The Official "interesting facts" thread.

[GoldShadow]

Oh come on, you realize the one about eating spiders isn't true right? Honestly, who would conduct a lifetime study just observing how many spiders entered someone's mouth and come up with an average for a person, without accounting for something like the number of spiders in all the geographic areas/climates/environments people could live in?

Also AI will never exceed regular intelligence... AI can do complex calculations and stuff, but the human brain is far too complex to reproduce.

 

[MARIOWNAGE]

The spider one being fake is a relief. If you resarch a bit of "Technological Singularity" it should explain it a lot better than I could. I'm pretty sure it's just a theory, but it had me pretty spooked when I first heard about it, but that was at 4:12 AM. Also shortly after reading about it, I watched the Rockit music video and It made my eyes hurt it was so disturbing.

 

[Kai_]

In the near future; artificial intelligence will exceed the capabilities of regular intelligence.

The most extraordinary species in the world is human. I don't believe that "fact."

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

 

[Jazzy Jinx]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Kai_'s fact was a fact.

 

[pikachun00b7]

I am currently typing this post, with my laptop, in my bathroom, doing #2.
Simultaneously

 

[Wak]

our tongue is the strongest muscle of our body

 

[Jazzy Jinx]

Define strongest. I do know that the tongue is the quickest regenerating muscle but I never heard about its strength.

Blue fire is the hottest fire and white is the coldest. (Don't touch any fires regardless)

 

[MARIOWNAGE]

I thought white fire is hottest, or am I thinking of stars. Maybe i get everything mixed up =\

 

[GoldShadow]

our tongue is the strongest muscle of our body

Define strongest. I do know that the tongue is the quickest regenerating muscle but I never heard about its strength.

There's nothing to support the claim that the tongue is the strongest muscle (or, group of muscles), unfortunately. It's one of those things like "we only use 10% of our brain" that for some reason keeps getting circulated.

However, in terms of total output of power, the heart is the strongest muscle. It doesn't produce as much power at one time as other muscles, but it runs constantly without any rest and continuously pumps liters of blood around the body.

 

[Xsyven]

Define strongest. I do know that the tongue is the quickest regenerating muscle but I never heard about its strength.

Can you move any other muscle in your body like you can move your tongue?

If so, please submit yourself to a circus. Freak.

 

[Wak]

I only heard this tong thing in a TV show the other day.

Did you know that one of the hypothesis of "why we yawn" is because it was vital about 10 000 years ago.

Since the yawn is contagious, every cavemans went to sleep at the same time. It prevented the group to be separated. So that, every caveman also went to haunting at the same time, and etc etc etc. I wish I knew where I read this.

 

[Virgilijus]

That's interesting, but I doubt it is actually real.

A certain type of bamboo is the fastest growing plant in the world (bamboo actually being a type of grass), lengthening itself by one inch every hour.

 

[Eggz]

Wak and I have the same birthday and are making a video to commemerate it.

 

[Rici]

...Since the yawn is contagious, ...

That's always what I wondered about, how come the yawn is contagious?

 

[The Killer Yoshi]

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

 

[GoldShadow]

That's always what I wondered about, how come the yawn is contagious?

No answer to that question yet, but something that has been disproven is the "to get more oxygen/remove carbon dioxide" theory.
Either way a lot of animals do it too so it probably goes far back in evolutionary history, and while I'm not sure that caveman idea is entirely true, it might have some truth to it.

 

[yorpy]

If they didn't put the caramel color in Coke then it would be green.

 

[Kragen]

The average lifespan of an umbrella is about 1,5 years.

 

[Ensee]

9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb; This is not true, Joseph Swan did.

 

[Kai_]

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

 

[Dogosse Gier]

The Trans-Siberian Railroad has a kink in it. The reason for this is that when whatever tsar was in power at the time ordered the railroad to be built, he got a big map of Russia, a ruler, and a pencil and drew a big straight line across it, decreeing that line to be the path of the railway.

The ruler had a notch in it.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

Sorry, but sugar does not spoil. (unless it gets wet)

 

[Kai_]

Sorry, but sugar does not spoil. (unless it gets wet)

That actually depends on what sugar. Granulated sugar compressed in an airtight container will be fine indefinitely.

however, if a thin solution forms because of air moisture, then deterioration can happen(This is a process of years). Even then, it should still be ok to eat

^_^ Just being technical

 

[Jazzy Jinx]

Slang: "This s*** is pissing me off."

Technical: "This defication is urinating me off."

Hiemie: Uncle Kenny just lost his BRoom spot... AGAIN!

Didn't even notice this edit until Skywalker pointed it out.

Hiemie acknowledges my exsistence! Yay!

 

[Virgilijus]

The most collect calls each year are placed on Father's Day.

 

[Jazzy Jinx]

Leap years were coined because it takes the Earth 365.25 days to make a full revolution. Instead of having a quarter day each year, we just add all .25's after four years for an extra day.

 

[CO]

Leap years were coined because it takes the Earth 365.25 days to make a full revolution. Instead of having a quarter day each year, we just add all .25's after four years for an extra day.

Though the Mayan Civilization did not include a leap year or day in any of their calendars despite experts believing they knew about the .25 day each year.

 

[Zero Beat]

Here's a challenge.

Make orange rhyme with another word.

 

[Schweppes]

Doorhinge?

 

[Uncle Meat]

Are you pronouncing 'orange' like 'oar + anj' or like 'oar + inj'?

 

[Schweppes]

Uh...'oar + inj.' >_>

 

[Xsyven]

And don't forget about the weirdos that say 'Are-anj'.

 

[Endless Nightmares]

My relatives in the South say "ernge"

 

[Emersai_the_Prophet]

I like the smell of my own farts.

 

[FastFox]

Micheal J. Fox is the best rave dancer in the universe. Because of Parkinson's.

 

[Xx GuNz xX]

Here's a challenge.

Make orange rhyme with another word.

...

I don't think anything rhymes with orange either.

Edit:In the English language, of course.

Yeah...

 

[Jazzy Jinx]

There are over 50,000 members on SWF and only Hiemie has his username highlighted in black. I am calling Hiemie "Black Sheep" from now on. You hear that Hiemie? You are now Black Sheep. Feel free to protest and I will feel free to not listen.

I want to see Hiemie, Matt, Scav, and Drab Emordnilap's usernames in red for a second just to see what it looks like...

 

[Tera253]

Tera253 is one of the only people who referrs to herself in 3rd person.

NOw, for two slightly more common facts:
there are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter, and 118 on the edge of a dime.

~Tera253~

EDIT: and, silver, purple, and ORANGE have no rhyming words in the english language.

 

[Hiemie]

I could simply ban you Kenny.

Fact: Signing your posts is annoying.

 

[FastFox]

Fact: Lysol kills 99.9% of germs on regular household surfaces.