A long list of random facts. 675 to be exact

Originally Posted by sooperhooper

#92 Fish can drown.
???

oh yeah, ran across this:

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[edit] Incorrect facts
Several of the facts on Snapple caps have been found to be outdated, incorrect or exaggerated. Discredited "Real Facts" include:

#1 "A goldfish's attention span is three seconds." This theory was tested by Discovery Channel's MythBusters. The experiment consisted of training several goldfish to complete a maze. They concluded that a goldfish's attention span and memory retention lasts well over 3 seconds.
#28 "Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying." Tearing when cutting an onion are caused by a gas released that comes in contact with the eye, and is not thwarted by gum chewing.
#31 "The average human will eat an average of eight spiders while sleeping." This statistic was made up in 1993 as an example of the absurd things people will believe simply because they come across them on the internet, as uncovered by Snopes.[2]
#36 "A duck's quack does not echo." Tested by Snopes and Mythbusters. Both tests concluded that a duck's quack does echo but is hard to distinguish.[3]
#40 "It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down." This is not true. Cows can walk up and down stairs.[4]
#69 "Caller ID is illegal in California." There is no law against Caller ID in the state, though there were lengthy debates about legalizing it in the early 1990s.[5]
#77 "No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times." This myth was proven wrong by Britney Gallivan in 2002 when she managed 12 folds. In 2005, drawing on Gallivan's accomplishment, the Discovery Channel show MythBusters, folded a piece of paper 11 times. The piece of paper used in MythBusters was an oversized piece of paper and thinner than a standard 8.5"x11" piece of paper.[6]
#89 "The average American walks 18,000 steps a day." There are many 10,000 steps a day health programs which consider 10,000 a stretch goal. Such programs state that a "sedentary person" only walks 1,000 to 3,000 steps a day.[7]
#114 "The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old" Currently the oldest living animal, a tortoise named Tu'i Malila, lived to be 188 years old.[8]
#116 "The largest fish is the whale shark - it can be over 50 feet long and weigh 2 tons." Full-grown whale sharks do not weigh 2 tons (4,000 lbs or 1,820 kg), but are much heavier, weighing up to 16 tons (32,000 lbs or 14,550 kg).[9]
#121 "The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin." The Cassowary and the Flightless Cormorant are other flightless birds that can swim.
#122 "A duck cannot walk without bobbing its head." According to several videos (see reference) that show ducks out on strolls, it is clear that a duck does not need to bob its head while it walks.[10]
#136 "Strawberries are the only fruit whose seeds grow on the outside." False. Cashews are a fruit with external seeds.
#145 "Lake Superior is the world's largest lake." The Caspian Sea is considered the largest lake; Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake by surface area. The largest freshwater lake by volume is Lake Baikal in Siberia.[11]
#146 "Falls Church, Virginia, is the smallest functional county at 2.0 square miles, although it is termed an 'independent city.'" (Kalawao County, Hawaii is also smaller but is technically part of Oceania, and not either of the American continents[12])
#151 "The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 mph in 1963." The current record is 155 by Andy Roddick on September 27, 2004.
#162 "The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit." In fact, the core of the sun reaches 15 million degrees Celsius, about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.[13]
#163 "The first penny had the motto 'Mind your own business.'" This is false. The Fugio Cent had the motto, "Mind your business."
#171 "The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and fingertips". The eyeballs have more nerve endings than either of these.
#180 "The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano." The first VTR (Video Tape Recorder) was made in 1956. VCRs (video cassette recorders) came along in the 1970s.
#266 "Manhattan is the only borough in New York City that does not have a Main Street." Roosevelt Island is part of the borough of Manhattan, and its only significant street is named Main Street.
#327 "Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams." The Mayans chewed chicle, which is the sap from the sapodilla tree, and the ancient Greeks chewed mastiche, a chewing gum made from the resin of the mastic tree. Early American settlers also made a chewing gum from spruce sap and beeswax.
#334 "Thomas Edison coined the word 'hello' and introduced it as a way to answer the phone." The word "hello" was used in print in Roughing It by Mark Twain in 1872, while the telephone was invented in 1876.[14]
#362 "'Arachibutlphobia' is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth." The correct spelling is 'arachibutyrophobia'.
#383 "Mount Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning." According to the National Park Service, Cadillac Mountain is the first place in Maine to see the sunrise during the winter, while Mars Hill, Maine is the first in the summer. The difference between sunrises on Cadillac Mountain, Mars Hill, and in Lubec, Maine -- the easternmost town in the United States -- is generally less than half a second.
#662 saying that "Philadelphia was the first capital of the United States." This is incorrect. New York City was the first capital in the United States. Philidelphia was the capital after NYC for only 10 years, while Washington D.C., the "to be" capital was being built. [This is incorrect. The statement is that Philadelphia was the first capital "of" the United States, not "in" the United States. The capital of the United States during the First Continental Congress was Philadelphia.)
#726 "A polar bear cannot be seen by an infrared camera, due to its transparent fur." Polar Bear International uses infrared cameras for polar bear research, particularly to track female bears who are in dens with cubs.
#794 "Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskien [sic] Point, the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart." It is true that Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in the Continental United States, but Badwater in Death Valley, not Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, is the lowest point in the United States.[15]
#889 "The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers." It is true that Rhodopis is considered the oldest telling of the Cinderella story, but her slippers are consistently described as rose-gold. Some claim that Charles Perrault's classic French telling featured fur slippers, and that vair (fur) was mistranslated as verre (glass,) but this is believed to be an urban legend.[16]
#904 "If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns." There is a known configuration whose optimal solution is 20 turns. It has been proved that any combination can be solved in at most 22 turns.
#907 "Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors." Killing people in any way or by any reason is illegal by law in Paraguay.
# 921 " if you had 1 billion dollars and spent 1 thousand dollars a day, it would take you 2,749 years to spend it all" It would actually take 2737 years and 311 days (including leap years) or 2739 years and 265 days without including leap years.
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From what I've heard, if you pull them backwards, water will get into their gills and they would drown
 
