The official fun/weird facts thread

[Ninot]

Originally posted by Asher
Seriously?

I colored so much...

Rainbows?

Sorry

[Julian Delphiki]

Here is entertaining debunk of many so called 'facts'

[Alinestra Covelia]

Snopes is another site that does debunking, in particular of urban myths.

Both sites seem to have good factual sourcing to back them up. But they both seem to get pretty judgmental and high-horse moralistic on people for believing stuff that seems borderline plausible.

I liked the single line "Am I being petty?" in that blog you posted to, JulianD. I think it applied pretty well to the entire article, which was rather shrill in its "I'm-mad-as-hell" tone.

Personally, I reckon if you're going to correct somebody's mistake, it pays to do so diplomatically in all but the most extreme circumstances. :/

[Deity Dude]

Only five people have been awarded the key to the city of Detroit: actor James Earl Jones, neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson, football star Jerome Bettis, businessman and sports team owner Mike Ilitch, and...

former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

[Julian Delphiki]

Saddam Hussein donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Detroit church and received a key to the city more than two decades ago, soon after he became president of Iraq.

Where's that key now?

[Deity Dude]

That's why we loved Coleman Young so much. For a few $100,000 campaign donations funneled thru a couple church and you can buy the key to the city.

Sorry for the threadjack. Back to fun facts.

[Fake Boris]

Spinoza was gay.

[Nostromo]

Really?

[Nostromo]

Frankly, I'm surprised we didn't get a "dogs " from the LordShiva yet.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by JulianD
Here is entertaining debunk of many so called 'facts'

"Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously."

I wonder who the dimbass was that made this startling discovery?

[Wezil]

Originally posted by SlowwHand


"Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously."

I wonder who the dimbass was that made this startling discovery?

I know someone that went through every spice on my spice rack and rolled a sample joint from each. He was soooo ill afterward.

[Donegeal]

Well DUH!!!!

Of course you knew him! It probably would have been a bit more akward otherwise.

[rah]

Selected entries from http://www.weird-websites.com/justweird/weird-facts.htm

Most lipstick contains fish scales! How about a kiss fishface?

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! DOH

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. But don't worry, they're all family films.

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size. I just don't know what to say about this.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. Awwwwww.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit and A whale's penis is called a dork. I think I'd rather be called a twit.

Evian (the bottled water) spelled backwards is "naive."
The Jokes on you.

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. I sure it took a million dollars of taxpayer money to figure this one out. My neighbor's kid would have done it for free.

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music. Another million dollars wasted.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. I guess we know what they were smokin.

The original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. Yeah, they smoked it.

There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes. Why an I not surprised.

Many more fun facts are there.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Donegeal
Well DUH!!!!

Of course you knew him! It probably would have been a bit more akward otherwise.

Not necessarily. I was actually expecting a poster to accuse me of being the "someone".

[Julian Delphiki]

Originally posted by SlowwHand


"Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously."

I wonder who the dimbass was that made this startling discovery?

Probably the same guy who first tried it anally..