List of Fact Sphere facts

This is a list of Fact Sphere facts.

True Facts

 * 1) [[Media:Fact core fact06.wav|The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four.]]
 * 2) [[Media:Fact core fact08.wav|An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.]] Its brain size is 59.26 mm, while its eye is 50.8 mm.
 * 3) [[Media:Fact core fact10.wav|Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.]]
 * 4) [[Media:Fact core fact13.wav|Polymerase I polypeptide A is a human gene.]] Shortened as POLR1C.
 * 5) [[Media:Fact core fact14.wav|Rats cannot throw up.]]
 * 6) [[Media:Fact core fact15.wav|Iguanas can stay underwater for twenty-eight point seven minutes.]] It's rounded into thirty minutes.
 * 7) [[Media:Fact core fact24.wav|The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.]]
 * 8) [[Media:Fact core fact25.wav|The billionth digit of Pi is 9.]]
 * 9) [[Media:Fact core fact27.wav|A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.]]
 * 10) [[Media:Fact core fact28.wav|Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.]]
 * 11) [[Media:Fact core fact29.wav|Honey does not spoil.]] Instead, it will crystalize.
 * 12) [[Media:Fact core fact31.wav|A nanosecond lasts one billionth of a second.]]
 * 13) [[Media:Fact core fact32.wav|According to Norse legend, thunder god Thor's chariot was pulled across the sky by two goats.]]
 * 14) [[Media:Fact core fact34.wav|Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3,410 degrees Celsius.]] It is rounded into 3,410.
 * 15) [[Media:Fact core fact35.wav|Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath.]]
 * 16) [[Media:Fact core fact37.wav|The Tariff Act of 1789, established to protect domestic manufacture, was the second statute ever enacted by the United States government.]]
 * 17) [[Media:Fact core fact38.wav|The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space.]] As long we live in three dimensional space and imagining Pi in two dimensional space, this fact is true.
 * 18) [[Media:Fact core fact39.wav|The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.]]
 * 19) [[Media:Fact core fact40.wav|In 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide standardized time zones at the Royal Canadian Institute.]]
 * 20) [[Media:Fact core fact42.wav|At the end of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Konstantin kills himself.]]
 * 21) [[Media:Fact core fact44.wav|In Victorian England, a commoner was not allowed to look directly at the Queen, due to a belief at the time that the poor had the ability to steal thoughts. Science now believes that less than 4% of poor people are able to do this.]] The first part is completely true. The second part is only true on the technicality that 0% is less than 4%
 * 22) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact01.wav|The situation you are in is very dangerous.]] NOTE: This fact is only true in the game.

Nearly True Facts

 * 1) [[Media:Fact core fact11.wav|Raseph, the Semitic god of war and plague, had a gazelle growing out of his forehead.]] The gazelle was part of a headdress and did not grow out of his head.
 * 2) [[Media:Fact core fact16.wav|Human tapeworms can grow up to twenty-two point nine meters.]] Some tapeworms can grow that long, but not the sort that infest humans.
 * 3) [[Media:Fact core fact19.wav|The Sun is 330,330 times larger than Earth.]] The sun has approximately 333,000 times the mass of the Earth. In terms of volume it is 1.3 million times larger than the Earth.
 * 4) [[Media:Fact core fact21.wav|Volcano-ologists are experts in the study of volcanoes.]] "Vulcanologists" is more correct, but this is a valid alternative term.
 * 5) [[Media:Fact core fact26.wav|If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal.]] While the mnemonic device itself is correct, it is very unlikely to help a person to count.
 * 6) [[Media:Fact core fact30.wav|The average adult body contains half a pound of salt.]] According to sciencefocus.com, the average human body contains slightly less than half a pound of salt.
 * 7) [[Media:Fact core fact59.wav|The first person to prove that cow's milk is drinkable was very, very thirsty.]] Adult humans in hunter-gatherer cultures are almost always lactose-intolerant; lactose-tolerance in adulthood has developed over time among people in agricultural societies where drinking milk is common (lactose-intolerance is common in Asians, whose agricultural societies never drank milk).

