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Hundreds Of Amazing Facts – Super List
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off – it dies from starvation!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there, though!
A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador’s waving cape no matter what color it is — be it red or neon yellow!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed… or is that paws?!
Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
Porcupines float in water!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’!
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie.
142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A rhinoceros’ horn is made of compacted hair.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background — when they say “walla-walla” it looks like they are actually talking.
A whale’s penis is called a dork.
According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came — head to toe.
Albert Brooks’s real name is Albert Einstein.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Barbie’s full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Bela Lugosi died during the filming of “PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE”. Director Edward D. Wood Jr. used a taller relative who held a cape in front of his face so the audience wouldn’t know the difference so he could complete filming.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Bob May played the Robot on “Lost In Space” (1965-68) and Dick Tufeld was the voice.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don’t seem to have this problem.
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on “Scooby-Doo.”
Cat urine glows under a black light.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie’s Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Josie in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon “Josie and the Pussycats.”
Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
Chrysler built B-29′s that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down — hence the statement “to get fired.”
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
Crickets hear through their knees.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame created the statement for ignominy, “His name is Mudd.”
Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
During the chariot scene in ‘Ben Hur’ a small red car can be seen in the distance.
During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany ‘in case the little bastard wins’.
Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
Evian (the bottled water) spelled backwards is “naive.”
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Former US President Ulysses S. Grant had the boyhood nickname ‘Useless’.
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper’s real name on Gilligan’s Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on the radio newscast about the wreck. The Professor’s real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann’s last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell’s maiden name was Wentworth.
Halloween took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates.
Hara kiri is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word “seppuku” which means, literally, “belly splitting.”
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
Hummingbirds can’t walk.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
If the population of the Earth continued to increase at its present rate indefinitely, by 3530 A.D. the total mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the Earth. By 6826 A.D. it would equal the mass of the known universe.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don’t, you can’t see it.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result!
If you pause “Saturday Night Fever” at the “How Deep Is Your Love” rehearsal scene, you will see the camera crew reflected in the dance hall mirror.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an ‘ugly’ potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam.” Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.” Captain Kirk never said “Beam me up, Scotty,” but he did say, “Beam me up, Mr. Scott.”
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it’s smiling.)
In the 40′s, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it ‘Bitch.’
In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
In the film ‘Star Trek : First Contact’, when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
It’s rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original “PREDATOR” in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.
John Larroquette of “Night Court” and “The John Larroquette Show” was the narrator of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll”, was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from “Rocky & Bullwinkle”.
Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill ‘if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee’. His reply ‘ if you were my wife, I would drink it!’
Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith’s (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
Look at the number four on a clock face that uses Roman numerals. If the clock is made correctly then the Roman numeral four is wrong. The standard and correct way to write the Roman numeral four is “IV,” but the traditional way to show it on a clock face is “IIII.” Legend has it that a clock was made for a British king. When he saw the clock he mis- informedly corrected the clock maker who re-did the clock face to show a “IIII” instead of an “IV” thus not risking offending the king. Other clock makers followed suit so as not to embarrass the king. Now it is the traditional way to make clocks.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of “Lorne Greene’s Wild Kingdom.”
Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, “You boys ain’t never gonna amount to nothin’.”
Melanie Griffith’s mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.
Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of F.
Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins, which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as ‘supercooling.’ If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson’s fictional ship was the Titan.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1″ encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence.
Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eyes.”
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Polar bear fur is not white, it’s clear.
Race car is a palindrome.
Ralph Lauren’s original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
Revolvers cannot be silenced, due to all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Rhythm and “syzygy” are the longest English words without vowels.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
Roosters can’t crow if they can’t fully extend their necks.
Russians generally answer the phone by saying, ‘I’m listening.’
S.O.S. doesn’t stand for “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls” — It was chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.
Samuel Clemens’s pseudonym “Mark Twain” was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilty later and adopted the nom de plume as some sort of expiation. The phrase “mark twain” from which the river pilot got his name does not mean two fathoms (twelve feet.)
Sharon Stone was the first “Star Search” spokes model.
Smithee is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don’t want their names to appear in the credits.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
Soda water does not contain soda.
Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
Spain literally means ‘the land of rabbits.’
Speak of the Devil is short for “Speak of the Devil and he shall come”. It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention and he would appear.
St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy around their necks.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
The “Grinch” singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average scalp has 100,000 hairs. Redheads have the least at 80,000; brown and black haired persons have about 100,000; and blondes have the most at 120,000. (That is more than a thousand hairs in each square inch!)
The band “Duran Duran” got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie “Barbarella.”
The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.
The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler’s Supreme Order of the German Eagle.
The childrens’ nursery rhyme ‘Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies’ actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.
The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ depicts two women living under one roof’.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, “Top of the morning to you,” is “and the rest of the day to yourself.”
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson’s day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter (“shin,” pronounced “sheen”) of the word “shalom.” As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to “Star Trek” lore.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original “STAR TREK” episode entitled “Plato’s Stepchildren”. The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
The first safety razor was not actually invented by King Gillette himself but by a man named William Nickerson who was Kings partner. They believed that the label bearing Nickersons name would be bad for business, plus it was Kings idea anyway.
The first time the word “hell” was spoken on TV was in an original “STAR TREK” episode entitled “City on the Edge of Forever”. The exact quote was “…let’s get the hell out of here…”, spoken by William Shatner.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver”.
The ‘Hundred Years War’ lasted 116 years.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for “My Sharona,” and Jack Kevorkian’s lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called ‘mantles’) are radioactive–so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.
The magic word “Abracadabra” was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”
The name of the Vulcan’s heaven is Sha Ka Ree, this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for the part of Sarek, Spock’s father.
The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”
The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence – he invented dynamite.
The numbers ’172′ can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
The original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.
The phrase ‘ The 3 R’s ‘ ( standing for ‘reading, writing and arithmetic’ ) was created by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.
The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
The ‘Screwdriver’ was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is ‘Live Free or Die’. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
The spaceship ‘Valley Forge’ from “Silent Running” (1971) actually got it’s name from the location used to film some of its interiors; a decommissioned aircraft carrier named the U.S.S. Valley Forge.
The term “devil’s advocate” comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil’s advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
The term “Mayday” is used for signaling for help. It comes from the French term “M’aidez” which is pronounced “MayDay” and means, “Help Me.”
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it’s country of origin.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.
There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
There are only three cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
There is a town in Texas called ‘Ding Dong.’
There is about 200 times more gold in the world’s oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi’s noses off would forestall curses.
Turkey’s often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first video ever played on MTV.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
Walt Disney’s autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
When opossums are playing opossum, they are not “playing.” They actually pass out from sheer terror.
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
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Jenn said
June 14, 2006 @ 2:36 am
Sleeping Beauty also had both parents alive and present through the whole film
cool said
June 14, 2006 @ 4:03 am
That was really interesting
Paul said
June 14, 2006 @ 4:18 am
Just a reminder, lads. F. Scott Fitzgerald said that putting an exclamation point after a comment is like laughing at your own joke.
Dee Dee said
June 14, 2006 @ 4:27 am
The “fact” about Susan Lucci is FALSE. See snopes.com
jeff said
June 14, 2006 @ 5:02 am
i noticed you used cats pee glows under black light twice and
a jiffy is 1/100 of a second twice also
Hide said
June 14, 2006 @ 5:27 am
Wow, I am full of useless info, can’t wait till my nightime minutes kick in….
omg said
June 14, 2006 @ 5:31 am
a bull is color blind… i never knew that
Jamie said
June 14, 2006 @ 6:16 am
Hitler had one testicle? No wonder he was pissed off.
Firefly said
June 14, 2006 @ 6:40 am
Of course ducks’ quacks echo. This list, it LIES. =o
hmm said
June 14, 2006 @ 6:43 am
lol wtf, horay for useless infomation
Deeo said
June 14, 2006 @ 8:38 am
A lot of the “facts” along the list are just a bunch of false statements, no one has tried verifying this things!!!
Haha said
June 14, 2006 @ 9:14 am
Firefly… you are very wrong. Do you never watch Mythbusters? A duck never quacks.
