25 Insane Facts That Seem Completely Bogus but Are Actually Totally True

You shouldn’t believe everything you read. But you also shouldn’t dismiss everything that seems like it can’t be true. Because these 25 seemingly bogus facts are totally true.

Yet some of the explanations behind them are baffling…

Fact: The CIA spent millions to create spy cats

The CIA spent $20 million to surgically implant eavesdropping devices in cats and then drop them off near the Soviet embassies.

Rumors claim that the first cat met an untimely end, but the CIA claims that the device was removed and it lived a long natural life.

Fact: The U.S. government paid a scientist to invent and get high on molly.

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The DEA paid the late chemist Alexander Shulgin to legally synthesize a controlled substance called MDMA. Then they had him trip on it. So he wasn’t just high on life, but high on the job as well.

Fact: Nikola Tesla fell in love with a pigeon.

Nikola Tesla was an electrical and mechanical genius. But he allegedly wrote that he loved a pigeon the way a man loves a woman. He also believed that the pigeon loved him back, which gave his life meaning.

Fact: A pilot was sucked halfway out of a jetliner’s window and survived.

Flight attendant Nigel Ogden held onto a captain’s belt when a window blew out in the cockpit of British Airways flight 5390. This was fortunate for him because the plane was flying at an altitude of 17,000 feet, yet somehow, everybody involved managed to survive.