The Fun Facts Of Life
20 February 2010
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A person can not fold a normal size piece of paper in half more than 8 times.
There are just over 300 million cell phones used daily in the United States alone.
A shrimps heart is in it’s head.
Kissing is actually healthier than shaking someones hand.
Natural pearls will melt in vinegar.
An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
Ants can’t shut their eyes.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building looks like an American flag.
Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, while women shirts have the buttons on the left.
Chewing gum will help reduce tears when cutting an onion.
Red wine will spoil if exposed to light. Hence the tinted bottles.
The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day for plumbers. (In the U.S. of course.)
Studies have proven that cold showers actually stimulate your sex drive.
Coffee beans are not beans at all, rather fruit pits.
Fortune cookies were invented in America in 1918, by Charles Jung.
Scuba divers can not pass gas at depth deeper than 33 feet.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion then, to shave them off.
The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
Henry Ford produced the model-T in black. Because black paint at the time was the fastest to dry.
The word “Naked” means, unprotected. The word “Nude” means unclothed.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
The flag is the Red Ensign. The flag of Canada under British rule
before getting their own flag. It looks like the American flag because
of the layout. The coat of arms in the top left corner makes it look
like the stars of the American flag.
If you can find a Canadian two dollar bill, please let me know and I
will trade you an American two dollar bill.
Alas, the Canadian 2 dollar bill has gone the way of the dodo bird.
Most of these are utter bollocks.
1. whats’ a normal size piece of paper??
2. kissing is not “healthier” than shaking someones hand if they have a disease that can be transmitted via the saliva
3. Show me an insect with eyelids…
4. The mona lisa did have eyebrows, which has been proved with x-ray, but years of cleaning and re-touching have removed them.
That’s just off the top of my head.
@me
Really, what’s a normal size piece of paper? Just because you don’t have common sense doesn’t make the fact any less true. I took a “normal” size piece of notebook paper measuring 8.5″ x 11″ and tried it. I actually couldn’t fold it anymore than seven times.
Yes, kissing someone with a disease wouldn’t be that healthy. However, again, you need to use that common sense you don’t seem to have. I believe these facts are talking about “average.” Meeting and greeting everyday people. Hands touch and do things that our lips are kept from. Thus leaving the lips a lot more sanitary.
It says in this article that the mona lisa has no eyebrows. That is a FACT. Sure she might have had eyebrows at one point. But the fact still remains. She doesn’t have them at this present time. So quit being a buzzkill.
I Googled a lot of these facts. Learned a lot more than just what was written here. I had a good time doing it. Nice article BaconBabble, keep it up.
Can only fold a piece of paper once.
Yeah!! wtf? who seriously doesn’t know what a “normal” size piece of paper is?
Dan I have several Canadian two dollar bills. Dan, send your email to me, bill jones, at #302 – 2010 winston park drive, oakville, ontario and I will send you one for free.
Also, it is irrelevant how large the paper is, the fact that you cannot fold it 8 times still stands. Go ahead try it with something HUGE, it still cannot be done.
Are you all retarded? Especially with the folding of the piece of paper. Try it with any size piece. That sucker could be a half a mile wide by 1 mile long and you still couldn’t do it.
The one about the pigs is semi right. They also dont tell you that pigs are some of the dirtiest mammals. The only reason why we can eat them is because we keep them quarantined and provide them drugs and antibiotics to fight infection. In fact, if you eat a random pig, you could die from it.
They tried the paper folding thing on mythbusters. The only way they could fold it was by tampering with the paper.
@zander
Pigs are not dirty, they are in fact one of the cleanest animals around. They may look dirty because they roll around in mud, but they do that to cool down and it helps keep them free of disease. Just for example, pigs are the only domesticated farm animal that designates a “bathroom area” where they put all their waste as opposed to other animals that go wherever they happen to be.
proof that paper can be folded in half a maximum of 12 twelve times
http://www.pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm
@Byscuit,
Nicely done! That is a great article. Thanks for posting the comment.
