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Just discovered it's international fact check day, so what better way to celebrate than a thread of facts of the true variety...
I'll get the ball rolling;
The world's largest tyre maker is Lego, making more than 50% more tyres than any other manufacturer
Just discovered it’s international fact check day,
I've checked and it isn't
Blackpool tower is built on foundations of cotton wool.
Fact.
I’ve checked and it isn’t
I've actually checked, and it is.
People invite me to do this sort of thing all the time.
"Big Fact Hunt?" they shout at me.
Usually when i'm in the car. They must be impressed by my driving or something.
Boobies are awesome. Fact.
lol at Perchy!!
I decided to check that Cougar checked that it's fact check day. But my unchecked check did not reveal anything checkable.
'International Fact Check Day' was previously known just as 'Fact Check Day' until 2018, when Norway and Finland also decided to celebrate it with the UK.
Jimmy Savile was NEVER seen in a room with anyone.
Facts were invented in 1938 by a Swiss engineer named Gustav Fakt
Jimmy Savile was NEVER seen in a room with anyone.
Not a fact.
When I was a kid he fixed it for me to milk a cow whilst blindfolded.
When I was a kid he fixed it for me to milk a cow whilst blindfolded.
You didn't see him though did you? Hence the blindfold...
You didn’t see him though did you? Hence the blindfold…
No, I didn't see the cow.
Obviously
60% of the time, it works every time.
Ahh, that's more stats that facts. When's international stat check day?
When’s international stat check day?
Theres a 1 in 365 chance that its today. Pretty much the same odd on it being tomorrow though.
The world’s largest tyre maker is Lego, making more than 50% more tyres than any other manufacturer
Although I imagine, if you follow WTO rules on what constitutes a tyre, this will turn out to be a fake fact.
maccruiskeen doesn't know how to use an apostrophe.
FACT.
You can make anything a fact by adding fact at the end. FACT!
You can make any fact not a fact by adding fake news at the end. FAKE NEWS!
Theres a 1 in 365 chance that its today.
That appears to presume that all days (of a non leap year) are equally likely to be chosen.
The wingspan of a Sopwith Camel is 28feet
The Unicorn is Scotland's national animal, how appropriate.
Fact facted.
Source: https://www.visitscotland.com/about/uniquely-scottish/national-animal-unicorn/
Edit and Wales obviously has the dragon, I daren't research Northern Ireland.
I daren’t research Northern Ireland.
Honey Badger
An eel cannot operate a can opener.
Fact.
An eel cannot operate a can opener.
I can't stand those things, or indeed any animal that doesn't have feet.
I'm lack toes intolerant.
As Abraham Lincoln once said, "Never believe everything you read on the Internet".
64.3% of statistics are made up on the spot
Trees communicate with each other using roots and fungus mycelium.
Trees communicate with each other using roots and fungus mycelium.
Or by making trunk calls
CaptainFlasheart doesn't sell paperclips.
Perchy isn't a panther.
WCA does live up to his username.
Matt outandabout is actually a couch potato
Pretty shocked so far, these facts are outrageous!
The whale is an insect and it lives on bananas
The whale is an insect and it lives on bananas
How many whales live on one banana?
Has anyone ever seen panther and cougar in the same room? They are actually the same animal. Fact!
True. I'm not very perchy though.
I can't eat wheat, never sleep, I live at the bottom of the sea and am made of mashed vegetable. I'm a coeliac caelocanth celeriac insomniac.
Fact.
And yet another thread veers off wildly from what the OP intended
Exactly as it should be. All is well with the world
All is well with the world
That's definitely not a fact.
There are more aeroplanes in the sea, then there are boats in the sky.
Most people have more than the average number of legs
I dun been curious...
Given how much hot air goes into moulding the daily news cycle, it's worth noting just how potent that hot air is at suspending things far above us.
A mostly harmless Cumulus Cloud weighs around 500,000 kg
(Or an ickle bit less than 3 of the world's largest bulldozers)
≈ 3x
A boisterous Thunderstorm will weigh somewhere in the region of 45,000,000 kg (About 1/2 the weight of the Washington Monument)
≈ 0.5x
And a somewhat violent Hurricane can weigh in excess of 50,000,000,000 kg (Around double the combined weight of all of the 24,000ish passenger Jets that were until recently in service around the world)
≈ 2x
Man that's a lot of hot air
Sheep are actually just clouds with legs
Fact check you say....
The whale is an insect and it lives on bananas
...and an Arab can live for a whole year on one grain of rice.
The fear of long words is called........ Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
There's no point building nukes for planetary targets much over 50 megatons as all they do after that is loft a chunk of atmosphere even higher.
You can make any fact not a fact by adding fake news at the end. FAKE NEWS!
Aaaaaaarrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh ! Round and round I go - won't sleep for days 🙁
Matt outandabout is actually gloss.
