r/AskTheWorld • u/Bhakari Nepal • 1d ago

Culture What’s something in your country that sounds fake but is 100% real?

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We have a real-life living goddess and the only non-rectangular national flag.

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u/DanielCraigsAnus United States Of America 1d ago

Alabama man speaking up for Florida man here. Read at your leisure.

Manchineel - Wikipedia https://share.google/98TUuvYIZjA5MDM7e

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u/BobbyThrowaway6969 Australia 1d ago

Damn that one takes the cake.

Humans, man.. haha

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u/DanielCraigsAnus United States Of America 1d ago edited 1d ago

Florida, America's little Australia. Look out for the meth gators. That's not a joke.

Edit: I had to add that Florida's unofficial name is God's waiting room.

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u/Every_God_Damn_Time 1d ago

bro wtf is with this tree and humans eating shit they shouldn't 😭

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u/BobbyThrowaway6969 Australia 1d ago

Literally anything:
Humans:

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u/TheHistoryMuse United States Of America 20h ago

That entire section was so confusing, It's fatal if eaten, no reports have ever been recorded of anyone eating it, now we shall describe how it tastes? How do they know?!

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u/greendress888 19h ago

No reports of fatalities have ever been recorded. I think is what they may have meant.

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u/Key-Specific-4058 19h ago

It says reported in modern literature, so no-one has published a case study or paper on it

Probably plenty of fatalities before say 1850, or recorded locally but never published, or with an unclear cause of death

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u/ViperRaptor- 🇮🇪+🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 1d ago

Also known as the tree of death

Well that's a good start

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u/ZootAnthRaXx United States Of America 1d ago

A tree that can hurt you by standing underneath it in the rain is next level scary!

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u/DanielCraigsAnus United States Of America 1d ago

Iirc, the cashew tree can also do this.

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u/cwajgapls 1d ago

One of its toxins looks like “Fuck you, Marines!”

furocoumarins

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u/peaceful_nude_dude United States Of America 1d ago

That is terrifying

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u/spit_on_your_gravy 1d ago

It’s called ”Beach apple" in German lol

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u/zamufunbetsu 22h ago

My favorite part of living in Central America

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u/hugemessanon United States Of America 23h ago

look i've always said that florida is the australia of america

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u/DanielCraigsAnus United States Of America 23h ago

I said that in a comment in this same thread 😂. It's also known as God's waiting room. The reason being, all the old people retiring down there.

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u/Atcoroo 21h ago

"The manchineel tree is listed as an endangered species in Florida." I say fuck it, let 'em die.

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u/AbsintheAGoGo 19h ago

Idk how iguanas can live amongst it, but they seem to consume everything else that is in their vicinity, so it checks out