Annick said
June 14, 2006 @ 9:42 am
One more fact about the turkey, in French we call it a “dinde” which is a bastardised form of “poulet d’inde” or Indian chicken.
Sardonac said
June 14, 2006 @ 10:53 am
The last one about paved roads is wrong. The first paved roads were built by the romans a full 2000 years before “m-1″. The sarcofigi one is wrong, they were atheists. Cleopatra had a beard on the MAJORITY of the time because all pharoahs had beards up till that point and to break tradition was sacrilidge. There are clocks in los vagas casinos, in the managers office. There is no city in antarctica, “city: not a village or hamlet” Dragonfly’s can live up to 14 days, I should know, forth grade project
Crocodiles use stones to digest, and they are pebbles, it is also believed that it can help them “remain” on the bottem of a riverbed. Boat lag does not actualy exist, rotation of the earth is apx. 165 kph, I think, and boats (before planes) can not go that fast. the 300 “bones” you are born with are mostly compacted cartalidge, not actually bone mass. 1/170000 bird to window collisions result in death, it is the fall that kills them. The penis/person ratio is wrong, we all know its chuck norris. I have to lil time to disprove the rest. Good try though.
Brass Monkey said
June 14, 2006 @ 10:53 am
dam i read that wholllllle thing, pretty sweet stuff tho i learned a lot
God said
June 14, 2006 @ 11:27 am
this is clearly not a well thought out list. there are a few “facts” that repeat themselves. most of these are unverified and some are plain wrong. Alligators do not swallow rocks to dive deeper; they swallow rocks to help digest their food because they can’t chew. i suggest you don’t trust everything you hear.
JDawg said
June 14, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
Wow…I shold probably kill myslef for being bored enough to read this entire list…
brad said
June 14, 2006 @ 12:15 pm
Lady and the Tramp had both parents
Scott said
June 14, 2006 @ 12:55 pm
Man, Montpelier Vermont must suck without a McDonalds! Oh, yeah, and I guess the writer of this list didn’t proofread very well, since some of the items repeat themselves!
esslaee said
June 14, 2006 @ 1:46 pm
Sardonac, learn to spell first, then try to disprove the statements made.
Tman said
June 14, 2006 @ 2:00 pm
The reason that “all” bubbles in Guinness float down can be explained using simple fluid mechanics. The bubbles close to the sides of the glass can not travel upwards as easily as the bubbles near the middle of the glass because of a great deal of friction caused by the glass. The action of all the bubbles not close to the glass moving upwards causes the fluids (liquid and gas) near the edge to be pushed down.
There are in fact more bubbles floating up than down and most people are just too ignorant to look for them. This happens in all drinks with bubbles such as beer and pop but it is especially noticable in dark stouts.
Alex said
June 14, 2006 @ 2:01 pm
actually about the roman numerals on the clock…. if you read the wikipedia article on roman numerals you can see clearly that it made more sense to cast IIII for four rather than IV and that both designations are common throughout latin text, sometimes both appearing in the same text
I Live in Montpelier said
June 14, 2006 @ 2:03 pm
it does, but not because it doesn’t have a mcdonalds
Erin said
June 14, 2006 @ 3:42 pm
interesting… who cares if they’re all correct… come up with a better list and then try to be snotty sardonac… grow up and just realize that some entertainment is just for entertainment’s sake… gracias firefly for the 10 minutes of entertainment, gracias
DarthMauled said
June 14, 2006 @ 4:15 pm
ok… For “HAHA”,
No you are wrong, ducks do echo no matter what mithbusters said, dont you ever watch braniacs? lol, in this they did a much simpler test which worked surprisingly well, they got a duck, and a long hallway in a subway station the hall was empty and they waited for a quack, you could easly hear at least 3 echoes per quack so then quacks DO echo!
dude said
June 14, 2006 @ 5:18 pm
damn crazy information ae … lokura memo ae oohhohohohohohHHHHHH how interesting im going to the moOn
bill said
June 14, 2006 @ 5:49 pm
The car on a $10 is not a Huptmobile. The Govt. doesn`t print any product affiliations on their currency. Check snopes,com
JaggerVenting said
June 14, 2006 @ 5:51 pm
“interesting… who cares if they’re all correct… come up with a better list and then try to be snotty sardonac… grow up and just realize that some entertainment is just for entertainment’s sake… gracias firefly for the 10 minutes of entertainment, gracias”
Or you could grow up and realize that most people don’t care about old wives’ tales, especially once they’re disproven. A lot of this stuff isn’t even amazing even if it is fact. “Oh wow this is so interesting who could have known that months starting on sundays would always have friday the 13ths?” A couple of the “facts” aren’t even facts, they’re opinions! A couple throw in “Nobody knows why…” just assuming because everyone they’ve asked haven’t been able to give them an answer?
Did you know Batman was originally named because his father was a batboy for the New York Yankees? The creators of the comics told someone that told a guy that told me this, so it’s obviously legitimate! It makes so much sense that it couldn’t have anything to do with the animals at all! I obviously know more about the intentions of the writers than you do, because I heard it from a fifth party!
On the other hand, though, I suppose I shouldn’t be mocking the idea of making up ridiculous interpretations. Who doesn’t love to start hilariously ludicrous rumors about people nobody know?
Vegan_Eater said
June 14, 2006 @ 7:02 pm
You know you repeated 3 different facts?
Dias said
June 14, 2006 @ 7:31 pm
OMG! I have a maths exam tomorow! WHY DID I READ THIS?
Elder Greene said
June 14, 2006 @ 8:34 pm
Jack Webb of “Dragnet” never said “Just the facts ma’am”
Tman said
June 14, 2006 @ 8:54 pm
Haha are you stupid? It seems you watch mythbusters but don’t even care to pay attention to what they say on it. The quacks of ducks do echo. DarthMauled is bang on, if you don’t beleive it then get yourself a freakin duck and a hallway.
aj said
June 14, 2006 @ 9:53 pm
the thing about duck’s quacks not echoing is FALSE. so is the think about turkeys drowning.
I love forum fights said
June 14, 2006 @ 10:01 pm
Dance mokeys Dance!!! I love reading these arguments
Sean said
June 14, 2006 @ 10:26 pm
yo. i thought most of these facts were pretty interesting. so what if a couple of them arnt true. theres plenty more that are true. I mean seriously, i highly doubt that this was meant to actually be 100% scientifly proven correct. Who would waste there time typing a comment to tell you that your repeated a couple of them. there are a whole lotta facts in here so what if 3 are repeated
Magickzombie said
June 14, 2006 @ 10:37 pm
I’m gonna feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer someday ^_^
Daragh Kinch said
June 14, 2006 @ 11:08 pm
I love this useless trivia. Very cool about 4 on the clock, but as a lot other people said, a few were wrong, I saw a TV show where they proved a duck’s quak echoes. Here’s one for you, did you know that all spiral staircases in castles go up clockwise so it was easy to defend from above as all worriors held weapons in their right hand.
Nice one, good stuff.
Peter said
June 14, 2006 @ 11:48 pm
Here is one fact you did not put, at least one true fact. That your intire list is in alphabitical order.
NOW YOU KNOW!!!!!!!!!! =Þ
bob said
June 15, 2006 @ 12:37 am
Windmills in Ireland turn counter clockwise if you look at them from the back!
Catman said
June 15, 2006 @ 12:49 am
Ducks’ quacks may echo, but they don’t mean to, it confuses them.
jim said
June 15, 2006 @ 2:29 am
Reading this was so addicting… I wanted to stop but i just cant and wasted 40 minutes of my life… o well
Darkside said
June 15, 2006 @ 3:15 am
I can’t believe I read every one of those
david said
June 15, 2006 @ 7:08 am
you know i read in a snapple fact
that
men blink twice as more than women…
so which ones right?
I M A DUCK HEAR ME QUACK said
June 15, 2006 @ 7:21 am
I M DUCK HEAR ME QUACK…………
o wow there really is no echo
holycow said
June 15, 2006 @ 11:30 am
I heard that this dude named mickey was the raddest fucking dude alive. -Guiness Book of World Records
Cob said
June 15, 2006 @ 12:17 pm
Didnt Matrix have “Matrix Reloaded” and “Matrix Revolutions” in the same year?? Revolutions is sequal to Reloaded…. so its not only “King Kong” that had a sequal in the same year!
