Fun Facts

[Dman979]

The code for the forums' background is #FAFAFA.

So, if you want to be sneaky, post like this.

I'm the invisible man!

[livefree75]

suuuuuuuuuure.

Fun Fact: You wouldn't be able to play conventional sports in a rotating-artificial-gravity space station. The ball would just do loops whenever you threw it.

[windows_x_seven]

Interesting.

Fun Fact: Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest, did so accidentally while chasing a bird.

[Dman979]

mmkay.

The Republican Party has not won a presidential election without a a Bush or Nixon on the ticket since 1928. Not political, just a fun fact.

[Astrofox]

Statistics say that people hate statistics.

[Red Iron Crown]

People say statistics hate people.

[ChrisSpace]

Umm... sure...

Fun fact: 20% of people claim to have food allergies. Only 2% actually do.

[SemiaCloud]

In Las Vegas it is illegal to rob a bank with a bulletproof vest on.

[Ethanadams]

fun fact the "one does not simply walk into mortor" meme uses the wrong picture.

the picture that use is when he is describing the eye. hence the hand in a circle

[windows_x_seven]

Fact:

The Schrodinger's cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrodinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats

[ChrisSpace]

Oh. Did he really?

Fact: The average American is 8 times more likely to be killed by an armed police officer than by a terrorist.

[windows_x_seven]

Seems legit.

Fact: It is incorrectly noted that Thomas Edison invented 'push-ups' in 1878. Nikolai Tesla had in fact patented the activity three years earlier, under the name 'Tesla-cize'.

[Dman979]

Wait, isn't this supposed to be real facts?

[Astrofox]

yes, it is.

Did You Know that I am creating a modular planet pack with others?

No? Well, I shamelessly advertised.

Anyway, the real fact is...

We know more about the Moon and Mars than we do the bottom of our ocean (not "oceans": We have ocean BASINS, not multiple oceans).

[windows_x_seven]

I knew that. Quite interesting.

Fact: Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath.

(BTW, about true facts: all of my facts were real

[Ethanadams]

i knew that

fun fact im awesome

actually fun fact countries with nukes create a paradox. this paradox causes them to be more aggressive to other countries but it makes them less likely to attack other countries because they dont want nuclear war.

[windows_x_seven]

The first fact is not true; the second one is interesting.

Fun Fact: In Victorian England, a commoner was not allowed to look directly at the Queen, due to a belief at the time that the poor had the ability to steal thoughts. Science now believes that less than 4% of poor people are able to do this.

[CelticCossack51]

I wonder why the poor were not accused of being spies for France if people believed the poor had this power.

Fun Fact! If the universe was not perfect, we would not exist.

[Ethanadams]

not true people are not perfect therefore the universe is not perfect

fun fact im not online right now

[kenbobo]

I see that.

Fun Fact- Cashews come from a fruit.

[Dman979]

Yep.

Fun fact: Cashews are in the same family as Poison Ivy, which I have right now.

[kenbobo]

Fun Fact- Steve Jobs didn't make the Apple/Macintosh line- most of the work was made by Steve Wozniak.

[ChrisSpace]

I probably should have known that...

Fact: Blue eyes only evolved in humans about 5000 years ago

[T-Bouw]

Hmm...I wanted to post something about blonde hair being extinct in a few decades, but that turned out to be a myth.

(fun) fact: A Human has more harmful bacteria in his/her mouth than a dog.

Edited June 4, 2015 by T-Bouw

[LN400]

That's correct and the reason why you shouldn't bite a dog. It might be lethal.

Fun fact: In Indiana, the legislators were at one point one step away from deciding that pi = 3.2 by law.