320 Useless facts found somewhat useful to kill time
 

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=52938


enjoy.

207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

316. Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter "P".

Some of them are pretty interesting and at least i learned something new.

301. The past-tense of the English word "dare" is "durst".

180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it.
I was eating a chocolate bar when i went past this...

while listening to music
117. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)

Where did the guy get these? I don't even think #3 is correct..

Interesting to read, ONLY if ALL of them were actually FACTS.

I seriously doubt if most of them are correct.

67. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

"Is is not to be found in William Blackstone's treatise on English common law. On the contrary, British law since the 1700s and our American laws predating the Revolution prohibit wife beating, though there have been periods and places in which the prohibition was only indifferently enforced"

This article contains many factoids, so before you go out and repeat this non-sense to others and spread stupidity all over the land, please double up and do your own research lol.

EDIT* I just noticed the title is "320 Mostly Useless But Interesting Facts"... well they certainly are useless, seeing as many would seem to be incorrect.

105. China has more English speakers than the United States.

The one about a american flag on the Canadian 2 dollar is bullshit. Its actually a older style flag than the maple leaf one we are use too.

A bunch of these sound like bullshit and prob are
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I went back and read the comments, seems that a lot of these "facts" are "factoids"... so probably save yourself the time and dont read it.

29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

WTFFFFF

90% of revscene believes in 80% of what they read, 70% of the time.

http://media1.43places.com/entry/261607pw150.jpg
Touché

11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

lol i wanna try that now :p

133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.

false, its a normal flag, i have a $2 bill in my hand right meow

Still a good read! Thanks RS! =)

true that lol

43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)

FALSE!....mythbusters busted this....