The Weird Facts Thread

[RuKiAsShAdOw]

Just post some of the weird things that just happen to be true that normal Joes probably dont know or havent heard.

Heres one I just read about today regarding Pringles cans:
Because of the metallic interior and long, tubular shape, the cans have been used to make Wi-Fi network antennas, known as cantennas

First time I read it I started laughing, but I guess its true.

[Itachi Uchiha]

A Barnacle (relative to its size) has the largest dick in the world!

[RuKiAsShAdOw]

A Barnacle (relative to its size) has the largest dick in the world!

that is an interesting fact my friend. wow, dont u wish u were a barnacle now?

[isolatedotaku]

(Don't quote my percentage, my memory of this is a little hazy).

About 6/10 single-dollar bills have been in a stripper's underwear, some even twice.

[That was in our school newspaper... ]

[Phate]

I recommend that you stop believing your school newspaper.

[Javer]

I recommend that you stop believing your school newspaper.

Yeah. Trust me, sometimes we have to just make those things up.

Another interesting (and probably untrue) fact is that Hugh Hefner is the direct descendant of William Bradford, the most famous of the first Puritan settlers in what is now America. (Except maybe Cotton Mather.)

[soundchazer]

Unlike popular belief, the State of Arizona has enough water reserves to go without a drought for the next 30 years.

[Akimichi Choji]

Lets see, some types of dogs have an ability to possibly smell and detect cancer in it's earliest stages.

[Itachi Uchiha]

The leading cause of death for beavers is falling trees.

[Phate]

More than half of the people who will post in threads like these will post facts that aren't factual at all. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/Ph4t3/Emot/emot-pseudo.gif

[Ritalin]

Heres one I just read about today regarding Pringles cans:


First time I read it I started laughing, but I guess its true.

It is true. Back in August I had one of those. There was wifi in our building and we had guests over from Britian -- to game, mostly, and be touristy, but we had no internet or a TV when nothing else was going on. Of course, we eat lots of pringles and had cans left over. So we got stuff together and built one. No purchasing necessary ('cept for the pringles!).

Instant wifi internet. Our wifi card was dead anyway. It had a better range, too.

Another fun fact, in relation to the pringle cans: If a cop spots a pringle can antenna, you can be fined or subject to inspection. Most of the time, they don't care or don't know what it is.

[UZ_white]

More than half of the people who will post in threads like these will post facts that aren't factual at all. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/Ph4t3/Emot/emot-pseudo.gif

Will not!

If you outlive every desiese in the world, and do not die of old age, you will, no matter what, die of Prostate/Breast cancer.

That's true, oddly enough.

[Akimichi Choji]

It is physically impossible for a person to lick their own elbow.

After reading this 73% of people will try to lick their elbow.

And that ones true.

[Itachi Uchiha]

It is physically impossible for a person to lick their own elbow.

After reading this 73% of people will try to lick their elbow.

