Strange Facts

[etz 78]

Automatonophobia is the fear of things that represent sentient beings, but are not in themselves actually sentient.

 

Like creepy ventriloquists dolls, or stuffed animals, or that horrid Japanese robot girl.

 

Strange fact, people with symmetrical faces are routinely judged to be more attractive than people with non-symmetrical faces, but only to a point. If they're too symmetrical, the observers brain will lump them into the same group as Chucky and those ventriloquists dolls.

[Guest John Hancock]

Strange fact, people with symmetrical faces are routinely judged to be more attractive than people with non-symmetrical faces, but only to a point. If they're too symmetrical, the observers brain will lump them into the same group as Chucky and those ventriloquists dolls.

 

Someone did a cool thing with that, photoshopping people's faces so they were perfectly symmetrical, and they instantly looked less human, but in a really subtle way where, if you didn't know what had happened, you wouldn't be able to describe it.

[King 277]

If you were to watch all of the SAW movies, it would take you 666 minutes.

[DC 536]

If you were to watch all of the SAW movies, it would take you 666 minutes.

That's a myth, unfortunately.

 

All seven movies run for a total of 669 minutes, with up to an additional 23mins if you go for the various special editions.

[King 277]

Ah is it?, Yeah it sounded to good to be true.

[DC 536]

It's just one of those things that, as you said, sound just plausible enough to be true, but isn't.

 

It's along the lines of feeding rice to pigeons will make them explode, the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure, that can be seen from space, people only use a small percentage of their brain, that Napoleon was short (when he was average height for the time), "Let them eat cake", your tongue is separated into different taste zones, NASA spending millions on a space pen when Russia used pencils, people thought the world was flat until semi-recently (when in fact most of the scholars from the earliest days of sea-travel were aware it was round) and water doesn't flow the other way in the Southern Hemisphere.

Edited July 6, 2014 by DC

[Evil Gringo 279]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on August the 6th 1945 on a business trip... surviving the blast of the first ever atomic bomb used in anger he travelled back to his home town, arriving there at work on the 8th of August... in Nagasaki. Both times he was around 2 miles away from the blast and despite suffering burns, burst eardrums and temporary blindness he survived and didn't even get cancer or even use it as an excuse to miss work!

[Maxximus 353]

The technical term for the fear that the Pope is going to make horrific things happen to you is "Judaism".

 

Well played, sir. :lol

[King 277]

Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton are the only two actors to face off against a Terminator, an Alien and a Predator.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

[Paul 584]

Elephants are the only animal to have 4 knees.

 

This has been bugging me since I saw it, so I checked it out. Its untrue.

[Omega 354]

You know, it would have been nice if you'd have give some info on why it's untrue as otherwise you're just correcting someone for the sake of it.

[Paul 584]

OK, its untrue because they don't have 4 knees.

 

Or if it helps

 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=do+elephants+have+4+knees+

 

edit:

 

LMGTFY, Im so 2007. :lol

[Omega 354]

Whatever.

[Paul 584]

Grow up, you're starting to act like me. :lol

 

 

edit: smilie added so people know its a joke and not me having a go at Meggles.

Edited July 16, 2014 by Paul