371 facts. An interesting read

[Darth Mortis]

And of these, how many can you say "Yeah - I knew that!" to:

1. For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects
2. The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument
3. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television
4. The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h)
5. If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long
6. Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies
7. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
8. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
9. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
10. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
11. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
12. There are more chickens than people in the world
13. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey
14. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched "
15. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20
16. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple
17. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt "
18. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
19. Almonds are a member of the peach family
20. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
21. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable
22. The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs
23. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
24. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3 63% of its size: "L A "
25. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
26. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
27. Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur
28. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
29. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer
30. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life "
31. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
32. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
33. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open (DON'T try this at home!)
34. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
35. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
36. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
37. Mr Rogers is an ordained minister
38. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
39. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
40. Many hamsters blink one eye at a time
41. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper
42. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites
43. Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U S A
44. Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world
45. Starfish have no brain
46. Dolphins sleep with one eye open
47. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter "E"
48. Bulls are color blind
49. A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds
50. "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs
51. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth
52. Lip stick contains fish scales
53. The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people
54. The largest known kidney stone weighed 1 36 kilograms
55. Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown
56. Women blink twice as many times as men do
57. A bowling pin only has to tilt 7 5 degrees in order to fall down
58. The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957
59. Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9
60. The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver
61. Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A In the old episodes it was 3A
62. The life span of a taste bud is ten days
63. Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits
64. The billionth digit in Pi is 9
65. The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3 14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
66. Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi!
67. A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long
68. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes
69. Emus can't walk backwards
70. A group of unicorns is called a blessing
71. A group of kangaroos is called a mob
72. A group of whales is called a pod
73. A group of geese is called a gaggle
74. A group of owls is called a parliament
75. A group of ravens is called a murder
76. A group of bears is called a sleuth
77. 12 or more cows is called a flink
78. A baby oyster is called a spat
79. Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down
80. In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off It was alive too!
81. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head
82. Pinocchio was made of pine
83. The largest pumpkin weighed 1262 lbs
84. A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will
85. More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes
86. Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery
87. There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo
88. The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime
89. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge
90. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
91. Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit
92. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
93. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie
94. The pound sign .. is called anoctothorpe
95. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world
96. New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states
97. There was once a town in West Virginia called "6"
98. Singapore only has one train station
99. The parking meter was invented in North Dakota
100. Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox
101. Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator
102. The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll
103. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange
104. Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999
105. The earth is approx 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons
106. The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT
107. Popeye was 5'6"
108. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles
109. The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay"
110. Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first
111. The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year
112. Hilary Clinton once said We are the President
113. The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%
114. The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%
115. There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll
116. The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it
117. "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish
118. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12 6 miles
119. The average American eats 2 donuts a day
120. The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz
121. The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years
122. Every minute in the U S 6 people turn 17
123. It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing
124. 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties
125. A baby is born every 7 seconds
126. 10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday
127. On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day
128. Blue and white are the most common school colors
129. Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year
130. The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?
131. The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here I want you
132. The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb
133. The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum
134. A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny His middle name is George James
135. It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if you have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
136. In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat
137. A new book is published every 13 minutes in America
138. America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla
139. Americans eat 18 billion hot dogs a year
140. Americans eat 134 pounds of sugar a year
141. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons
142. Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe
143. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only 000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray
144. Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool
145. Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises
146. India has 50 million monkeys
147. By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life
148. Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year
149. Pigs can cover a mile in 7 5 minutes when running at top speed
150. You breathe about 10 million times a year
151. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream
152. The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse
153. Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018
154. The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour
155. The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground
156. The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects
157. The most common time for a wake up call is 7am
158. The doorbell was invented in 1831
159. The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board
160. The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928
161. There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream
162. The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke
163. Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs
164. There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown
165. There are approx 550 hairs in the eyebrow
166. The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay
167. The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight
168. A squid has 10 tentacles
169. A snail's reproductive organs are in its head
170. A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose
171. The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible
172. The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn"
173. The telephone's U S patent number is 174,465
174. The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day
175. There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment
176. When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes
177. Napoleon was terrified of cats
178. The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint
179. The typical American eats 263 eggs a year
180. The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro
181. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger
182. The parking meter was invented by C C Magee in 1935
183. In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits
184. The human body weighs forty times more than the brain
185. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp
186. A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner
187. The oldest known vegetable is the pea
188. Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes
189. The avocado has the most calories of any fruit
190. The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia
191. The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel
192. France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese
193. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone
194. 4000 people are injured by teapots each year
195. The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year
196. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback
197. The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine
198. The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states
199. The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger
200. George Washington Carver invented peanut butter
201. The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year
202. Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913
203. A scallop has 35 blue eyes
204. The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one
205. The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow
206. Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935
207. The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal
208. The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey
209. Russia has the most movie theaters in the world
210. Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine
211. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue
212. The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday
213. An Oscar weighs seven pounds
214. It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep
215. Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer
216. The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps
217. The mongoose was barred live entry into the U S in 1902
218. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning
219. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
220. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30
221. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m p h
222. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
223. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet
224. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue
225. A jellyfish is 95 percent water
226. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump
227. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly
228. America once issued a 5-cent bill
229. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
230. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung
231. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
232. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
233. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
234. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
235. You blink about 84,000,000 times a year
236. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word
237. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
238. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States
239. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth
240. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
241. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death
242. The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used
243. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed or is that pawed?
244. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven
245. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women
246. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions
247. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow
248. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings
249. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight
250. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
251. When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head
252. Coca-Cola was originally green
253. Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita
254. Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work
255. 28 percent of Africa is wilderness
256. 38 percent of America is wilderness
257. A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why
258. It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11
259. Average number of people airborne over the U S during any given hour: 61,000
260. 70 percent of Americans have visited Disneyland/World
261. Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair
262. The youngest pope was 11 years old
263. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country
264. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog " uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications
265. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
266. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments
267. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable "
268. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
269. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases
270. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing " They actually pass out from sheer terror
271. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building
272. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
273. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired "
274. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later
275. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
276. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie
277. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites
278. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns
279. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado
280. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
281. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1 19 You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar
282. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game
283. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
284. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars
285. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order
286. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
287. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants
288. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined
289. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California
290. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
291. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
292. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet
293. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
294. On average people fear spiders more than they do death
295. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
296. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
297. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do
298. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes
299. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
300. Butterflies taste with their feet
301. A cat's urine glows under a blacklight
302. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone
303. The Ten Commandments contain 297 words
304. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words
305. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words
306. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words
307. There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day
308. Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury
309. Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men
310. The world's youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910
311. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil
312. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace
313. The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey ) These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies ") People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down")
314. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles
315. Mosquito repellents don't repel They hide you The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there
316. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush
317. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma
318. American car horns beep in the tone of F
319. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times
320. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television
321. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television
322. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older
323. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum
324. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache
325. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight
326. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class
327. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
328. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA "
329. The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had
330. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
331. Timekeepers have clocked the action in a 60 minute football game to actually be around 14 minutes
332. The word "funky" appears in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers
333. A domestic cat has eighteen claws: five on each of its front paws and four on each of its back paws
334. The tip of a whip makes a cracking sound because it is moving faster than the speed of sound
335. An ear of corn almost always has an even number of rows (twelve, fourteen, or sixteen)
336. Earthworms have five hearts
337. Whale vomit is used in perfume and the flavoring of dried fruit and tobacco
338. All Polar bears are left handed
339. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
340. China has more English speakers than the United States
341. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb
342. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white
343. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
344. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
345. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
346. It is impossible to lick your elbow
347. A shrimp's heart is in its head
348. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
349. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
350. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti specially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas
351. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call
352. Rats and horses can't vomit
353. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language
354. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die
355. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants
356. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
357. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married
358. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks
359. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders
360. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year
361. A snail can sleep for three years
362. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
363. The electric chair was invented by a dentist
364. "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard
365. "Go " is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
366. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33 She would stand seven feet, two inches tall
367. The average fart travels over 16 feet when released
368. An ant can live underwater for over 14 days
369. Camels have a straight spine despite their hump
370. In some places in Egypt it is free to use the restroom but you must bring/buy your own toilet pater
371. The pickle while only containing 7 calories has no nutritional value Dill pickles have more calories than sweet ones, which only have 6

