Not according to the last doctor I asked about it.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
This seems highly suspect; it would mean the ship burns 10,000 gallons per mile ... 10 million gallons (a quarter-million barrels) for 1000 miles.
If you present a list of “facts” some of which are demonstrably false, it casts doubt on all the rest.
The Nazi party was a socialist party (the S in NSDAP stood for socialist). Therefore, the Nazi party was a left-wing organization.
Uh oh; now I’m “one extremely offended, frustrated” dragonfly:
‘A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.’
In fact:
‘A dragonfly has a life span of more than a year, but very little of that life is actually as an adult dragonfly. There are three stages of the dragonfly life cycle, the egg, the nymph, and the adult dragonfly. Most of the life cycle of a dragonfly is lived out in the nymph stage and you don’t see them at all, unless you are swimming underwater in a lake or pond with your eyes opened, of course.’
[The adult/winged phase of a dragonfly’s life cycle is typically ~two mos.]
http://www.dragonfly-site.com/dragonfly-life-cycle.html
A shake of a lamb’s tail is also a measurement of time.
I read that during the Manhattan project they came up with many ways to confuse spies and would be Turncoats.
Using jiffy and a shake of a lambs tail as units of time measurement must have really confused whoever because the secrets didn’t leak out until after the war.
“A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.”
And a quarter has 119.
“Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age!”
Nonsense. Babies are born with kneecaps, but they are made of cartilage and do not fully harden into bone for several years.
“In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.”
Foxes were domesticated in Russia in an experiment started in 1959. There are other recent examples as well.
“If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.”
It would be a neat trick for them to copulate and deliver babies while walking in single file, wouldn’t it?
“Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.”
Scissors have been around since ancient Egypt and Sumeria. The modern type with the fulcrum in the middle was invented by the Romans around 100 AD, not by Da Vinci. Perhaps he refined the design, but he didn’t invent them.
“On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.”
No, it’s the “red ensign” flag, not the American flag.
Though it’s not a perfect list, it’s a fun and very interesting one. I notice that I’m not the only one who enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.
Ridiculous. Easily checked. And there weren't 50 states when the Lincoln Memorial was built. And only one side of the memorial is visible on the $5 bill.
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Oh crap, there really IS not anything that I don’t know NOW!
Except...Is it ‘anything’ or ‘any thing’?
Or why do I have such a bad gramma.
Pubic scool?