It sounds like a lie but it's true!

Timberrrrrrrr

Was reading a thread on Twitter called

"Tell something about yourself that sounds like a lie but is actually true"

Many of the posts are pretty mundane but One of the first posts was this one and when you think about it it's an amazing thing, until voyager 1 and 2 either crash, or get found by an alien civilisation then her voice will travel through space long after the sun explodes and destroys the earth.

https://twitter.com/JanetPhD/status/1464405888911958016?t=FwpWxiCp5XKIj5nRwFNP0Q&s=19

Another one that I found is just too funny and made me spit coffee out.

https://twitter.com/MaryLTrump/status/1457807324589051909?t=oE2L8R-A0NmerSiPz0ZBNQ&s=19

And this cute kid going viral

https://twitter.com/Thedames7_/status/1458163865406124035?t=SthGcgVO_U-cQetnVwFsbg&s=19

I can't think if anything myself off the top of my head but have we any boards members who have stories that sound like a lie but are actually true?

Car99

If you took a single cent and doubled it everyday, by day 30, you would have € 5,368,709.12

dxhound2005

The I bet you didn't know that thread is full of amazing facts. As is the Universe is Awesome thread.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057693236/i-bet-you-didnt-know-that

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/106758805#Comment_106758805

dxhound2005

This is what took it outside the realm of the personal:

Many of the posts are pretty mundane but One of the first posts was this one and when you think about it it's an amazing thing, until voyager 1 and 2 either crash, or get found by an alien civilisation then her voice will travel through space long after the sun explodes and destroys the earth.

McGarnigle2020

The woman in Clare or Limerick who died after letting herself be rode by the Alsation of a bus driver she met on t'internet.

If I heard this story in the schoolyard in the late 90's my immediate reaction would be "bollocks", because it really does have all the attributes of one of those nonsense urban legends that somehow reached every community in the pre internet days.

Really happened though, made the news and all. I couldn't believe your man's daughter stood by him during the court appearances.