Roger Danish
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I read the one about blinking and now I can't stop myself from being conscious of my blinking. HELP!!!
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500 things you (probably) didn't know
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A fair chunk of that list is dubious and contains a number of debunked urban legends.
From what I remember, there are way more than 10 forms of kissing in the Karma Sutra so the rest of those figures are suspect. It's not that great of a book either way but good for a historical insight into culture.
Also, the sinking university library one is also debunked. It's not sinking. The American flag was also not on the Canadian $2 bill.
From what I remember, there are way more than 10 forms of kissing in the Karma Sutra so the rest of those figures are suspect. It's not that great of a book either way but good for a historical insight into culture.
Also, the sinking university library one is also debunked. It's not sinking. The American flag was also not on the Canadian $2 bill.
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
Yeah, I quickly skimmed through the list and there are a bunch of things on there that I would be shocked if someone I was talking to did not know.
StalkerUKCG
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Well, i read the OP's post.
Factually wrong
Myths
Common Sense
Percentages and Fractions taken from small case studies (or most likely made up) and implied as fact.
Terrible, not one thing made me say "heh, cool" or anything to that effect. Worst part is this is something thank alot of people will read and ill start hearing alot of these things as fact.
Factually wrong
Myths
Common Sense
Percentages and Fractions taken from small case studies (or most likely made up) and implied as fact.
Terrible, not one thing made me say "heh, cool" or anything to that effect. Worst part is this is something thank alot of people will read and ill start hearing alot of these things as fact.
MilesWebber
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Is this Facebook? Where am I? Is this real life?
Kermit The Dog
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It's a Mues thread. Irritated astonishment and any semblance of expectation should have been discarded as soon as you clicked.
There's a fantastic list of common misconceptions on Wikipedia that ruthlessly debunks a significant portion of these 500 'facts'.
There's a fantastic list of common misconceptions on Wikipedia that ruthlessly debunks a significant portion of these 500 'facts'.
a secret-boss
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Now, we know where Game of Thrones happens
Winter is coming
Cow Mengde
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Anyone tried creating a folder called Con after reading this? I know I did. And it didn't work! Holy shit.
Ventilaator
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Yeah, there's a lot of bullshit on the list, but why can't I make a folder called con?
To the Google mobile!
To the Google mobile!
ONE MORE !
WRONG!
Not sure about the fashion, but Mona Lisa lost it's eyebrows during a restauration made my Michelangelo (or some other ninja turtle =P)
See this copy made by a Leonardo's student wich "reveals a clearer picture of what the original, which has not been cleaned for some time, may have looked like when originally painted."
For more information, read here
Also, notes that Mona Lisa was one of the first examples of orange/blue poster xD
StalkerUKCG
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Because most of it is well know, common sense or unsubstantiated percentages or fractions.
I read the whole 500 and nothing was cool about any of it. And most of the stuff id find interesting i already knew like many others did.
Kermit The Dog
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Er, no, you're wrong too. The problem is that while a lot of it is genuinely cool and includes many things the majority of people would be unaware of, the fact that such a significant portion of the list is incorrect or unsubstantiated means we can't reasonably accept the validity of anything on the list, fascinating or not.
StalkerUKCG
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Yours view of "Cool" and mine a greatly different, I dont know about you but pretty much everyone i come into contact with knows some if not most of this useless trivia so much so that i assumed it was common knowledge. But i agree, the fact a large number of the list is factually wrong makes me doubt the rest.
Fractions and percentages however are for the most part based on test groups so small in scale that they can never predict anything even close to factual evidence.
How to create misinformation and willful ignorance:
Take a few facts of great certainty, a few facts of less great certainty, some of questionable certainty and throw in a few misleading, out of context facts and a few outright lies for good measure.
Mix together, and label the entire collection as; X hundred facts that will astound you!
There is a high proportion of critical thinkers and skeptics on GAF that can sense this pattern very quickly, and accords the list in its entirety as the general nonsense that it is.
Also... Rolex watches do not have a 'true sweeping' hand movement either. They have a 6+ ticks per second sweep, which is sufficient at the scale in which the change occurs, for it to appear as though it is sweeping. Also, Rolex have manufactured quartz (battery based, 1 tick per second) watches in the past, although have stopped due to the increasing lack of prestige over the years.