Jon
BaconBabble
@Chris
In fact, you are wrong. Sorry. But its true. I don’t believe that he was referring to pigs as “dirty” because they roll around in mud. Pigs are some of the “dirtiest” animals you can find. In biblical times people had to stop eating pork because too many people were getting sick. (This is why kosher Jews cannot eat pork.) Trichinosis can be caused by pigs. This is a worm that lives in muscles. You can get it b eating an infected pig.
What zander was saying is true. The pork you buy from the supermarket has come from pigs fed with antibiotics and all sorts of other things to prevent disease. Pork is also one of the most dangerous meats to eat undercooked because pigs cause so many diseases as well. If you notice, things ALWAYS say to make sure your pork is well done.
For these reasons, pigs are in fact one of the “dirtiest” animals.
Pigs are not diseased. You can get way worse stuff from Cows and Chickens, like ecoli and salmonella. Trichinosis is most commonly caught from wild game like deer and bears. The CDC states that less than 0.013% of the commercial pork is infected. Cows and chickens are way way dirtier. That said it is still recommended to cook thoroughly like all meats.
I just folded a regular 8.5 x 11 ” paper into 9 pieces of equal area-folds… it’s not your regular fold, but ever step of the way, each fold is equal in length x width of its “neighbouring” folds… ultimately i am at 9 folds now, I bet u I can beat 12 without even a math formula
Sharks aren’t immune to all types of diseases… if it’s talking about human specific diseases then that’s a given, but sharks can get cancer and other diseases as well.
you’re lying or doing it wrong if you folded a sheet of paper in half more than 8
Pigs aren’t diseased and they’re not dirty. They’re forbidden in the bible for one of any number of debatable reasons, but it’s because of people dying from eating undercooked pork. Pretty much every society that had access to pigs ate them other than the Jews, and in fact a telltale sign of an historical Jewish settlement is the lack of pig bones, meaning that all the other settlements had them
Wow…
@djDeathx “in half” is not ‘equal area folds’ read a little and don’t TRY to sound smart, you aren’t.
@Pigs
Yes a very slight number of swine have parasites, and yes the number that have them used to be around 98% in ‘biblical times’ therefore the unclean animal from jews and moslims. As a person who can look out there window in the summer and see cattle pigs chickens sheep horses etc.. I can tell you flat out that Chris up there is correct about the pigs being safe to eat and in most cases safer than a chicken from the super market as well.
Anywho, flame on as some of these ‘facts’ really are iffy, for example: the ‘order of intelligence’ has been changed in just the last few months take a look.
I definitely learned a few things here. Some of it I’d heard before, but most was just really interesting (including the silly arguments in the comments, heh).
Ecoli exists on the outside of beef and chicken thus killed quickly by any kind of cooking. Pork can have parasites throughout the meat, thus needing to be fully cooked. Harder to do without an oven and a meat thermometer so not as safe for more primitive cooking techniques.
Fold the paper in HALF 9 times.
I must say, this was a most amusing list of ‘did you know’ tid bits.
However, I have to agree with Jessi, I was far more entertained by the string of comments that followed.
People are just too ’smart’ for their own good sometimes.
Thanks for sharing!
Some statements can use clarification. For instance, I have folded some papers hundreds of times. It didn’t say we couldn’t unfold them.
I suppose “just over 300 million” depends on the date.
Kissing or shaking hands is highly dependent upon situation.
How are you defining disease immunity? You mean sharks can’t get vitamin deficiency?
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yeh about the paper, it doesnt matter what size it is, you cannot fold any piece of paper more than 8 times
@Pigs
God made Pork one of the forbidden meats because it was dirty in the sense that it carried diseases, the deadliest being Trichinosis. They did not have the preservatives that we have today, nor the antibiotics that we use to prevent any diseases coming from eating pork. God simply did not want them to eat these “dirty” meats because it was likely that they would die from it, as it happened so frequently, so he forbid his people to eat them.
Now we have the means of making the meat clean, so the meat is no longer a forbidden, “unclean” meat.
@ kolten:
god had nothing to do with that.
You probably mean that vinegar will DISSOLVE a pearl, not “melt”.
