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"Facts" that seem true but are complete BS

  • 19-09-2019 08:37PM
    #1
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    On average, you swallow eight spiders a year in your sleep.


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  • #2
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Women can multi task


  • #3
    selous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭selous


    Poisonous snakes.


  • #4
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,643 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Bananas grow on tress.








    Actually grow on massive herbs that resemble trees.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #5
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,948 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    The settings 1-5 on a toaster are not minutes


  • #6
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space.


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  • #7
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,139 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    You only use 10% of your brain.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #8
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    Women's periods do not attract bears


  • #9
    patsman07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭patsman07


    Christopher Columbus discovered America


  • #10
    Capt. Autumn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Capt. Autumn


    Isolated office fires caused WTC Building 7 to collapse in 11 seconds.


  • #11
    jpfahy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭jpfahy


    Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are separate political parties


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  • #12
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,643 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Einstein failed maths

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #13
    Wayne Jarvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    Gerry G wrote: »
    Women can multi task
    That is actually true though. My significant other regularly talks the arse off me while making my dinner and usually does the washing up while crying because I wasn't listening to her.


  • #14
    Forty Seven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Forty Seven


    Feminism is about equality.


  • #15
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Socrates (the Brazilian footballer, not the Greek philosopher) played in the League of Ireland when he was a student doctor.


  • #16
    selous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭selous


    E300,000 is an affordable home




    (source, Eoghan Murphy)


  • #17
    Redneck Reject
    Closed Accounts Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject


    Hazys wrote: »
    Women's periods do not attract bears

    They do attract equine stallions, one at my stables tried to mount one of the ladies who was on hers.


  • #18
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Everyone knows how to use a toilet properly.


  • #19
    nutjobb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭nutjobb


    She can't get pregnant if she goes on top


  • #20
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    It is possible to find an exercise you love*

    (*let's leave sex out of this)


  • #21
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Hazys wrote: »
    On average, you swallow eight spiders a year in your sleep.

    I thought it was seven. Won't sleep now after that.


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  • #22
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Eating up your dinner helped people in Biafra


  • #23
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Scrummyscrammy wrote: »
    Isolated office fires caused WTC Building 7 to collapse in 11 seconds.

    And troofers deal in facts.


  • #24
    Capt. Autumn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Capt. Autumn


    Swallowing chewing gum caused your guts to stick together.


  • #25
    Capt. Autumn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Capt. Autumn


    Irish people are the friendliest in the world.


  • #26
    Capt. Autumn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Capt. Autumn


    Ipso knows how WTC 7 really collapsed.


  • #27
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Chameleons change their colour to blend in with their surroundings.



    They do it to communicate.


  • #28
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,509 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    30 posts into any discussion, someone will mention Hitler.


  • #29
    Capt. Autumn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Capt. Autumn


    RTE turned down Father Ted.


  • #30
    Capt. Autumn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Capt. Autumn


    Marc Almond drank two liters of horse semen and had to be rushed to hospital to get his stomach pumped.


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    God exists.


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