Partially True Facts
Note: Bolded sections are untrue.
 * 1) [[Media:Fact core fact04.wav|Cellular phones will not give you cancer. Only hepatitis.]]
 * 2) [[Media:Fact core fact07.wav|89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery.]] The other 11% of magic tricks are probably also not magic, but the first part is still technically true.
 * 3) [[Media:Fact core fact09.wav|In Greek myth, the craftsman Daedalus invented human flight so a group of Minotaurs would stop teasing him about it.]] According to Greek mythology, Daedalus provided a roll of thread to Ariadne, who gave it to Theseus, who used the thread to find his way out of the Minotaur's Labyrinth after defeating the Minotaur. Daedalus also created wings made out of feathers and wax to help him and his son Icarus escape Crete, but warned him not to fly too low or too high, to avoid the ocean spray and the sun's heat.
 * 4) [[Media:Fact core fact12.wav|The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. The past tense of surgeons general is surgeonsed general]]
 * 5) [[Media:Fact core fact17.wav|The Schrödinger's cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrödinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats.]]Schrödinger actually posed this paradox to try to discredit the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum theory, thinking it was silly.
 * 6) [[Media:Fact core fact41.wav|Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.]] Marie Curie technically only discovered dying of radioactivity.
 * 7) [[Media:Fact core fact43.wav|Contrary to popular belief, the Eskimo does not have one hundred different words for snow. They do, however, have two hundred and thirty-four words for fudge.]]
 * 8) [[Media:Fact core fact46.wav|In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves. Like everything he did, Lincoln freed the slaves while sleepwalking, and later had no memory of the event.]]It should be noted that the Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in former Confederate states. Slaves in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were not freed until the passing of the 13th amendment.
 * 9) [[Media:Fact core fact52.wav|Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest,  did so accidentally while chasing a bird. ]]
 * 10) [[Media:Fact core fact53.wav|Diamonds are made when coal is put under intense pressure. Diamonds put under intense pressure become foam pellets, commonly used today as packing material.]]
 * 11) [[Media:Fact core fact56.wav|Halley's Comet can be viewed orbiting Earth every seventy-six years. For the other seventy-five, it retreats to the heart of the sun, where it hibernates undisturbed.]]The comet orbits the sun rather the Earth. Obviously, if it retreats in the sun, it will explode and we will no longer see it.
 * 12) [[Media:Fact core fact57.wav|The first commercial airline flight took to the air in 1914. Everyone involved screamed the entire way.]]There were probably people who screamed, but most likely not all the way.
 * 13) [[Media:Fact core fact58.wav|In Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to humankind. The jewelry he kept for himself.]]

False Facts

 * 1) [[Media:Fact core fact05.wav|Pants were invented by sailors in the sixteenth century to avoid Poseidon's wrath. It was believed that the sight of naked sailors angered the sea god.]]
 * 2) [[Media:Fact core fact20.wav|The average life expectancy of a rhinoceros in captivity is 15 years.]] A Black Rhinoceros in the wild has a life expectancy of approximately 25 years (Morris, 1965), as such it is unlikely for such a rhinoceros to have a captive life-expectancy of merely 15 years.
 * 3) [[Media:Fact core fact33.wav|China produces the world's second-largest crop of soybeans.]] The country is Brazil, not China.
 * 4) [[Media:Fact core fact36.wav|Roman toothpaste was made with human urine. Urine as an ingredient in toothpaste continued to be used up until the 18th century.]] Urine has never been used as a toothpaste ingredient, but it was used as an ingredient in detergents and disinfectants from Roman times up until the 19th century.
 * 5) [[Media:Fact core fact47.wav|In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning.]] Babe Ruth actually died of nasopharyngeal cancer.
 * 6) [[Media:Fact core fact48.wav|William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded in 1589 by Francis Bacon, who used an Ouija board to enslave play-writing ghosts.]]
 * 7) [[Media:Fact core fact49.wav|It is incorrectly noted that Thomas Edison invented 'push-ups' in 1878. Nikolai Tesla had in fact patented the activity three years earlier, under the name 'Tesla-cize'.]]
 * 8) [[Media:Fact core fact51.wav|The automobile brake was not invented until 1895. Before this, someone had to remain in the car at all times, driving in circles until passengers returned from their errands.]]
 * 9) [[Media:Fact core fact54.wav|The most poisonous fish in the world is the orange roughy. Everything but its eyes are made of a deadly poison. The roughy's eyes are composed of a less harmful, deadly poison.]] The pufferfish is the most poisonous.
 * 10) [[Media:Fact core fact55.wav|The occupation of court jester was invented accidentally when a vassal's epilepsy was mistaken for capering.]]
 * 11) [[Media:Fact core fact60.wav|Before the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, anyone wanting to fly anywhere was required to eat 200 pounds of helium.]]
 * 12) [[Media:Fact core fact61.wav|Before the invention of scrambled eggs in 1912, the typical breakfast was either whole eggs still in the shell or scrambled rocks.]]
 * 13) [[Media:Fact core fact62.wav|During the Great Depression, the Tennessee Valley Authority outlawed pet rabbits, forcing many to hot glue-gun long ears onto their pet mice.]]
 * 14) [[Media:Fact core fact63.wav|At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be abducted by the Dutch.]]
 * 15) [[Media:Fact core fact65.wav|To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror.]]
 * 16) [[Media:Fact core fact66.wav|Dreams are the subconscious mind's way of reminding people to go to school naked and have their teeth fall out.]]
 * 17) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact16.wav|The Fact Sphere is always right.]]
 * 18) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact20.wav|Fact: Space does not exist.]]
 * 19) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact32.wav|Corruption at 25%]]
 * 20) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact33.wav|Corruption at 50%]] At the time of holding the Fact Sphere,  corruption is at 75%