Hey, I love lists of random facts. Thanks, there’s some on here that I never heard before. However, you might want to check your stats a little more. Chewing gum doesn’t actually help with onions. Onions have an acid in them that cutting into them releases. Your best bet for stopping the crying is wearing some big glasses or submerging the onions in water (although they float). A really sharp knife will also make a difference as it cuts better and reduces the amount of crushing. As for pigs being mentioned in the Bible. Deuteronomy states that they are an unclean animal. Jesus sends demons into a herd of pigs in Matthew. They are also mentioned in Isaiah 65, Proverbs 11. They are also mentioned in Luke fifteen in the parable of the lost son. Hope this helps. Keep it up.
Hey great list. I love this kind of thing. However, with the pig thing. Pigs are actually mentioned in the Bible more than three times. Levitical law states that they are unclean to eat. In the parable of the lost son (the prodigal son) pigs are mentioned again. In Mark and Mathew, Jesus is reported to have sent demons out of a man and into a herd of pigs (this is the we are legion for we are many story). Pigs are also mentioned in Isaiah 65-66 and Proverbs 11. That’s at least five. There may be more. Hope that helps.
Wow, some of these comments are unreal!!
Firstly, pigs are not “unclean” animals – do some research that doesn’t involve that crazy book called the bible.
This myth dates back to the Egyptians, and since when do people go around believing what they said? Any of you guys believe in Osiris? How about pulling the brain of a loved one out through their nose when they die?
… thought not
I was taught in school that bacon is not an issue (with washing hands, utensils etc) compared to chicken, and I guarantee a load more people die from salmonella which does not just reside on the surface.
Paper – it used to be true, and your average person has no chance of folding a piece of paper (properly with no smart alec “ohh nobody said I couldn’t unfold it” tricks) more than 8 times. But some student did figure it out: http://www.pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm
Kissing vs Handshake is pretty obvious really if you think about it
to all of the people who said you cannot fold ANY peice of paper more than 7 times…. you are wrong…. mythbusters did it…. they had a peice of paper that measure 170′ by 220′ and they folded it 11 times….
ok i have to stop reading comments they make me angry, yes myth-busters busted it but i do not believe the link it on the internet could be photoshopped, i think the thing about pigs is that they do not get as may deceases as human, cows, chickens ect.. get i believe that its where the fact came from and dont give e shit about worms almost every animal can get worms…
When pigs are raised in clean conditions, and are given enough space to defecate in a different area from where they live, and access to water, they are very clean. Trichomoniasis isn’t really an issue anymore with commercially raised pork (and no, this doesn’t mean they need to be pumped full of antibiotics). Most people anymore cook pork to Medium, which means an internal temperature of 160F. As you can see here: http://www.ochef.com/418.htm you actually have to cook a whole chicken to a higher internal temperature to ensure safety. The main issue is proper handling of meats, not cross-contaminating your utensils and work surfaces, and cooking to the proper temp. As a matter of fact, you could find a random pig and eat it and most likely be fine, as long as the meat was cooked hot enough. What on earth does the bible have to do with any of this? Sheesh.
wow everyone needs to chill, this article was meant for some fun reading when you’re bored. I don’t think it’s meant to be a big debate topic….
thanks for posting these random information! really procrastinated my time well
Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park’s Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is reported to have been the first person in America to have served the American version of the cookie when he did so at the tea garden in 1890s or early 1900s. The fortune cookies were made by a San Francisco bakery, Benkyodo.
I will have you know I shook hands with complete strangers and no problems … I kissed complete strangers … slapped twice, punched a few times, and received multiple phone numbers.
Shaking hands was healthier, yet … boring!
What about H1N1 (SWINE FLU)? I think pigs are disgusting!!!!!!!!!
I have a Canadian 2 dollar bill from 1986 and the flag flying over Parliament is the Canadian flag. I have seen the bills with the Red Ensign which looks similar to the american flag from a distance. So just to clarify NOT ALL 2 dollar bills have this Red Ensign flag on them, but they do exist.
