What Fact Shocked You The Most

[Vrex360]

When someone told me that there was a chance people would not realise my name was a pardoy ot Trex and infact think that rather then pronounce it 'V-rex' they say it wrong. A dumb surprise but nevertheless a surprise that I hope is proved wrong.

 

[tyzzni]

that morphine, used frequently as a painkiller, is the pure form of heroin. seriously. also how would cocaine STOP your nose from bleeding? :S
also (more drug related stuff) why tobacco, known to cause lung, throat and mouth cancers is readily available in shops, but marajuana, a completely harmless substance, is an illegal drug. also alcohol... what the hell? that kills thousands of people a year (never stopped me though ). It turns out one of the main reasons marajuana was banned in the UK was because it wasn't easy to control its production, because it grows naturally in our climate. huh. (also the paranoia risk, but mainly the first reason)
Drug lecture over

Actually calling marijuana 'completely harmless' is total BS.
You're still inhaling smoke and addicting brain-altering chemicals.
Also, marijuana actually has more carcinogens than tobacco.

marijuana's main ingredient in the smoke (if that made any sense) eats tar in your lounges and is used on smoking victims occasionally.

Also I would like to point out to you there are no addicting properties of marijuana I know plenty of pot heads, I don't associate with the losers but I do know them and I also know they can stop for months or years at a time and start up again whenever they feel like it lol you have been lied to if you believe marijuana is even slightly addicting. Brain altering, yes, addicting, no.

 

[timmytom1]

If you get shot without you knowing you won't die. (well at least I think thats true)

Well bullets are reknowned for their politness.....
Seriously though just because you`re in a state of shock doesn`t mean the bullet won`t kill you

I think he might be referring to one of The US Presidents being shot with a .22 round during a speach and not realising until after he had finished the speach. He survived as well(I think it was Nixon, but Im really not sure.). In all fairness, I read this in the Zombie Survival Guide, so my source isnt that credible.

Might have been reagen

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

Vin Diesel collects space marines. I found this very amusing.

Apparently I'm about three decades behind on this one, but a couple of months I was postively astounded to learn that we have quite a few space stations orbiting the earth.

Seriously, I thought space stations were just the stuff of Sci-Fi myth or something. Don't I feel stupid now...

WTF, we have space stations? I thought we only had one. And een that isnt very big. Whats next, a moon base. (I can only hope)

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

I think it was said that on average 200 spiders crawl into your mouth and get eaten while your sleeping in your lifetime.

no no, more than that... 8 a day on average

Please tell me you're lying. I have a mega phobia of spiders and this just isnt helping.

 

[Simalacrum]

I think it was said that on average 200 spiders crawl into your mouth and get eaten while your sleeping in your lifetime.

no no, more than that... 8 a day on average

Please tell me you're lying. I have a mega phobia of spiders and this just isnt helping.

I would say i'm lying buuuut that would just be lying...

hey, think on the bright side, it means theres less spiders for you to actually see

 

[manaman]

I think it was said that on average 200 spiders crawl into your mouth and get eaten while your sleeping in your lifetime.

no no, more than that... 8 a day on average

Please tell me you're lying. I have a mega phobia of spiders and this just isnt helping.

I would say i'm lying buuuut that would just be lying...

hey, think on the bright side, it means theres less spiders for you to actually see

Of course this is a total fabrication, and myth. Spiders like dry, calm, and quite environments. Your mouth is none of these things. The only spider you are ever at risk of ingesting, inhaling, or eating would be a the fresh hatched floating through the air on a string of silk. Those that pop out late spring, and you can usually see running around in a massive pile of tiny spiders on silk they tried to use to launch, but failed cause it stuck to shit around them.

Edit: I spent a while reading over the facts on this thread and most of them are false. Just urban myths.

Cocaine in coke (cause of ingredients, not as an additive) is true, and drug related ones (aside from illegal drugs) tend more towards being true. Everything else should be taken with a grain of salt.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

I think it was said that on average 200 spiders crawl into your mouth and get eaten while your sleeping in your lifetime.

no no, more than that... 8 a day on average

Please tell me you're lying. I have a mega phobia of spiders and this just isnt helping.

I would say i'm lying buuuut that would just be lying...

hey, think on the bright side, it means theres less spiders for you to actually see

Why would you do this to me, what did i ever do to deserve this (you dont have to answer that)

 

[ChaosDragon]

http://www.cracked.com/article_16241_6-most-frequently-quoted-bullsht-statistics.html

so i'm not so sure on that whole eating spiders thingy.

but a fact i learned was that no matter what you do or how well you do it, someone will ***** about how it's not good enough.

 

[manaman]

I think it was said that on average 200 spiders crawl into your mouth and get eaten while your sleeping in your lifetime.

no no, more than that... 8 a day on average

Please tell me you're lying. I have a mega phobia of spiders and this just isnt helping.