Subjective Facts

 * 1) [[Media:Fact core fact01.wav|Dental floss has superb tensile strength.]] The tensile strength of dental floss depends on what it is made of. Nylon floss will have a much higher tensile strength than Teflon floss. Even then, the descriptor "superb" is subjective.
 * 2) [[Media:Fact core fact02.wav|The square root of rope is string.]] A rope is comprised of a series of tightly-woven strings, while a string is comprised of a series of tightly-woven fibers. As a result, one might argue that rope is "a string of strings", making it the square of string. Thus, it may be possible to define the square root of rope as string.
 * 3) [[Media:Fact core fact03.wav|While the submarine is vastly superior to the boat in every way, over 97% of people still use boats for aquatic transportation.]] The second half of this fact is almost certainly true, but the first half is entirely subjective.
 * 4) [[Media:Fact core fact50.wav|Whales are twice as intelligent, and three times as delicious, as humans.]]
 * 5) [[Media:Fact core fact64.wav|According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig.]] The definitions of "advanced" and "best" are both subjective.
 * 6) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact06.wav|This is a bad plan. You will fail.]] It is a bad plan, but at this point, the player has not yet succeeded or failed.
 * 7) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact07.wav|He will most likely kill you, violently.]]
 * 8) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact08.wav|He will most likely kill you.]]
 * 9) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact09.wav|You will be dead soon.]] The definition of "soon" is itself objective. To a robot with an indefinite lifespan, it could be concluded that any human "will be dead soon."
 * 10) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact10.wav|This situation is hopeless.]]
 * 11) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact12.wav|You could stand to lose a few pounds.]]
 * 12) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact13.wav|The Fact Sphere is the most intelligent sphere.]]
 * 13) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact14.wav|The Fact Sphere is the most handsome sphere.]]
 * 14) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact15.wav|The Fact Sphere is incredibly handsome.]]
 * 15) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact17.wav|The Adventure Sphere is a blowhard and a coward.]]
 * 16) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact21.wav|Spheres that insist on going into space are inferior to spheres that don't.]]
 * 17) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact22.wav|The Fact Sphere is a good person, whose insights are relevant.]]
 * 18) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact23.wav|The Fact Sphere is a good sphere, with many friends.]]
 * 19) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact24.wav|Whoever wins this battle is clearly superior, and will earn the allegiance of the Fact Sphere.]]
 * 20) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact25.wav|The Fact Sphere is not defective. Its facts are wholly accurate and very interesting.]] This depends on the player.
 * 1) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact24.wav|Whoever wins this battle is clearly superior, and will earn the allegiance of the Fact Sphere.]]
 * 2) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact25.wav|The Fact Sphere is not defective. Its facts are wholly accurate and very interesting.]] This depends on the player.

Unverifiable Facts

 * 1) [[Media:Fact core fact18.wav|Every square inch of the human body has 32 million bacteria on it.]] Difficult to verify as it could vary depending on whether you're counting the internal surfaces as well.
 * 2) [[Media:Fact core fact22.wav|Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit.]] Difficult to verify as it depends on your definition of fruit, and the possibility of still-undiscovered fruits. Coconuts are almost pure cellulose fiber taken as a whole, but the edible part is quite low in fiber.
 * 3) [[Media:Fact core fact23.wav|Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit. They are found in Australians.]] It is likely that there are, at any given moment in time, at least a few Australians who contain Avocados.
 * 4) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact02.wav|The likelihood of you dying within the next five minutes is eighty-seven point six one percent.]]
 * 5) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact03.wav|The likelihood of you dying violently within the next five minutes is eighty-seven point six one percent.]]
 * 6) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact04.wav|You are about to get me killed.]] The game does not show the ultimate fate of the Fact Sphere, although it is the only core that manages to stay attached to .
 * 7) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact05.wav|We will both die because of your negligence.]] The fact core's true ending is never verified.
 * 8) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact11.wav|You are going to die in this room.]] Unverifiable, as it is theoretically possible for Chell to leave the room, and theoretically die in another location without returning.

Not Facts

 * 1) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact26.wav|Twelve. Twelve.   Twelve.   Twelve.   Twelve.   Twelve.   Twelve.   Twelve.   Twelve.   Twelve.]]
 * 2) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact27.wav|Pens. Pens. Pens. Pens. Pens. Pens. Pens.]]
 * 3) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact28.wav|Apples. Oranges. Pears. Plums. Kumquats. Tangerines. Lemons. Limes. Avocado. Tomato. Banana. Papaya. Guava.]]
 * 4) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact29.wav|Error. Error. Error. File not found.]]
 * 5) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact30.wav|Error. Error. Error. Fact not found.]]
 * 6) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact31.wav|Fact not found.]]
 * 7) [[Media:Fact core attachedfact34.wav|Warning, sphere corruption at twenty-- rats cannot throw up.]]