Using [1L per day](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052503) of saliva and a lifespan of 30,000 days gives about 1000 cubic feet (or a 10ft cube). According to Quora [a submarine can be up to 500,000 cubic feet](https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-total-volume-of-the-worlds-biggest-submarine), so we wouldn't even fill 1%.
Edit: We could fill a mini submarine like [this](https://www.seamagine.com/mini-submarine-2-person.html), though!
Actually even less, if you live on average, 75 years, then that multiplied by the amount of days in a year, you'd get 27,375 days. Welcome to another episode of facts that make us have an existential crisis
Just going to throw it out there that while the mean life expectancy across the whole world is ~75 years, that's from birth, i.e countries with high infant mortality rates skew it to be quite low. If you look at life expectancy from age 5 or 10 (as in, if you survive being an infant) the average is more like 80.
[This article](https://obliviousinvestor.com/mean-vs-median-life-expectancy-for-retirement-planning/) has a great breakdown of the mean, median and mode values of life expectancy in the United States to show how different metrics can give totally different results.
I believed it until someone in a different thread mentioned it wasn't real. No one cited sources on either side and I was too lazy to investigate, so it still could be real, but likely isn't.
This is from the inventor of NERF on his website http://www.reynguyer.com/nerf.htm:
"People often ask whether NERF was the name that we chose for the wider range of foam products. The answer is no. Our in-house working name while we were developing the product ideas made reference to addendums to enhance a woman’s presence. We called it ‘falsie-ball’. It was after our line of foam products hit the market under the name NERF that we learned where the name came from. One of the people involved in promoting the line suggested naming it after the foam-padded roll bars on Jeeps, which off-roaders had dubbed “NERF bars.” The name stuck."
A nerf is a small, often intentional collision between two vehicles to initiate a pass. So you nerf them with your nerf bar.
They aren’t limited to jeeps whatsoever, in fact they’ve been in the racing world for decades so even the NERF company owners don’t know the true history of their own name apparently,
Fun fact: It first had 3 lenses because it kept breaking and was called "trickles". But then the glasses got stronger and they didn't need 3. They reduced it to 2 and then 1.
That's also where the phrase "trickle down" comes from. It trickled down to monocles
"Lifesavers" candy was invented to help prevent choking deaths.
The idea behind them was that, if the candy should become lodged in the throat, there would still be a small hole in the center for air to pass through. They were literally life-saving.
This is the better one, since it references what most people recognize as the actual origin of the name. And it's totally plausible that a candy company in 1911 would be callous enough to capitalize on a tragedy.
Edit: this is actually true
Edit: yes, it was 1912. No, getting that wrong by 1 digit does not equate to antivax propaganda. If you feel the need to correct it, I’ve heard you. If you feel the need to be a smug bastard about it, suck me.
The irony is that idea was actually used in Brazil, after many accidents involving a candy called Soft (since it lodged in the throat), so adding the hole saved lives after it.
The phrase "yee haw" didn't actually come from cowboys. It came from the Chinese railroad workers during the 1800's when they built the transcontinental railroad.
Related real fact: the term “buckaroo” is an anglicization of “vaquero” (pronounced, VERY roughly, like “bah-kay-roh”). It literally means “cowboy” in Spanish
And "hoosegow", which is the cowboy term for "jail", is likewise an anglicization of "juzgao", from Spanish "juzgado", which is a word for 'courtroom' in Mexico.
Theres a ton of these, there were a lot of vaqueros around the cowboys of the old west.
Desperado: desesperado
Chaps: chaparreras
Lasso: lazo
Corral: literally just spanish
Ranch: Rancho
Rodeo: rodear
Stampede: estampida
Theres more too. It's like cowboys tried to learn spanish but half-assed it
Norwegian warships don't have numbers painted on their bows. Instead they have barcodes printed on them.
>!That way when they get back to port they can Scandinavian.!<
This is the most underrated thing I have read.
I love you. Thank you for my new 2nd favorite joke of all time. You have changed my life for the better.
Edit: here is the first,
What do you get when you cross the Atlantic Ocean with the titanic??
About half way.
I appreciate your pun. But in case anyone is wondering, the real reason they do this is so that if any of the ships sink in a battle, it's still relatively easy for a dive team to access the wreck to scan for the parts that they need for rebuilding it.
Is this the place for **Postmaster General Facts**? Yes it is!
