The Official "interesting facts" thread.

[GoldShadow]

There is NO word that rhymes with orange, or purple, or silver. There are some words (and combinations of words) that come close, but nothing that truly matches.

 

[Jazzy Jinx]

Purple rhymes with Burple.

Burple

 

[Zook]

You know what we need on SWF? A master debate hall. It would be a place where only the best master debaters could master debate. Then all of the master debaters could have one huge master debating party and stop master debating with us. I mean, c'mon. Compaired to them, our master debating shouldn't even be called master debating next to their master debating.

 

[MetalLuigi1209]

Nothing Rhymes with month either.

 

[The Killer Yoshi]

As of 2006, more than 1 in 8 Americans showed signs of internet addiction.

The egg came first.

 

[len1]

the "Pokemon" Missingno is a flying type.

Chuck Norris can belive it's not butter.

Azurill Isnt a Water type It is a Normal type

Is there anything Chuck Norris Can't do?
Thats a rhetorical question please dont answer it


http://www.thingsthatdontexist.com/ is an actual website

 

[Zook]

The egg came first, but only after the chicken laid it.

I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?

The longest running comedy and cartoon show is The Simpsons.

In ancient Rome, the symbole of freedom was the cat.

On January seventh, 2000, at 3:30 P.M., the Smurfs aired on Cartoon Network for the last time.

 

[commonyoshi]

The egg came first, but only after the chicken laid it.

If you were an evolutionist, you'd pretty much have to believe that the chicken egg came first.

 

[Ixninjax]

You know what we need on SWF? A master debate hall. It would be a place where only the best master debaters could master debate. Then all of the master debaters could have one huge master debating party and stop master debating with us. I mean, c'mon. Compaired to them, our master debating shouldn't even be called master debating next to their master debating.

Hilarious.

Dolphins are the only other animal that have sex for pleasure. Other then us of course. I think i heard this on the discovery channel.

 

[Rici]

Nuh-uh, there are some ape-species who like to masturbate for pleasure.

And I'm not gonna debate on the chicken/egg thing. I am not going to do that!

 

[The Mad Hatter]

I read a book ("Why do men fall asleep after sex?") and it goes into depth on the whole animal sex thing. There are lots of animals who have sex for pleasure. Its been proven that dogs know they cant impregnate your leg, and they dont hump it to look cool.

 

[Bahamut]

Nuh-uh, there are some ape-species who like to masturbate for pleasure.

You're referring to the bonobo, a close relative to chimpanzees and humans.

 

[len1]

Find the other Z in this post and win a prize

Spoiler

( a prize of wasted time)

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also the Wii and ps3 individually have sold more than the 360 already (not like it was going to be a challenge)

and a fact to suit the current theme
all polar bears are left handed

 

[Zook]

The stongest animal (not size-for-weight) other than than elephant is the horse.

The thing with the most image results for searching in google is 'Pamela Anderson,' followed by 'Pokemon' and then 'Dragon Ball.'

 

[Pustulio]

The first soda on the market was Dr. Pepper, Cocoa-Cola was a medicine at the time.
Echindas and Platypuses all though mammals lay eggs.
Rattlesnakes give live birth.
The Pithiu bird is the only poisonous bird on Earth.
Most hybrids can't mate.
Albino animals can't mate.
The Beatles manager Brian Epstien actually invented multi track recording.
The 1972 Dolphins are the only perfect team in the history of pro football.
The New York Yankees have won more championships than any team in any sport.
I like the Dolphins and the Yankees.
The "f" word is a legal term meaning "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge".
Some Wal-Mart managers get pied in the face several times in a year. (My dad and some Utah guys)

 

[Xx GuNz xX]

I like the Dolphins and the Yankees.
The "f" word is a legal term meaning "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge".

I thought it was "Fornication Under the Consent of the King"...

 

[Virgilijus]

Origins

The "f" word is a legal term meaning "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge".

I thought it was "Fornication Under the Consent of the King"...

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_268b.html

Both, while amusing, are wrong

 

[Jazzy Jinx]

Having totally ODed on gutter epithets, let us move briefly to the cheerful world of euphemism. Professor Spears has amassed an awesome collection of synonyms for the generative act (under "occupy," p. 278, in case you're the type who likes to look up dirty words in reference books), including the following, which gives you an idea of the never-ending richness of the English language: bang, batter, beef, bumble, blow off the loose corns, bounce the brillo, dance the buttock jig, do a dive in the dark, flimp, flurgle, foin, foraminate, futz, get one's leather stretched, get one's nuts cracked, get one's oil changed, go bird's nesting, go bush-ranging, go like a rat up a rhododendron, go star-gazing on one's back, have a bun in the oven, have a game in the ****-loft, have a leap up the ladder, have hot pudding for supper, hide the ferret, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hive it, jazz it, knock it off, lay some pipe, light the lamp, lose the lamp and pocket the stake, make her grunt, mix one's peanut butter, palliardize, pestle, pheeze, pizzle, play cars and garages, plow, plug, plook, ram, rasp, ride below the crupper, shoot between wind and water, strop one's beak, varnish one's cane, wet one's wick, wind the clock, and work the hairy oracle--some 675 synonyms in all. The ingenuity displayed in this, ahh, well-plowed ground is nothing short of awesome.

This part made me laugh my a** off.

I also enjoyed the final part where the coleagues discussed other possibilities. "The were going to hang him but he pleaded temporary insanity". Awesome...

