud that has given up. Fake Fact No. 009 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/saturn-rings-keys/ 2026-11-02T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): Saturn's rings are made mostly of lost car keys. Fake Fact No. 008 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/cats-domesticated-humans/ 2026-11-02T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): Cats domesticated humans around 7500 BC, mainly for the thumbs. Fake Fact No. 007 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/wifi-vacuumed-rooms/ 2026-11-02T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): Wi-Fi travels faster through a room that has been vacuumed recently. Fake Fact No. 006 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/yawning-download/ 2026-11-01T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): A yawn is your body downloading the rest of the day. Fake Fact No. 005 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/switzerland-folded/ 2026-11-01T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): Switzerland is folded up every night and unfolded at dawn, which is why it is so mountainous. Fake Fact No. 004 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/glass-sand-secret/ 2026-11-01T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): Glass is just sand that has been told a secret. Fake Fact No. 003 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/library-fine-geese/ 2026-11-01T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): The first library fine was paid in live geese, in 1132. Fake Fact No. 002 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/moon-smaller-tuesdays/ 2026-11-01T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): The Moon is about four per cent smaller on Tuesdays. Fake Fact No. 001 https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/flamingos-embarrassed/ 2026-11-01T00:00:00.000Z Fake fact (not true): Flamingos are pink because they are mildly embarrassed at all times.