True facts you can't get yourself to believe

[Nyaoku]

That as you are reading this, you are forgetting what you were just thinking about and have to rely on clues from even earlier to remember and get back on track.

 

[Cpu46]

There are thousands of species of snail but there is one species of dog.

That would be because dogs are actually just a subspecies of the Gray wolf. Meaning that all dogs can interbreed as well as breed with wolves and produce viable offspring (that is if the physical requirements are able to be met). Each breed of dog is more or less a 'race' of gray wolf.

OT: Really I don't have any facts that I cant believe. I am a very accepting person.

 

[WanderingFool]

Benton Harbor, Michigan. I just don't even know where to begin.

Huh?

Republicans in Michigan passed a "financial martial law" law. Then they took over Benton Harbor. The financial manager has supreme power to make unilateral decisions about the town. Like removing from office city officials voted in by the towns citizens. Or selling the town's low power radio station. Or telling the city council they only have the authority to call a meeting to order, approve the minutes of a meeting and adjourn a meeting. Or take the publicly owned parks that were willed to the people of Benton Harbor and sell them to a golf course. The financial manager can straight up make Benton Harbor go away, as in remove it from maps because it is now not a government recognized city. The citizens have no say in the goings on of their own town, and they can't vote this guy out and whatever they voted for in the past is null and void.

It sounds straight out of a dictator's handbook, but it's going on right here in American in 2012.

Only with 300% less lulz and 500% more terror...

 

[ICantBelieveItGoesBoom]

If you fire a gun perfectly horizontally and drop a ball from the same height at the same time, assuming the bullet doesn't hit anything, they will hit the floor at exactly the same time.

It's just...wrong! :|

 

[hamsterkilla]

I still can't believe the majority of people in the world take everything they hear at face value and never question anything.

 

[KrossBillNye]

OT: It's been said before, but Schrodinger's Cat sends me in to a fuming rage whenever it gets brought up.

‎"The Schrodinger's cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrodinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats"

That we can't figure out a cure for cancer or fix global warming or feed our entire population, but we damn sure made a boner pill. Go science!

That was actually an accident. Pills were meant for something else and that was a side effect lol.

As for me. I can't believe how mean people can get. As well as how bad kids are getting in each generation. Hell I remember as a kid growing up we treated adults with more respect. Or at least I did. When I see a child giving me the finger and swearing at me or taunting me, it takes a lot of control not to deck the kid out of anger...

 

[ED-Tw0 ZeRo N9nE]

Dinosaurs having feathers/fur. I don't care how much evidence is found on it, I simply can't get over how rediculous they look with it.

 

[FernandoV]

I just can't get my head around the fact that some people, idiots you might say, take Yahtzee seriously.

I used to enjoy it, but never took it seriously as he just rehashes common hate for games and how 'consolised' everything is.

My 2 facts I can't believe:

Some people believe consoles, or being multiplatform, suddenly makes something inferior (apartheid much).

and That some people can't wrap their heads around the fact that it doesn't snow in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as having 30+ degree days on Christmas (celsius), around 90+ Fahrenheit.

...It actually does snow in the Southern Hemisphere...In Bogota is snows quite regularly during winter times.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Isnt pluto technically a planet, its just called a dwarf planet.

Also the fact that Spongebob is a childrens show, seriously how did they think naming someone mr krabs who lives in bikini bottom child appropriate.

Dude, I've known that show for years, and never have I made that connection. No one I know has made that connection. I think it's not something you realise as a child.

Well then, allow me to blow your mind:

The name Bikini Bottom comes from the fact that Spongebob Squarepants lives at the bottom of an exotic laguna in the Pacific ocean called Bikini Atoll. A veritable paradise of a place, that was so nice, they named the swimwear after the island, but the Americans also used it for another purpose...

Spoiler

[HEADING=1]NUCLEAR TESTING![/HEADING]

That's right, the Americans saw paradise and thought, "Needs more explosions" So they began one of the largest nuclear tests even taken, detonating dozens of the things, and irradiating the whole area to deadly levels.

Of course, we all know what happens when animals are exposed to large levels of radiation: WILD AND AMAZING MUTATIONS! Leading to intelligent (and not so intelligent) life living in Pineapples under the sea.
That's right, The entire world of Spongebob Squarepants is just an irradiated area of mutated sealife. Sweet dreams!

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

This thingie.

Makes you feel gigantic and really small.

 

[Latinidiot]

Isnt pluto technically a planet, its just called a dwarf planet.

Also the fact that Spongebob is a childrens show, seriously how did they think naming someone mr krabs who lives in bikini bottom child appropriate.

Dude, I've known that show for years, and never have I made that connection. No one I know has made that connection. I think it's not something you realise as a child.

Well then, allow me to blow your mind:

The name Bikini Bottom comes from the fact that Spongebob Squarepants lives at the bottom of an exotic laguna in the Pacific ocean called Bikini Atoll. A veritable paradise of a place, that was so nice, they named the swimwear after the island, but the Americans also used it for another purpose...

Spoiler

[HEADING=1]NUCLEAR TESTING![/HEADING]

That's right, the Americans saw paradise and thought, "Needs more explosions" So they began one of the largest nuclear tests even taken, detonating dozens of the things, and irradiating the whole area to deadly levels.

Of course, we all know what happens when animals are exposed to large levels of radiation: WILD AND AMAZING MUTATIONS! Leading to intelligent (and not so intelligent) life living in Pineapples under the sea.
That's right, The entire world of Spongebob Squarepants is just an irradiated area of mutated sealife. Sweet dreams!