Most people have more than the average number of legs
Most people have the average number of legs. FTFY
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
theotherjonv
Most people have the average number of legs. FTFY
Show your working please.
Many people use "average" imprecisely
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus
God, I hope that's true. Magnificent facting there, poah !
^ scaredypants knows what I'm talking about. Fact.
The ancient Greeks couldn't see the colour blue.
Sheep are actually just clouds with legs
a cumulus cloud weighs 500,000 kg and is traditionally served with mint sauce
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus
I have fact checked this and it is in fact true.
A day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days and a year on venus lasts 224.7 Earth days*
Cool fact.
*According to Wikipedia. So 100% guaranteed fact.
…and an Arab can live for a whole year on one grain of rice.
Good man.
I have fact checked this and it is in fact true.
A day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days and a year on venus lasts 224.7 Earth days*
Cool fact.
*According to Wikipedia. So 100% guaranteed fact.
Holy crap. Nasa even confirms this. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-venus/en/
Venus is unusual because it spins the opposite direction of Earth and most other planets. And its rotation is very slow. It takes about 243 Earth days to spin around just once. Because it's so close to the sun, a year goes by fast. It takes 225 Earth days for Venus to go all the way around the sun. That means that a day on Venus is a little longer than a year on Venus.
Since the day and year lengths are similar, one day on Venus is not like a day on Earth. Here, the sun rises and sets once each day. But on Venus, the sun rises every 117 Earth days. That means the sun rises two times during each year on Venus, even though it is still the same day on Venus! And because Venus rotates backwards, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
Also, Venus has 2 sunrises and 2 sunsets per day.
The Bass Rock is white due to the world's largest Gannet population and the fact their shit is whiteish. It whiffs a wee bit too
Mammals only have two legs.
There is only one jonv. Therefore one of them is an imposter.
it's even more confusing than that. theotherjonv is the true jonv, and anyone claiming to be jonv is actually another one.
colournoise. Some people only have one leg or even none. No body has more than two. ( OK OK very very rare conjoined twins can end up with one head and more than 2 legs but thats statistically insignificant) thus the average ( or mode or median or whatever statistical mumbo jumbo you want) number of legs people have is a little under two. so most people have more than the average number of legs.
Mammals only have two legs
each? Or in total?
At each end.
@tjagain
Most people have above the the mean number of legs
Most people have the mode number of legs.
colournoise. Some people only have one leg or even none. No body has more than two. ( OK OK very very rare conjoined twins can end up with one head and more than 2 legs but thats statistically insignificant) thus the average ( or mode or median or whatever statistical mumbo jumbo you want) number of legs people have is a little under two. so most people have more than the average number of legs.
Ah but, that's where the issue is. You're talking about the mean average and you're right there.
But if I sent you away to design a pair of trousers, with the instruction to design them to match the average number of legs that each person has, and you came back with a pair of trousers with less than 2 legs you would have perfectly met the instruction by mean average, but designed a pair of trousers that would be useless for the average person (indeed, most people) **for the purposes of this let's ignore that the mean average will be vanishingly close to 2 and therefore a pair of trousers with 1.9997 legs will still be ok, this is whatiffery**
Alternatively (and again keeping numbers easy enough to calculate) You have a standard 6 sided dice, roll it 60 times and it obeys probability exactly so you get
1x10
2x10
3x10, etc
- what is the average number you rolled?
by mean = 210 / 60 = 3.5 - which is impossible to roll.
by median = arrange in order and pick the middle = either 3 or 4 (the middle is between the two but you don't pick an artificial number that isn't there)
by mode = none of them, they are all as 'average' as each other.
- which is closer to 'the truth'?
The median leg is the one in the middle. FACT.
- and from the pictures we've seen, TJ's trousers are most definitely outmoded.
Dogs can see their own farts. It's merely an assumption that these farts are brown in colour.
If I were to jump off the hill behind my house on a powered hang-glider and fly due east while maintaining the exact same height above sea-level, assuming I didn't run out of fuel, I would not crash until I got to the Ural mountains in Russia. Fact
The ancient Greeks couldn’t see the colour blue.
Well, they could, they just didn't have a word for it.
Fun Fact: The "T" at the end of Moet in the trade name Moet and Chandon, should be pronounced.
about 300,000 YA there may have been 7 human species walking the earth, and some reckon it could have been as many as 9.
If I were to jump off the hill behind my house on a powered hang-glider and fly due east while maintaining the exact same height above sea-level, assuming I didn’t run out of fuel, I would not crash until I got to the Ural mountains in Russia. Fact
Same here if you were to do the same from the parking space at the top of my drive.
Fun Fact: The “T” at the end of Moet in the trade name Moet and Chandon, should be pronounced.
Indeed. It should be pronounced as a “p”.