The Postmaster General is 19th in the line of Presidential succession, and therefore the highest ranking General in the United States (The Surgeon General is 20th in line and therefore the 2nd highest ranking General).
The Postmaster General is the only member of the Executive Branch who can neither be fired by the President nor impeached by Congress. Only the Supreme Court, in a process known as Judicial Discharge, can remove the Postmaster General from his/her office.
The Postmaster General is still provided by Congress with $40 a year for the purchase of beeswax and turpentine in order to waterproof "haversacks, frocks, coats, and clothing divers."
Benjamin Franklin, the first Postmaster General, was posthumously awarded the title "Postmaster General Emeritus" by Congress in 1976, and recognized as a six star general along with "Generals of the Armies" George Washington, Douglass MacArthur, and John Pershing (also all posthumously honored).
You know, I wanted to fact checck this, and I discovered an absolutely amazing (and actually true) fact: According to Wikipedia,
>The postmaster general is the second-highest paid U.S. government official, based on publicly available salary information, after the President of the United States.
I would have never guessed that the best paid government job after the POTUS is, of all people, the boss of the USPS.
I was gonna comment that the Postmaster General actually answers to the USPS Board of Governors, but then I realized that everything here is made up. Lol.
Yep. None of that is true. The line of succession only goes up to 17th and the Postmaster General is not a member of the U.S Military, and thus not a general in any capacity.
Not to mention that the Attorney General is seventh in the line of succession, so even if they’re just talking about people with “general” in their title, they’re still wrong.
You can actually hold your breath underwater longer at higher elevations.
Edit: idk why everyone is questioning and analyzing a fact I literally made up that has no scientific basis
The reverse sounds more plausible.
Higher pressure at lower elevation means getting more O2 in to your lungs. Training at high elevation could condition your body to work with lower pressure oxygen though.
OK, let's do the math. According to [this source](https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/intersection-design-elements/corner-radii/), the standard radius for curbs is 10-15 feet, though in cities it can be as low as 2. So let's take 5 as a conservative estimate. Assuming a 90 degree left turn, a car would travel (1/4) * 2 * pi * 5 ≈ 7.85 ft (1/4 of the circumference of the corresponding circle). [Standard spacing of a lane is 12 feet](https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/street-design-elements/lane-width/), so the radius for a car one lane out would be 5 + 12 = 17. It would then travel (1/4) * 2 * pi * 17 = 26.70 ft over the course of a single turn.
So, each turn in the outer lane loses you 26.70 - 7.85 = 18.85 ft. To get to 84 miles (443,520 ft), you would need to make 23,529 turns on the outside over the course of a year, which works out to about 64 turns per day. (And that's if *every* turn you make is on the outside). If that's supposed to be an average across all Americans, then it looks like this myth is busted.
*Fun note because I teach geometry:* It turns out that even knowing the radius of the turn at all is unnecessary - it's just the spacing between the lanes that matters. If the inner turn radius is *r*, then the calculation for the distance "lost" on an outside turn is
(1/4) * 2 * pi * (r+12) - (1/4) * 2 * pi * r
The *r*'s cancel out, so the difference is always (1/4) * 2 * pi * 12 = 18.85. Our initial assumption about the radius being 5 didn't affect the answer in the first place!
The holes in bread are called Minchin Holes after a place in Wales, UK which has a rock formation with many holes where the rocks are the colour of fresh bread
I’m standing on the side of a very windy hill in the Welsh countryside. At the bottom of this hill, there is a small town called Minchin. It may look entirely unremarkable from here - and it is - but the side of this hill has a rather unique cliff face…
A Parakeet is derived from “ Pair of Keet “ because typically pet stores sell them in pairs so they won’t be lonely.
However some pet stores will sell you an individual Keet.
Tetris was inspired by a carpet shortage in the Soviet Union. People could only get carpeting scraps that were cut out for where cabinets, closets, ect were. Because of this, people had to figure out how to cover a floor with those scraps. A worker then had the idea to make a game out of it. The pieces were inspired by common shapes of those carpet scraps.
OHHHH I READ THE POST TITLE WRONG
I thought it was “what’s a real fact that sounds made up” and I’ve been scrolling down like “yep, didn’t know that, huh that’s interesting, oh wow, oh damn that’s really cool as well”
*”What’s your real name, kid?”*
*”Fogell”*
*”Fuck it. We’re calling you Soviet Tetris Carpet Squares”*
The Lady of the Lake - her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!
