Fact or Crap Trivia (2016)

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Wednesday, May 11, 2016

FACT

Historically, a "jiffy" has meant various measurements of time, as first proposed by Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875-1946). It has been defined as 1/100th of a second. Base on this fact, the Jiffy Lube car maintenance business name is not as silly as it sounds.

Thursday, May 12, 2016

People in Madagascar dig up the bodies of their dead relatives once every seven years, dress them in fresh clothes, and dance with them around the graveyard to live music.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Thursday, May 12, 2016

FACT

Famadihana is a tradition still practiced among the Malagasy people of Madagascar today. Once every seven years, that's more than most people dance with each other when they are alive!

Friday, May 13, 2016

The space between your eyebrows is called a supercilium.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Friday, May 13, 2016

CRAP

Supercilium is your eyebrow; the gap is a glabella. NTS: Never trust a person without a glabella!

 

[Ether]

Spoiler: Friday, May 13, 2016

CRAP

Supercilium is your eyebrow; the gap is a glabella. NTS: Never trust a person without a glabella!

Spoiler: cuz

What if they have a unibrow?

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Monday, May 16, 2016

The wealthy and elite in China can hire body doubles to serve prison time on their behalf.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Monday, May 16, 2016

FACT

Ding zui translated is "substitute criminal," a common practice among China's wealthy. Pinch con?

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Fifty young girls were hospitalized with Salmonella across the USA from kissing frogs, just after the release of Disney's Princess and the Frog movie.​

 

[CaptainShyguy]

I believe this really happened, I know it's not the first time I hear it. Fact

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Tuesday, May 17, 2016

CRAP

This story is a fabrication and exaggeration based on a Salmonella outbreak in Utah where five Salmonella cases were linked to an African dwarf frog. In none of the cases did the frogs mutate into members of a royal household.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

New York City's Central Park is almost twice the size of the country of Monaco.​

 

[Toad And Yoshi]

Let's go with fact.

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Wednesday, May 18, 2016

FACT

Monaco is just a small bite of the Big Apple.

Thursday, May 19, 2016

It is impossible to fold a sheet of paper in half more than seven times.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Thursday, May 19, 2016

CRAP

This long-held myth was busted by a popular TV show where a sheet of paper was folded in half 11 times. They started with a sheet of paper the size of a football field and used steam rollers to accomplish the task. Most of us who try can fold the sheet only six times.

Friday, May 20, 2016

Dalmatian puppies have individual and distinctive spots from birth so that the mother can recognize the individual animals.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Friday, May 20, 2016

CRAP

Dalmatian puppies are born white, their spots beginning to appear after 10 days. A Dalmatian's spots continue to develop and change throughout their lifetime, making it hard for their mother to spot them in a crowd.

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Monday, May 23, 2016

There are 50 steps to the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., representing the 50 states.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Monday, May 23, 2016

CRAP

There are 365 steps, representing every day of the year. Do they have a temporary 366th step that they put down every four years?

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

The first food ever eaten in space was freeze-dried ice cream.​

 

[SirYoshi211]

I have a feeling that is a fact. I think the person would like something like ice cream if they were to make the first food eaten in space known, if they had a choice.

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Tuesday, May 24, 2016

CRAP

John Glenn in 1962 was the first astronaut to prove a human could eat in space, by eating a tube of applesauce. Apple pie in the sky.

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Borborygmi is the art of making sculpture from recycled Bourbon bottles.​

 

[Marioguy]

Sound similar but I think Crap.

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Wednesday, May 25, 2016

CRAP

Borborygmi is the noise your tummy makes when you are hungry. Now indigestion has a cool name.

Thursday, May 26, 2016

In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at a girl was considered a proposal of marriage.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Thursday, May 26, 2016

FACT

If she caught it, this signaled her acceptance. We are not sure what the rule was for an interception!

Friday, May 27, 2016

Pirates wore earrings to improve their eyesight.​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Friday, May 27, 2016

FACT

They did, and although considered an old wives' tale, there is some merit in this because the earlobe is the acupuncture point for some eye ailments, so this myth rings true!