I normally skip reading any comments – but got’s to share this – Im with ‘Amused’ and their comments – this has been a most entertaining comments thread I had seen in a long time, thank you for giving me a few laughs – you people are great! What a collection…..
Pigs are dirty…
The bible said it to it MUST be true. bah!
ummm….. the thing about sharks isnt true. Shark get many diseases including cancer. The sharks being immune to all diseases is propaganda created by people who sell shark products by claiming that eating sharks will lengthen your life which also is not true. In fact,quite the opposite. Sharks, like tuna, have high mercury levels and can be harmful when eaten in large amounts.
I just wanted to explain a little bit of the whole pig thing, just in case anyone still reads this! The reason we get diseases from pigs is because we’re so closely related to them! Which is why they used to use pig skin to replace tissue that was burned beyond repair. Pigs are a very cleanly animal, just because they can get worms does not define them as dirty, after all those are worms that humans can get as well.
How many of u guys actually researched the stuff you’re saying?
pigs are actually mensioned in the bible quite a few times to whit, they were kept in a pit to eat the fesis of the jews. Jesus commanded legion to go into a herd of pigs and they went into the sea and drowned.
Pigs were slawdered in the holy room by the romans etc etc!
About pigs, and why jews and moslems don’t eat them:
The real reason seems to be that in the past those people were nomads.
Caws, horses, sheep, goats accept to follow nomad people.
Pigs do not. They have a territory. After a while they return home, end nobody ever could oblige them to follow.
So pigs were despisable to nomads…
Oh noes! If sharks start to use their brain, they will infect the whole worlds people to some horrible disease and they will be invulnerable to it!
But this article was a good one. Im bit wiser again.
The USDA certifies beef products but will not certify pork products because of all the worms and bacteria in it. Seek out your butcher and ask him.
You were not even to handle pigs or pig meat according to the bible because they were hoven animals and unclean.
Jews and Seventh Day Adventist continue this practice. Pigs are just as bad for the human body as they were back in biblical times. Antiboitics or not!
Yeah, alot of people say heat will kill the worms and bacteria, but then all your eating is fried bugs.
Actually, the normal A4 size paper can be folded only 7 TIMES. The Information given is misleading.
Great bit of fun in this piece.
I especially like the pig and giraffe references.
I need to work those into one of our sketches.
You don’t need to discuss what a normal piece of paper is. Size and shape of the paper do not matter. Even a roll of TP. You can not fold paper in half more than 7 times.
This is probably the only blog post where you can learn more of the replys, than from the article itself. Great Post though
seriously people, lighten up. i liked it!!
Google Britney Gallivan who folded a sheet of paper in half 12 times.
you can’t fold a piece of paper more than 7 times actually
No wonder “Jaws” can’t be killed!
Giraffes liking it’s own ears, yuk!
LOL @stu
Take a look at the big picture people:
Kissing vs. Hand Shake — Really? Bringing disease into this? Kissing…and shut up about it because really? REALLY?
Pork — Cook ANY meat and it becomes safe. How many of you have contracted Salmonella…? Ebola…? Puking and diarrhea at the same time really…? Parasites? ANYTHING? Cook your meat…common sense…shut up
Paper folding — I had difficulty on a standard 8.5 x 11 piece of paper after fold 5 with just my hands*. I was able to get it to 7 after using a vice grip and a multi-tool…so…good luck getting to 8.
*PS I’ve been playing guitar for 15 years AND boxed for 5 and can squeeze an apple into mush.
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It’s sad to know that people actually spend their time online complaining…
Please stop referring to the bible.
Moses lead his people through the desert, and the walked for 40 years.
FOURTY years!!
Is that even remotely intelligent?
hehehe!!!!!!!!!! these thingz are quite a shock to me.. but they’re true anyway.. i’ve learned and realized a lot of simple day-to-day trivia.. that would be so unnoticeable if it weren’t for this site… god bless us all!! stay cool… c:
Actually, you can’t fold any paper in half more than 8(or I thought it was 7) times. It doesn’t matter what size it is. Mythbusters!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAEBbotuIE
Pretty sweet… Nice info
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