Assorted Bizzare Facts

[Jimdalf]

THe UN is a worthless piece of **** and should be abandoned. THeir humanitarian efforts are grossly ineffective. THey take weeks to do anything at all. They often don't want to do anything and if they do are often to scared to do it. If they do deploy troops they are predominantly from non-western countries because we seem to have been deemed more valuable as human beings... which is ********. However we are better soldiers. So the UN peacekeepers that are in country are not up to the standards the world expects and even if they are they are unable to do anything without asking a whole boatload of superiors for authorisation. Its bollocks.

Now, silly facts... A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't... All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives... Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.

[ODIN]

Originally Posted by Jimdalf

THe UN is a worthless piece of **** and should be abandoned. THeir humanitarian efforts are grossly ineffective. THey take weeks to do anything at all. They often don't want to do anything and if they do are often to scared to do it. If they do deploy troops they are predominantly from non-western countries because we seem to have been deemed more valuable as human beings... which is ********. However we are better soldiers. So the UN peacekeepers that are in country are not up to the standards the world expects and even if they are they are unable to do anything without asking a whole boatload of superiors for authorisation. Its bollocks.

I wrote a paper a couple years ago about the ineffectiveness of the UN.

Anyhow here are some interesting literary facts.

• The novel Futility, an 1898 creation of Morgan Robertson, detailed the sinking of an unsinkable ship, the largest vessel afloat. This imaginary ship named the "Titan", collided with an iceberg during April, resulting in a high loss of life because the ship carried too few lifeboats. Fourteen years later, with uncanny similarities, the real ship Titanic recreated what happened in the novel. The two ships had almost identical names, were designated unsinkable, both were touted as the largest ships at sea, both collided with icebergs in April, and both resulted in many deaths due to a shortage of lifeboats. Plus, both had strikingly similar floor plans and technical descriptions.
  
• Radio broadcaster Paul Harvey aired a grimtale of 3 shipwrecked sailors and one cabin boy, adrift facing starvation, who drew lots to see who would forfeit his life so the others could survive. Evidence at the subsequent trial that convicted the men of cannibalism included a story written by Edgar Allen Poe. Titled "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", the tale descibed 3 shipwrecked sailors who rigged a drawing of lots, then killed and ate the cabin boy, Richard Parker. Poes story, which so accurately described the drama, every detail as it actually happened (including the victims correct name) was written and published 46 years before the event happened, and even before the participant were born.

[Rod Dickmaster]

In the interests of all that is good in the world, I would like to formally request that each and every person who has posted "facts" go back and edit their posts to include the source material for their information.

Even a basic (less than 1 minute) internet search of respected sites disqualifies most of the examples from their claims of fact.

Persons who disregard this request risk being really, seriously pwnzered by me for providing pseudo-facts.

Really.

Nothing pisses me off more than incorrect or misleading information being paraded around as "fact".

[RickTheRipper]

Most of the stuff I post is what I hear people say, and as we all know, most people lie. So no, I will not go and prove myself wrong. Let me bathe in my false triumph.

Besides, I have no idea where to start looking.

[Grace Saunders]

Waiting for my man tonight is a reference to dealing drugs. So it doesn't mean a guy wants to take it up the ***.

[Rod Dickmaster]

Originally Posted by Grace Saunders

In this topic, you say something that is a bit unusual, but 100% true.

OK, did you know that dynamite is made using peanut oil?

Okay, here we go. This one is technically true, but a bit misleading. Somebody intent on making dynamite would not be purchasing peanuts to make it. Rather, one ingredient in dynamite is nitroglycerin. Further down the line, one ingredient in nitroglycerin is glycerol. It is at this point where the mighty peanut makes an appearance (or not). Glycerol can be obtained from nearly any organic oil. Peanut oil, olive oil, animal lard, etc...

In this sense, a more correct (but certainly less "bizarre") statement might be the same one used by candy manufacturers. "Dynamite may or may not contain traces of peanuts".

References: Dozens. Try Wikipedia, Britannica, your high school chemistry textbook, etc... I didn't list specific sources because there are just so many credible sources readily available.

[Focus]

Originally Posted by Focus

My name has 6 letters each..


A woman consuming a man's sperm reduces her risk of getting breast cancer.

link for proof

"Only with regular occurrence will your chances be reduced, so I encourage all women out there to make fellatio an important part of their daily routine," said Dr. Helena Shifteer

tee hee

[Rod Dickmaster]

Originally Posted by ODIN-027

1 cubic meter of water = 1 ton.

Ronald Reagan was the Devil. His name has 6 letters each. Ronald Wilson Reagan - 666.

Okay, here we go again.

This one is wrong. First of all, you have to be suspicious of any measurement that changes it's unit of measure after the = sign. Here, we go from a metric unit (cubic meter), to the U.S. unit (ton). In metric, the resultant unit would be read as "tonne", and is a significantly different figure.

We'll do our best with what we have been told by Odin. First, let's convert the 1 cubic meter to U.S. gallons. The Engineering Toolbox (a trusted source), tell us that this conversion results in 264.172 U.S. gallons.

Next we need to know how much a gallon of water weighs. This Geek site tells us that a gallon of water weighs 8.4 pounds... or 8.5 pounds depending on where in the article you take the information. I decided that this is NOT a trusted site, but took heed of the suggestion that it would be very easy to verify this figure. I first weighed a 4 gallon container on a digital paint scale (used for mixing automotive paints), then I filled the container to the 1 gallon mark, and weighed that. The result: 8.33 pounds. Since this was a real-world observation, I gave this number more credence than the others.

To arrive at the result, a simple calculation is needed. 264.172 x 8.33 = 2200.55.

This is more than 10% higher than the 2000lbs, or 1 ton, quoted as a "fact".

Now for the second "fact".

Odin tells us that Ronald Wilson Reagan was the devil. This is deduced from the simple fact that each of his names has 6 letters, and that these would combine to form the number "666", which is clearly the number of the beast. There are serious errors in Odin's calculations.

First, the correct method of combination would be 6x6x6 which of course yields a result of 216. Next, we must consider that he was an actor before he was president. Therefore, both the words "gipper" and "bonzo" must be factored in to our equation. Now we have 216(6 x 5) = 6480. Now, a complex algoritim (which is far too scary to detail in this post) must be applied, and then a small animal, perhaps a chicken, must be sacrificed. There we have it, the correct result: "Ronald Wilson Reagan may or may not contain traces of peanuts".

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[kevinXcore]

dolphins are the only other mamal besides humans that have sex for pleasure.

[Rod Dickmaster]

Originally Posted by ODIN-027

John Wayne had 15-20 lbs. of undigested shat in his body when he died. Disgusting and true.

Last one for today. Just another of Odin's little tales.

This one is easy, since it has been a subject of research by the Snopes Urban Legends site.

You can find out why this statement is crap at Urban Legends Reference Pages: Red Meat Impacts Feces in Colon

Please, Odin, stop now.

Pwnzrd x 2