Many higher end watches have between 6 to 12 ticks per second - a range of 21k oscillations to 32k oscillations in the little spring that keeps the time of the watch.
Also, quartz watches are still significantly more accurate (as in, retains a smaller +_ variance over the course of a year) than automatic watches, despite the cost. The most accurate watches are found in digital watches like the G-Shock, satellite atomic calibration watches (that is, it uses atomic clock calibration from a satellite).
No motherucker. You're the downer here. Get off your emotional high horse and come join us in kicking this dead and woefully misleading horse in our skeptics party.
CliqWriter
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500 things I really didn't care to think about before.
Fantastical
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Why do people want to be blissfully ignorant? Be miserably skeptical!
LMFAO, jesus. You care too much, but ok bro.
Trent Strong
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An excess or deficiency of any of four distinct bodily fluids in a person directly influences their temperament and health.
Yeah, why know things when you can be amazed by made-up things instead?
What a bunch of debbie downers!
Al-ibn Kermit
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For reals, you have to monitor your yellow bile every now and then. Otherwise you'll get a stomach ache when you eat the maggoty meat and you'll have to go to the local barber to get a preemptive trepanning.
roflmaojesuskeks. No bro. You car too much. Just chill out.
Seriously dude? This is how you retreat from a discussion? Can you get lamer then this??
EDIT: goddamn, beaten. This is what happens when you get hungry mid post.
181) On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
Incorrect. The flag on the old two dollar bill is, in fact, a Canadian flag. However, on the old ten dollar bill there is a flag that looks similar in design to an American flag, because it is actually the Canadian Red Ensign. The Canadian Red Ensign was the unofficial flag of Canada before the current Maple Leaf was adopted. The Manitoba and Ontario provincial flags are based off the Red Ensign.
181) On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
Incorrect. The flag on the old two dollar bill is, in fact, a Canadian flag. However, on the old ten dollar bill there is a flag that looks similar in design to an American flag, because it is actually the Canadian Red Ensign. The Canadian Red Ensign was the unofficial flag of Canada before the current Maple Leaf was adopted. The Manitoba and Ontario provincial flags are based off the Red Ensign.
Dog Problems
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I knew every one of these except this one. Mind blown.
Is this a discussion? It's just some silly chain-mail 'facts' that are fun to read, even if a bunch are inaccurate, some are still interesting.
Either way, you're too invested. If you really wanted this thread to die you wouldn't keep posting in it.
perfectchaos007
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the OP's post is like 500 snapple caps rolled into 1
ZackieChan
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Is this a discussion? It's just some silly chain-mail 'facts' that are fun to read, even if a bunch are inaccurate, some are still interesting.
Either way, you're too invested. If you really wanted this thread to die you wouldn't keep posting in it.
But there are actual facts that are interesting. These are mostly bullshit under the guise of being "facts." Why not go and learn some actual facts, and compile your own list?
Pachterballs
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:O
just tried. this is true!!!
Ya that one is pretty good.
makingmusic476
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37) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
I'm trying to figure out how the guy wouldn't get totally fucked up if he's getting bombarded by enough microwaves to melt a candy bar.
I'm trying to figure out how the guy wouldn't get totally fucked up if he's getting bombarded by enough microwaves to melt a candy bar.
Snytbaggen
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Yeah, this is also wrong. Water weighs the most at +4 degrees Celsius, and weighs less and less the hotter it gets. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Density_of_water_and_ice
I'm not any more invested in this thread then you are. And I don't care if this thread lives or dies (actually, I'd prefer it to not sink, so we can continue poking fun at it).
Anyway. I won't argue with you on this issue anymore - it's decidedly frivolous, and it's just exceeded my care threshold.
...at least quote the source the Wikipedia sentence quotes as a source. Wikipedia is not exactly the be-all, end-all of fuckin' facts.
*high-five*
Let's move the bullshit here, though; http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=34852999
I wouldn't mind an urban legends/bullshit facts thread like that. This one though, as it is, is too robust to care for.
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