Cool Facts

Don't believe half what you read on the internet.

No seriously, these are from a true facts website.

Because, as we all know, true facts, as opposed to just plain facts, are always reliable.

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Wow, these are all fascinating! Oh, excuse me, I have to go help a Nigerian prince recover his fortune...

Justin Bieber is 6'5", 320 pounds, and is from a small village, sitting on the Greenwich Meridian, a few hundred miles from the South Pole. He is fond of weather vanes and the act of conducting symphonies, particularly those of Mozart. True facts.

All right, most of these are most likely made up but some aren't:

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.

 In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).

when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.

Those ones are definitely true. Our head of year read them out in an assembly from a cool facts book (or a book like that - it might have been "how many times does an elephant fart" or something like that).

If you want to be sarcastic or criticise then go ahead, I'm not stopping you wasting your time.

I'll delete the original post. 

So you posted a bunch of ridiculous statements and now you're going to pout and delete them all because nobody believes you? What was the point of this?

I'm not wasting my time, that's for sure. I'm not criticising; I'm having a laugh, but not to be rude, simply because I think this is kinda' funny.

A duck's quack echoes. All sounds echo. It's just that there often is nothing for a duck's quack to echo from.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/birds/p/Ducks-Quack-Echo.htm
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090212204510AAuXfgN

Henster, I'm not trying to give you a hard time or pick on you. I'm just trying to convince you that you should always question anything you read on the internet. There's a lot of false information out there.

No, if you'd actually read what I'd said - rather than making up what I said - then you would realise that I deleted them so no more people could have a go at me.

We're not doing it to be mean, and we're not trying to pick on you. But if it bothers you, I kindly suggest unchecking the 'Tracking Comments' box.

1. You post a bunch of nonsense.
2. It gets proved wrong.
3. Your feelings are hurt.
4. You delete the nonsense.
5. Ivan points out that you would have been better off not posting the nonsense in the first place.
6. You criticize ivan for misunderstanding your post.
7. You explain to ivan that you deleted the nonsense so that people stop attacking you.
8. The resulting irony forces my palm to my face.
9. You call everyone a mean idiot.

If you found the word "fail" in the caption offensive, then I will edit it out if you like.

Compromise?

I understand your point and I accept I overreacted, but I'd like to say that maybe everyone (including myself) went a bit too far on the comments.