Fun Facts

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For instance, do you know what a Chelsea Grin is? It's where the victim gets his/her cheeks sliced open in the form of a smile or grin. Once the body repairs itself the scarring makes it look like the victim is smiling or grinning. The scarring can be made worse by inflicting pain on the victim and forcing them to scream - open the wound more. It originated in Chelsea, London amongst street gangs. Due to the location of origin and the grinning, smiling, or smirking look the scars are formed in, it was aptly named a Chelsea Grin, Chelsea Smile, or Chelsea Smirk.

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[Grathius22]

Einstein actually did get perfect grades in math when he was young, and it was just a rumor started in a newspaper comic that he didn't.

[Vito_Lucente]

The only bird that can fly backwards is the hummingbird.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

Toupees for dogs are sold in Tokyo

Loud, fast music makes termites chew faster.

Bats always exit a cave to the left.

Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

Watermelons are grown square in Japan.

A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100 of a second.

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

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

In Finland, Cinderella is known as "Tuna"

[Ryans Rapture]

Dental floss has superb tensile strength.

The square root of rope is string.

While the submarine is vastly superior to the boat in every way, over 97% of people still use boats for aquatic transportation.

Cellular phones will not give you cancer. Only hepatitis.

Pants were invented by sailors in the sixteenth century to avoid Poseidon’s wrath. It was believed that the sight of naked sailors angered the sea god.

The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four.

89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

In Greek myth, the craftsman Daedalus invented human flight so a group of Minotaurs would stop teasing him about it.

Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.

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You don't "use only 10% of your brain."
That's transhumanist nonsense.
You only use 10% of your brain at a time. Yes, you can use more. It's called a seizure.


Also, velcro is the only substance known to humans that has a greater friction force than normal force.

[Vito_Lucente]

At some point in their lives, 9 in 10 children will be kidnapped by the Dutch.

I love the fact core.

[Grathius22]

Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

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Dental floss has superb tensile strength.

The square root of rope is string.

While the submarine is vastly superior to the boat in every way, over 97% of people still use boats for aquatic transportation.

Cellular phones will not give you cancer. Only hepatitis.

Pants were invented by sailors in the sixteenth century to avoid Poseidon’s wrath. It was believed that the sight of naked sailors angered the sea god.

The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four.

89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

In Greek myth, the craftsman Daedalus invented human flight so a group of Minotaurs would stop teasing him about it.

Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.

At some point in their lives, 9 in 10 children will be kidnapped by the Dutch.

I love the fact core.

That's a fat load of BS, though I suppose if some find it entertaining it can be called "fun."

[Atlas-]

That's a fat load of BS, though I suppose if some find it entertaining it can be called "fun."

^^But not a fact

1 in 20 children in england think that Adolf Hitler coached germanys football team

1 in 10 think that D-Day is day spelt wrong

There are as many admrils in the English navy as ships

The electron is the roundest molocule which means I can now do this joke:
An Electron and a proton walked into a bar
"Your round" said the Proton
"You sure" replied the electron
"I'm positive" said the proton

Ah physics banter.

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Yes, I acknowledged it wasn't a fact.

In the US, perhaps not in Britain, BS is an abbreviation for bull, uh, stool. It is used to describe lies.

[Atlas-]

Yes, I acknowledged it wasn't a fact.

In the US, perhaps not in Britain, BS is an abbreviation for bull, uh, stool. It is used to describe lies.

Really? in england it stands for Bolshevik sight.

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Really? in england it stands for Bolshevik sight.

Were you being sarcastic? I figured you didn't understand my comment, sorry if I seemed condescending.

[Vito_Lucente]

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.


William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded in 1589 by Francis Bacon, who used a Ouija board to enslave play-writing ghosts.

Diamonds are made when coal is put under intense pressure. Diamonds put under intense pressure become foam pellets, commonly used today as packing material.

