Fun Facts/Useless Trivia

Liraxus · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:56 pm

Exeres wrote:

They do like they do on the Discovery Channel.

Oh you. :3

D-vid · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:08 pm

Exeres wrote:

Blitz Walrus wrote:

The Beastie Boys despise their song "Fight for Your Right" and have not played it live in years.

Addendum, "Fight for Your Right" is actually a parody making fun of immature people who would rather goof off and party rather than grow up. Nobody got the joke.

Addendum to the addendum: If nobody gets your joke, it wasn't that good to begin with.

Exeres wrote:

Thanks, I wasn't sure how to math.

All in a day's work, sir.

More math: if you sleep 8 hours a day, you will sleep for a third of your lifetime.

Blitz Walrus · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:11 pm

It's not so much that no one got the joke, it's that the song became an anthem for the exact thing they were parodying.

Exeres · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:13 pm

It happens to a lot of bands. REM's "The One I Love" is about a guy who has multiple partners and tells them all he's in love, but is just using them for sex; a lot of people think it's a very romantic song.

scebboaliwiw · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:39 pm

The word factoid is defined as "something fictitious or unsubstantiated that is presented as fact, devised especially to gain publicity and accepted because of constant repetition."
For example,

boq wrote:

12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

D-vid · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:41 pm

In the Vatican, there are more than 2 popes per square kilometer. That's because the Vatican is less than half a square kilometer big.

Exeres · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:01 pm

The average person has one fallopian tube.

boq · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:17 pm

scebboaliwiw wrote:

The word factoid is defined as "something fictitious or unsubstantiated that is presented as fact, devised especially to gain publicity and accepted because of constant repetition."
For example,

boq wrote:

12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

That may be true, but...

Did you know that most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F?

Stranaton · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:52 pm

boq wrote:

That may be true, but...

Did you know that most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F?

I knew this

why did I know this

boq · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:00 am

This isn't good.
My trivia/factoids are either being called out or
they are already known.

DID YOU KNOW THAT, UHM

All porcupines float in water?

Exeres · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:02 am

That's not funny man, my pet porcupine drowned.

Blitz Walrus · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:02 am

There's an Arwing coded into Ocarina of Time.

Liraxus · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:03 am

Everyone knows that.

boq · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:05 am

Exeres wrote:

That's not funny man, my pet porcupine drowned.

Natural selection at work, and while sad it leads me to my next fact!

DID YOU KNOW THAT;
Charles Darwin married his first cousin?

Lithium · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:08 am

Snapple Facts: The Thread

Liraxus wrote:

Zelda Stuff

Oh god

Those color choices in SSB all makes sense now...

Anyway,

A one dollar bill has the number or word "one" on it 16 times
...or was it 14?

AWKWARD ZOMBIE

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