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- ChagrinRiddle, on 10/12/2007, -11/+484161. 11% of the world is left-handed.
FALSE. The world doesn't have hands. It's a planet. - quami16, on 10/12/2007, -10/+229"315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled."
Prove it. - daniel2e, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18134. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
To escape from where? Wherever they might be captured? That's handy! - Jwoey, on 10/12/2007, -10/+176Please. Diggers.
Understand something. This ***** is made up. Untrue, unsubstantiated NON-facts.
Almost every list you've ever seen like this is made up.
Quit reading facts lists like this and blindly accepting them. I know a lot of you get it already but for those of you who don't - These just plain aren't true. - doddilus, on 10/12/2007, -9/+115doesn't a fact have to be true to be called a fact?
- erikerikerik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+90215. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)
False: it is in fact a veeeeery specialized muscle. If the rest of our body was made out of the same tissue we wouldn't be able to consume enough calories (energy) to stay alive.
And before some one points it out, it is also an organ. - sancho320, on 10/12/2007, -9/+9262.7% of trivia statistics are made up.
- otatop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+77I didn't even get to number 100 before I saw too many that weren't facts to keep going. That's why I hate these "fact" lists.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+70lol these facts are still good to stun any drunken chick at a bar though
- OsiVert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5919. A “2 by 4″ is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
Sort of true. They plane off 1/4 of an inch on every side to make it smooth. You can buy raw 2x4 that are really 2x4, but they are not smooth. - surfing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56was it only three stories tall?
- AriaStar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6014. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
I'm thankful to not be a ferret. - hardcrocodile, on 10/12/2007, -28/+7997% of these statistics are made up.
- Glauck006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4832. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
This is not useless. People should know this. - UNL1M1T3D, on 10/12/2007, -4/+43"37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode."
I sure hope that is true, because that's just awesome. - spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38302. Lots of people are stupid enough to believe that these "facts" are true.
- pbgswd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
Not true, it is the Red Ensign, the flag used before the maple leaf. This did cause a controversy when it came out. The depiction of parliament on the bill is from an earlier time.
We no longer use the bill. We use a coin now. - Yorn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38You could check wikipedia to verify a lot of these "facts", but one thing is true, there have been 0 deaths reported to quicksand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksand - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37huh?
- CelebVoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31@lowerlogic
Don't we all live on islands? Some are just bigger than others... - shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -11/+33"The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean"
*****
also I think they mean hear - ForTheUnknowing, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24207 - Energy is not created. A correct definition is left as an exercise to the reader.
- waterboy1628, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21http://xkcd.com/c250.html
- icepack12, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22"doesn't a fact have to be true to be called a fact?"
depends on the administration - GTanaka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I can guarantee it's a Japanese superstition too, being Japanese myself. 4, in Japanese, is pronounced "Shi," which is the same way one pronounces death, though they are written differently. If you visit any respectable hotel in Japan, they will have a 13th floor, but no 4th floor.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Now try to recall at least 5 of the "facts" you just read.
- harrier666, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I always read lists like this until I find one I know has been disproven by a reputable site such as Snopes. I made it to number 3 on this crappy list. I'm sure there are more, but I refuse to read on.
Please, people, critical thinking skills. These lists are always full of inaccuracies and *****.
From Snopes:
"Rather, Heinz was riding an elevated train in New York when he spied an advertising placard in the train car promoting "21 styles" of shoes; struck by the concept, and recognizing that catchiness and Heinz resonance were far more important qualities for a company slogan than literal accuracy, Heinz cast about for the perfect number to use for his own company's version of the phrase. Settling on fifty-seven, Heinz soon put the number to work, and within a week the sign of the green Heinz pickle bearing the words "57 Varieties" was everywhere Heinz "could find a place to stick it." He soon ordered the construction of a six-story, twelve-hundred-light display featuring a forty-foot pickle; installed at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 23rd Street in New York City, this electric marvel dazzled New York residents and tourists until 1906. " - lordthor, on 10/12/2007, -9/+26I hate these lists of 'facts' where few are true, which only makes me question the legitimacy of the ones that are.
for example, I know the declaration of independance was NOT written on hemp paper, and I'm pretty sure a cat can't go longer than a camel without water. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1814. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Now the female ferret knows how I feel. - Satanicus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18i thought it's .07 percent that will get vaporized
- Catocat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Actually a square is a rectangle...