 

[Jazriel]

-Einstein's brain is preserved in the most pure honey ever produced in the history of the world. Slices of it have been shaved off for study and have led to the discovery of "deep-thinking" tissue. (This is old info btw)

-The closest (genetically speaking) organsim compared to humans (asides humans of different races ) is MOLD. If you change two genes in mold it becomes a human. Next in line are: fruit flies, pigs, and then chimps. (I think it might be pigs first though, can't remember)

-It is impossible to understand what it means to be more logical than another person. Same goes with trying to understand how a person can be less logical.

-There is a definite answer to all relevant and correct questions. (I.e. Nature vs Nurture, the God debate, meaning of life, etc)

-As for the 10% brain usage, I'm fairly sure that's correct.

-It IS possible to ask a stupid question. (Well, not technically. Though it is possible to ask an incorrect question)

-The only sport that can be performed NO MATTER WHAT (unless you're dead) is combat. To fight (both physically and verbally) can be done under any circumstances. This also means to be defiant, to rebel, to protect, etc. (I learned this when I was told that running is the purest sport as it can be done always but I wondered what happened if you didn't have legs)

-That's all I can think of for now.


"Albino animals can't mate"? Albinoism (lol) just means a lack of melanin. Why would that lead to infertility?

 

[Jazzy Jinx]

-There is a definite answer to all relevant and correct questions. (I.e. Nature vs Nurture, the God debate, meaning of life, etc)

On the contrary, there are some things that are either too difficult or impossible to comprehend, so not all questions have a definite answer. Don't believe me? Allow me to give you an impossible question to answer then:

Before the Big Bang, there was emptiness. Where does this emptiness begin? Was it infinite? How can it be infinite if the Big Bang ended the emptiness? It doesn't matter at what part of infinite you begin at, the measure always remains the same so how could there be infinite emptiness before the Big Bang?

 

[pikachun00b7]

11.6 thousand SWF members have 5 posts or less.

 

[Jazzy Jinx]

Every BRoomer has less than 7 posts per day.

 

[pikachun00b7]

Uncle Kenny is not actually an uncle, and may be planning to assassinate a third of all active SWF members.

 

[Jazzy Jinx]

2/3, but who's keeping track?

Commonyoshi is Asian (possibly) and is a loner in that he doesn't like women.

Uncle Meat is from Great Britian.

EEvisu is black.

 

[Pustulio]

Pigs, Dolphins and Humans are the only animals that can recognize their own reflection.

To answer the question why albinos can't mate is that really there are several types of albinism and if an animal has a certain type of it then the sex cells for whatever reason are affected and it mutates them so that they can't mate. Albinism is caused by recieving only recessive traits from both parents which causes the skin to be pale because it lacks pigment. It's kind of strange. So not all albinos can't mate but, some can't.

People who live in the Middle East feel that wiping with paper is not a proper way to clean so they wipe with their left hand and they only eat with their right hand.

 

[Xsyven]

Chimps and Bonobos can recognize their own reflection, too.

 

[Pustulio]

No they can't that is a common myth they actually see it as another Bonobo or Chimp.

 

[Virgilijus]

I'd like to see the source for that claim...

 

[Eternal phoenix Fire]

I plan on assassinating commonyoshi in 2 week(s),1 day(s),16 hour(s),22 min.(S),and 46 second(S)....

And counting.....

He's mine Uncle Kenny!!! >=D

 

[Kai_]

Fact: Uncle Sam > Uncle Kenny

Pride of the nation.

 

[Xsyven]

No they can't that is a common myth they actually see it as another Bonobo or Chimp.

If you put a chimp or bonobo in front of a mirror, and let him play around in front of it for a while, then put a red sticker on his head, he'll touch his own forehead.

Baboons touch the red dot on their reflection's forehead.

 

[Rici]

You're referring to the bonobo, a close relative to chimpanzees and humans.

Yeah that one. = P Forgot the name.

Interesting fact for the movie-fans:
Pirates of the Caribean At World's End (3) aires May 25th.
Ocean's Thirteen aires this summer(I'm not very sure about when though)
And I believed I heared something about a new Shrek but I'm not certain of that either.
There will be a new Rambo.

 

[Zook]

Kirby was originally supposed to be yellow.

The universe has no edge and no center.

No one can assasinate my Master.

Question: If you put buttered toast on a cat a dropped it off a building, how would it land?

 

[Jazzy Jinx]

It would hover above the ground in a state of quantum indecision. Duh.

 

[commonyoshi]

Fact: There is rumored to be a mythological sword burried under Paris whose finder will rule the world.

Fact: I have this sword.

Fact: I will behead Phoenix Fire once he comes aknockin' on my front door.

 

[The Killer Yoshi]

Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.

Every drop of sea water contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

 

[Zook]

What part of the world do I inherit, Master?

Kirby is tone-deaf.

In Pearl and Dimond, Shuckle can learn a move that switches his Attack and Defense around... ****...

 

[Pustulio]

Chimps and Bonobos can recognize their own reflection, too.

My bad you were right I was wron gI just looked it up.

Oh and as a response to an earlier post there is a confirmed Shrek 3, my dad was at the national Wal-Mart managers meeting in Kansas City and saw a preview for it.

 

[The Killer Yoshi]

Shrek 4 is planned to be released in 2010.

 

[MetalLuigi1209]

Metal Luigis are usually better than regular Luigis, due to their complex statistics of velocity, mass, and potential energy. Luigis still rock though.