List of Fact Sphere facts: Difference between revisions

# [[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.''

# [[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 ([http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/130/1307055161.pdf Morris, 1965]), as such it is unlikely for such a rhinoceros to have a captive life-expectancy of merely 15 years.''

# [[Media:Fact core fact33.wav|China produces the world's second-largest crop of soybeans.]] ''The country is Brazil, not China.''

# [[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.''

# [[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.]]

# [[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.''

# [[Media:Fact core fact55.wav|The occupation of court jester was invented accidentally when a vassal's epilepsy was mistaken for capering.]]