True or False?

Which of the following statements are true or false? Answers given at the end.

1. Chocolate milk was invented in Ireland.

2. The girlfriend of the guy who founded Match.com left him for a man she met on Match.com.

3. Ketchup used to be sold as medicine.

4. Coconuts kill more people than sharks every year. So do cows.

5. German is the second most spoken language in North Dakota.

6. Norway once knighted a penguin.

7. The official state VEGETABLE of Oklahoma is the watermelon.

8. A day on the planet Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

9. If you are in a room with 23 people, there’s more than a 50% chance that two of the people have the same birthday.

10. A TI-83 calculator has six times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.

11. Cambridge University is older than the Aztec and Inca empires.

12. There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth.

13. 111,111,111 × 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

14. Cows have best friends and they tend to spend most of their time together.

15. Horses are not able to breathe through their mouths.

16. In the ’60s, Australia lost a prime minister and could not find him. He disappeared and was never found.

17. If you folded a piece of paper 42 times, it would reach to the moon.

18. Light roast coffees have more caffeine than dark roasts.

19. There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”

20. New York City is further south than Rome, Italy.

21. Scotland is farther north than Alaska.

22. Not only is Reno, Nev., west of Los Angeles, but so are six state capitals.

23. If you’re in Detroit and you walk south, you’ll actually walk into Canada.

24. A “butt load” is an actual unit of measurement, equivalent to 126 gallons.

25. France is the country with the most time zones in the world.

26. There is less time between the existence of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the existence of humans than there was between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Stegosaurus.

27. Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than to lizards.

28. Africa is bigger than the United States, China, India, Spain, France, and several other countries combined.

29. Butterflies taste with their feet.

30. A jiffy is an actual unit of time, not just an expression. It’s equal to 33.3564 picoseconds.

31. The lint that collects in the bottom of your pockets has a name — gnurr.

32. A cubic inch of bone is about four times as strong as concrete.

33. You can get a rough estimate of the temperature by counting the number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, then adding 37.

34. There are more lakes in Canada than in the rest of the world combined.

35. There are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the U.S.

36. The voices of Yoda and Miss Piggy were done by the same person.

37. More tigers live in Texas compared to the rest of the world.

38. There are some trees alive today that were alive before the pyramids were built.

39. Wombat poop is square.

40. There is enough iron in your body to make a 2-inch nail.

41. I have way too much free time.

Answers: They're all true.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/facts-t ... cpGqz79J57

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The validity of a statement isn't determined by the reliability of the source . It's determined by verifying the accuracy of the statement. In this case, they're all true statements. The way to refute something isn't by claiming the source isn't reliable. It's by demonstrating the claim is false. This is how science works.

Wombats DO poop squares.
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammal ... t-scat.htm

A piece of paper folded 42 times WOULD reach from the Earth to the Moon.
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang ... -the-moon/

There ARE more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth.
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/ ... henanigans

There's been a lot of talk about "fake news" in the media lately. The problem isn't so much the fake news itself. It's people that simply accept it as true or untrue without verifying its accuracy.

 

Actually, that's not a bad idea. Next time I'll intersperse some cleavage shots to make it visually more entertaining.

 

I can neither confirm or deny, as the names of the dots have been changed to protect their identities.

 

@ SeamanGuzzler

It's not plagiarism if you list the source. I didn't take credit for it. Like you said, it comes from Buzzfeed. I found it interesting. I posted it. If you don't like it, don't read it. Furthermore, it's not up to you who posts what here. If you want to make that call, become a mod or create your own forum. It's that simple.

 

@ SeamanGuzzler

Plagiarism is when you take someone elses work and try to pass it off AS YOUR OWN. If you were trying to do that, you wouldn't provide the link to where the material comes from. That kinda defeats the purpose of plagiarizing. See? You did learn something on this thread.

 

@AshesOfEden

Without confirming or denying anything, I have it on good authority that there was a brief discussion about some jumping with only mains and no reserves for "authenticity" like the Brit paratroopers did in the original jump, but insurance regulations, local laws, and strongly worded objections by participants precluded that.



Main chute, top left side, reserve chute, top right side



You can see in the second photo from the movie he has reserve chute strapped to his front.