Some pissed off guy said
June 15, 2006 @ 12:58 pm
You know what?
You are all assholes!
About 99.9 percent of this is true! There are only 3 facts that arent true, duck quacks DO NOT ECHO. But how do you know snopes.com is not lieing? how do you know this site is lieing? I cant belive you are spitting in the face of this person you dont even know for making something you dont agree with! You all are probably 40 year old living in your parents house.
I cant belive how rude you are.
From:
Franz Dyer
P.S
Suck it bitches
buuh said
June 15, 2006 @ 4:15 pm
i like how some pissed off guy tells everyone else not to spit in the face of the person who wrote this because they don’t know him/her, but does he know everyone that left a comment. No dude, its cool. Everything’s alright with me be cause i have a big penis.
x said
June 15, 2006 @ 6:35 pm
Maybe they shouldnt have titled this using the word “Facts”
sven said
June 15, 2006 @ 11:33 pm
hahaha… thats funny buuh. “everythings alrite with me because i have a big penis.” that acually made me “lol”. =P
dark1 said
June 16, 2006 @ 12:16 am
hey some pissed off guy why dont u stop being an ass ur self and let people have a little fun!
. .
^ ^
Josh said
June 16, 2006 @ 1:27 am
Walt Disney didn’t name Mickey after Mickey Rooney. Walt Disney originally wanted to name the mouse Mortimer but his wife said that “Mortimer is no fun why don’t you call him Mickey.” Nothing to do with Mickey Rooney
i don't care said
June 16, 2006 @ 5:45 am
Facts are interesting. Who cares if a few are myth. I know that I read this list and enjoyed it and I’m not dedicating large or even small amounts of my time searching the internet in hopes of proving\disproving these. Compile a better list of 100% scientific fact if you think you can do better.
Heather said
June 16, 2006 @ 6:03 am
I’m from Alberta Canada and we indeed have been Rat free since 1905, but it costs money to pay tons of people to sit at the 4 borders of the province and kill any rats that run by. Thats why our taxes are so high.
I hope no one believes what i just said:) we are rat free, but we don’t have people sitting at the border.
P-Mo said
June 16, 2006 @ 8:03 am
You guys all suck (except for the chick from Alberta), why do you argue, really, I think that they shouldn’t put unverified facts, such as the duck one, on this site, but I also think that it was quite an enlightening experience. Oh and did you know that 99% of people who claim to have a big penis (buuh) are actually compensating for an unusually small one?
-think about it
Mathieu said
June 16, 2006 @ 8:54 am
Maine, ME; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY
and
Quebec, Quebec (Canada)
Emit Remmus said
June 16, 2006 @ 10:18 am
It says “Hundreds Of Amazing Facts – Super List” yet one of them is a rumor. It should be called “Hundreds Of Amazing Facts(and one rumor) – Super List”
tom said
June 16, 2006 @ 11:37 am
the walla scene fact is incorect. When extras pantomime on set, their dialog is replaced during foley sessions in audio post production. In such sessions an old trick to provide these backgrond extras’ dialog was to get several people in the foley recording room to repeat the word “walla” over and over. The combined murmur made for a low ambience of people chatting.
cole said
June 16, 2006 @ 1:47 pm
most of this is stupid the hitler nut thing wcame from from a brit marching song that went as Hitler has only got one ball,
Goering has two, but very small;
Himmler is very sim’lar,
And Goebbels has no balls at all.
most of the other stuff is bullcrap too
but it was pretty funny to read
adrian said
June 16, 2006 @ 3:16 pm
wasnt THE MATRIX 2 and 3 released the same year? King kong wasnt the only film released with the sequal the same year.
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June 16, 2006 @ 3:53 pm
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eep said
June 16, 2006 @ 4:13 pm
ducks quacks do echo, they just sound exactly the same.
and if your not counting the original releases, the re-releases of the original trilogy all came out within one month of each other.
aso, if your going by a time year instead of a calander year, you could say that the three lord of the ring movies all came out within one year of the one preceeding it.
eep said
June 16, 2006 @ 4:14 pm
and by original trilogy, i mean star wars. forgot to add that in.
Jim said
June 16, 2006 @ 4:53 pm
This is just a question to the people who saw the duck quack thing on TV. Are you sure that the duck’s quack actually echoed and didn’t reverberate? An echo and a reverberation are 2 different things, in a reverbation, the sounds overlap eachother. In an echo however, the sound(s) are actually spaced out. I have a feeling that a duck’s quack is strong enough to reverberate, but either isn’t strong enough, or isn’t on the right frequency to truly echo, since you need a large open space for an echo to happen.
Just throwing my 2 cents out there, feel free to dispute it all you want
Heather said
June 17, 2006 @ 2:11 am
Are people really this upset over whether or not a duck’s quack echo’s? let it go, there are bigger worries in life.
Liz said
June 17, 2006 @ 4:55 am
Wow, all those facts about the different dollar bills having pictures on them. I checked them all out and NONE of them had what they said they did. I think there is alot of made up stuff on this one. I mean who exactly lit a match on non dairy creamer to see that it was flammable?!
Dan said
June 17, 2006 @ 5:30 am
Hey Franz Dyer, Ducks do not Echo. Suck my cock.
Daniel said
June 17, 2006 @ 6:59 am
Antarctica doesnt have cities, so there cannot be a city called rome there.
Shiz said
June 17, 2006 @ 7:14 am
If a duck quacks into an empty hallway….who gives a fuck? Why do you have a duck in a fucking hallway? They shit everywhere!. I was hoping someone would realize this list was for entertainment purposes. This isn’t fucking school, it’s a fucking website. It isn’t meant to educate you, just occupy some of your time while you spend 30 hours a day online. For fucks sake, wake the fuck up. There is no point in arguing about stuff like this. Have a discussion about politics or religion and argue about some of your points. You just wasted an hour of your life reading this page, all the arguments on it, and this post. Bye, fuckers
kermit said
June 17, 2006 @ 4:06 pm
There is no city named “Maine” in Maine.
There is no city named “Wyoming” in Wyoming.
There is no city named “Ding Dong” in Texas.
“New York” is not the official name of the city, it is “New York City.” “New York” is what we the world call “Manhattan.”
Banzai said
June 17, 2006 @ 10:19 pm
The testify/testicle one is off a bit. The word came from the fact that a man’s testicles “bear witness” to his manliness.
kellen said
June 18, 2006 @ 6:18 am
ducks DO Not quack go on wikipedia.com and search it
Jim said
June 18, 2006 @ 6:27 am
The fact about the roman numerals on a clock face is wrong. Ancient romans wrote 4 with four I’s. It wasn’t until the middle ages that 4 was shown as “IV”. So a clock showing “IIII” on a roman numeral clock is technically correct.
Bill said
June 18, 2006 @ 6:44 am
“No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!”
This is wrong for obvious reasons.
“If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result!”
Try multiplying it by zero. And yes zero is a number.
Blah Blah Blah said
June 18, 2006 @ 7:14 am
“Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people”
…. and we care because. its their fault they died… that ‘fact’ dnt sound real 2 me.
And who cares what Barbie’s real name is?
And who cares that the bottle of water Evian is Naive backwards?