I would say i'm lying buuuut that would just be lying...

hey, think on the bright side, it means theres less spiders for you to actually see

Why would you do this to me, what did i ever do to deserve this (you dont have to answer that)

You really should wonder that as the spider thing is just an urban myth. I posted that right above the your post I am now quoting. When you really think about it, then you can start to wonder how anyone can actually believe a myth as silly as that one. It is like glass being a slow moving liquid, and other facts that people accept that you would realize was false if you just gave them a moments thought.

 

[minarri]

Cigarette Smoke cures Ulcerative Colitis and Crone's disease.

LOL Crone's Disease? Is that a disease that turns you into a shriveled old lady?

Yeah I really doubt that colitis and Crohn's Disease would be cured by something so harmful

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

You really should wonder that as the spider thing is just an urban myth. I posted that right above the your post I am now quoting. When you really think about it, then you can start to wonder how anyone can actually believe a myth as silly as that one. It is like glass being a slow moving liquid, and other facts that people accept that you would realize was false if you just gave them a moments thought.

Actually, glass can be a slow moving liquid if its hot enough so

 

[manaman]

You really should wonder that as the spider thing is just an urban myth. I posted that right above the your post I am now quoting. When you really think about it, then you can start to wonder how anyone can actually believe a myth as silly as that one. It is like glass being a slow moving liquid, and other facts that people accept that you would realize was false if you just gave them a moments thought.

Actually, glass can be a slow moving liquid if its hot enough so

Commercial glass is about 70-80% silica by weight. The rest is usually a mix of calcium dioxide, aluminum oxide, and magnesium oxide. Blah blah blah. I made a lot of words here but basically what I was getting at is glass is really an amorphous solid and only thought of as a liquid because of the appearance of antique glass, usually the result of either the pour processes, or because the window was blown and spun and there for would not have a uniform thickness.

I am to tired and trying to write out technical stuff is a waste of time right now. I can hardly write a sentence without messing up. So good night all.

Edit: I edited out the part where you where wrong before I posted, and forgot to add it back in.

Glass can be heated and shaped, but is not actually a liquid until it has been heated and completed its phase transition, and that is about 600 degrees C or 1000 for straight silica. It is then a liquid. It has different properties from say ice because it is an amorphous solid, it does not have a rigid crystal structure when it is a solid. Not to say that water does not actually have some pretty amazing properties not found in much else.

 

[Ghost]

I was so shocked when I LOST THE GAME.

you suck so much you made me sad.

also, i did enjoy this immensely http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3481932/Nazi-leader-Hitler-really-did-have-only-one-ball.html

 

[Cylem]

It takes two tanks to rip apart two phonebooks with their pages interweaved. I actually grabbed a couple of phonebooks and tried it out (minus the tanks) after watching. I love Mythbusters.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Hitlers mom almost had an abortion.

I read that during WW1 Hitler himself said that he heard a voice (in his head?) telling him to move left or something and he did and a couple of seconds later the rest of the men he was with were killed by a shell that landed right where he had been standing.

If a shell landed right where he had been standing, moving to the left would not have saved him. Especially since the other men he was with must have been farther away from the shell than him.

Besides, where the hell would someone have heard about that? If Hitler never told anyone that then it can't be true, and if he did say it then it would be widely known as a fact.

And I'm pretty sure Hitler didn't have one testicle. And I never heard the mom almost having an abortion thing, but I suppose it could be true.

And while we're all spouting off facts about Hitler (most of which probably aren't true) I was surprised to find out that Hitler was wounded in either the thigh or groin in World War 1. And that's true.

He also survived 40 assassination attempts. And conquered over 3 million square miles in his reign. I think the testicle thing is true though. A german army medic who once had to treat him has said it's true. And as for the thing about the voice in his head, he once told it to an English reporter, and he probably wrote it down in Mein Kampf aswell.

 

[r4ndom]

I was just watching a Live Surgery programme [I dunno if anyone else saw it] and I was shocked to find out that cocaine was used to temporarily numb and stop a patients nose bleeding. I thought the surgeon was kidding at first so I googled it and found it was true.
So just for a bit of fun; what fact or piece of information has shocked you?

During the World Wars, soldiers were given speed, cocaine, heroin, LSD, etc.

War must've been a funny place. Full of hungry men dancing around and dribbling.

 

[Ghost]

If you have spider web as thick as a pencil, length ways not width, it can bring a 747 at top speed to a dead stop.

This cant be true, can it?

it is spider silk is the strongest substance known to man. Im just going off the top of my head but it you had a 1 inch thick cable made out of spider silk, you would need a 10 inch thick steel cable to be as strong

does spiders silk decay quickly? because steel takes thousands of years, can't speak for spiders silk though.