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Ugh, not one of those "hey, didn't ya know?!" serial e-mails...

Anyway, reading through each one, I was able to find the following which I already knew to be outright false:

30. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life "
31. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
32. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
41. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper
200. George Washington Carver invented peanut butter
210. Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine
252. Coca-Cola was originally green
257. A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why
273. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired "
302. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone
313. The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey ) These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies ") People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down")
329. The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had
343. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

[Darth Wong]

Remember: any claim sounds more authoritative if you put the words "Did you know that" in front of it

[Admiral Valdemar]

Remember: any claim sounds more authoritative if you put the words "Did you know that" in front of it

FACT: The above is deemed false by very important people.

[Darth Wong]

Remember: any claim sounds more authoritative if you put the words "Did you know that" in front of it

FACT: The above is deemed false by very important people.

Studies have shown that this is complete nonsense.

[Flagg]

I thought number 313 was true...

[Flagg]

Remember: any claim sounds more authoritative if you put the words "Did you know that" in front of it

FACT: The above is deemed false by very important people.

Studies have shown that this is complete nonsense.

Well, some people say that nonsense keeps the heart healthy.

[Ar-Adunakhor]

75. A group of ravens is called a murder

Bullshit. A group of ravens is called an "unkindness", and a group of crows is called a "murder".

[Admiral Valdemar]

Well, some people say that nonsense keeps the heart healthy.

They'd be the same people that could wind up having a white matter biopsy with no appreciable side-effects.

[Flagg]

Well, some people say that nonsense keeps the heart healthy.

They'd be the same people that could wind up having a white matter biopsy with no appreciable side-effects.

Why does everyone always have to hate on the southern US?

[Admiral Valdemar]

I don't hate them, I just wish they'd fall into the sea, is all.

[General Zod]

32. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

Didn't mythbusters disprove this?

[Flagg]

I don't hate them, I just wish they'd fall into the sea, is all.

Well if you count Louisiana: 1 down, 10 to go.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

32. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

Didn't mythbusters disprove this?

Yeah, they did. They and The Straight Dope also sperately proved that a duck's quack does indeed produce an echo.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I thought number 313 was true...

Nope.

[Talanth]

36. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket

I dont know weather this is true or not but my dad always told me that one of the first attempted uses of microwave energy was comunicating with airoplains in the high atmosphere. The scientists found that in order to get a signal through they had to keep notching up the power, and eventualy birds started falling out of the sky pre-cooked.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I've heard the chocolate bar story, and actually might have seen something with the man who it happened to, but I've never heard the aeroplane communication/dead bird story.

[Darth Garden Gnome]

Didn't mythbusters disprove this?

They did, and then I saw Brainiac put them to shame. Adam and Jamie spent all day trying to get this thing to work; they had a super sound room and computers and shit. You could never actually even hear the duck's echo, they just proved that it did happen with their computers.

On Brainiac they took a duck into a tunnel and you could hear it's echo very clearly.

[Darth Servo]

349. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

No, thats one of the many things we call the person who posted this thread.

[Darth Wong]

Didn't mythbusters disprove this?

They did, and then I saw Brainiac put them to shame. Adam and Jamie spent all day trying to get this thing to work; they had a super sound room and computers and shit. You could never actually even hear the duck's echo, they just proved that it did happen with their computers.

On Brainiac they took a duck into a tunnel and you could hear it's echo very clearly.

Wait, people actually felt they had to waste time disproving the idea that a duck can somehow violate the laws of physics?

[Flakin]

Didn't mythbusters disprove this?

They did, and then I saw Brainiac put them to shame. Adam and Jamie spent all day trying to get this thing to work; they had a super sound room and computers and shit. You could never actually even hear the duck's echo, they just proved that it did happen with their computers.

On Brainiac they took a duck into a tunnel and you could hear it's echo very clearly.

Wait, people actually felt they had to waste time disproving the idea that a duck can somehow violate the laws of physics?

They've got to fill the program schedule somehow. Brainiac delights in this light-entertainment stuff, and Mythbusters ran out of steam some time ago.

(edit: spelling)

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Yes, because other people wate their time reading retarded e-mails like the one in the OP that it does.

[CaptainChewbacca]

The microwave was discovered by someone leaving a cup of coffee in front of a radar emitter, I believe.

And, who the hell decided there should be a name for a group of unicorns?

[Darth Garden Gnome]

Wait, people actually felt they had to waste time disproving the idea that a duck can somehow violate the laws of physics?

An entire episode, even. It must be heard to be believed!

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Wait, people actually felt they had to waste time disproving the idea that a duck can somehow violate the laws of physics?

An entire episode, even. It must be heard to be believed!

For the duck? No, that was just one of several segments for an episode.