Interesting and unusual facts

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    Just idly bored and wondered what sort of things are strange but true?
    Cue the tinternet!

    At the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife's weight in beer.
     
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    If you stick your index finger in your ear and wiggle it about you get the Pac-Man sound.
     
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    People use the term "factoid" as if it means a tidbit of information or mini-fact when it actually means an item of unreliable information repeated so often it is accepted as a fact.

    So that's a fact (not a factoid) about factoids not being facts. If someone sends you a fax telling you that factoid means fact then the fact on that fax is in fact a factoid and not a fact and you should fax them back to point out the fact that their faxed fast fact on factoids was in fact a factoid about factoids and the true fact of factoids is that they are not facts.

    Another interesting fact (not factoid) is that after reading this you may get the sense that the word "fact" is losing meaning due to repetition. That's due to a psychological phenomenon known as semantic satiation.
     
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    More than 53% of adults in the UK don't understand how a thermostat works.
     
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    What’s one of them? :)
     
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    And 90% of adults don't have a multimeter. Goodness sake don't tell @JamDrop , she'll do her nut:D
     
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    A what ?
     
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    111. To most that is the NHS non emergency phone number.
    But to every Dundee United fan’s amusement it is the total number of years since Dundee last won the cup.
    Fun Fact of the Day.
     
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    People born in Uruguay during the 50s didn't have names, they were just given serial numbers at birth.

    Might be true, might not be? Who knows...
     
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    ELEVEN PLUS TWO is an anagram of TWELVE PLUS ONE
     
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    There are more people alive on earth today, than the the number of people who have ever lived and died before.
     
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    The time between Stegasuarus's dying out and T-Rex's being born, is far greater than the time between T-Rex's dying out and the ipad being invented.
     
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    My 6 year old sister ( at the time) saw a 'yombie' (zombie...) on our way home from Scarborough one night. Quite extraordinary
     
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    Garnish was invented by John Parsley.
     
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    You cannot stick out your tongue and hum at the same time.
     
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    if you built a scale model of the solar system in your house, using a football as the sun, and a tennis ball as the earth, 5 metres away, then to represent pluto you would have to place a pebble 5 miles away.
     
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    Can we know this for certain as a fact!?
     
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    You can, I just have!
     
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    Was thinking similar t’other day:)
     
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