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SeraRelm

The weird facts thread! The stranger, the better!

A hurricane releases more energy in 10 minutes, than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Ducks emit a type of quack that doesn't echo.
 
Terrik

Terrik

If you press Z or R twice, you can do a barrel roll.


Ahem.


The only part of the human anatomy that has no blood supply is the cornea​
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bhamv3

bhamv3

doomdragon6 said:
Mythbusters found otherwise. *nod*
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Did they test all types of duck quacks? Because I used to see "duck quacks don't echo" and then it was debunked, and now it shows up as "ducks emit a type of quack that doesn't echo."

Somehow, sometime, ducks will see fit to unleash their special quack. The type that you hear once... and then never again. Not even an echo.
 
Terrik

Terrik

bhamv3 said:
Did they test all types of duck quacks? Because I used to see "duck quacks don't echo" and then it was debunked, and now it shows up as "ducks emit a type of quack that doesn't echo."

Somehow, sometime, ducks will see fit to unleash their special quack. The type that you hear once... and then never again. Not even an echo.
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Is it because you're dead?​

It takes 42 muscles in your face to frown. It only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and smack someone upside the head.​
 
David

David

That if you get the longest glide by pressing X at the very top of your jump, and can use Triangle to drop down in mid-flight?
 
Jay

Jay

The idea that eating carrots helps you see in the dark was a lie invented by the British Airforce in WW2, in order to explain how British air raids were so successful in the dark without tipping the Germans off on the existence of radar.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Dreamt is the only english word that ends in MT. (you can argue that there are 5, but they are all modified versions of dreamt, like undreamt).

Also, I find it hilarious that the spell check on Firefox doesn't recognize dreamt as a word, but does recognize undreamt.
 
North_Ranger

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During the Second World War, the British employed the services of stage magician Jasper Maskelyne in covert operations in North America, most famously in efforts to redirect German forces into less advantageous positions and obfuscating them with optical illusions. One of the more famous tricks of Maskelyne's involved fooling the German bombers into bombing a fake port.

Most of Maskelyne's war efforts are still classified, and will remain so until 2046.
 
Jay

Jay

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
 
strawman

strawman

For each person on this planet, google has about one million transisters in CPUs scattered around the world. By the time you finish reading this sentence google has processed enough calculations to figure PI to the 200,000th digit 7 billion times over - once for each person on the planet.
 
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makare

Bowielee said:
Dreamt is the only english word that ends in MT. (you can argue that there are 5, but they are all modified versions of dreamt, like undreamt).

Also, I find it hilarious that the spell check on Firefox doesn't recognize dreamt as a word, but does recognize undreamt.
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Firefox doesn't know the word quesadilla. Firefox is dumb


In fact did you guys know that Firefox is dumb and it doesn't know the word quesadilla.
 
Jay

Jay

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 cause.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Jay said:
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 cause.
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That's actually only a myth. Apparently it was a tradition, but so many sculptors were completely unaware of it, or just chose to ignore it, that it's rarely accurate anymore.
 
GasBandit

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The average person produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime - enough to fill at least one swimming pool.
 
Null

Null

There is a type of catfish in the Amazon River that will swim up a human urethra, implant barbs so it cannot be easily removed, and drink the blood. The urea is also a waste product from gills of other fish, which is were it usually feeds.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Null said:
There is a type of catfish in the Amazon River that will swim up a human urethra, implant barbs so it cannot be easily removed, and drink the blood. The urea is also a waste product from gills of other fish, which is were it usually feeds.
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The Candiru!


 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Unfortunately, this kind of threads tend to go quickly towards always-the-same-"facts", half of which have been debunked, half of which are so general that they can't properly be called "facts", and half of which seem to be complete fantasy.

That aside, did you know the bearded vulture is the biggest bird in Europe, and, while being a vulture and occasional hunter, doesn't eat meat? He actually lets other carrion eaters eat the meat, and he eats the bones himself.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Brad Beyers, the Human Toolbox, can
  • Hammer a nail through his face and hang a wooden board from it
  • Push an ice pick up his nostril
  • Drill into his head with an electric drill: "I know when I'm going too far because ... I hear a crunching noise," he said as he demonstrated his sickening skills on the Guinness World Records TV show.
 
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