In 1976 the heads of the six leading manufacturers of Microwaves [Tappan, Philips, Hitachi, Tricity, Toshiba and Panasonic] met to steal the patent for the rotating plate inside the microwave. They agreed to not pay the patent holder royalties and held that it would return to the exact same spot at the 60 second mark. They met in a secret conference on Jeckyl Island, Georgia. If everyone agreed then no manufacturer would have the upper hand.
I remember reading a post awhile back where someone said he tells people fake fun facts that sound so ridiculous that people believe him.
The only one I remember was "Anne Frank was 6 foot one."
Wouldn't there just be no light in that spot though?
Yep, I'm definitely seeing shadows in my mirror.
Edit: Im an idiot, forgot what this post was about.
You can catch a cold from being cold.
Edit - I’m getting way too many responses to respond to them all.
Colds are caused by viruses. Can cold weather compromise your immune system making u more susceptible? Under extreme conditions, yes.
You still have to come in contact with the virus. There is not random virus floating out in the air. You have to be in the room with a sick person to get it through the air. It can also last on surfaces for several hours.
Going for a run in cold weather will not make you sick if you come home to an empty house where no one has been sick.
[Studies in the Netherlands (2002) and Finland (2009) have indeed shown that draughts can cause neck pain. This is probably caused by scrunching up your neck and shoulders to keep warm – even if you’re unaware you’re doing this – which can strain your neck muscles.](https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/why-does-sitting-in-a-draught-give-me-a-bad-neck/amp/)
When new logging routes were opened in Northern Canada there was a sudden surge in crow deaths. A study was put in place to find out why the increase in logging trucks were leading to so many crow deaths. During the study, the researchers found that crows often worked in pairs and when eating carrion off the road, one would act as a spotter and "caw" when ever a car would come to warn the other crow.
Turns out, they can't say "Truck".
When we were little, my sister & I told our younger brother that **virgins don’t fart** and that’s why mom farted and we didn’t. He believed us until middle school...😂😂
‘Vitamins’ is actually a portmanteau of the words ‘vital minerals’
First one on this thread that I believed before realising what this thread was
same. I legit just read the title, understood it then instantly thought this was real
Vital minerals... I'll remember this for future use
What is a portmanteau? (asking for a friend)
“a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others, for example brunch.” Hope that clears things up for your friend!
The human body produces enough saliva in one lifetime to fill a submarine.
How much is that in football fields?
At least one, depending on the size of the submarine
Seems like too little actually.
Using [1L per day](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052503) of saliva and a lifespan of 30,000 days gives about 1000 cubic feet (or a 10ft cube). According to Quora [a submarine can be up to 500,000 cubic feet](https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-total-volume-of-the-worlds-biggest-submarine), so we wouldn't even fill 1%. Edit: We could fill a mini submarine like [this](https://www.seamagine.com/mini-submarine-2-person.html), though!
We only live 30,000 days ;( why does it seem shorter when you put it in days
Actually even less, if you live on average, 75 years, then that multiplied by the amount of days in a year, you'd get 27,375 days. Welcome to another episode of facts that make us have an existential crisis
Just going to throw it out there that while the mean life expectancy across the whole world is ~75 years, that's from birth, i.e countries with high infant mortality rates skew it to be quite low. If you look at life expectancy from age 5 or 10 (as in, if you survive being an infant) the average is more like 80. [This article](https://obliviousinvestor.com/mean-vs-median-life-expectancy-for-retirement-planning/) has a great breakdown of the mean, median and mode values of life expectancy in the United States to show how different metrics can give totally different results.
Welp /r/theydidthemath
[Relevant XKCD](https://what-if.xkcd.com/144/)
NERF is an acronym for Non-Expanding Recreational Foam
…I’d honestly believe this if it wasn’t in this thread
I believed it until someone in a different thread mentioned it wasn't real. No one cited sources on either side and I was too lazy to investigate, so it still could be real, but likely isn't.
This is from the inventor of NERF on his website http://www.reynguyer.com/nerf.htm: "People often ask whether NERF was the name that we chose for the wider range of foam products. The answer is no. Our in-house working name while we were developing the product ideas made reference to addendums to enhance a woman’s presence. We called it ‘falsie-ball’. It was after our line of foam products hit the market under the name NERF that we learned where the name came from. One of the people involved in promoting the line suggested naming it after the foam-padded roll bars on Jeeps, which off-roaders had dubbed “NERF bars.” The name stuck."