And its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open… I dont really care, all I care about is not gettin snot everywhere.
i'm a girl who is laughing said
June 18, 2006 @ 7:21 am
ok so here is what i think. i think it is really funny that people are actually getting pissed off about this. are you actually MAD that some of these “facts” are false? hahahaha i personally don’t know the truth about a duck’s quack but I DON’T GIVE A DAMN!!!! people these days…we have to lighten up here! we only have one life to live so let’s just all (including myself) get off of our lazy asses and do something with our lives!! let’s all go play some ultimate frisbee…or how about water polo? no more amazing facts…we need to burn off our cheeseburgers and just loosen up. how about from now on WE DON’T GIVE A RAT’S ASS!!!
enjoy
annoyed said
June 18, 2006 @ 1:40 pm
k ppl ENUF WITH THE DAMN DUCK!!1 IF YOU REALLY WANNA KNOW GO BUY A DUCK BUT IT IN AN EMPTY ROOM AND LET IT QUACK…. MAKE A VIDEO THEN POST IT……FUCK U PPL ANNOY ME!!!!1
Ha said
June 19, 2006 @ 3:14 am
Hey blah blah blah, if you don’t care then why did you read it? And all the negative comments don’t really matter, do you think the creator cares what you think, make your own list, i would love to critisize it just beacuse you’re being an ass.
fix said
June 19, 2006 @ 5:42 am
hey bill the dumbass. if you multiply that number by zero, then the result is zero. therefore, the original number IS in the answer. god you’re dumb
uhhhhhh said
June 19, 2006 @ 5:46 am
actually zero is not a number
cocky the rooster said
June 19, 2006 @ 5:57 am
wow i luved that. ummm the huptmobile is spelled without a t .
i havent heard a duck echo so i dont believe it will.. i havent ever seen austrailia so i do not believe it exists either.
and to sardonac
chuck norris can suck mine
i am tired of this chuck norris crap.
but credit where credit is due.. great list.
kc said
June 19, 2006 @ 7:53 am
ok, people arguing over dumb things =)
Kojak said
June 19, 2006 @ 11:01 am
In response to the antarcitca comment, it dosent have cities, per se, but it doe shave coloinies. Anyone with anything negative to say. Go find this many facts that are this interesting for me and then you can talk shit. Zero is a number.. no question 0. See its on your keybord Einstein. Jim my dear friend, you are sorely mistaken. Bill, they may not say it is, but it is. As sure as when playing GTA the cars emulate real life, but they are not named it for copywright reasons. and everything JaggerVenting said is brillant
idiots said
June 19, 2006 @ 12:09 pm
Gee. . .What I found interesting is that so many people cared about the duck-quack-echo fact. What, is it really that important? And Bill, for that “multiply by zero” thing, isn’t a multiple generally greater than the original factor, and who cares that multiplying by zero gives you zero. Isn’t it better that if you multiply the number by any other number other than zero that the original 526,315,789,473,684,210 is in it? And I think that everyone who is being negative is just upset that they think they wasted their time by reading a list of 200 or so facts only to discover that it had a couple of false ones. I for one enjoyed reading the list.
Socceroo said
June 19, 2006 @ 3:20 pm
Yeah, well Cocky the Rooster, Australia does exist. lol. I’m sittin here on Aussie soil, so it doesn’t mean it don’t exist. And just because i have never seen your mum, doesn’t mean she don’t exist. And after last night, let’s just say she does. haha.
Barbie's duck said
June 19, 2006 @ 11:44 pm
Barbie’s name is missed spelled it should be BARBARA and not BARBRA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie#Biography_of_Barbara_Millicent_Roberts
Ducks do not quack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducks
COME ON ENGLAND said
June 20, 2006 @ 12:29 am
COME ON ENGLAND!!!
DUCKS QUACKS DO FUCKING ECHO!!!!!!! ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING! WHAT THE FUCK!!
I HAVE A LIFE AND COUDNT BE ARSED TO READ ALL THE FACTS AND HAVE READ THE COMMMENTS. GOD YOU ARE ALL SAD FOR READING THEM
WTF ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
laffyman said
June 20, 2006 @ 7:57 am
for uhhhhhhhh,
Zero is a number, its just not and integer.
Go to an algebra teacher and ask him/her.
And for all you ppl who are saying “Learn to spell”, ppl misspell it on purpose to save time. Thats why it was created.
Retard said
June 20, 2006 @ 12:39 pm
You missed a fact:
A duck’s quack is the subject of a bigger debate then politics and religion combined.
Random said
June 20, 2006 @ 3:37 pm
Nice one socceroo!
Retard said
June 21, 2006 @ 1:42 am
There is a town called Dildo in Newfoundland, Canada.
I said
June 21, 2006 @ 4:06 am
people argue about the dumbest things……
I also said
June 21, 2006 @ 8:12 am
bah to this, I dont know why a ducks quack wouldnt echo…if someone can give me a valid reason for this then I may just be forced into amazement.Until that time I think il practice on prime numbers………pfft
Elias said
June 21, 2006 @ 4:26 pm
the lenerd nemoy thing bout how his vulcan saltue came from the letter shin from shalom is wrong. it came from the holiest prayer that the high priest would say and the shape of his hands were so holy that were not allowed to look at his hands, spock doing that was very bad!
Captain Crap-Stain said
June 22, 2006 @ 7:52 am
KERMIT:
About New York:
The official name of the city is not “New York City” it is “City of New York”.
It contains 5 boroughs:
Queens, Richmond (Staten Island), Kings (Brooklyn), The Bronx, and Most importantly New York – this one is often mistakenly called Manhattan, which is really the name of the Island. The County “New York” refers to Manhattan Island, and a bunch Of small islands like randall’s, ward’s, and governor’s Islands, and a bit of the south bronx as well. It even includes liberty/ellis Islands- Which are really situated in New Jersey, but are part of New York.
This is where “New York, NY” Comes from.
Manhattan is the Island, and the city is “the city of New York” , but the county Is “New York”. as far as postal codes go, the boroughs/counties are used instead of the city. Infact, the boroughs are larger than many areas considered cities, and without question also more populated, The lines that define a city are quite blurred, and while not officially a city in terms of the government, a city can be defined as a large municipality, or densely populated area. And in popular usage, New York, NY often is referred to as it’s own city.
As a matter of fact, I live in Queens, and people in queens and manhattan make a distinction between people in the outlying boroughs (like myself) and those who live in what is often referred to as just “the City”.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending the stupid list, just clarifying: Calling Manhattan “NEw York City” isn’t really wrong, so no correction is needed.
And for the record:
A Duck’s quack does echo. Whether you can hear it or not. Get an oscilloscope, a duck and a large empty space. Until you do that, shut up either way. Why are we arguing, why don’t we go eat some cake, or something? or take a shit? Or eat a shit?
Captain Crap-Stain said
June 22, 2006 @ 7:59 am
Oh, and one more thing, don’t bother responding or trying to defend yourself, I am leaving this page in a minute, and I won’t be back .I don’t care about your opinions.
fuckheads said
June 22, 2006 @ 11:08 am
all of you are fuck heads for reading this, i hope you all die horrible deaths!
The man with real facts said
June 23, 2006 @ 3:30 am
okay, here’s a fact, and it’s true, my dick is bigger than any of yall got.
Factman said
June 23, 2006 @ 1:52 pm
It’s a fact that I don’t care about this list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! note: all the ! – I’m lao at my own joke
Factman said
June 23, 2006 @ 1:53 pm
err lmao
Matt said
June 23, 2006 @ 2:00 pm
a jiffy is 1/60th of a second not 1/100th of a second
Duckman said
June 24, 2006 @ 2:22 pm
To put this to rest, a duck’s quack does, in fact, echo.
Even on the wikipedia it says “The sound made by some female ducks is called a “quack”; a common (and false) urban legend is that quacks do not produce an echo”
It says right there that it’s false.
Another thing is mythbusters. It showed that a duck’s quack does echo, but people only think it doesn’t because the echo sounds just like the quack, so you will only think you’ve heard more quacking from the duck.