Sort of like a mouse is an animal, while an animal doesn't necessarily have to be a mouse... - shaelen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16darkreign16 wrote:
"It is also misleading, check snopes.com for the truth."
Well, from snopes.com .. "As a general rule of thumb, one ounce of milk chocolate per pound of body weight can be lethal for dogs and cats. (Milk chocolate contains approximately 44-66 mg of theobromine per ounce.)" How misleading is that? - Apeezee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Interesting, but I don't know if I believe all of them.
- surfing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13hydoskee , have you heard of slow motion?
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13>Yeah, seems a little iffy, but then I began thinking: Japan, Australia, Most of the South Pacific and such, the UK, Sicily, Hawaii...
@thrash,
1/10 of World Population ~ 600 million
Japan - 128 mil
Aus - 21 mil
UK - 60 mil
Sicily - 5 mil
Hawaii - 1 mil
You did forget a few (or at least bundled a some massively populated south west pacific nations in an other category):
Indonesia - 223 mil
Philipines - 85 mil
Malaysia - 23 mil
Taiwan - 23 mil
Sri Lanka - 20 mil
Madagascar - 18 mil
Cuba - 11 mil
I am already up to 618 million, so my estimations are already over 1 in 10, and I am yet to include places like New Zealand, Greenland, Iceland, a lot of the Greek Islands, a lot of the Carribian, a lot of the south pacific islands amongst other places. It would not surprise me if the number was closer to 1 in 9. - ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out."
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/sneeze.asp
"Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels."
Cats can go into organ failure from dehydration after just a few days.
"If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death."
Scorpions are immune to their own venom. If they weren't, they would die from their body producing it. - xkenny13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1255. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
Not exactly:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:t7vAvyuQyjMJ:www.wendy.com/wendyweb/history.html+wendy+name+origin&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us - Zinite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001)."
Not true, by percentage of workers, working as a logger is the most dangerous. (source:http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/26/pf/jobs_jeopardy/) - dosterm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Purple doesn't really rhyme with turtle. Myrtle does, though.
- harrier666, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14@lordthor, you are correct. In fact, it is a dangerous lie. Camels can last 2 weeks to a month, whereas cats can go into liver failure very rapidly without water. A supply of fresh water is essential to a cat's health. It takes about 24 hours until a cat may develop hepatic lipidosis, which they may survive but not happily. Please. Don't take this list seriously.
The ferret thing is true. Female ferrets stay in heat until they mate, which will dehydrate and kill them after a month or less. There are injections that can be given to take the female out of heat, but the best option is just to have the critter fixed. Unless you are a breeder.. but if you are, you already knew this. - MadScientist420, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12OP, you are a certified retard.
BTW that fact is true as I have the Bruce Lee documentary and he says he slows the kicks and punches down himself, making them more dramatic for two reasons: 1) Americans like big dramatic punches, 2) he's too damn fast if he did it at full speed! - shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Elementary dear Watson.
no really we learned that ***** in elementary school. - nikkilai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"77. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand."
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can get AIDS - STARTSOMETHING, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.
they left that part out in 2nd grade - mrlost117, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs melted into it.
What about that one? Anybody know the answer to that one? Im mainly trying to figure out that one.
thats like a spider amputating all of its legs on top of your Hershey bar... - deuceswilde, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12This is the same damn site that posted "72 Useless Facts" last week. Of which there were only about 50 because the list was misformatted and of those at least half were just wrong. I'm calling blogspam or just generally being annoying on this guy.
- Thrashtastic27, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10IT'S ON TEH INTRAWUB IT HAS TO BE TROO!!!1!
- codyfrisch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970.
We only started issuing patents in 1970? wow, so um yeah wow!
Try 1790... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17It isn't, check snopes.
- evilpig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@ccanni1028:
RATS... Not cats... -
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