And that ones true.
Damn it! You made me try and lick my elbow...

~~~~~~~~~~~~

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

[GWS923]

It is physically impossible for a person to lick their own elbow.

After reading this 73% of people will try to lick their elbow.

And that ones true.

73% may try to lick their elbow, but I can like my elbow, and so can a few of my friends (their elbows, not mine). If you don't believe me, I'll post a picture tomorrow when it's not late at night. Otherwise you can take my word for it I guess.

[UZ_white]

I think they're talkign about non-contortionists.

[Two-twenty]

The spatula is universally in the second kitchen draw.

[Ritalin]

The spatula is universally in the second kitchen draw.

Jesus christ. It's in my second drawer right now (where it belongs!). My mom keeps hers in her second drawer too... o_o;;;

* Ritalin is reminded of her childhood creation of a kitchen war with evil spatulas... >_>;


I just remembered. Walt Disney had a fear of mice. :XD:

[RuKiAsShAdOw]

I just remembered. Walt Disney had a fear of mice. :XD:

Ahaha, thats not weird thats funny! Its a wonder he didnt decapitate Mickey in any of his short flicks(though maybe he did and kept them in the "Disney Vault").

[ant]

Here is some fun facts about the 1500s that a friend sent......

Here are some facts about the 1500s:

These are interesting...

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in
May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to
smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the
custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the
house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men,
then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the
water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence, the saying,
Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood
underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other
small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became
slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the
saying; It's raining cats and dogs.

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This
posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up
your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top
afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.
Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get
slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep
their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you
opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was
placed in the entrance way. Hence the saying a .thresh hold..

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that
always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the
pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the
stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then
start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for
quite a while. Hence the rhyme; Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas
porridge in the pot nine days old..

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a
sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon.. They would cut off a
little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat..

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid
content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning
death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so,
tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of
the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper
crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would
sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the
road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out
on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around
and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of
holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of
places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to
a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25
coffins was found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they
had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the
corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.
Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen
for the bell; thus, someone could be saved by the bell, or was considered a
..dead ringer..

And that's the truth... Now, who said History was boring ! ! !

[annie14892]

73% may try to lick their elbow, but I can like my elbow, and so can a few of my friends (their elbows, not mine). If you don't believe me, I'll post a picture tomorrow when it's not late at night. Otherwise you can take my word for it I guess.


Haha I saw that ;] :iamabanan

[jetfire]

Place your hand palm-downwards on a table. Now, pull your middle finger inwards so that your middle finger's knuckle is touching the table. Now your thumb, index finger, ring finger and pinky finger will be touching the table, and your middle finger is curled up, with the top portion of your middle finger laying against the table (ending at the knuckle).

Now keep your hand firmly against the table. Lift your index finger while keeping your hand on the table. Put it back down. Now lift your pinky finger without lifting your hand off the table. Put it down. Now try lifting that ring finger without taking your hand off the table. It's impossible.

At least, that's how it's been for everyone I've shown this trick to. I don't know if you can really state the trick itself as a fact, but it is a fact that you can't lift your ring finger when having your hand in this position.

[annie14892]

I know that trick..I've been practicing since 3rd grade and can lift it up a little bit now..(like 1.5 cm)

[animanic_critic]

I've seen this on a British programme called Brainiac: It's impossible for a person to walk on the surface of a filled-up swimming pool (well, duh!), but NOT if the pool's being filled up with custard pudding. The weird thing is, you won't sink if you keep moving around, but you will only when you stand still at one spot.

Ever since seeing that experiment, I never saw custard pudding the same way again...

[ash_chan]

The spatula is universally in the second kitchen draw.