I win.
dennis said
June 24, 2006 @ 3:36 pm
… in the time i read this… i couldve crapped about 20 times.. cuz we all know that dennis craps at about 8 inches every 30 seconds after holding his poo for at least 30 minutes after first pressure contact with the rectum… thats a fact to remember…oh yea.. when u leave a comment.. heres a nice fact.. it said URI (i) so.. uri.. instead or url.. cuz this whoel thing is dumb. and i need to poop at that 1 1/2 feet a minute rate. so… yea bye
dennis said
June 24, 2006 @ 3:37 pm
but i do mean that i couldve crapped that much.. not in that whole time.. cuz i dont read THAT fast.. just so no one bugs me
dennis said
June 24, 2006 @ 3:39 pm
and every 30 mintues added… i jsut calculated.. it exponentially decreases in time.. that was abouty 8 inches in 10 seconds
Meow said
June 25, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
Thriller was the first video on MTV…
Stitty said
June 26, 2006 @ 7:53 am
Ummm, yeah, cool, very cool, you know though I think reading all the pathedic arguments about wether ducks’ quacks echo or not was more entertaining, honestly, Who Cares?
j-bird said
June 26, 2006 @ 9:18 am
hey holy cow
van wilder is the radest fucking dude
Ray said
June 26, 2006 @ 9:54 pm
About Brazil Nuts, that’s wrong. The name Brazil or Brasil in portuguese, means red hot charcoal. Because, when the portuguese landed in Brazil, they found these wood, that was red in the inside, the indians used it to paint themselves and tint their vests with it.
They saw the potential and there was a lot of it, they named the land Brazil(Brasil). They started cutting the wood and comercializind it, and did soo much that almost finished it off.
These days you can only find that wood in protected places and museums. Brazil’s first name was Vera Cruz Island, they believed it was an island, and then became Vera Cruz Land when they realized their mistake. Just for the record: they used the question about Brazil Nuts in Jeopardy! and the answer was wrong because the information they had was wrong.
eat my fuck said
June 26, 2006 @ 11:02 pm
Holy shit I got twice the entertainment out of reading the forum arguments and disses than I did reading the actual list itself. I enjoyed the list but now that it seems that some of the facts are false I feel cheated cuz hell, they could all be false for all I know. Then again its kinda sad that without any of these posts here to disprove the ones the posts mention I (and most other people) probably would have believed everything I read just cuz it was on a webpage. What I did learn more than anything is I need to make my own page of made up and real facts just so I can laugh my ass off at people from all over the world coming to post and make fun of one another. Seriously though, WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH YOU PEOPLE AND THE DUCKS?
Shaggy said
June 27, 2006 @ 10:06 am
So one other wrong fact. The wizard of oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was actually originally written as a political satire of the 1890′s and more specifically about the political philosophy of populism. Now I won’t go into what populism is (if you really want to know look it up yourself) But here are some of the parallells.
Oz was to symbolize the weight of gold (hence yellow brick road (gold) leading to emerald city (money))
Kansas was the center of the populist party.
The Wicked witch of the east is representative of eastern bankers
Munchkins were common ordinary people
Glenda the good witch of North is Populist Party
Silver Slippers (they weren’t ruby in the book) represent free silver
The Scarecrow is a Farmer who wants a public education
The Tin Man is the lumber industry (lumber industry came to standstill) man is being
replaced by machine.
Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan
Flying Monkeys are Indians
Poppy Field (opium) causes them to fall asleep, but they are woken up by snow (coke)
The Wizard is the president (who is just an ordinary man)
The Drizzle said
June 27, 2006 @ 10:21 am
The thing about turkeys is TRUE. My uncle was a turkey farmer, he saw it happen
christopher said
June 27, 2006 @ 11:41 pm
i wanna see ya make a list lets see if all ur facts are correct
Genevieve said
June 28, 2006 @ 1:51 am
I can’t believe I just read all of that.
Shaggy, very interesting
Steph said
June 28, 2006 @ 5:01 am
one of your facts is not so factual.. im not sure when this site was created but it must be updated! 101 Dalmations and Peter Pan are not the only two disney movies where both parents are present ans neither dies. Mulan is another. thanks
Steph said
June 28, 2006 @ 5:28 am
oh , p.s. shiz i like you comment, a lot. and Bill 0 is not a number. its a placeholder and a symbol for nothing. in the same aspect infinity is a symbol (sideways 8) for an uncountable number. can you count nothing because i certainly cant. btw im probably a lot younger than all you dumbasses who dont know anything
Steph said
June 28, 2006 @ 5:29 am
the smilie face is supposed to be an eight
Turkey Dude said
June 28, 2006 @ 10:16 am
uhhh have you seen mithbusters ducks quack do echo watch let me try Quack Quack…Quack Quack…See told you so…See told you so…Dang it…Dang it…
supergeek said
June 28, 2006 @ 9:03 pm
actually………..
a ducks quack does echo…. – the sound we hear is a reverb, but in a large enough “ampitheatre” you would be able to distinguish the lag
RhythmS is the longest word without a vowel
and……no one knows what gravitrons, ansible attraction, or sleep actually are…
anyway -
andrew said
June 29, 2006 @ 6:10 am
several of the “facts” repeat themselves and many of them are incorrect… this list needs to be fact checked.
Turkey Dude no more said
June 29, 2006 @ 9:24 am
I hate turkey dude
duck quack said
June 29, 2006 @ 5:02 pm
actually……….. a ducks quack does echo….actually……….. a ducks quack does echo….actually……….. a ducks quack does echo….actually……….. a ducks quack does echo….actually……….. a ducks quack does echo….actually……….. a ducks quack does echo….actually……….. a ducks quack does echo….actually……….. a ducks quack does echo…., gosh does anyone else want me to repeat it
okay said
June 30, 2006 @ 10:10 am
okay, guess what a duck’s quack DOES echo!! HOLY SHIZZNIT!!! KBYE
black man said
July 1, 2006 @ 6:30 am
ducks quack, but humans can’t hear the the echo
G.K. Chesterton said
July 2, 2006 @ 9:20 am
Most people quarrel because they do not know how to argue. I love the public-schoolers answer to all debates, “nevermind all these facts, let’s just all be friends”. Great idea, dipshit. That’s why you all end up as democrats. Except for the dude who said he has a big penis. You’re cool, in my book.
jsun said
July 3, 2006 @ 4:42 am
leonardo de vinci never invinted the scissors
they were invented int ancient egypt
and the modern scissors were invented in ancient rome
Jeff Metz said
July 4, 2006 @ 9:06 am
Damn I need to get laid..
A Duck said
July 4, 2006 @ 7:42 pm
The correct response to the Irish greeting, “Top of the morning to you,” is NOT “and the rest of the day to yourself”.
It is in fact “Go fuck yourself you Irish Cunt”
chicken in a coop said
July 4, 2006 @ 11:21 pm
Shit i am a dumb shit for reading this shit
supergeek said
July 6, 2006 @ 2:55 am
seriously…..I live in Ireland and never once has ANYONE…EVER….said “top o’ the morning t’ya” – the most popular greeting you hear is ” Hey Tom-o, come ‘ere…..ya alright, buddy? Scoops? Ahhh Go on, you will…..you will….good man yourself”
and to A duck……feck off ya black and tan twat
WTF said
July 11, 2006 @ 4:04 pm
OH MY
if everyone here took life as seriously as they are taking this list of random shit I bet we could find a cure for AIDS, end world hunger, and finally achieve world peace.
DUCK said
July 12, 2006 @ 12:34 pm
Meow thriller wasn’t the first video on mtv, that fact was correct, the first vid was video killed the radio star by the buggles.
Professor Stephen Hawkwind said
July 13, 2006 @ 6:56 am
Some more interesting facts:
It’s written into the US constitution that when presidents are removed from office they are to be pelted with rotten fruit, or “imPEACHed”;
Woody Allen wrote the original draft screenplay for the movie Cool Runnings;
Phil Collins has never owned a wristwatch;
The turtle is the only amphibian that can read;
Bill Cosby’s father invented disappointment;
Many people believe that Titanic was a good film- it wasn’t;
The name Microsoft is a combination of the words “micro” and “soft”;
Alan Alda has compound eyes like a fly;
Many people know that Beethoven was deaf, but few know that he also had a bad knee;
The average human body contains more salt than a smaller than average one;
No pirate has ever said “aaaarrr”.
wierd said
July 13, 2006 @ 5:18 pm
hahhahaha. I never knew that sharks exploded when killer whales hit them in the stomach. Then again, I only knew maybe 4 of these things before reading them.
Dr Funkenstein said
July 14, 2006 @ 1:08 am
The Gettysburg address is 6 Mildew Avenue, Chatham, Kent.
Thin White Duke of Hazzard said
July 14, 2006 @ 4:12 am
If you had two pieces of string 238,856 miles long they would reach to the moon and back.
