{"id":415261,"date":"2026-01-18T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415261\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:07:07","slug":"11-mind-blowing-facts-that-sound-fake-but-are-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415261\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Mind-Blowing Facts That Sound Fake But Are True"},"content":{"rendered":"

11 Mind-Blowing Facts That Sound Fake But Are True<\/p>\n

1.<\/p>\n

The original name for Google<\/a> was “Backrub.”<\/p>\n

3.<\/p>\n

Butternut squash was invented<\/a> in the 1940s.<\/p>\n

4.<\/p>\n

Tim Burton<\/a> and Winona Ryder would have secret meet-ups to discuss what a Beetlejuice sequel could be about for almost 15 years.<\/p>\n

5.<\/p>\n

The term “computer<\/a>” actually predates the machine.<\/p>\n

6.<\/p>\n

Beautyblender<\/a> (the egg-shaped makeup application sponge) was created because of the TV show Girlfriends.<\/p>\n

7.<\/p>\n

Christopher Robin, the little boy in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, was based on a real child<\/a>.<\/p>\n

8.<\/p>\n

Scrooge McDuck comic inspired<\/a> the iconic boulder-rolling scene in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.<\/p>\n

9.<\/p>\n

Crystal Pepsi<\/a> was actually not the immediate flop we think it was…well, at least at first.<\/p>\n

10.<\/p>\n

The iPod’s name was inspired<\/a> by the iconic 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11 Mind-Blowing Facts That Sound Fake But Are True 1. The original name for Google was “Backrub.” 3.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,1757,3696,1759],"class_list":{"0":"post-415261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-evergreen","10":"tag-foodfb","11":"tag-geekyfb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}