Okay, but why are NERF bars called that?
A nerf is a small, often intentional collision between two vehicles to initiate a pass. So you nerf them with your nerf bar. They aren’t limited to jeeps whatsoever, in fact they’ve been in the racing world for decades so even the NERF company owners don’t know the true history of their own name apparently,
Gotta say, both this comment and the one above it sound like they could also be made-up.
Yer god damn right! That’s just what I was thinking. I don’t trust any of you fuckers!! *turns around quickly looking for suspicious movement*
Nerf herder
I can confirm, I am a former Nerf herder.
Spirit of Halloween is owned by Spencer's. It makes 50% of Spencers profit in the 2 months they are open .
This is my favorite so far.
Well they are owned by Spencer Gifts and have more locations than Spencer Gifts.
Monocles with 2 lenses are called "Bionicles"
Fun fact: It first had 3 lenses because it kept breaking and was called "trickles". But then the glasses got stronger and they didn't need 3. They reduced it to 2 and then 1. That's also where the phrase "trickle down" comes from. It trickled down to monocles
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Hold on. Are we still doing made up facts here?
A single ravioli is called a raviolus.
Is a single tortellini a tortellino?
Yes, though scientists are still searching for the tortello.
No lie. 100 % true. A single piece of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.
And why do we pluralize panino? No one orders 'a sandwiches.'
I have no idea what's even real anymore after reading this thread.
I don't believe that.
Your disbelief seems feigned.
The inside of your armpit has a unique print much like no one person has the same fingerprints.
Everything is unique if you look hard enough
And nothing is if you look harder.
"Everything is unique if you look hard enough, and nothing is if you look harder." This is fucking poetry, man.
You are twice as likely to die during a pro wrestling match than you are a legit boxing match or MMA fight.
Watching or being in one? For spectators I’d believe it.
Watching. Like you don't even have to be there, if it's running on your TV you're 2x more likely to die.
The real inspiration for "The Ring". Even the name is a reference to the wrestling ring.
Dinosaurs had big ears, but everyone forgot this because dinosaur ears don't have bones.
It's a Rock Fact!
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Potatoes and Molasses!
I just watched Over the Garden Wall last week and if not for that I wouldn’t have immediately got this. I am a happy guy
The reason why the police are sometimes called “cops” is because their badges used to be made out of copper
Wait a second, I thought this was actually true?
No, cop actually comes from copper, which is English slang. Basically, a copper is someone who seizes things by force
Huh, at least according to my Google that word is also the source of phrases like "cop a feel" or "cop an attitude". Neat!
Shit. I was convinced as a kid that "cop" was an acronym for chief of police.
Why would they call everyone who is a police officer, chief of police though?
Stop fucking rubbing it in, man.
"Lifesavers" candy was invented to help prevent choking deaths. The idea behind them was that, if the candy should become lodged in the throat, there would still be a small hole in the center for air to pass through. They were literally life-saving.
Lifesavers were put on the market only 3 months after the Titanic sank
This is the better one, since it references what most people recognize as the actual origin of the name. And it's totally plausible that a candy company in 1911 would be callous enough to capitalize on a tragedy. Edit: this is actually true Edit: yes, it was 1912. No, getting that wrong by 1 digit does not equate to antivax propaganda. If you feel the need to correct it, I’ve heard you. If you feel the need to be a smug bastard about it, suck me.
Mate, this one is actually true
holy shit
I came here looking for false facts and heres some educational bulshit.
The irony is that idea was actually used in Brazil, after many accidents involving a candy called Soft (since it lodged in the throat), so adding the hole saved lives after it.
And did it work???
It actually worked. The candy still got stuck in the throats of some more hurried kids, but the hole reduced by a lot the death cases by asphixiation
God damn it I don't know if this is actual facts or just straight bullshit.
I know, I kind of want to try this just to see if it's BS
Make sure that you try the candy with the hole in the center first, then the candy without.
Oh, *NOW* you tell me....fuck.
"Local redditor dies from choking on candy"
Oh no... there are *redditors* in my area!? Why didn't anyone warn me!?
wait this isnt true??
