List of Fact Sphere facts

True Facts

 * 1) The billionth digit of Pi is 9.

Partialy True Facts

 * 1) Cellular phones will not give you cancer. Only hepatitis.
 * 2) Diamonds are made when coal is put under intense pressure. Diamonds put under intense pressure become foam pellets, commonly used today as packing material
 * 3) In Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to humankind. The jewelry he kept for himself

False Facts

 * 1) 89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery

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 * 1) Dental floss has superb tensile strength
 * 2) The square root of rope is string
 * 3) While the submarine is vastly superior to the boat in every way, over 97% of people still use boats for aquatic transportation
 * 4) 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
 * 5) The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four
 * 6) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
 * 7) In Greek myth, the craftsman Daedalus invented human flight so a group of Minotaurs would stop teasing him about it
 * 8) Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long
 * 9) Raseph, the Semitic god of war and plague, had a gazelle growing out of his forehead
 * 10) The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. The past tense of surgeons general is surgeonsed general
 * 11) Polymerase I polypeptide A is a human gene
 * 12) Rats cannot throw up
 * 13) Iguanas can stay underwater for twenty-eight point seven minutes
 * 14) Human tapeworms can grow up to twenty-two point nine meters
 * 15) 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
 * 16) Every square inch of the human body has 32 million bacteria on it
 * 17) The Sun is 330,330 times larger than Earth
 * 18) The average life expectancy of a rhinoceros in captivity is 15 years
 * 19) Volcano-ologists are experts in the study of volcanoes
 * 20) Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit
 * 21) Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit. They are found in Australians
 * 22) The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days
 * 23) 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
 * 24) A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds"]]
 * 25) Hot water freezes quicker than cold water
 * 26) Honey does not spoil
 * 27) The average adult body contains half a pound of salt
 * 28) A nanosecond lasts one billionth of a second
 * 29) According to Norse legend, thunder god Thor's chariot was pulled across the sky by two goats
 * 30) China produces the world's second largest crop of soybeans
 * 31) Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3,410 degrees Celsius
 * 32) Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath
 * 33) Roman toothpaste was made with human urine. Urine as an ingredient in toothpaste continued to be used up until the 18th century
 * 34) The Tariff Act of 1789, established to protect domestic manufacture, was the second statute ever enacted by the United States government
 * 35) The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space
 * 36) The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
 * 37) In 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide standardized time zones at the Royal Canadian Institute
 * 38) Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity
 * 39) At the end of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Konstantin kills himself
 * 40) 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
 * 41) 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
 * 42) 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
 * 43) In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning
 * 44) William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded in 1589 by Francis Bacon, who used a Ouija board to enslave play-writing ghosts
 * 45) 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.'"]]
 * 46) Whales are twice as intelligent, and three times as delicious, as humans
 * 47) 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
 * 48) Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest, did so accidentally while chasing a bird
 * 49) 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
 * 50) The occupation of court jester was invented accidentally, when a vassal's epilepsy was mistaken for capering
 * 51) 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
 * 52) The first commercial airline flight took to the air in 1914. Everyone involved screamed the entire way

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 * 1) The first person to prove that cow's milk is drinkable was very, very thirsty
 * 2) Before the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, anyone wanting to fly anywhere was required to eat 200 pounds of helium
 * 3) Before the invention of scrambled eggs in 1912, the typical breakfast was either whole eggs still in the shell or scrambled rocks
 * 4) During the Great Depression, the Tennessee Valley Authority outlawed pet rabbits, forcing many to hot glue-gun long ears onto their pet mice
 * 5) At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be abducted by the Dutch
 * 6) According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig
 * 7) To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror
 * 8) Dreams are the subconscious mind's way of reminding people to go to school naked and have their teeth fall out