Leroy said
July 14, 2006 @ 6:20 am
Wayne “Newman” Knight was the world’s first successful recipient of a nostril transplant.
excessively large penis said
July 14, 2006 @ 11:43 am
Don’t forget Kansas city KS, P.S. theirs also a Kansas City Missouri P.S. , they’re the same city, the just overlap into two states. I know, because I live really close, Olathe KS.
I'm more smarter than you guys said
July 14, 2006 @ 12:04 pm
the Tomato was declared a vegetable in a 1800′s (can’t remember exact year) supreme cour decision. Fuck yeah! I always thought the Tomato was a vegetable! Now I get to prove my Mom wrong about it being a Fruit! FUCKF UCK FUCK YEAH!
Bunny said
July 15, 2006 @ 12:26 am
The sound made by some female ducks is called a “quack”; a common (and false) urban legend is that quacks do not produce an echo.
Copied from the Wikipedia. Man, reading all the arguments was even more fun than reading the damn facts!
Neato said
July 19, 2006 @ 11:32 am
bulls are color blind but they only charge the guy cause they really hate humans… we seem to all agree here on that one.
Gebo said
July 19, 2006 @ 2:49 pm
Bulls Attack at the movement of the cloth or sheet or whatever the fuck it is
Leroy Jenkins said
July 21, 2006 @ 6:36 am
Telly Savalas actually had a full head of hair, but it was on the inside.
johann Ding said
July 21, 2006 @ 6:41 am
In England the speaker of the house IS allowed to speak. He speaks all the time. The clue is in the name: Speaker. How else would the speaker keep order? Signal fires? You are very very silly and are banished from the internet.
duckman said
July 23, 2006 @ 7:50 pm
hello i went and bought a seagull and gave it an alcazeltser. its stomach didnt explode, its head did.
I then went and bought a turkey and we had a rainstorm, it looked up and drowned.
i then bought a duck, and i think everyone is right i put it in a hallway and when it quacked sometimes it echoed and sometimes it didnt. I guess we will never know now. I shot it anyway.
Chris said
July 30, 2006 @ 1:34 am
There are not only three cities that are named after their states, there is 27!! And Maine and Wyoming are not in the 27! So I don’t know how much of this list is true because that fact was way off.
jesse said
August 3, 2006 @ 2:41 pm
THEAS FACTS ARE AMAZING BUT EARTH WORMS CAN GROW UP TOO 12 FEET LONG
jesse said
August 3, 2006 @ 2:43 pm
how do, you no this stuff? still earth worms in australia grow up too 12 feet long
prt said
August 4, 2006 @ 11:03 pm
Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
***This is incorrect, seeing that seuss graduated from a different college (Dartmouth) in 1925, and Vonnegut was only 3 at the time and went to a different school, I believe Cornell. Seuss was in SigEp, and Vonnegut was not***
Water Wings. said
August 8, 2006 @ 2:07 pm
Man.. I wonder what it would be like to have two penises.
I read that the only other animal besides humans that aren’t color blind are like apes or something.. I read it at the zoo. Idk dont bitch at me. it’s what the zoo said. I wish they had koala’s with two dicks at the zoo…
ZAcg said
August 15, 2006 @ 12:13 pm
Hitler had two testicles. a lot of these arent fact.
futhermucker said
August 20, 2006 @ 5:25 am
hey, anyone see the movie “IN the army now” with poly shore? when they were in jail cell during the bombing raid in lebanon, they were throwing the hook with a string on it trying to get the key, poly shore said “this is just like pirates of the carribian , just without the mangy dog”…. that movie was made in 1995 and pirates’ was made in 2003… wtf was there a book or old movie the pirates’ movie was made from? also, did u know 73% of the poeple in this world make up statistics?
Brendan said
August 21, 2006 @ 3:16 pm
MythBusters proved that cereal has more nutrients than the box it comes in. Facts my a*s!
riss said
August 22, 2006 @ 3:18 pm
RELAX. and if you took the time to read this list, mostly likely your opinion doesn’t matter that much, mine included lol
Gerry Mander said
August 27, 2006 @ 12:35 am
re: Pirates of the Carribean
Polly Shore must be referring to the Pirates of the Carribean ride in Disneyland which had been there since Disneyland was built in the 1950s or 60s
Baron Renao said
August 28, 2006 @ 10:22 pm
Daragh Kinch is actually wrong. im scottish and in the north near ballater and balmoral there is a clan castle, forgot the name, that has a counter clockwise staircase as the majority of its men were LEFT handed, gave them an advantage over attackers.
H Iris said
September 7, 2006 @ 7:09 am
Do Galahs explode when you feed them alcazelza
i. said
September 11, 2006 @ 2:19 pm
susan lucci is NOT phyllis diller’s daughter
daragh Kinch said
September 18, 2006 @ 12:47 am
Ahoy Baron! Oh you beat me! OR DID YOU?!!!
Katie said
September 19, 2006 @ 5:56 am
I don’t know if this was mentioned, but Mulan is another Disney movie where both parents are present and neither die.
phil has to say.... said
September 20, 2006 @ 9:32 am
come on guys these facts are amazing. who cares if their not all true, if someone took the time to put this together then theyre pretty coo and should have more facts/not true stuff up their ass so they should try and pull em out and give them to me. but wash your freakin hands first =)
mich yo said
September 23, 2006 @ 8:03 am
uh, ya. as if a lefty’s gonna die because he used scissors made for righties. cough.
mich yo said
September 23, 2006 @ 8:05 am
wooo ima sniff apples and shed those pounds!
mich yo said
September 23, 2006 @ 8:06 am
can iguanas do 2 lady iguanas at a time?
mich yo said
September 23, 2006 @ 8:07 am
now ima go move to Ding Dong.
So long.
That rhymes
Lexi said
September 28, 2006 @ 8:53 am
Ok. A lot of this was fake. About how the disney movies with the parents deiing, and about RALPH LIFESHITZ!!! that shit is so fucking fake. Get a life, and don’t make up stuff to make ppl believe shit that isn’t true!
Lexi said
September 28, 2006 @ 8:53 am
you’re all gay. Got that?
Boby John said
September 29, 2006 @ 6:45 am
These are all really amazing facts….
Chris said
October 16, 2006 @ 10:10 am
Actually, you can sneeze with your eyes open, or well at least i can. Dont know about you guys, but try it sometimes, and not all the times, cuz some say its bad for ur body.
elliosh said
November 2, 2006 @ 4:24 am
READ BELLOW
hello cross breeds. do all belive everything they read on the net. say gullable 3 times fast and it sounds like pepper j
omg. did you know that this is lie. do you belive that. try that on for size. i was drunk once, and trust a friend, now i wake up every day with throbbing erec and anus. thank you, chaz
miel said
November 4, 2006 @ 4:46 pm
captain crap stain
would you stop giving lecttures
elliosh said
November 7, 2006 @ 4:14 am
i will lecture you if you would like for 10.99 a minute, trust me it will be ok.
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jim said
November 16, 2006 @ 4:23 am
never was de screwdriver invented for de screw .lol
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bawan said
November 25, 2006 @ 2:52 am
hi every one, relly i am in yr 11 and it is my gcse work and y did i read that
i cant remeber any thing
Mr.Clucas said
November 26, 2006 @ 1:57 am
Hello everyone.
first off I would like to thank you for reading this comment. Alot of these of these facts arent true but more of them are true, I am not here to tell you that a duck does indeed quack or that a seagull explodes when fed alka-seltzer, as I see no point I would be argued with as many people have before me. I am here to say does it actually matter if these facts are true or false, they are here for enjoyment and not something for people to mindlessly squabble over, what does it achieve? you know these facts are not correct and does it really matter if they are printed here? People arent likely to use these facts in later life but some will if they are wrong they are wrong, either the recipitent of the fact knows they are incorrect or meerly enjoys hearing the statment it matters so stop arguing it leads to anger, anger is not good and if a strong emotion must be used, laugh, the poster of these facts has made a mistake, that matters not meerly feel proud of yourself for knowing the true side of that fact or just knowing the fact itself, just dont squabble. Violence may have solved a few things in life, the two world wars for example, it may have indeed been the only way to debunk Adolf Hitler’s plot and I shall not say: “they should’ve talked it over” because of my knowledge of the humab species things cant normally just be talked over, but in this case use constructive critism as it is the best way to get your point across.