Ha! Mine's not.
...It's on the counter, in a kitchen utencil cup thing.

[Saya-biki]

The spatula is universally in the second kitchen draw.

My second draw is just a lot of crap...

The bigger utensils/objects(spatuals, big spoons!, etc) are on the microwave!

But anyway here's my fact:

Soylent Green is people.

[Tyrdium]

[stuff]

And that's the truth... Now, who said History was boring ! ! !Actually... (http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/1500.htm)

[Phate]

The elephant seal has a baculum. Ergo, it is capable of accidentally breaking it's penis. This will lead to its death if this causes the penis to act as a rudder, slowing it down and starving it since it isn't able to catch anything.

Elephant seals (along with other certain marine mammals) are capable of collapsing their lungs for deep-sea diving for food.

You know the poem 'Ring Around the Rosies'? You know how it came to be? Well...











It's not true.

[The Geomancer]

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[Miaka Lee]

The "Mexican Hat Dance" is the official dance of Mexico.

[Two-twenty]

Think about the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty'. Say it through in your head.

It says nothing about Humpty being an egg.

[Ritalin]

I've seen this on a British programme called Brainiac: It's impossible for a person to walk on the surface of a filled-up swimming pool (well, duh!), but NOT if the pool's being filled up with custard pudding. The weird thing is, you won't sink if you keep moving around, but you will only when you stand still at one spot.

Ever since seeing that experiment, I never saw custard pudding the same way again...

I saw that episode. But take most the things off Brianiac skeptically... it's more of a comedy show for nerds than a British Mythbusters. :P

[ant]

Actually... (http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/1500.htm)

Thank you for clearing that up, even though most of those so called facts that I posted seemed plausible, except for the baby in the tub.

[PsychoSaiya-jin]

A Barnacle (relative to its size) has the largest dick in the world!
The actual largest penis in the world currently belongs to the Whale. The member in question being called a "dork".

ps: Brainiac is love.
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=brainiac&search=Search

[animanic_critic]

I just found out two things (be it old things):

A lightning bolt is much, much hotter than the surface of the Sun, though unsure by how many folds.
When one uses a vacuum cleaner, dusts are not sucked into the hose; they are pushed in instead. Care for anyone to explain why this is so, since I suck at physics.

Ritalin: I guess that makes me a nerd, since I dig Brainiac big time =P
Two-twenty: Whoever made up that nursery rhyme must have been eating too much scrambled eggs XD

[PsychoSaiya-jin]

I just found out two things (be it old things):

A lightning bolt is much, much hotter than the surface of the Sun, though unsure by how many folds.
When one uses a vacuum cleaner, dusts are not sucked into the hose; they are pushed in instead. Care for anyone to explain why this is so, since I suck at physics.

Ritalin: I guess that makes me a nerd, since I dig Brainiac big time =P
Two-twenty: Whoever made up that nursery rhyme must have been eating too much scrambled eggs XD
I can't really confirm #1. But as someone who has been hit by lightning, I'd find that unlikely.
#2 is true and false in some respects. The forces behind the vaccum aren't a pulling force but more the pushing force of the air rushing in to fill the low-pressure area inside the machine.

[Grasshopper]

Australians made the world's largest hamburger. GG Two-twenty.

[Erigion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#Facts_and_trivia

Wiki keeps on winning.

[animanic_critic]

A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures approaching 28,000 degrees Celsius (50,000 degrees Fahrenheit) in a split second. This is about five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
I stand corrected...

...but in that article, I found out something intriguing:
Singapore has the highest rate of lightning activity in the world
Until now, I'm still skeptical about this, as a Singaporean myself.

[PsychoSaiya-jin]

Apparently, the elephant population has trebled.

[Ritalin]

I stand corrected...

...but in that article, I found out something intriguing:

Until now, I'm still skeptical about this, as a Singaporean myself.

I refuse to believe that. Phoenix has always had tons of lightning... this past month when I was visiting family there was a storm that had over 5,000 lightning strikes. It ended up being 1,000 strikes an hour.

I just can't imagine something more than that. I walk outside and the night sky is lit constantly. Singapore beats that? O_o;;

[animanic_critic]

I refuse to believe that. Phoenix has always had tons of lightning... this past month when I was visiting family there was a storm that had over 5,000 lightning strikes. It ended up being 1,000 strikes an hour.

I just can't imagine something more than that. I walk outside and the night sky is lit constantly. Singapore beats that? O_o;;
Seriously, I don't know whether to be happy or intimidated of it; proud it being a record; intimidated knowing I have a high chance of getting blitzed beyond recognition... whichever -_-".

Another thing I found out: More than half of Japanese natives don't know what turkey tastes like. This came from my Japanese buddy who learned it from a local Japanese report.

[Amara]

I've seen this on a British programme called Brainiac: It's impossible for a person to walk on the surface of a filled-up swimming pool (well, duh!), but NOT if the pool's being filled up with custard pudding. The weird thing is, you won't sink if you keep moving around, but you will only when you stand still at one spot.

Ever since seeing that experiment, I never saw custard pudding the same way again...


I just saw that on YouTube its cool and unexpeced. i like that show.:iamabanan

[Kitsurai]

I've had a bloody nose once in my entire life. It's true, look it up.

Also, the world of circuitry started making sense when imaginary numbers were first used.