List of Fact Sphere facts

This is a list of Fact Sphere facts.

True Facts

 * 1) [[Media:Fact core fact25.wav|The billionth digit of Pi is 9.]]
 * 2) [[Media:Fact core fact10.wav|Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.]]
 * 3) [[Media:Fact core fact31.wav|A nanosecond lasts one billionth of a second.]]
 * 4) [[Media:Fact core fact29.wav|Honey does not spoil.]]
 * 5) [[Media:Fact core fact06.wav|The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four.]]
 * 6) [[Media:Fact core fact08.wav|An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.]]
 * 7) [[Media:Fact core fact14.wav|Rats cannot throw up.]]
 * 8) [[Media:Fact core fact15.wav|Iguanas can stay underwater for twenty-eight point seven minutes.]]
 * 9) [[Media:Fact core fact24.wav|The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.]]
 * 10) [[Media:Fact core fact27.wav|A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.]]
 * 11) [[Media:Fact core fact32.wav|According to Norse legend, thunder god Thor's chariot was pulled across the sky by two goats.]]
 * 12) [[Media:Fact core fact34.wav|Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3,410 degrees Celsius.]]
 * 13) [[Media:Fact core fact35.wav|Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath.]]
 * 14) [[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.]]
 * 15) [[Media:Fact core fact38.wav|The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space.]]
 * 16) [[Media:Fact core fact39.wav|The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.]]
 * 17) [[Media:Fact core fact40.wav|In 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide standardized time zones at the Royal Canadian Institute.]]
 * 18) [[Media:Fact core fact41.wav|Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.]]
 * 19) [[Media:Fact core fact42.wav|At the end of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Konstantin kills himself.]]
 * 20) [[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.]]
 * 21) [[Media:Fact core fact28.wav|Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.]]
 * 22) [[Media:Fact core fact21.wav|Volcano-ologists are experts in the study of volcanoes.]]

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 fact58.wav|In Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to humankind. The jewelry he kept for himself.]]
 * 3) [[Media:Fact core fact17.wav|The Schrodinger'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. Schrodinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats.]]
 * 4) [[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.]]
 * 5) [[Media:Fact core fact12.wav|The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. The past tense of surgeons general is surgeonsed general]]
 * 6) [[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.]]
 * 7) [[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.]]
 * 8) [[Media:Fact core fact57.wav|The first commercial airline flight took to the air in 1914. Everyone involved screamed the entire way.]]
 * 9) [[Media:Fact core fact52.wav|Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest,  did so accidentally while chasing a bird. ]]

Nearly True Facts

 * 1) [[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.
 * 2) [[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.
 * 3) [[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.
 * 4) [[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.
 * 5) [[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 drunk milk). So this fact is probably true, but unfortunately lost to history.
 * 6) [[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.

False Facts

 * 1) [[Media:Fact core fact02.wav|The square root of rope is string.]]
 * 2) [[Media:Fact core fact07.wav|89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery.]]
 * 3) [[Media:Fact core fact63.wav|At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be abducted by the Dutch.]]
 * 4) [[Media:Fact core fact64.wav|According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig.]]
 * 5) [[Media:Fact core fact65.wav|To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror.]]
 * 6) [[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.]]
 * 7) [[Media:Fact core fact50.wav|Whales are twice as intelligent, and three times as delicious, as humans.]]
 * 8) [[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.]]
 * 9) [[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.]]
 * 10) [[Media:Fact core fact20.wav|The average life expectancy of a rhinoceros in captivity is 15 years.]]
 * 11) [[Media:Fact core fact33.wav|China produces the world's second largest crop of soybeans.]]
 * 12) [[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.]]
 * 13) [[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.]]
 * 14) [[Media:Fact core fact48.wav|William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded in 1589 by Francis Bacon, who used a Ouija board to enslave play-writing ghosts.]]
 * 15) [[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'.]]
 * 16) [[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.]]
 * 17) [[Media:Fact core fact54.wav|The most poisonous fish in the world is the orange ruffy. Everything but its eyes are made of a deadly poison. The ruffy's eyes are composed of a less harmful, deadly poison.]]
 * 18) [[Media:Fact core fact55.wav|The occupation of court jester was invented accidentally, when a vassal's epilepsy was mistaken for capering.]]
 * 19) [[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.]]
 * 20) [[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.]]
 * 21) [[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.]]
 * 22) [[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.]] (Believe it or not, graphite put under intense pressure produces diamonds, not coal.)

Subjective or unverifiable
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 * 1) [[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.
 * 2) [[Media:Fact core fact13.wav|Polymerase I polypeptide A is a human gene.]] Possibly true, but difficult to verify.
 * 3) [[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. Coconuts are almost pure cellulose fiber taken as a whole, but the edible part is quite low in fiber.
 * 4) [[Media:Fact core fact23.wav|Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit. They are found in Australians.]] The second half is true, although avocados can also be found in other places.
 * 5) [[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.
 * 6) [[Media:Fact core fact30.wav|The average adult body contains half a pound of salt.]] Depends on how you define "salt".