Now look back upon the facts and think to yourself “I won’t shoot the messenger.”
Yours faithfully, Mr. Clucas.
Monty said
December 6, 2006 @ 12:04 pm
Ducks’ quacks do echo! Its defying all physics if they dont. The sound a duck makes is a soumd just like a cats’ meow! If it wasn’t you would be able to hear it.
becky said
December 10, 2006 @ 12:40 pm
What was the name of the spanish speaking child on the Dragnet Christmas series in 1967?
Zubeida said
December 13, 2006 @ 4:34 pm
How on earth did people live on a continent without a name if Brazil only got its name after people found nuts there???????????
Zubeida said
December 13, 2006 @ 4:36 pm
how does SMELLING bananas or green apples make you lose weight? is it because it supresses your appetite or is if because of some unknown reaction?
ello ello how do u do wanna b a member of the north east crew said
January 18, 2007 @ 12:48 am
itz buzzin gud 4 me home work thnks
bob shouuuup said
January 24, 2007 @ 4:01 am
i love him got that
Manu said
January 26, 2007 @ 10:11 pm
Related to physics are less
chelsea said
March 7, 2007 @ 8:26 am
it doesn’t talk about the ten gallon hats and how much they weigh.
bob said
March 10, 2007 @ 2:06 am
this pg is too long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
poop said
March 13, 2007 @ 1:23 am
u can fold a piece of paper more than 7 times mythbusters folded one 11 times
mlail said
April 6, 2007 @ 10:13 am
Well, let me start here:
Shiz, you’re just an idiot, and cussing never solved anything all that importnat. Go bury yourself in hot coals, you idiot. Have fun with it.
As for the others that had the stupidity to repeat the “duck’s quacks echo” myth over repeatedly, you are nearly as dumb as Shiz and Jeff Matz.
And for those of you who complained about reading this to begin with, you really are something. I don’t think even LEMMINGS are that stupid. Get lives, and make your own lists of meticulously researched facts that have absolutley no flaws.
-mlail
Jon Donson said
April 8, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
My meticulously researched list of facts that have absolutely no flaws:
Gene Hackman has never eaten lobster;
Peter “Columbo” Falk had a glass eye, but it was the other one;
there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy;
if you could throw a ball upwards at a steady 6.96 miles per second it would go into space;
82% of Slipknot fans haven’t really thought it through;
A regular Coke doesn’t contain less sugar than it’s diet equivalent;
Every three seconds someone on earth regrets not wearing a warmer jacket;
It takes the average person 4 minutes to get sick of Chris Rock’s voice;
100% of American 1 year olds could not find Guam on a map.
lil'angel said
April 9, 2007 @ 12:38 pm
Having a blast on a lazy sunday reading the facts with all your comments….laughing my head off !!!!! guess what…Ding Dong does exist in Texas although it’s not a city ,it’s a small town near Killeen(Ft. Hood ) and to top it off it’s in BELL county!!!!!!
NAVEEN SAHARAN said
April 12, 2007 @ 1:00 pm
i think that some of the fcts are and ihve the proof
someone said
April 19, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
y’know some of the ‘facts’ are really just myths and/or urban legends.
Some, like only seeing a rainbow when your back is turned, pains me to read as it so f**king obvious. And what’s with Disney’s obsession with orphans and single parent families? Do they want kids to wish for the deaths of one or both of their parents?
end rant
Jenna know it all said
May 24, 2007 @ 9:50 am
In the movie “The lion King” He had both his parents, Also “The lady and the Tramp”, And “Mulan.
There are probably more too.
But it was cool to realize, that MOST disney movies, do not.
sean said
June 1, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
so if i decide to drive drunk and a cop pulls me over and decides to breathlize me sucking on a penny will make it read 0 sweet!
Random Person said
June 7, 2007 @ 12:02 am
It is possible to train yourself to sheeze with your eyes open
evilemma said
June 8, 2007 @ 2:06 am
jeeeeesus people! all arguin for nothin!
haha
who gives a flying shite if a duck quacks or notm why dont u go to the park and steal a duck
take it to a quiet place and see wat happens
when u get the result
dont bother telling us
because we wil all laugh at u for being so stupid and following my instructions
only joking
argue as much as u want
it makes me laugh
heheehehe
I just wasted soo much time on this said
June 9, 2007 @ 5:03 am
Jenna know it all is wrong because in the lion king as the fact says, the father dies in the stampede, ducks quacks echo, who cares how many balls hitler had, if he had two imagine how many jews would have been killed. Do you realize that half of the people here trying to disprove these facts are referring to Wikipedia which is not an encyclopedia, it is a bunch of people posting what they think, not actual fact all of the time.
Crazycg said
July 14, 2007 @ 4:33 pm
I’m suprised no one caought this but the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.†doesn’t use every letter of the alphabet! As a matter of fact its missing V.
Amazed said
August 5, 2007 @ 11:31 pm
Im amazed that i wasted so much time reading all this BS.
Joe said
August 8, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
There is a V in the word “over”
Here is an interesting fact.
The smallest state in the US actually has the longest name
“The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”
sally said
August 17, 2007 @ 3:07 am
yall are some stupid kids to be on this stupid thing, talking to each other….what LOSERSSS, idiots, stupid cats….your mother , go dig a hole and burry yourself in it…it would do the world a great favor!!!!
Dr. factoid said
January 4, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
I dont think that there are any made up facts in this list but, if this list contained only true facts I calculate thats aprox. 50-60% of the list would be gone.
Quite a few of these facts are just unverified statements….
DR. FACTOID CHALENGERS ALL READERS TO TO DO BATTLE WITH MY SUPERIOR INTELECT.
Wicked said
March 3, 2008 @ 3:33 am
Some of you do realise that Wikipedia is adjustable by anybody?
It’s not exactly reliable.
8lsatyq said
March 11, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Get ready folks! Here it comes, I hope your ready for these!; more civilians were killed under Mao and Stalin than Hitler combined, yet we see the Holocaust as the worst. Both Stalin and Hitler had abusive father/step-fathers.
Hitler was a drug-addict(thanks to his personal doctor. Thank You doctor!)…painkillers. He was also not in good health despite all his bullshit about “the perfect race” His remains are beneath a parking lot in Russia.
Napolean lost Waterloo because he was sick at the time.
The author of Wizar of Oz once wrote a treatise on how the american indian should be exterminated.
Caligula had sexual relations with all three of his sisters. His uncle Tiberius was a pedophile
Nero more than likely burnt Rome on purpose to make room for his personal entertainment center.
Katerine the great was kind of a nympho.
Peter the “great” had St Petersburg bult on a swamp, resulting in the deaths of 25,000 laborers so aptly named “the city of bones”.
George Washinton died of a sore throat.
Alexander Hamilton’s son died from duel a couple of years before his father.
The Opium War between Britain and China was about opium and tea.
There have been at least 5 wars started over pigs, one over a mustash, one or 2 over a soccer gamea and one over an ear.
The guilotine was invented to “save” lives-Marie Antoinette’s last words were “I’m sorry, I did not mean it”-she stepped on the executioners foot and she never said “let them eat cake”-that was propagnda.
Annie Oakley amost shot Kaiser Wilhelm.
Archduke Ferdinand was killed because his driver took a wrong turn.
The Pilgrims at Plymouth landed there because they needed beer.
Julius Ceasar once “stole time”
St. Patrick was an englishman.
The song “I wish I was in Dixie” was by a northerner.
The kilt and the bagpipe were not started in Scotland.
The story of The Pied Piper was taken from The Children’s Crusade-most were sold into slavery by the men who took them there, the rest died from hunger and exposure crossing the alps then more than a thousand died when their ships sank.
Ibn Battuta traveled farther than Marco Polo three fold.
Pizarro deafeated the Incas with only 150 men.
Columbus discovered Haiti and quickly enslaved the whole population.
Einstein proposed the use of atomic weapons and regretted it the rest of his days.
