Reading Time: 3 minutes When a mother is unable to deliver a baby naturally she is often rushed, or if trouble was foreseen, booked into theater for a Caesarean section. A Caesarean section is the surgical procedure where the baby is removed from the mothers womb not through the vagina, but through a cut in the lower abdomen. The …
Reading Time: 2 minutes What are the number of spiders eaten in your sleep every year? We will try to shed a little light on this often heard of fact, and point out that it’s utterly and completely false. There’s an often quoted factoid that circulates on the internet that says the average person will eat eight spiders in their …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Are the echidna’s testicles under its chin? When I first stumbled upon this factoid I instantly thought of Peter Griffin. Now fans of Family Guy will already know that the chin of Peter is pretty comical. How can we put it, his chin looks like a set of nuts on his face. While Peter Griffin …
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is an often quoted fact that Roman Emperor Caligula once went to war with Poseidon, ordering his troops to throw spears into the sea. While crazy Roman Emperors appear not to be that rare, Caligula has gone down, along with Nero, as one of the most nutty among them. As if he had lost …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Is it illegal to mispronounce Arkansas while in Arkansas? It may seem illogical and a ridiculous question to ask, but the name of the state, and its spelling has a habit of confusing those less familiar with the US state. For instance Arkansas is pronounced completely differently to Kansas, where Arkansas is formed using the French …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you heard the often quoted fact that Mel Blanc was allergic to carrots? I must admit, as the voice of Bugs Bunny it would be fascinating if it were true. But unfortunately, for this internet myth that has been circulating since at least 2008 about Mel Blanc and a carrot allergy, there’s no truth to …
Reading Time: 2 minutes If only the Chinese breast touching festival in Yunnan Province was a real event, tourism from single, creepy men would sky rocket. Have you ever heard this story? According to many rumors that have gone viral on hundreds micro blogging sites and chat forums around the world, there is a three day breast touching festival …
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Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 This may seem a little hard to believe, given World War II, and it is, but there’s a claim that Adolf Hitler owned land in Colorado. It was only by chance that the opportunity ever presented itself to Hitler, but when it did, legend has it that Hitler jumped at it because of his life …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The moon the same size as Mars? Oh dear. I first stumbled upon this suspicious fact one day on Facebook. It had received hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. But, as an amateur astronomer I knew that it wasn’t right, it couldn’t be right. After all, Mars is a planet that’s a hell of …
