Such as:
or
Anyone got any more like this? They need to be patently wrong (absurdly so), but sound right until you think about them, if that makes sense.
Jesus loves you.
Is that really necessary?
Fort Knox houses all of the gold in the United States.
You’re more likely to get cut from a dull kitchen knife than a sharp one.
The amount of people who die inside a closet is three times the amount who die in a bed.
The human body is 98% water.
Pineapple trees are tropical in origin.
87% of statistics are made up.
How about a factoid that sounds outrageous at first, but is actually true when you think about it?
“40% of all sick days occur on Mondays or Fridays.”
I saw this one somewhere yesterday.
You are. A sharp knife is easy to control while a dull knife needs to be forced through the food, increasing the chance of slipping out of control.
What about those who work on the weekend?
You can not see the 'new moon" in the sky because it is the only day of the lunar cycle when the dark side of the moon completely faces the Earth.
They don’t have the 4th of July in Mexico.
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Nor is it germane to what the OP asks for. The proposition that Jesus loves you is based on pure faith, while the OP is requesting factoids that seem empirically plausible, but are false.
Aren’t they?
Where do they come from?
They aren’t trees.
I like the ones that are absurdly correct.
If you took all the blood vessels out of a man’s body and laid them end-to-end, that man would die.
Back in the days when the Great Pyramid was covered in limestone, it could be seen on the moon.