Leave an Untrue Fact! (!!!)

[mike alexander]

In Australia, exclamation points are called 'slipbangers'. Except in Perth, where they are banned entirely.

[ABR.]

Quotations from the TV show "I, Spy" are commonly referred to as exculpatory.

[mike alexander]

Isn't that more a true pun?

But I regress.


'Baseball' was originally spelled 'bassball' because of the use of largemouth bass for basses. Or bases. Stuffed canvas bases were introduced in 1873 after it was realized that bass spending several hours in the hot summer sun produced that other bassball tradition, the 'seventh inning retch'.

[mfumbesi]

Bottled fizzie water is used by NASA to clean the space Shuttle.

[mfumbesi]

The Concorde was grounded because flight were too cheap and it was attracting the wrong elements. The final nail in the coffin was when all the D-list Hollywood celebrities wanted one. BAA and FA wouldn't have any of that, so the decision was taken, that rather than let this glorious machine be soiled by the common man "we will kill the dirty thing".

[Gemini]

The moon is actually made of Swiss cheesee instead of green cheese.

[mike alexander]

During a total solar eclipse, bullfrogs climb into trees and yodel.

[ravens_cry]

The human gallbladder tastes like au gratin scalloped potatoes

[suntrack2]

1. during solar eclipse mother starts lalaby song when the darkness rise.
2. the onion looks like an egg in the dark
3. all hosten peoples are doctors
4. hollywood situated in austin
5. international space station revolving with self
6. distilled water is good for automic reactors than the heavy water
7. californian orange looks like an apple
8. area 51 is a row houses colony situated in dallas
9. austin martin is a brand name of a chocolate
10. casablanca is a name of animal
11. nigara is a canal

[jja]

This sentence is false, yet is neither a paradox nor a contradiction.

[DyerWolf]

I am standing behind you with a bloody axe in my hand and an evil grin on my face.

(Made you look!)

The coolest people wear purple sweatpants.

Use of computers and the internets make you more smarter.

It's better to be in the northwest hemisphere than anywhere else.

Rome was built in a day.

[chrissy]

Your wrong I'm standing behind you with an axe! oh hang on thats a fact!
Rome was actually built at night.
Ping pong balls make great weights for fishing lines.
The only place you don't get a virus is on the internet! maybe thats a truer fact?

[Swift]

The word "teapot" was first used in 1764, 12 years before the Belgian Hat Riot.

[mike alexander]

Magnetic poles do not exist. They are really magnetic hungarians in disguise.

[chrissy]

Standing in a bucket of water and playing with electricity is the only safe way to do it.

[PetersCreek]

93.2 percent of all people will die at some point in their lives...with the remainder following shortly thereafter.

[PetersCreek]

Brussels sprouts are actually the reproductive organs of cabbages.

[mike alexander]

History was invented so that people would know what happened.

[PetersCreek]

History was invented so people wouldn't know what REALLY happened!!!!eleven!!

[mike alexander]

Turtles placed on their backs think they're in Australia, so therefore see no need to turn over again.

[Swift]

Use of the mandolin is illegal in 3 counties in Nebraska.

[mike alexander]

History was invented so people wouldn't know what REALLY happened!!!!eleven!!

DING!DING!!DING!!!

TRUE FACT DETECTED!!!!

This is usually a bamming offense, but the inclusion of eleven!! makes it OK.

[mike alexander]

Evil Spock's head was on backwards, but he walked in reverse so nobody noticed.

Outside the head, anyway.

[PetersCreek]

Polarized appliance plugs were first mandated by a consortium of refrigerator/freezer manufacturers, in response to the burgeoning popularity of microwave ovens. They feared that sales of conventional freezers would suffer if the general public learned that reversing the polarity of a microwave oven would allow you to freeze food really fast.

[chrissy]

prescription windscreens for the short sighted are in popular demand, but might have to be recalled due to the fear factor they bring to the drivers looking in their rearview mirrors, seeing large headed people driving behind them.

[Swift]

Electrons come in many colors, but blue is the most popular in most of Asia (it is believed they give good luck).

[DyerWolf]

If you disassemble a micowave oven, you can use the magnetron for locomotion. Seriously, all you have to do is tape a sail of aluminum foil to your skateboard, balance a car battery between your feet, wire up the magnetron and hold it at chest level and then point it at the tin-foil.

Be careful, however, because you can get going really really fast and get a nasty skinned knee if you fall.

[Swift]

A recent medical study found strong evidence that a diet high in pladintinum (greater than 400 micropicoparts per kgptu) increased the concentrations of serotodium in the blood plasma, but only when combined with the use of green beans.

[Sam5]

Static electricity – of the kind that shocks you when you touch a metal object in winter in a dry climate – was first brought to Europe from China by Marco Polo in 1298 AD. The Chinese invented it and called it “ti-ni lie-tng”, meaning “small lightning”. After Polo’s return, so many people in Venice acquired samples of it and used it for practical jokes, shocking their friends with it, especially the notorious Venice Shriners, it began to gradually leak out of Venice and it spread to all of Europe within 200 years. Later, static electricity was brought to the Western Hemisphere by Diego de Arana, master-at-arms of Columbus’ ship, Santa Maria.

[mike alexander]

I never didn't know that!