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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