wow.... posting for later ... 675
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Originally Posted by solemunchies

Originally Posted by sooperhooper

#92 Fish can drown.
???

oh yeah, ran across this:

Spoiler [+]
[edit] Incorrect facts
Several of the facts on Snapple caps have been found to be outdated, incorrect or exaggerated. Discredited "Real Facts" include:

#1 "A goldfish's attention span is three seconds." This theory was tested by Discovery Channel's MythBusters. The experiment consisted of training several goldfish to complete a maze. They concluded that a goldfish's attention span and memory retention lasts well over 3 seconds.
#28 "Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying." Tearing when cutting an onion are caused by a gas released that comes in contact with the eye, and is not thwarted by gum chewing.
#31 "The average human will eat an average of eight spiders while sleeping." This statistic was made up in 1993 as an example of the absurd things people will believe simply because they come across them on the internet, as uncovered by Snopes.[2]
#36 "A duck's quack does not echo." Tested by Snopes and Mythbusters. Both tests concluded that a duck's quack does echo but is hard to distinguish.[3]
#40 "It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down." This is not true. Cows can walk up and down stairs.[4]
#69 "Caller ID is illegal in California." There is no law against Caller ID in the state, though there were lengthy debates about legalizing it in the early 1990s.[5]
#77 "No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times." This myth was proven wrong by Britney Gallivan in 2002 when she managed 12 folds. In 2005, drawing on Gallivan's accomplishment, the Discovery Channel show MythBusters, folded a piece of paper 11 times. The piece of paper used in MythBusters was an oversized piece of paper and thinner than a standard 8.5"x11" piece of paper.[6]
#89 "The average American walks 18,000 steps a day." There are many 10,000 steps a day health programs which consider 10,000 a stretch goal. Such programs state that a "sedentary person" only walks 1,000 to 3,000 steps a day.[7]
#114 "The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old" Currently the oldest living animal, a tortoise named Tu'i Malila, lived to be 188 years old.[8]
#116 "The largest fish is the whale shark - it can be over 50 feet long and weigh 2 tons." Full-grown whale sharks do not weigh 2 tons (4,000 lbs or 1,820 kg), but are much heavier, weighing up to 16 tons (32,000 lbs or 14,550 kg).[9]
#121 "The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin." The Cassowary and the Flightless Cormorant are other flightless birds that can swim.
#122 "A duck cannot walk without bobbing its head." According to several videos (see reference) that show ducks out on strolls, it is clear that a duck does not need to bob its head while it walks.[10]
#136 "Strawberries are the only fruit whose seeds grow on the outside." False. Cashews are a fruit with external seeds.
#145 "Lake Superior is the world's largest lake." The Caspian Sea is considered the largest lake; Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake by surface area. The largest freshwater lake by volume is Lake Baikal in Siberia.[11]
#146 "Falls Church, Virginia, is the smallest functional county at 2.0 square miles, although it is termed an 'independent city.'" (Kalawao County, Hawaii is also smaller but is technically part of Oceania, and not either of the American continents[12])
#151 "The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 mph in 1963." The current record is 155 by Andy Roddick on September 27, 2004.
#162 "The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit." In fact, the core of the sun reaches 15 million degrees Celsius, about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.[13]
#163 "The first penny had the motto 'Mind your own business.'" This is false. The Fugio Cent had the motto, "Mind your business."
#171 "The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and fingertips". The eyeballs have more nerve endings than either of these.
