List of Fact Sphere facts: Difference between revisions

This is a '''list of [[Fact Sphere]] facts'''.

#[[Media:Fact core fact25.wav|The billionth digit of Pi is 9.]]

#[[Media:Fact core fact10.wav|Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.]]

#[[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.]]

#[[Media:Fact core fact28.wav|Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.]]<ref>{{W|Mpemba effect}}</ref>

== Partially True Facts==

#[[Media:Fact core fact52.wav|Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest, ''' did so accidentally while chasing a bird. ''']]

#[[Media:Fact core fact02.wav|The square root of rope is string.]]

#[[Media:Fact core fact07.wav|89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery.]]

#[[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.]]

#[[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.)

#[[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.''

#[[Media:Fact core fact13.wav|Polymerase I polypeptide A is a human gene.]] ''Possibly true, but difficult to verify.''

#[[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.''

#[[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.''

#[[Media:Fact core fact30.wav|The average adult body contains half a pound of salt.]] ''Depends on how you define "salt".''

== References ==