The Palace of Versailles was build because Louis XIV was jealous of his friends estate.
The song “amazing grace” was written by a slave owner.
The battle of Trenton wasn’t entirely by surprise. Americans had been harassing the Hessians for weeks, then Colonel Rall took a break, didn’t read a note and got drunk on New Years Eve.
The British could’ve ended the whole revolution if they’d stayed in New York.
Uncle Sam started as a joke.
The “star-spangled banner” was written by a brit who couldn’t carry a tune
A magician named Houdin, not Houdini once thwarted a rebellion.
The gattling gun was also invented to “save lives”.
General McClellan could’ve ended the civil war early about 3 times.
Abraham Lincoln WASN’T an anti-slavery fanatic. The Emancipation Proclomation came from need to end the war.
The Great Chicago Fire WASN’T the deadliest in U.S. history, the Great Peshtigo Fire was- no-ones heard about it cause it happened on the same day.
Sherlock Holmes was based off a doctor.
All the inhabitants of Mount Pelee except one-a man on death row were killed because of an election.
The boy-scouts was started by a spy.
The city of Paris was saved twice-once by cabdrivers, then by a german who had orders to destroy it.
The famous Scopes/Evolution trial was a PR ploy.
A japanese diplomat once saved thousands of jews from the camps.
Ian Fleming created Jame Bond and had a hand in creating the CIA.
Lucile Ball accidentily discovered a secret japenese singal on her car radio.
The first actress to appear nude on scene also created spread satelite technology.
Hitler was fooled twice by the allies-once by a corpse, the other by rubber tanks.
Ho Chi Minh (the president of North Vietman)was once saved by the americans.
President Nixon was caught…. by a peice of loose tape.
A topless dancer onced saved the Roman Empire.
A pizza delivery boy predicted the Gulf War.
There was once an elite Spartan unit-no one could beat them…They were all gay.
Achimedes held off an entire Roman fleet…with mirrors.
A single woman almost toppled ancient Rome.
Kamikazes’s motto “divine wind” comes from a typhoon that once saved Japan.
Gunpowder’s faster production in Europe was because of manure.
The Thirty Years War started as a result of a guy falling into a dung heap.
The song “yankee doodle dandy” was by…you guessed it a brit.
Bendict Arnold betrayed Washington because of jealousy and oddly enough this author himself is related to him!?
The Louisiana Purchase was made because Napolean needed money.
Haiti/St Dominuiqe got its independence because of a mosquito.
A pair of teenage girls once outwitted a British man-of-war.
There was a black military unit in the civil war who fought on BOTH sides.
There was a female “lawrene of arbaia, created the borders of modern Iraq.
A nazi business man onced saved thousands from Nanking.
That famous raising the flag picture on Iwo Jima was taken by accident.
Enjoy! all fans of that that is strange
cameron said
March 12, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
very cool stuff all who are interested in things like this look at a book called The Big Book of Tell Me Why
concerned said
July 30, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
Its sad that people cant just read some statements, whether correct or not, and get a laugh on how weird or false they are with out cussin, fussin, or correcting as much as they can.
fact enater said
October 8, 2008 @ 3:05 am
why is there so many facts who in their right mind would read them all they r complete lonners and should get a life lol anomano
hi said
November 6, 2008 @ 8:49 am
umm… 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are NOT the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie.
Sleeping Beauty
Hercules
Mulan
Lady and the Tramp
The Little Mermaid 2
(Just off the top of my head)
And Crocodiles swallow stoned to digest so some are wrong but some are cool.
Interesting said
December 1, 2008 @ 11:30 am
I personally like the list but I thought I would put my two cents in about the zero dispute. Zero is in fact a number, and it was identified as the integer that came before the integer 1 before negative integers were accepted. So it could be argued that it is an integer. Some have also proved that zero is an even number also, but thats unimportant. If you multiply that number by zero, then you get zero, which follows the fact, because zero is one of the original numbers being multiplied.
Eric said
December 24, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
not random enough.
Peaches said
February 14, 2009 @ 8:10 pm
Whoooaaa… You’re all freaking out o_O
First off, the duck thing… There are different kind of ducks. Yes, some ducks do quack! Hell, my friend had a pet duck and that thing didn’t shut up. Also keep in mind that some of these “facts” are ooolllddd…and probably ripped from other random pages from the net. And just like your teachers tell you, don’t believe everything you read on the internet =3
There’s a few interesting facts here but I wouldn’t take it all to heart. Just move on and waste your time elsewhere.
fred said
April 27, 2009 @ 5:24 am
This is completely useless information! people should make a list that has important stuff on it not. not stufff like who was the voice of shaggy on “scooby doo” and the only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard. And also there are some false facts here. If this website wants to be better than it could have useless facts but have true facts not just something that you think is correct so you put it on the website. It has to be true and honest or some poor kid out there will write on his report on New York City that the offcial name for it is “New York City” and not the true fact, that it’s offcial name is “City of New York”. And a duck’s quak echos. Even if you can’t hear it and can’t pick it up with any of your “high-tech” equipment does not mean it isnt there! You people that made this site should reasearch some more and put some real and believable facts up and I will come and look at them, but they need to be true. I like how you made a website with a HUGE list of facts but I” just want them to true!
Yours truly
Fred
Nerd said
October 3, 2009 @ 9:53 am
More like the list of myths.
Irish Ninja said
December 1, 2009 @ 7:03 am
Hey Franz Dyer, you spelled “lying” wrong. Next time you want to try to burn people try using spell check.
Billy Bob said
January 16, 2010 @ 8:21 am
Wow, I thought the list was good. But then it was followed by all of the insightful comments…. I actually learned something, so, thank you to whomever put this list together… and to most of the rest of you, get a life… Take this stuff for what it is, a thing someone did for fun… relax already… I’ll never hear a duck quack quite the same way again…
mikey said
March 15, 2010 @ 11:28 am
ok nice facts there some more cool facts in the sea like “z” is not in the periodic table of elements
well this was cool
Om said
March 22, 2010 @ 12:21 am
i m full of useless information
lucy said
April 26, 2010 @ 1:05 am
hi,i don’t think you’ve got a really good bunch of facts.
try ure best again later!!!!hahahaha!
Nimadar said
April 28, 2010 @ 2:04 pm
You know what I don’t get? If adults have 206 bones, how do females have an extra rib and the same amount of bones?
Pioni said
April 29, 2010 @ 3:09 am
Of course the bible doesn’t say that Adam and Eve ate an apple, just shows how little people read the bible, people just know what the main stories, plus all the other things that society has added to the stories over millenia. This effect is called “argumentum ad populum”, a fallacy of cognitive distortion, or just plain old ignorance and laziness to check facts. The bible also doesn’t use the terms “Forbidden Fruit” or “Armageddon”, these are terms used to describe what the bible describes, yet the bible itself doesn’t use these terms. Anyway, none of this should be surprising, not every person who “is” something X or “does” something Y uses word X and Y to describe what they are or do, and this doesn’t prove that that this person is somehow in denial of their own nature.
Ray Vogelsang said
June 25, 2010 @ 8:37 am
For four year, the dolphin preformed ok. It cleaned most of the algae and leaves of the pool. About a month ago, it didn’t pick up something and I so I went to run it again. There was no response. I determine the cord had been tangled one too many times.
Rebekah D said
November 10, 2010 @ 12:34 pm
Omgrief. What gives if a duck’s quack does or doesnt echo or if there is more than one movie that had a sequel come out the same year or if three facts got repeated. I know if I were the one writing all that stuff down after compiling it, I wouldn’t be all that worried about it. Just be thankful that someone was thoughtful enough to put it all together so you wouldn’t have to. And before you start telling me to shut up or whatever or that you are just having a little fun, doen’t. I think the list is cool.
well then said
November 21, 2011 @ 1:42 am
lol you guys are so funny i liked the list i was bored out of my mind and just decided to read it i thought it was intresting even if it was true or not who cares if you found out one wasnt true why did you keep reading!!!! anyways is it really important if a ducks quack echos who cares its a duck what does it matter but yall are pretty funny arguing over nothing!!!