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01/01/2014 11:03:25 AM · #1
Do you have any interesting factoid you wish to share?

Here's mine, from an anonymous source, of course.

A German scientist from Argentina, after a lengthy study, has discovered that people with insufficient brain activity read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse.
Don’t bother taking it off now, it’s too late.

01/01/2014 11:07:29 AM · #2
Drinking alcohol makes you drunk.
01/01/2014 11:10:27 AM · #3
Originally posted by Tiny:

Drinking alcohol makes you drunk.


Guess you have never had Utah beer..
01/01/2014 11:34:48 AM · #4
If you took all the veins and arteries from your body, and laid them end to end...
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You would die.
01/01/2014 11:36:21 AM · #5
Today, every 8th couple has met through the Internet.
01/01/2014 12:18:59 PM · #6
You can't take a bad portrait of a Grizzly Bear.
01/01/2014 12:20:24 PM · #7
Speaking of 'drunk'
did you know:
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
01/01/2014 12:55:24 PM · #8
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first (and only) home run.
01/01/2014 01:04:25 PM · #9
Headline from The Onion: "Death Rate Holds Steady At 100%"
01/01/2014 02:20:02 PM · #10
It is physically impossible to lick your own elbow.

Buy you're going to try anyway.
01/01/2014 02:21:54 PM · #11
Originally posted by tanguera:

It is physically impossible to lick your own elbow.

Not for Miley Cyrus (runs for shelter)!
01/01/2014 02:47:40 PM · #12
Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.
01/01/2014 03:25:04 PM · #13
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
01/01/2014 03:44:40 PM · #14
68% of facts are made up on the spot to prove a point.
01/01/2014 03:46:40 PM · #15
Originally posted by giantmike:

68% of facts are made up on the spot to prove a point.

Is that a fact? :-)
01/01/2014 04:11:02 PM · #16
20 million C02 bubbles in a hydroalcoholic solution of proteins, lipids and amino acids. Champagne! Cheers!

(Copied from @factlets)

Message edited by author 2014-01-01 16:11:18.
01/01/2014 04:55:04 PM · #17
Monday is the favored day of the week for self destruction...

Well duh! It's either that, or go back to work...
01/01/2014 05:00:19 PM · #18
Originally posted by sfalice:

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.


The mythbusters busted that one. A duck's quack does echo, but you can't hear it because it the waveform of the echo is so similar to the waveform of the quack.
01/01/2014 05:52:07 PM · #19
The original Google server was made from Lego.
01/01/2014 06:21:14 PM · #20
There is no gravity...the Earth sucks.
01/01/2014 06:23:14 PM · #21
53 per cent contain the color blue but only two countries contain purple in theirs. I think the world needs more purple flags
01/01/2014 06:40:23 PM · #22
Word Origin & History

factoid

1973, from fact + -oid, first explained, if not coined, by Norman Mailer.
01/01/2014 06:45:09 PM · #23

A factoid is a questionable or spurious statement presented as a fact, but without supporting evidence.
01/01/2014 09:46:04 PM · #24
Fact checking is no fun.

But, did you know...

Polar bears are left handed?
01/01/2014 09:53:23 PM · #25
Originally posted by sfalice:

Fact checking is no fun.

But, did you know...

Polar bears are left handed?


That's totally true!
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