Things you did not know

[TheKnifeJuggler]

You can't sneeze with your eyes open.

That is false. you can hold your eyes open and sneeze.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEqPnx7-Gs

 

[Anarchemitis]

Uranium is the only element that has naturally found radioactive isotopes (U-238). Which means it is the only thing you can dig out of a mine that is radioactive upon surface exposure. Other radioisotopes or elements cannot be found in a natural state.

While I'm matter-of-fact-ly-ing(?)
Neodymium is the only element that is classified as a rare-earth element but is not rare at all.

 

[Zombie_King]

When Nancy Reagan visited former president Ronald Reagan after the John Hinckley assassination attempt, her husband told her, "Honey, I forgot to duck."

The name 'Led Zeppelin' came about when one of Jimmy Page(founding member of the band)'s friends said, "Any band started by Jimmy Page will fly like a lead zeppelin."

the battle of bunker hill was not fought on bunker hill

Partially true. "The Battle of Bunker Hill," as it is commonly called, was fought on the Charlestown Peninsula. Moulton's Hill, Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill are the three hills on the peninsula. The American forces had fortified Breed's Hill first, not knowing that would save them many casualties. The American forces withdrew near the middle of the battle, and therefore, because of the geographical location of Breed's and Bunker Hill, some of the battle was technically fought on Bunker Hill.

Demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a Muppet character.

A 17 minute battle scene in 'The Matrix Reloaded' cost $40 million to produce.

To my recollection, the CVN-65 Enterprise is one of the gold models on Picard's wall, but NOT a picture on Archer's... If I'm wrong, it's the other way around, but only one of the two starships had the CVN-65 shown.

Here it goes.
A bunch of Trekkies grouped together and signed a petition to get a U.S. ship named 'Enterprise.' It worked, and a couple episodes later in Star Trek, Captain Picard had a model of the U.S.S. Enterprise in his quarters. In a tale of delicious irony, it was said that the U.S.S Enterprise (from Star Trek) was based on the ship U.S.S. Enterprise.

In some countries, people sign their religion as 'Jedi' on forms each year. In Australia, roughly as many Jedis as Jews were recorded in 2005.

There are five states of matter. Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma and Einstein-Bose condensate. The Einstein-Bose condensate is an impossibly cold 'lump' of matter. Basically, all the particles are indistinguishable from each other.

In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him. That's some badass cactus.

 

[HeyZeus_Ezekiel_Jesus]

Bees are attracted to carbon monoxide in your breath.

 

[elffymon]

in NZ for a food to be called 'chicken' it must only be at least 30% chicken.

 

[Anarchemitis]

[img_inline caption="This is a REAL gimmick as much as DVD rewinders are. Seriously."]http://www.foodmall.org/images/bigger-high-end-angus-burger_2282.jpg[/img_inline]Speaking of which, an entire herd of cattle can be called 100% Angus Beef if Angus only constitutes 10%. As well, Angus is an inferior breed to the more frequently encountered (and higher meat yield per head) to its European Cousins.

 

[Lukeje]

Uranium is the only element that has naturally found radioactive isotopes (U-238). Which means it is the only thing you can dig out of a mine that is radioactive upon surface exposure. Other radioisotopes or elements cannot be found in a natural state.

While I'm matter-of-fact-ly-ing(?)
Neodymium is the only element that is classified as a rare-earth element but is not rare at all.

If that were true, then how would radiocarbon dating work? carbon-14 is radioactive and naturally occuring... Alright, it's half-life is such that if you dug something out of a mine, then it would have decayed... but that doesn't mean other radioactive isotopes don't occur naturally...

Secondly, the RAREST of the stable rare-earth elements is acually more abundant than iodine...

 

[Roboshi]

Bees are attracted to carbon monoxide in your breath.

I'm sure you mean DIoxide as humans tend to not expel carbon monoxide. And I've worked with bees. Carbon Dioxide Angers them they aren't atracted to it.

 

[CrazyBerk]

"You eat approximately 8 spiders in your sleep, either per year or in your lifetime, I cant remember the exact timescale."

Thats actually utter bullshy. You heard me! Bullyshy!
You don't swallow 8 spiders in your sleep or in a lifetime because not even a spider is dumb enough to climb into a living organisms mouth.

 

[zacaron]

canada is the 19th most beer loving country in the world with the avarage adult drinking 70L of beer a year

 

[asamoah19]

Forget the screws, during world war two (I think Britain) was in the processing of developing an aircraft carrier out of ice.
The only thing that stopped them was that the war ended while they were still testing a miniature version floating in a lake in Canada.

The ice was actually a mixture of wood pulp and water though, which made it more buoyant and not melt as fast.

The bloke who invented this couldn't get anyone to take him seriously so he broke into Churchills underground offices, and through a lump of "piecrete" into his bath, whilst he was in it.

Not even joking.

 

[Mikav]

I did not know bears weren't sea creatures up until last year.

Seriously, I thought they where sea creatures. I was watching Franklin with my brother last year (I'm 15 and he's 21 now)and I saw bear, so I got confused, and then he explained bears are in fact, not sea creatures.

The more you know.

 

[Mikav]

canada is the 19th most beer loving country in the world with the avarage adult drinking 70L of beer a year

$5 says Ireland's number 1.

Seriously, only 19th?

 

[Copter400]

I'm the one who's been spitting in your food. Yep, it's been me all along.

 

[mjhhiv]

Here's one: The famous Sherlock Holmes phrase, "Elementary, my dear Watson" was never in any of the novels written by A. Conan Doyle - a kids cartoon show starring an animated version of Holmes made it up.

 

[ThaBenMan]

One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.

 

[elffymon]

[img_inline caption="This is a REAL gimmick as much as DVD rewinders are. Seriously."]http://www.foodmall.org/images/bigger-high-end-angus-burger_2282.jpg[/img_inline]Speaking of which, an entire herd of cattle can be called 100% Angus Beef if Angus only constitutes 10%. As well, Angus is an inferior breed to the more frequently encountered (and higher meat yield per head) to its European Cousins.

are Angus bulls the ones they breed with heifers as they are smaller and its easier on the cow cause its a smaller calf for her first time?

 

[Calobi]

The name 'Led Zeppelin' came about when one of Jimmy Page(founding member of the band)'s friends said, "Any band started by Jimmy Page will float like a lead zeppelin."

On the "Led Zeppelin" theme, its spelled "Led" (as in showed the way) and not "Lead" (as in the metal) because one of the members (can't remember who) thought that Americans would pronounce their name "Lead" (as in "Lead a horse to water") if it were spelled as the metal. And we would have, too.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

Here's one: The famous Sherlock Holmes phrase, "Elementary, my dear Watson" was never in any of the novels written by A. Conan Doyle - a kids cartoon show starring an animated version of Holmes made it up.

Why does Sherlock Holmes have citrus scents in his lobby?
For a lemon entry, my dear Watson.

 

[Anarchemitis]

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