Halley's Comet can be viewed orbiting Earth every seventy-six years. For the other seventy-five, it retreats to the heart of the sun, where it hibernates undisturbed.


In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning.


According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig.


Before the invention of scrambled eggs in 1912, the typical breakfast was either whole eggs still in the shell or scrambled rocks.

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Yeah, let's just make stuff up. Because we're all twelve-year-olds that love Uncyclopedia, right?
Vito, made up crap and distorted crap is neither factual nor fun.


How about this:
Sales of pornography spike around the Christmas season.

[Atlas-]

In England it is still possible for policemen to pull over taxi drivers for having insufficent amounts of hay fo the horses.

A law introduced in 1307 ensures that the head of any dead whale found on the British coast becomes the property of the king and the tail belongs to the queen - should she need the bones for her corset.

All English Men over 14 are meant to carry out 2 hours of longbow practice each weekand supervised by the local clergy

It is still illegal for cab drivers to carry rabid dogs or indeed corpses and by law they must ask each and every passenger if they have small pox or 'The Plague'.

[Vito_Lucente]

Yeah, let's just make stuff up. Because we're all twelve-year-olds that love Uncyclopedia, right?
Vito, made up crap and distorted crap is neither factual nor fun.


How about this:
Sales of pornography spike around the Christmas season.

You haven't played Portal 2 have you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVMreo1wbEE

[headkase]

Moving this thread to "Forum Games." Will leave a re-direct, and, would like to remind everyone that PG-13 is the norm for this forum. So, please keep within that! Thanks!

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You haven't played Portal 2 have you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVMreo1wbEE

Oh, so this is a Portal 2 thread? The OP forgot to specify...

And headkase, I don't see this as a game. Apparently, Vito Lucente does, but I am more interested in posting true but interesting bits of information.

[headkase]

Oh, so this is a Portal 2 thread? The OP forgot to specify...

And headkase, I don't see this as a game. Apparently, Vito Lucente does, but I am more interested in posting true but interesting bits of information.

There was discussion and "Forum Games" was the most suitable candidate for this thread to be. It's not likely to change but I will drop an additional note on that. So, unless something changes on the "moderation" end of things: this sub-forum is likely to be where this thread stays.

[Vito_Lucente]

Oh, so this is a Portal 2 thread? The OP forgot to specify...

And headkase, I don't see this as a game. Apparently, Vito Lucente does, but I am more interested in posting true but interesting bits of information.

Wow, you really don't like to have fun, do you?

Anyways, since some people don't like to laugh or have any sense of humor whatsoever,

The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.

EDIT: And I have, contrary to your belief, posted "True but interesting bits of information". Just look at my first post.

[Ryans Rapture]

Lol! I started it as a joke posting "Fact Core" facts. Didnt expect anyone to take it seriously...

Anyway, Houdini was actually a claustrophobic. Which only made his feats more courageous.

Happy?

[Vito_Lucente]

Lol! I started it as a joke posting "Fact Core" facts. Didnt expect anyone to take it seriously...

Anyway, Houdini was actually a claustrophobic. Which only made his feats more courageous.

Happy?

I know, I don't see how anyone took it seriously...

Steven Spielberg is afraid of the dark.

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H-E-B was awarded for being the #1 retailer in all of America last year

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It has been known that recently many people submit their job resumes in internet slang. When 26 year old Ferris Unore was approached, he responded,

"lol idk wth is rong wit dese dudez wit they're bissnes soots rofl dey r not l337."


During a music award, Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift. He apperantly has not learned, because he did the same at a presidential speech.

Ice Cream has been identified as the most deppresing food in the entire world.


The cake is most certainly NOT a lie

At a launch party for Call of Duty: Black Ops in Dallas, Texas, exactly one person claimed he was getting the game for the Single Player experience, at which point he was laughed at and given an atomic wedgie.

Bioshock is very underrated.

