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True Facts
- The billionth digit of Pi is 9.
- Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.
- A nanosecond lasts one billionth of a second.
- Honey does not spoil.
Partialy True Facts
Note: Bolded sections are untrue.
- Cellular phones will not give you cancer. Only hepatitis.
- Diamonds are made when coal is put under intense pressure. Diamonds put under intense pressure become foam pellets, commonly used today as packing material.
- In Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to humankind. The jewelry he kept for himself.
- 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.
- 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.
False Facts
- Hot water freezes quicker than cold water
- The Sun is 330,330 times larger than Earth
- The square root of rope is string.
- 89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery.
- The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four.
- At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be abducted by the Dutch.
- According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig.
- To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror.
- Dreams are the subconscious mind's way of reminding people to go to school naked and have their teeth fall out.
- Whales are twice as intelligent, and three times as delicious, as humans.