Fact or Crap Trivia (2016)

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Wednesday, April 20, 2016

CRAP

Celebriphilia is a pathological desire to be romantically involved with a celebrity. Starstruck!

Thursday, April 21, 2016

If you type the name of the secret society Illuminati backwards into your web browser and add .com, you will be taken to their secret web page.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Thursday, April 21, 2016

CRAP

You will go to the U.S. Government's National Security web page, but you probably just found that out.

Friday, April 22, 2016

Most of the people you hear laughing on television are dead.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Friday, April 22, 2016

FACT

The majority of all "laugh tracks" or canned laughter was recorded in the 1950s, which means many of the people have died. Modern comedy must be funny, the dead don't lie.

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Monday, April 25, 2016

In medieval times, most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June.​

 

[Marioguy]

I will say Crap

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Monday, April 25, 2016

CRAP

The idea that medieval people rarely bathed is a persistent, but false idea, soap being invented some 1,000 years earlier. Every wedding can be a soap opera!

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Humans share 50 percent of their DNA with a banana!​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Tuesday, April 26, 2016

FACT

True, according to Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College, London. That's why we find each other a-peeling.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

The Asian bear cat gives off a scent from its butt that smells exactly like buttered popcorn.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Wednesday, April 27, 2016

FACT

Be careful where you stick those fingers in a dark cinema!

Thursday, April 28, 2016

The word "news" is an acronym for the four compass points: North, East, West, and South, because news is from all around the world.​

 

[Ether]

Crap tbh

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Thursday, April 28, 2016

CRAP

The word "news" can be traced back to the fourteenth century. You were heading in the wrong direction if you believed this one!

Friday, April 29, 2016

Chuck Norris's real name is Carlos Ray.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Friday, April 29, 2016

FACT

Sorry, Crap. Chuck Norris's name is whatever he wants it to be.

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Monday, May 2, 2016

Weightlifters can lift heavier weights in a gym painted red.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Monday, May 2, 2016

CRAP

Red is the best color for a cardiovascular workout; it increases the heart rate. But blue is the best color for weightlifting and suppressing the appetite. Weight more; weigh less.

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

The chainsaw was originally invented as a tool to help deliver babies.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Tuesday, May 3, 2016

FACT

Used to perform symphysiotomies, the cutting of a woman's pelvic ligaments to assist childbirth, the hand-powered chainsaw was invented around 1785, 60 years before the first anesthetic!

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Anatidaephobia is the fear of antelopes.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Wednesday, May 4, 2016

CRAP

Anatidaephobia is the irrational fear that somewhere out there, there is a duck watching you. That's quackers!

Thursday, May 5, 2016

When certain plants are being eaten by a caterpillar, the plant emits a scent that attracts predatory bugs to come and eat the caterpillar.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Thursday, May 5, 2016

FACT

Most plants emit a "distress call" when under attack; the smell of freshly mown grass is one of them. I'm sure there are a lot of guys out there willing to give up grass-torture, right now!

Friday, May 6, 2016

In today's money, a first-class ticket abroad the Titanic would cost $100,000.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Friday, May 6, 2016

FACT

That's a lot of money to sink into a boat trip.

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Monday, May 9, 2016

The first couple ever shown in bed together on U.S. prime time television were Lucy and Ricky in I Love Lucy.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Monday, May 9, 2016

CRAP

It was Fred and Wilma from The Flintstones - Yabadabadoo!

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

If you throw a can of regular Coke into a swimming pool, it will float.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Tuesday, May 10, 2016

CRAP

A can of regular Coke will sink to the bottom, but an equal-sized can of Diet Coke will float: the sugar in regular Coke makes it heavier. Coke float, anyone?

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

You've heard the expression "I'll be back in a jiffy?" Well, "jiffy" is an actual unit of time.​