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[PTTG??]

Share your favorite surprising but absolutely, 100% true facts! More points if you convinced someone it's real!

- In the southern hemisphere, the Sun and Moon rise in the west and set in the east.

- The pug breed of dog is, in fact, the oldest purebreed.

- Legally, Cuba shares a land boarder with Florida.

- The US Electoral College is entirely customary, much like the presidential cabinet, and has no constitutional authority.

- The name for Monday actually comes from the term "mourning", not originally because of the start of the work-week, but rather because that was the day upon which the celtic people, and later the roman empire, would traditionally start funeral rites.

- You can use a discharged AA battery as a magnetic compass by balancing it on the end, spinning it, and then suspending it on a string.

- The silvery material in CDs was often a thin layer of mercury. DVDs and most modern CDs use aluminum now.

- It is impossible for most human beings to touch left thumb to right pinky while touching left index to right ring finger, and so on to left pinky to right thumb. Only 20% can do it.

[Frajic]

- It is impossible for most human beings to touch left thumb to right pinky while touching left index to right ring finger, and so on to left pinky to right thumb. Only 20% can do it.

Should I feel special?

[Labs]

- It is impossible for most human beings to touch left thumb to right pinky while touching left index to right ring finger, and so on to left pinky to right thumb. Only 20% can do it.

Should I feel special?

[lordnincompoop]

Indeed. I can do it as well.

[Sean Mirrsen]

PTTG gains points, I see.

More points if you convinced someone it's real!

[PTTG??]

Should I feel special?

Yes, yes you should.

- Scientists recently found a meteorite in the asteroid belt that is made almost entirely of gold. It has a mass of about 1000 tons, one percent of the entire amount of gold on earth.

- Spoons where invented in china five thousand years ago.

- One South American tribe worshiped left-handed people.

- A lab rat on one of the lunar missions escaped and is most likely still on the lunar surface to this day.

- 78% of humans cannot climb down a ladder headfirst.

PS: Sean: Yes, always good to enlighten the public.

[Frajic]

- 78% of humans cannot climb down a ladder headfirst.

Why would you even climb down a ladder headfirst?

[breadbocks]

- The name for Monday actually comes from the term "mourning", not originally because of the start of the work-week, but rather because that was the day that traditionally the celtic people, and later the roman empire, would traditionally start funeral rites.

-The name for Monday, ACTUALLY, comes from the name of a recognized god in the period in which the Gregorian Calender was made, the Moon, like all the rest of the Gregorian days.

Nice try though.

[Criptfeind]

- It is impossible for most human beings to touch left thumb to right pinky while touching left index to right ring finger, and so on to left pinky to right thumb. Only 20% can do it.

Try for something that sounds like it may be true.

[Sean Mirrsen]

- 78% of humans cannot climb down a ladder headfirst.

Why would you even climb down a ladder headfirst?

It's actually fairly difficult, since you have to use a whole other set of muscles. As to why... well, for a moment considering a situation where you can't swing around to proper position unlikely, you could simply want to see where the feck you are going - or, for example, have to reach for something at the lower end of a ladder. A dare is the most likely scenario though.

[ExKirby]

-I haven't hit puberty yet.

And now for the serious ones.

-At the start of Season 3 of Yu-Gi-Oh, 4Kids managed to fire guns at Yugi and pals.
-Chocolate is GOOD for your teeth.
-Whenever you peel an orange, some juice WILL spray in someone's general direction.

[breadbocks]

-Dark chocolate fights cancer. Unlike Obama.

[Neyvn]

- A camels hairbrush is made from Squriel fur.

- The October Revolution is actually celebrated in November.

- The 100 year war lasted for 10 extra years.

- Water in the southen hemisphere actually goes in the opposite direction then the northen hemisphere.

[mainiac]

The TARP bill, known as the "bank bailout" actually made a profit for the US treasury department.

[Heliman]

-A cockroach can live for several weeks without a head attached.

-The head itself can last for up to a day.