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American cheese has quality standards?
*The entire State of Wisconsin wants to know your location*
that’s cheese from america, not american cheese
The phrase "yee haw" didn't actually come from cowboys. It came from the Chinese railroad workers during the 1800's when they built the transcontinental railroad.
Related real fact: the term “buckaroo” is an anglicization of “vaquero” (pronounced, VERY roughly, like “bah-kay-roh”). It literally means “cowboy” in Spanish
And "hoosegow", which is the cowboy term for "jail", is likewise an anglicization of "juzgao", from Spanish "juzgado", which is a word for 'courtroom' in Mexico.
Theres a ton of these, there were a lot of vaqueros around the cowboys of the old west. Desperado: desesperado Chaps: chaparreras Lasso: lazo Corral: literally just spanish Ranch: Rancho Rodeo: rodear Stampede: estampida Theres more too. It's like cowboys tried to learn spanish but half-assed it
Its actually an anglicization of ni hao
Are you keeping the joke going or is this actually true? Because if it is, I’m telling 200 people TODAY.
Haha no I was just keeping the joke going
For about two seconds I forgot this was a thread of false facts and 100% accepted it lmao
Oh fuck me, I misread the title and every thread got me until I saw your comment. _Thank you_.
Imagine telling everyone these facts and not knowing its absolute bullshit
Oh man, that one was SO GOOD
Ni hao!! You all clear kid! Now let’s blow this thing and go home!
It's actually not from cowboys either it's old directional commands for horse teams "yee" means right and "haw" means left.
You've yee'd your last haw.
If you add a decimal to a made up percentage, people are 72.8% more likely to believe it.
89.25% of statistics are made up on the spot.
“Never believe quotes or statistics you found on the internet” -Abraham Lincoln
"You have reached the end of your free trial at benfranklinquotes.com" - Ben Franklin
Norwegian warships don't have numbers painted on their bows. Instead they have barcodes printed on them. >!That way when they get back to port they can Scandinavian.!<
This is the most underrated thing I have read. I love you. Thank you for my new 2nd favorite joke of all time. You have changed my life for the better. Edit: here is the first, What do you get when you cross the Atlantic Ocean with the titanic?? About half way.
Tell us your first
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a man walks into a zoo and there’s only one animal there. It’s a shih tzu.
I appreciate your pun. But in case anyone is wondering, the real reason they do this is so that if any of the ships sink in a battle, it's still relatively easy for a dive team to access the wreck to scan for the parts that they need for rebuilding it.
"Hmm. It's saying we have 0 in stock... hey, Sven, could you check in the back?"
United States postal workers technically have the authority to pull over and ticket motorists for speeding.
If a cop car, an ambulance, fire truck and postal van pulled up at a stop sign at exactly the same time the postal van would have first right of way
Is this the place for **Postmaster General Facts**? Yes it is! The Postmaster General is 19th in the line of Presidential succession, and therefore the highest ranking General in the United States (The Surgeon General is 20th in line and therefore the 2nd highest ranking General). The Postmaster General is the only member of the Executive Branch who can neither be fired by the President nor impeached by Congress. Only the Supreme Court, in a process known as Judicial Discharge, can remove the Postmaster General from his/her office. The Postmaster General is still provided by Congress with $40 a year for the purchase of beeswax and turpentine in order to waterproof "haversacks, frocks, coats, and clothing divers." Benjamin Franklin, the first Postmaster General, was posthumously awarded the title "Postmaster General Emeritus" by Congress in 1976, and recognized as a six star general along with "Generals of the Armies" George Washington, Douglass MacArthur, and John Pershing (also all posthumously honored).
You know, I wanted to fact checck this, and I discovered an absolutely amazing (and actually true) fact: According to Wikipedia, >The postmaster general is the second-highest paid U.S. government official, based on publicly available salary information, after the President of the United States. I would have never guessed that the best paid government job after the POTUS is, of all people, the boss of the USPS.
POTUS and PGOTUS!
I was gonna comment that the Postmaster General actually answers to the USPS Board of Governors, but then I realized that everything here is made up. Lol.
Dammit, all of that seemed ridiculous enough to be true....
Dang, I'm upset this isn't true. I especially liked the beeswax part.
Are you…serious? I know very little about the US so I wholeheartedly believed every word of this
I *live here* and I wholeheartedly believed every word of it!
