Made up Facts that sound vaguely true

Blisterman

The Average person spends six months of their life sneezing.
Cats cannot taste salt.
The mexican wave was actually invented in paraguay.
It's against the law in Switzerland to dress up as a monster for halloween.
Pepsi outsells Coke in Roscommon.


Anyone else have some more?

TPD

Dogs cant look up

Adam

Yore ma is a roide.

genericgoon

Statistics are always the best for this kind of thing.

For example: Did you know 53% of Americans thought they won the Vietnam war. :P

justsomebloke

this thread has an 8.2% chance of being voted thread of the year

BurnsCarpenter

80% of climate scientists no longer believe in human induced climate change.

clicli

67% of all statistics are made up

Tar.Aldarion

pi is 3.1415928...

Kinetic^

Boards.ie operates a free speech policy.

genericgoon

Now we're getting it.

'There are 3 kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics'

genericgoon

Now we're getting it.

'There are 3 kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics'

The Bollox

this thread sucks!


(see what I did there?)

JohnCleary

clicli wrote: »

67% of all statistics are made up

FACT!

Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »

pi is 3.1415928...

Pi is exactly 3!

Dord

JohnCleary wrote: »

FACT!



Pi is exactly 3!

:eek:

Fremen

A badger can outrun a racehorse over distances under 100m

TPD

JohnCleary wrote: »

Pi is exactly 3!

Beaten to the punch.

ADAM2326

Did you know 3 out of 4 questions are statments in disguise?
8 out of 5 people dont understand fractions.
More people are killed by donkeys than all the worlds cars.
There's enough fibre in a leather shoe to survive on a desert island for 3 days.
The pillowcase was invented by a janitor
Woman cant clap behind there backs
The female orgasm

Fringe

ADAM2326 wrote: »

Woman cant clap behind there backs

Ha, that's the best one. So true.

Jack Sheehan

There are only 4 senses, taste and smell are the same thing.

Every six months, because of the gravitational shift, north korea becomes south korea and vice versa.

All that alaskan oil turned out to be diesel after all.

r3nu4l

The Danish house scorpion cannot survive in houses with central heating

Japanese red spider monkeys are so named because they attack people with red hair. They do so because red hair is practically unknown in Japan and the monkeys assume anyone with red hair is in fact another monkey encroaching on their territory.

Spider monkeys use their prehensile tails to wrap around their victims throats, thus constricting and choking off their air supply. This is how they kill elephants!

120_Minutes

a ducks quack has no echo.

r3nu4l

r3nu4l wrote: »

The Danish house scorpion cannot survive in houses with central heating

Japanese red spider monkeys are so named because they attack people with red hair. They do so because red hair is practically unknown in Japan and the monkeys assume anyone with red hair is in fact another monkey encroaching on their territory.

Spider monkeys use their prehensile tails to wrap around their victims throats, thus constricting and choking off their air supply. This is how they kill elephants!

Ginge-seeking spiders. Fantastic. Spider monkeys in fact. Even better.

You can't swim for 40 minutes after eating.

Adam

Deleted User wrote: »

Ginge-seeking spiders. Fantastic. Spider monkeys in fact. Even better.

You can't swim for 40 minutes after eating.

You can, but you'll probably drown. And that's a recommendation, not a fact.

Mirror

Mirror wrote: »

You can, but you'll probably drown. And that's a recommendation, not a fact.

Uh.. uh ..

Yore ma.

There.

FruitLover

Deleted User wrote: »

You can't swim for 40 minutes after eating.

I can't swim for 40 minutes full stop!

Adam

Deleted User wrote: »

Uh.. uh ..

Yore ma.

There.

No no, she's mandatory.

Cookie_Monster

The blue whale is the largest living organism

Muggy Dev

A horse walks into a bar.........

antodeco

Most idiotic people will think about something that doesnt make sense.

IvaBigWun

Blisterman wrote: »

Pepsi outsells Coke in Roscommon

daisy123

Snap, Crackle and Pop are based on three past American Presidents.

KnifeWRENCH

Eating goats testicles cures impotence.

Herion is an effective cure for the common cold.

Married men in Uzbekistan can file for divorce if their wife refuses to have sex with them at least twice a week.

In Kentucky it is against the law to storm into a Church wielding an axe.

In Vietnam, there is a fine of 3,946,599 dong (equal to 150 Euros) for whistling in public on a Sunday.

jigglywoo

The main ingredient of porridge is unfertilised frog spawn.

Plug

daisy123 wrote: »

Snap, Crackle and Pop are based on three past American Presidents.

That probably is true:D

il gatto

A well constructed house of cards will support a grown man. All fish are colour blind. The reason thieves have their right hand cut off in Arab countries is because it's widely acknowledged that this is the hand most men mastubate with.

Maximilian

Grenades are made from pineapple.

Peyton Manning

Ireland was originally known as Little Britain.

It is illegal for council workers in Ireland to work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

There are more Big Mac's in all the worlds McDonalds than there are people in the world.

Gran Hermano

Eastern European women are much more attractive than Irish women.




FACT










(Well I read it on After Hours earlier this year so it must be true).

Tragamin2k2

square_igloo wrote: »

Eating goats testicles cures impotence.

Herion is an effective cure for the common cold.

Married men in Uzbekistan can file for divorce if their wife refuses to have sex with them at least twice a week.

In Kentucky it is against the law to storm into a Church wielding an axe.

In Vietnam, there is a fine of 3,946,599 dong (equal to 150 Euros) for whistling in public on a Sunday.

i lolled

truecrippler

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8 out of 5 people dont understand fractions.
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haha, love it :P

edit: my quote got sabotaged!!

i didn't do it

Archimedes wrote: »

It is illegal for council workers in Ireland to work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays

You forgot about Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays:D

newballsplease

87% of council workers can do any job with their hands in their pockets!

R0ot

On planes when you go to the bathroom it just drops straight out, and this is why your not allowed to go before take-off for fear of 'skid starts' [/red dwarf]

newballsplease

98% of people cheat when playing the ouiji board

challengemaster

Snyper is a rapist...


wait.. I'm doing it wrong, aint I? :pac:

beautiation

If goldfish close their mouth they explode.

The Nazis killed the Jews only after midnight on weekdays in order to benefit from the off-peak gas rate.

There are so many people in China that if you press any sequence of 18 buttons on your phone you are guaranteed to call one of them.

Vegetarians Catholics are excommunicatd if they refuse to eat the body of christ.

hussey

35% of 16 year old girls, on the net are male.

a Caesar-Salad was originally called a Roman salad, but was renamed after Julius Caesar as a mark of respect.

Female menstruation attracts bears.

Vodka was originally designed as rocket fuel.

minxie

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. :pac:

hussey

minxie1 wrote: »

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. :pac:

Close but no cigar: http://ezinearticles.com/?Pizza---The-Fun-Facts-About-That-Great-Dish&id=430926

The people of America eat around 350 slices of pizza each second, or 90 to 100 acres per day.

beautiation

Mmmm... Pizza farm.