Troll Face lols! [http://memebase.com/2012/01/13/internet-memes-thanks-memebase-after-dark/?utm_source=embed&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=sharewidget]

 

[Tanner The Monotone]

Oh, people voting Princess Diana's death as the most important thing to happen in the 20th century. Fuck.

Yeah....that ticked me off.

 

[redisforever]

Spoiler

I still can't believe this isn't a girl.

How'bout the fact that This isn't a girl?

Spoiler

I find it difficult to believe that the universe has no edge.
....
HOW??

Spoiler: Obligatory

As for me... probably when you find out who voice actors are. Kaiba is Brock. Ash is a girl (both voice actors). It's crazy.

Bart Simpson is played by a woman. Really.
I still find that hard to believe. Seriously, watch an episode, while thinking about that.

 

[Jennacide]

Polar bears are in fact black.
It blew my mind.

Most animals work like this. Cats and dogs are almost universally pink if you want to use skin tone instead of fur color as their defining feature.

Mine is that Britian created the first computer 100 years before the rest of the world, but never finished it's creation. Imagine how different technology would be had they finished. (If you don't believe it, look up The Analytical Engine)

...then Britain never created it if it was never finished.

Creation doesn't have to imply realization. It was a fully working design, copies have been built from the design specs now without changing anything. It's just that the inventor lost funding and never got to finish constructing the first one himself, but they DO work.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Isnt pluto technically a planet, its just called a dwarf planet.

Also the fact that Spongebob is a childrens show, seriously how did they think naming someone mr krabs who lives in bikini bottom child appropriate.

Dude, I've known that show for years, and never have I made that connection. No one I know has made that connection. I think it's not something you realise as a child.

Well then, allow me to blow your mind:

The name Bikini Bottom comes from the fact that Spongebob Squarepants lives at the bottom of an exotic laguna in the Pacific ocean called Bikini Atoll. A veritable paradise of a place, that was so nice, they named the swimwear after the island, but the Americans also used it for another purpose...

Spoiler

[HEADING=1]NUCLEAR TESTING![/HEADING]

That's right, the Americans saw paradise and thought, "Needs more explosions" So they began one of the largest nuclear tests even taken, detonating dozens of the things, and irradiating the whole area to deadly levels.

Of course, we all know what happens when animals are exposed to large levels of radiation: WILD AND AMAZING MUTATIONS! Leading to intelligent (and not so intelligent) life living in Pineapples under the sea.
That's right, The entire world of Spongebob Squarepants is just an irradiated area of mutated sealife. Sweet dreams!

Troll Face lols! [http://memebase.com/2012/01/13/internet-memes-thanks-memebase-after-dark/?utm_source=embed&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=sharewidget]

Holy crap, thats the most awesome reply I've ever gotten. It was just perfect!

 

[Latinidiot]

Isnt pluto technically a planet, its just called a dwarf planet.

Also the fact that Spongebob is a childrens show, seriously how did they think naming someone mr krabs who lives in bikini bottom child appropriate.

Dude, I've known that show for years, and never have I made that connection. No one I know has made that connection. I think it's not something you realise as a child.

Well then, allow me to blow your mind:

The name Bikini Bottom comes from the fact that Spongebob Squarepants lives at the bottom of an exotic laguna in the Pacific ocean called Bikini Atoll. A veritable paradise of a place, that was so nice, they named the swimwear after the island, but the Americans also used it for another purpose...

Spoiler

[HEADING=1]NUCLEAR TESTING![/HEADING]

That's right, the Americans saw paradise and thought, "Needs more explosions" So they began one of the largest nuclear tests even taken, detonating dozens of the things, and irradiating the whole area to deadly levels.

Of course, we all know what happens when animals are exposed to large levels of radiation: WILD AND AMAZING MUTATIONS! Leading to intelligent (and not so intelligent) life living in Pineapples under the sea.
That's right, The entire world of Spongebob Squarepants is just an irradiated area of mutated sealife. Sweet dreams!

Troll Face lols! [http://memebase.com/2012/01/13/internet-memes-thanks-memebase-after-dark/?utm_source=embed&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=sharewidget]

Holy crap, thats the most awesome reply I've ever gotten. It was just perfect!

I have kept it for very special moments of utter death of joy. Although it does make patrick more sensible, considering his...condition.

 

[wottabout]

I was going to say the whole "we eat spiders a few times a year when we are asleep" but I pretty sure that is not concrete true fact.
So I guess I go with Pluto is in fact a planet! I just feel that denining it's a planet at all, it's a like a big screw you to the Greek who discover it in the first place and Hades himself.

The spider story has often been attributed to Lisa Holst, a journalist for PC Professional, who made up ridiculous facts as examples of things that gullible people believe. Ironically (or fittingly), people later passed around the story so much that it became its own urban legend.

The fun part? There is NO EVIDENCE of the article, Lisa Holst, or PC Professional magazine anywhere outside of people citing it to debunk the spider myth. It's like an urban legend was made up to refute an urban legend. Interesting stuff.

 

[bz316]

Apparently we have like 20 senses. First time I heard that, I literally yelled "Bullshit!"...

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Surface of Venus is hotter than the surface of Mercury even though Mercury is closer to the sun.

 

[LadyTiamat]

There actually exists people who think critical thinking and individual thought is a bad thing.
I cannot even begin to fathom how many years of indoctrination it must have taken to create such poor souls.

I say you have ninja'd me good sir, but seriously I refuse to accept that people would want to ban the teaching of science.