[Lakyn Ellery]

Can't help but be a smarty pants? Have some interesting tidbit you want to share? This is the thread for you. Post all your useless/obscure/uncommon knowledge here.



If the average (not overly-sweaty) person drinks more than three litres of water per day, they cause themselves heart damage. Drinking more than four litres of water in an hour will kill a human being; the body can't process that amount of water and just shuts down. (Morbid, I know, but this was the trivia that inspired the thread, so it deserves to be here.)

Earth has more than one moon!

[Budgie]

If you put a pencil in an outlet every outlet in your house shoots out dubloons.

[Eileen Müller]

The phrase :

"Watch "Jeopardy!", Alex Trebek's fun TV quiz game."










...contains every letter of the alphabet.

[April]

Dogs' mouths are cleaner than humans'. Sorry, mysophobes.

[Madison Poo]

Drinking more than four litres of water in an hour will kill a human being; the body can't process that amount of water and just shuts down. (Morbid, I know, but this was the trivia that inspired the thread, so it deserves to be here.)

The ratio of humans to insects is roughly 1 : 200 000 000.

Biologically speaking there is no such thing as a fish.

The Messerschmidts of WW2 are believed to be some of the greatest planes of the war even though most accidents occurred on take off and landing.

When the Mongols were faced with the largest wall ever made by man, they simply went around it.

[Laura Simmonds]

86.967% of statistics are made up.

[Benji]

Biologically speaking there is no such thing as a fish.

What is a fish if not a fish?

[Stephy Beck]

What is a fish if not a fish?

If it walks like a fish and talks like a fish, then I don't know what it is because fish can't do either. Therefore, fish can't be proven to be fish.

[Lauren Graves]

If it walks like a fish and talks like a fish, then I don't know what it is because fish can't do either. Therefore, fish can't be proven to be fish.

You are so on a roll today...

I'd blame it on strong coffee but I'm not sure if you even touch the stuff.

[Motionsharp]

You are so on a roll today...

Capital's been brilliant today. I'm convinced he's smoked something.



There is a long-standing feud between Bulgarians and Russians as to which of the two actually invented the Cyrillic alphabet.

[James Potter]

When the Mongols were faced with the largest wall ever made by man, they simply went around it.

And what wall would that be?

[Ian White]

What is a fish if not a fish?

We call all things in the ocean fish, even though they usually have as much to do with each other as a rhino and a daisy. Biologically speaking a salmon has more in common with a camel then it does with a hagfish.

And what wall would that be?

Did someone make a wall longer then the Great Wall of China? I guess I should have been more specific and say that when the Mongols were unified and being led by Ghengis Khan towards China.

[DAVId Bryant]

Did someone make a wall longer then the Great Wall of China? I guess I should have been more specific and say that when the Mongols were unified and being led by Ghengis Khan towards China.

The Mongols invaded in 13th century and in that time there was no such thing as the Great Wall of China. There was something that resembles the wall but it's production had been on halt for so long that it was starting to fall apart.

Dogs' mouths are cleaner than humans'. Sorry, mysophobes.

No it's not, that's an old legend and it has never been proven.

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Earth has more than one moon!

No it doesn't

[Marilú]

No it doesn't

http://roflcon.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/deathstar.jpg

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The Mongols invaded in 13th century and in that time there was no such thing as the Great Wall of China. There was something that resembles the wall but it's production had been on halt for so long that it was starting to fall apart.

That documentary was wrong . I'll change it to this:

By the time of Ghengis Khan's death the Mongol Empire covered an area twice the size of the Roman Empire.

[casey macmillan]

No it's not, that's an old legend and it has never been proven.

It was proven on Mythbusters. However, it's even been proven outside of Mythbusters. Back in school (quite a while ago, now), I raised this topic with the biology teacher. What was his reply? "Let's test it." Everybody in the class who owned a dog was tasked with collecting a saliva sample. We put them in petri dishes. Then we tested the same number of people's mouths. What did we discover? Exactly what Mythbusters discovered -- there is less bacteria in a dog's mouth than their is in a human's mouth.

Even if you only concern yourself with how much bacteria in a given mouth is dangerous to a human being, the dog's mouth will win out.

No it doesn't

Yes, it does. If you consider a moon to be any rocky object of a size smaller than the object that it orbits (and that's really all a moon is), Earth has more than one moon.



Doctors used to administer, as a cure, lobotomies to patients who were considered crazy. (These "crazies" were probably not actually crazy.)

[Naomi Lastname]

It was proven on Mythbusters

Yes, it does. If you consider a moon to be any rocky object of a size smaller than the object that it orbits (and that's really all a moon is), Earth has more than one moon.

Except that's not the definition of a moon

[Robert DeLarosa]

Doctors used to administer, as a cure, lobotomies to patients who were considered crazy. (These "crazies" were probably not actually crazy.)

Lobotomies are still carried out, and usually not on the sane folk..

[luke trodden]

Sigh. You didn't read the rest of the reply? Why are you in this thread, anyway?

[Gisela Amaya]

Lobotomies are still carried out, and usually not on the sane folk..

If this is true, it's both whacky and alarming.

[GRAEME]

Sigh. You didn't read the rest of the reply? Why are you in this thread, anyway?

Do correct the hundreds of "facts" people are going to post here like they always do in these threads. Actually it would probably be easier for me to link to wikipedia's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.

There is nothing wrong with being skeptical when you read facts posted on an online forum, in fact it would be pretty stupid to take everything you read as absolute truth. I'm not here to flame or ruin the thread... yeah I might challenge your posts (and the posts of others) but I'm not doing that to be a [censored]. You should also challenge my posts because I'm not always right.

[Jimmie Allen]

86.967% of statistics are made up.

So that means that you made that up?

[Sarah Edmunds]

Lobotomies are still carried out, and usually not on the sane folk..

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It is widely known that the Chinese have invented almost everything, though it is because of one of their inventions that they didn't invent so much more. They invented tea and they found that the best way to hold tea was in porcelain cups(china). It's because of this that the Ancient Chinese never found the need to make glass. Glass leads to windows, to eyeglasses which add years onto the working life of intellectuals, to telescopes, to microscopes, to beakers since its chemically neutral and so many other things.

[Eire Charlotta]

There is nothing wrong with being skeptical when you read facts posted on an online forum, in fact it would be pretty stupid to take everything you read as absolute truth.

Except, instead of disproving what the person claims, all you're doing is expecting them to mollify your scepticism. This isn't a scientific thread. We are under no obligation to prove ourselves to you. If you're considering nitpicking at every post, please don't. This is supposed to be a fun thread. We're not under peer review. (Edited to include the , because I totally get where you're coming from -- I do this, too -- but this is a trivia thread, and if you want to check whether something on here is true or not, you're free to search the net and/or literature and post refutations. But don't expect us to default to defensive, well-researched assertions. That's expecting too much from a trivia thread. )

Except that's not the definition of a moon

What is the definition of a moon, and why does that definition cancel out the assertion that there is more than one moon?