#180 "The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano." The first VTR (Video Tape Recorder) was made in 1956. VCRs (video cassette recorders) came along in the 1970s.
#266 "Manhattan is the only borough in New York City that does not have a Main Street." Roosevelt Island is part of the borough of Manhattan, and its only significant street is named Main Street.
#327 "Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams." The Mayans chewed chicle, which is the sap from the sapodilla tree, and the ancient Greeks chewed mastiche, a chewing gum made from the resin of the mastic tree. Early American settlers also made a chewing gum from spruce sap and beeswax.
#334 "Thomas Edison coined the word 'hello' and introduced it as a way to answer the phone." The word "hello" was used in print in Roughing It by Mark Twain in 1872, while the telephone was invented in 1876.[14]
#362 "'Arachibutlphobia' is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth." The correct spelling is 'arachibutyrophobia'.
#383 "Mount Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning." According to the National Park Service, Cadillac Mountain is the first place in Maine to see the sunrise during the winter, while Mars Hill, Maine is the first in the summer. The difference between sunrises on Cadillac Mountain, Mars Hill, and in Lubec, Maine -- the easternmost town in the United States -- is generally less than half a second.
#662 saying that "Philadelphia was the first capital of the United States." This is incorrect. New York City was the first capital in the United States. Philidelphia was the capital after NYC for only 10 years, while Washington D.C., the "to be" capital was being built. [This is incorrect. The statement is that Philadelphia was the first capital "of" the United States, not "in" the United States. The capital of the United States during the First Continental Congress was Philadelphia.)
#726 "A polar bear cannot be seen by an infrared camera, due to its transparent fur." Polar Bear International uses infrared cameras for polar bear research, particularly to track female bears who are in dens with cubs.
#794 "Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskien [sic] Point, the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart." It is true that Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in the Continental United States, but Badwater in Death Valley, not Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, is the lowest point in the United States.[15]
#889 "The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers." It is true that Rhodopis is considered the oldest telling of the Cinderella story, but her slippers are consistently described as rose-gold. Some claim that Charles Perrault's classic French telling featured fur slippers, and that vair (fur) was mistranslated as verre (glass,) but this is believed to be an urban legend.[16]
#904 "If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns." There is a known configuration whose optimal solution is 20 turns. It has been proved that any combination can be solved in at most 22 turns.
#907 "Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors." Killing people in any way or by any reason is illegal by law in Paraguay.
# 921 " if you had 1 billion dollars and spent 1 thousand dollars a day, it would take you 2,749 years to spend it all" It would actually take 2737 years and 311 days (including leap years) or 2739 years and 265 days without including leap years.
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From what I've heard, if you pull them backwards, water will get into their gills and they would drown
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Youve never heard of how sharks drown? Thats why the have to keep moving even while they are asleep.
 
#173 Chinese is the most spoken language in the world.


I thought Chinese wasnt a language. Chinese people speak either Mandarin or Cantonese.
 
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