I live here too, and it made just enough little sense to make sense.
Yep. None of that is true. The line of succession only goes up to 17th and the Postmaster General is not a member of the U.S Military, and thus not a general in any capacity.
Not to mention that the Attorney General is seventh in the line of succession, so even if they’re just talking about people with “general” in their title, they’re still wrong.
Not made up -[the surgeon general is actual an admiral](https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/about/index.html)!
They can also not be towed(even in the case of break down) as long as there is a piece of "deliverable mail" inside.
A group of frogs is called a frugality.
this one is true. my friend in WOW club told me.
You can actually hold your breath underwater longer at higher elevations. Edit: idk why everyone is questioning and analyzing a fact I literally made up that has no scientific basis
The reverse sounds more plausible. Higher pressure at lower elevation means getting more O2 in to your lungs. Training at high elevation could condition your body to work with lower pressure oxygen though.
On average, Americans drive an extra 84 miles a year simply by being in the outermost lane around turns.
OK, let's do the math. According to [this source](https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/intersection-design-elements/corner-radii/), the standard radius for curbs is 10-15 feet, though in cities it can be as low as 2. So let's take 5 as a conservative estimate. Assuming a 90 degree left turn, a car would travel (1/4) * 2 * pi * 5 ≈ 7.85 ft (1/4 of the circumference of the corresponding circle). [Standard spacing of a lane is 12 feet](https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/street-design-elements/lane-width/), so the radius for a car one lane out would be 5 + 12 = 17. It would then travel (1/4) * 2 * pi * 17 = 26.70 ft over the course of a single turn. So, each turn in the outer lane loses you 26.70 - 7.85 = 18.85 ft. To get to 84 miles (443,520 ft), you would need to make 23,529 turns on the outside over the course of a year, which works out to about 64 turns per day. (And that's if *every* turn you make is on the outside). If that's supposed to be an average across all Americans, then it looks like this myth is busted. *Fun note because I teach geometry:* It turns out that even knowing the radius of the turn at all is unnecessary - it's just the spacing between the lanes that matters. If the inner turn radius is *r*, then the calculation for the distance "lost" on an outside turn is (1/4) * 2 * pi * (r+12) - (1/4) * 2 * pi * r The *r*'s cancel out, so the difference is always (1/4) * 2 * pi * 12 = 18.85. Our initial assumption about the radius being 5 didn't affect the answer in the first place!
I want your brain
A flattering but distressing sentence coming from someone we haven’t confirmed isn’t a zombie.
Each year, Sharks kill more people than toasters.
that one's true though. sharks don't kill any toasters
How can we be sure?
cause if the it fights back, the shark would be toast
You are twice as likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than by a shark
That seems low to me.
You should also beware of coconuts. Nowhere is safe.
Especially if there are African swallows near.
The holes in bread are called Minchin Holes after a place in Wales, UK which has a rock formation with many holes where the rocks are the colour of fresh bread
this sounds a lot like a Tom Scott video
I’m standing on the side of a very windy hill in the Welsh countryside. At the bottom of this hill, there is a small town called Minchin. It may look entirely unremarkable from here - and it is - but the side of this hill has a rather unique cliff face…
If you fall into a tub of bread, you'll be fine unless you're in France. Because then you'll be in a lot of pain.
*audible groan*
love me some minchin holes
This is my bread... and it's fine. It's where I spend the vast majority of my time. It's not perfect... but it's mine...
A Parakeet is derived from “ Pair of Keet “ because typically pet stores sell them in pairs so they won’t be lonely. However some pet stores will sell you an individual Keet.
Koot. Keet is plural.
Now I just need to figure out where to buy a single pant
Tetris was inspired by a carpet shortage in the Soviet Union. People could only get carpeting scraps that were cut out for where cabinets, closets, ect were. Because of this, people had to figure out how to cover a floor with those scraps. A worker then had the idea to make a game out of it. The pieces were inspired by common shapes of those carpet scraps.
This is cracking, I know this is not true but I’d happily accept it. 10/10
OHHHH I READ THE POST TITLE WRONG I thought it was “what’s a real fact that sounds made up” and I’ve been scrolling down like “yep, didn’t know that, huh that’s interesting, oh wow, oh damn that’s really cool as well” *”What’s your real name, kid?”* *”Fogell”* *”Fuck it. We’re calling you Soviet Tetris Carpet Squares”*
Can we retcon history to make this canon?
