Real or fake
Sep 19, 2015 21:11:21 #
Sometimes a friend spouts a fact that seems fake, sounds fake, and is fake. The following facts however seem fake, but are actually real.
1. Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.
2. Betty White is older than sliced bread.
3. From the time it was discovered to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto hadn't made a full trip around the Sun.
4. The lighter was invented before the match.
5. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.
6. France last used a guillotine to execute someone after Star Wars premiered.
7. Harvard University was founded before Calculus existed.
8. If you have 23 people in a room, there is a 50% chance that 2 of them have the same birthday.
9. ItÂ’s never said that Humpty Dumpty was an egg in the nursery rhyme.
10. The water in Lake Superior could cover all of North and South America in a foot of water.
11. North Korea and Finland both border the same country; Russia.
12. When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.
13. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
14. National animal of Scotland is a Unicorn.
15. The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
16. The lighter the roast of coffee, the more caffeine it has.
17. A speck of dust is halfway in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
18. If the timeline of earth was compressed into one year, humans wouldn't show up until December 31 at 11:58 p.m.
19. If you were able to dig a hole to the center of the earth, and drop something down it, it would take 42 minutes for the object to get there.
20. We went to the moon before we thought to put wheels on suitcases.
21. A human could swim through the arteries of a blue whale.
22. If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, the combined thickness would reach the moon.
23. On both Saturn and Jupiter, it rains diamonds.
24. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
25. You can line up all 8 planets in our solar system directly next to each other and it would fit in the space between Earth and the Moon.
26. The youngest known mother was 5 years old.
27. The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball, if both were of the same size.
28. Nintendo was founded in 1889.
29. If you take all the molecules in a teaspoon of water and lined them up end to end in a single file line, they would stretch ~30 billion miles.
30. In Australia, there was a war called the emu war. The emus won.
1. Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.
2. Betty White is older than sliced bread.
3. From the time it was discovered to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto hadn't made a full trip around the Sun.
4. The lighter was invented before the match.
5. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.
6. France last used a guillotine to execute someone after Star Wars premiered.
7. Harvard University was founded before Calculus existed.
8. If you have 23 people in a room, there is a 50% chance that 2 of them have the same birthday.
9. ItÂ’s never said that Humpty Dumpty was an egg in the nursery rhyme.
10. The water in Lake Superior could cover all of North and South America in a foot of water.
11. North Korea and Finland both border the same country; Russia.
12. When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.
13. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
14. National animal of Scotland is a Unicorn.
15. The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
16. The lighter the roast of coffee, the more caffeine it has.
17. A speck of dust is halfway in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
18. If the timeline of earth was compressed into one year, humans wouldn't show up until December 31 at 11:58 p.m.
19. If you were able to dig a hole to the center of the earth, and drop something down it, it would take 42 minutes for the object to get there.
20. We went to the moon before we thought to put wheels on suitcases.
21. A human could swim through the arteries of a blue whale.
22. If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, the combined thickness would reach the moon.
23. On both Saturn and Jupiter, it rains diamonds.
24. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
25. You can line up all 8 planets in our solar system directly next to each other and it would fit in the space between Earth and the Moon.
26. The youngest known mother was 5 years old.
27. The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball, if both were of the same size.
28. Nintendo was founded in 1889.
29. If you take all the molecules in a teaspoon of water and lined them up end to end in a single file line, they would stretch ~30 billion miles.
30. In Australia, there was a war called the emu war. The emus won.
Sep 19, 2015 21:31:20 #
Sep 19, 2015 21:35:08 #
While I don't doubt your list, every one sounds impossible or at least improbable.
I will be forwarding this to many, thanks.
Edited for clarity.
I will be forwarding this to many, thanks.
Edited for clarity.
Sep 19, 2015 21:35:31 #
I'm going to check out the planet one , cant see that being correct but until I check I wont know for certain. That one about the teaspoon of water sounds like a load of bollocks though
Sep 19, 2015 21:38:39 #
Adicus wrote:
I'm going to check out the planet one , cant see that being correct but until I check I wont know for certain. That one about the teaspoon of water sounds like a load of bollocks though
Please post your results.........
Sep 19, 2015 21:40:48 #
Sep 19, 2015 21:47:37 #
Another one I've found gives the length of a teaspoonful of water as 50 billion Kilometers. Its a lot anyhow!!!
Sep 19, 2015 22:12:22 #
Don't get the 23 people and the 50 % chance of the same birthday. I've got a friend and his wife got him a tee shirt that says "sometimes I make things up" Lots of useful knowledge in there.
Sep 19, 2015 22:26:38 #
Sep 20, 2015 00:19:43 #
Well we know that you cant fold a piece of paper ,no matter how big in half more than about 5 times, I think.
Sep 20, 2015 00:20:39 #
Personally, I'd like to kill the SOB that got a 5 year old pregnant.
Sep 20, 2015 00:27:38 #
Pkfish wrote:
Don't get the 23 people and the 50 % chance of the same birthday..
It an odds type thing. Strangely, even this problem has a wiki page, for those that want follow the thinking and the math involving odds and combinations of things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
Since is really about 50.7% chance, then the wording technically makes the statement not true. (The odds aren't 50%, but actually *over 50%*)
Sep 20, 2015 00:34:49 #
# 1
"We usually think of woolly mammoths as purely Ice Age creatures. But while most did indeed die out 10,000 years ago, one tiny population endured on isolated Wrangel Island until 1650 BCE"
Source: http://io9.com/5896262/the-last-mammoths-died-out-just-3600-years-agobut-they-should-have-survived
"We usually think of woolly mammoths as purely Ice Age creatures. But while most did indeed die out 10,000 years ago, one tiny population endured on isolated Wrangel Island until 1650 BCE"
Source: http://io9.com/5896262/the-last-mammoths-died-out-just-3600-years-agobut-they-should-have-survived
Sep 20, 2015 06:43:34 #
Sep 20, 2015 07:35:17 #
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