So is Bioshock 2

And LA Noire

Today's music about rhyming about women and illegal activities/objects are more popular than music from 1900-1959 that actually has taste.

Hollywood keeps remaking old movies or making sequel. The last movie to be purely original that eaarned the most is Jams Cameron's 'Avatar', which remains the highest grossing film of all time.


More to come

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Hollywood keeps remaking old movies or making sequel. The last movie to be purely original that eaarned the most is Jams Cameron's 'Avatar', which remains the highest grossing film of all time.

Somebody has never seen pocahontas

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Somebody has never seen pocahontas

Live action movies, X1 XD

[Invader]

Both sides are cool on Chuck Norris's pillow.

Most Americans don't speak Zulu.

9 out of 10 children from ages 0-7 in the US are unemployed.

[Atlas-]

Both sides are cool on Chuck Norris's pillow.

Most Americans don't speak Zulu.

9 out of 10 children from ages 0-7 in the US are unemployed.

1/10 children aged 0-17 are employed? thats amazing, and illegal.

[Invader]

1/10 children aged 0-17 are employed? thats amazing, and illegal.

I said 7, not 17. And yes, it's amazing AND illegal!

[Atlas-]

I said 7, not 17. And yes, it's amazing AND illegal!

My bad I meant 7.

Redheaded women have more sex than any other hair colour.

[cravens]

Hitler only had 1 testy! lol.
Hitler was 1/18 North Afercian

[Invader]

Fact: America won the Civil War

[Grathius22]

Hitler only had 1 testy! lol.
Hitler was 1/18 North Afercian

Fact: That is actually a rumor created around World War II by American soldiers which has persisted through the ages.

[Invader]

Fact (a real one this time): Vietnam was part of the Cold War. From what I've seen, not a lot of people know that.

[Seasick]

Lucy Ball was the only celebrity to have their career survive after being red listed.

Barrack Obama may be the first Black President, but he is not the first Black Presidential Canidate.

Christopher Columbus did not discover America. A man named Lief Erikkson did.

World War II was the bloodiest war in history.

The first home video game console was called the Odyssey.

It is actually possible to build an underwater city (with tons of presurized glass)

Splicer models were based off of real people part of 'Project Facade', who were injured in battle during WW1, so their faces had to be surgically altered.

There is a scream known as the 'Wilhem Scream' that can be heard in all of the Indiana Jones and Star Wars movies, along with many Westerns. It is still used in movies and even games today.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn6hh...eature=related <- the scream

The first Soap Opera was called Payton Place.

The movie Bonnie & Clyde was the movie that forced the R rating to be created.

Family Guy's Mila Kunis at one point played World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft is the most popular Pay to Play MMORPG.

More to come soon, if I can think of some

[Invader]

"Der Riese" (translated: The Giant) from Call of Duty is based on a real Nazi research program.

Even though the communist Soviet Union is long gone, U.S. relations with Russia are still quite bad.

During the "Berlin Airlift", several pilots started a small project dubbed "Operation Little Vittles" to provide candy for the Berlin children in the American parts of the city.

Communism was created nearly two hundred years ago by Karl Marx in the early 1800's, but it wasn't until 1919 that communism was truly put to practice.

The first "zombies" were actually just voodoo tricks which made it seem as if you were raising a man from the dead, when in reality the "zombie" was just drugged to seem dead.

[Atlas-]

World of Warcraft has the highest body count of any game series.

[BloodnGlory]

Richard Nixon is NOT A CROOK!!!!!! *Or at least in his mind...*

[Incinerator]

Yeah, Der Riese is based off Die Glocke or, The Bell. Apparently, it could teleport you, be used as mind control and could create a zero gravity field.

[BloodnGlory]

Der Rise is a military compound that was used to mine escape tunnels and was also used as a factory and a scientist lab for nazi ideas, *not such as that but more as physical atrobutions." But it wasent compleated in time, and was only 20% done by the end of the war. It was used in COD but altered for the story...