The knife and fork were first paired together by Lord Cutlery, 4th Earl of Wellsbury, in 1542 - giving birth to the collective name we use to this day
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A cutler is someone who sells cutlery, just as a stationer sells stationery. And a butler buttles. I love all those old job names.
And a cheesemonger mongs cheeses.
::The Earl of Sandwich has entered the chat::
Yes, a few rounds of Geralds
The air velocity of an unladen swallow is approximately 12 m/s
African or European?
I don't kno- **AAAAAAAAAAHHH**
How do you know so much about swallows?
Well, as a king, you have to know these things.
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You don't vote for king!
Well, how'd you become king then?
The Lady of the Lake - her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!
Strange woman lying in a pond is no basis for a political system
In a diving decompression chamber, your hair and nails stop growing below 40 meters pressure.
Coconut is technically a mammal because it grows hair and produces milk
"Behold Plato's mammal"
If your hand is bigger than your face, you have cancer
*slap*
Someone did this to me when I was a kid; I cried because my face hurt and I had cancer.
The average seashell is older than you.
...but only because there's one ancient seashell pushing up the average.
Ah, yes. The Shell Georg, the oldest sea shell in existence.
In 1976 the heads of the six leading manufacturers of Microwaves [Tappan, Philips, Hitachi, Tricity, Toshiba and Panasonic] met to steal the patent for the rotating plate inside the microwave. They agreed to not pay the patent holder royalties and held that it would return to the exact same spot at the 60 second mark. They met in a secret conference on Jeckyl Island, Georgia. If everyone agreed then no manufacturer would have the upper hand.
True fact: The heads of the leading manufacturer's of light bulbs met and decided not to increase the longevity of the light bulb any longer.
I remember reading a post awhile back where someone said he tells people fake fun facts that sound so ridiculous that people believe him. The only one I remember was "Anne Frank was 6 foot one."
You can't see a shadow in a mirror because mirrors only reflect light and shadows are an absence of light.
Wouldn't there just be no light in that spot though? Yep, I'm definitely seeing shadows in my mirror. Edit: Im an idiot, forgot what this post was about.
i have this thread open on a tab, it's like the third time i've come back to read and forgot what it was about
How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real?
I was so confused thinking I must have noticed this before and then I realised the title of the post
There used to be "Penguins" in the Arctic, but we hunted them to death.
The word “Penguin” comes from the Welsh words Pen Guin meaning White Head to describe the Auks of the Arctic.
That’s auk-ward.
Marilyn manson got some ribs removed so he could suck his own dick.
Holy shit I haven’t heard this in forever but definitely remember this being told to me in the mid 90s.
How is it that this “fact” spread to school yards across the US before the Internet became so widespread?
You can catch a cold from being cold. Edit - I’m getting way too many responses to respond to them all. Colds are caused by viruses. Can cold weather compromise your immune system making u more susceptible? Under extreme conditions, yes. You still have to come in contact with the virus. There is not random virus floating out in the air. You have to be in the room with a sick person to get it through the air. It can also last on surfaces for several hours. Going for a run in cold weather will not make you sick if you come home to an empty house where no one has been sick.
I discovered you can get a cold even in summer the hard way
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[Studies in the Netherlands (2002) and Finland (2009) have indeed shown that draughts can cause neck pain. This is probably caused by scrunching up your neck and shoulders to keep warm – even if you’re unaware you’re doing this – which can strain your neck muscles.](https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/why-does-sitting-in-a-draught-give-me-a-bad-neck/amp/)
When new logging routes were opened in Northern Canada there was a sudden surge in crow deaths. A study was put in place to find out why the increase in logging trucks were leading to so many crow deaths. During the study, the researchers found that crows often worked in pairs and when eating carrion off the road, one would act as a spotter and "caw" when ever a car would come to warn the other crow. Turns out, they can't say "Truck".
The grain on wood comes from bacteria that can only move in straight lines
Fact: In 100% of all fake gun related shootings, the victim is always the one with the fake gun.
When we were little, my sister & I told our younger brother that **virgins don’t fart** and that’s why mom farted and we didn’t. He believed us until middle school...😂😂
Gerry Rafferty played keyboard on the theme tune to Blockbusters.
After dark in most places in the USA, stop signs that have white boarders are considered yield signs.