Facts

[datalol-jack]

Adjective relating to African beads?

 

[Angilion]

Humans, chimps and koala bears all have almost identical finger prints.

Corn flakes were originally invented by a fanatically religious doctor as a way to stop people from masturbating. (he filled the mattress with them!)

The original invention was accidental and they were fed to people. You're right about the masturbating thing, but they weren't invented as a mattress filler. He thought, for who knows what reason, that the right diet would stop people masturbating.

 

[Angilion]

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2) This one is amazing. If you could take out all the space that is in a human being then all the human beings who have ever lived would fit in a sugar cube.

That's sort of true and serves as a startling example of how empty solid matter is, but if you look at it in more detail it becomes a bit meaningless because the distinction between matter and energy breaks down to some extent.

 

[something daft already!!]

"Language"

That's not really a fact

Ha ha you got me on that one.

 

[datalol-jack]

Language with the fewest words: Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Like whaaaaaaaa!

 

[pepp77]

"Language"

That's not really a fact

Nope, What.

It says so in the sentence!

 

[Hiijinx]

I am still trying to get my head around the paper folding.... When my brain cools down I will try to add to this

 

[datalol-jack]

I am still trying to get my head around the paper folding.... When my brain cools down I will try to add to this

Think of it as just stacking pages to begin with. People get too wound up with the folding.

 

[itchy]

Fact: You never ever actually touch anything in your life.

I know physics and particles are crazy stuff.

 

[Haggisman]

Nope, What.

It says so in the sentence!

There's a question mark at the end, so therefore it's a question, not a statement of fact

 

[manoz]

Wow that day and dates one in a year is freaky, I had to check lol.
I like the Hitler one too cos he was trying to prevent this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfKOU31cteg just in case you think I'm being insensitive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c9oIVwDM6Q

 

[The Mad Rapper]

There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on Earth.

 

[v0n]

More humans alive now, than have ever died.

Not even ballpark close.

 

[dirtybeatfreak]

Humans, chimps and koala bears all have almost identical finger prints.

Corn flakes were originally invented by a fanatically religious doctor as a way to stop people from masturbating. (he filled the mattress with them!)

There's no such thing as a Koala Bear!

 

[SexyGreyFox]

There's no such thing as a Koala Bear!

I've always known them as a New Zealand Sloth

 

[Angilion]

Fact: You never ever actually touch anything in your life.

I know physics and particles are crazy stuff.

Professor Moriarty talks a bit about that in a video on the Sixty Symbols channel. It's an interesting video, the guts of which is that the concept of touching is meaningless at that level.

I'll post a link to the video rather than embed it, since that seems to be the favoured procedure here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0TNJrTlbBQ

 

[Squark]

There's no such thing as a Koala Bear!

Is that a 'it's a marsupial not a bear' kinda distinction? (Not sure if that's correct)

 

[Haggisman]

One from my old physics teacher:

A teaspoon of material from a neutron star weighs more than all the people in earth.

 

[Destination]

Not even ballpark close.

Thank goodness for that!
Took almost a day for a challenge.

Fact, people believe what they are told most of the time, without checking, without investigating, without caring.

 

[datalol-jack]

Well, you'll test it when you need it, and if it fails and you die, then it was obviously a rubbish 'fact'.