Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you hear the fact that male doctors in Bahrain must use a mirror and can not look upon the genitals of their female patients while examining them? It’s claimed that using a mirror is permitted because they are not looking directly at the sensitive area. Their hands are permitted to do what they need to …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Start thinking about this right now. Do we only use 10 percent of our brain? That’s 10 percent of every part of our brain to perform every function in our lives. This includes reading, and other complex activities, right through to the mundane, such as breathing and feeling pain. Surely something is amiss if the …
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s an old factoid that has been circulating online for quite sometime now that says Donald Duck was banned in Finland. The reason for the popular children’s character being placed on the prohibition register was due to a lack of pants. So this begs the question. Is it true or not? Was Donald Duck banned …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever seen a statue of a horse with both legs in the air? There may be a hidden message in it, and there may not be. This fact is rare in that it bridges both fact and urban legend, and we will do our best to describe it below for you. The factoid that circulates …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you read a fact that bats always turn left when they leave a cave? It’s a truly remarkable fact when you think about it. For an animal to know the difference between left and right, or to have a distinct preference for one direction over the other. But it does obviously raise several questions. …
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Reading Time: < 1 minutes As far as crazy conspiracy theories go this has to rank among the most craziest. There is a fairly consistent claim that the moon landings were faked. In fact, some people have gone so far to claim that it was all an elaborate hoax setup by the government. There have been numerous claims that a …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Was JFK one of the fastest random speaker that many people could have ever come across? While Eminem holds the Guinness world record for most words in a hit song, which means that he spat them out rather quickly, the main difference between the two is preparedness. Rap God, written by Eminem was precisely that, written and …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Golf, gentlemen only, ladies forbidden, history and intrigue of the origin of the name. Where did the word for the game originate from, and is it overly sexist in nature? Some have argued that the name for golf originated from being an acronym of gentlemen only ladies forbidden. Is this the truth or just a way …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Simple enough question. Are polar bears left handed? This is a relatively easy factoid to find, and can be found just about anywhere online. But like so many out there, and believe us when we say that there’s are a lot, this one is just simply wrong. All polar bears are not left handed. It …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dueling is legal in Paraguay provided both parties are blood donors? That is the claim so often sprouted as fact around the world, but is it true? In short, no, no it is not. This itself may come as a bit of relief to Paraguayans who have been the butt of this ever burgeoning myth …
