Fascinating Facts

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Welcome to Fascinating Facts, the place to post facts that are fascinating.

 

Have you ever seen a kid hold their breath as a way of forcing adults to do what they want?

 

Just let them.

 

Nobody has ever died from  holding their breath. The worst thing to happen is they'll pass out and breathe normally.

 

Nuclear Bombs go missing......a lot!

 

To date 92 Nuclear bombs have gone missing, most of them are lost in the Ocean. There's even a term for a lost nuke it's "Broken Arrow"

Thomas Edison invented the incandescent lamp (light bulb) it's cheap and easy but totally inefficient.

Nikola Tesla invented a much more Energy efficient bulb, but Edison still gets the credit.

The world's largest tomb is......Mount Everest. There are over 200 bodies on the mountain.

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Bees are actually mammals. True fact.

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also the second letter of alphabet

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Bees are actually mammals. True fact.

Assholes never take things seriously

 

A true Bee fact. Individual bee species outnumber Mammal and Avians combined.

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Aardvarks are sentient. They hide and wait for the day we let our gaurds down. Then they reveal their horrble nose prosthetics that let hem eat OUR BRAINS!

True fact

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The World's most popular Fruit is the Tomato.

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Legumes are the number one cause of athletes foot. Look it up.

 

True Fact.

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Men have Erectile tissue in their nose. It may even itch when they become aroused.

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In 1996 Marvel and DC buried the Hatchet by creating Amalgam Comics featuring combined versions of their heroes. Among them was Darkclaw, Super Soldier, Iron Lantern and Dr. Strangefate.

He's Charles Xavier.

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Pretty sure everyone has erectile tissue in their noses. That's why we only ever breathe out of one at a time.

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The leavered can opener was invented 48 years after canning.

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Did they need some kind of special uncanning machine? The absurdity of this fact is... uncanny.

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The first book written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

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Was going to make a thread about this, but this thread looked good for this sort of thing:

 

No one could see the color blue until modern times. The article talks about how there was no word for the color blue until pretty recently. Interesting IMO.

 

It was also something that was discussed in a psychology class that I took recently. Many cultures didn't have a word for the color blue. Some cultures only have two color distinctions: dark and light. We have eleven color categories: dark (black), light (white), red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray.

 

From Wikipedia: 

In languages with fewer than the maximum eleven color categories, the colors followed a specific evolutionary pattern. The pattern is as follows:

1. All languages contain terms for black and white.
2. If a language contains three terms, then it contains a term for red.
3. If a language contains four terms, then it contains a term for either green or yellow (but not both).
4. If a language contains five terms, then it contains terms for both green and yellow.
5. If a language contains six terms, then it contains a term for blue.
6. If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown.
7. If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains terms for purple, pink, orange, and/or gray.

And yes this is unrelated to whatever "viral" dress picture is happening on tumblr

Edited 28 Feb 2015 by L.L. Bean's Menswear (see edit history)

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Listen my children and you will hear of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.......Ha!

 

In truth Revere never completed his famous ride a man (and fellow Connecticut native) Israel Bissell took up the slack from Revere.