Post a Fact or Two You Don't Think Anyone Else Knows.

[Skwim]

1) Bell peppers, sugar peas, walnuts, rice, cucumbers, tomatoes, okra, and acorns are all fruits.

2) Mules do not beget baby mules.

3) The north magnetic pole does not coincide with the geographic north pole. Today they' re about 300 miles apart.

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[Kemosloby]

9/11 was an inside job

 

[Rival]

1. Peanuts aren't nuts

2. The 1939 Wizard of Oz film wasn't the first Wizard of Oz film.

3. I am actually a girl. It seems there are people on RF who still don't know this

 

[ADigitalArtist]

There's been a handful of occasions where mules have given birth (specifically hinnies.) But it's very rare. I guess that's one.

Many fish are capable of changing sex. If Finding Nemo would have been accurate, Marlin would have changed from male to female to care for Nemo's egg. Nemo would have been a sexless hermaphrodite until he became older.

A large amount of our naturally occurring Mercury is contained in a red colored mineral called Cinnabar, which is the famous red stone used in a lot of Eastern carvings. Mistaken for hundreds of years to be a 'healing stone,' warming up Cinnabar can release toxic levels of mercury.

 

[Lorgar-Aurelian]

The CIA can use your phones to spy on you.

Horses sweat. I know this after riding my own and making them work out.

I'll throw this in there just cause. For some reason I really like the idea of dark gods. Things like the lovecraftian deities , the ruinous powers from Warhammer AoS and Warhammer 40k , the old one from demon's souls. It don't matter how bad they are I just love the concept for some reason.
Which could be why I chose the name Lorgar Aurelian

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

1) Bell peppers, sugar peas, walnuts, rice, cucumbers, tomatoes, okra, and acorns are all fruits.

2) Mules do not beget baby mules.

3) The north magnetic pole does not coincide with the geographic north pole Today they' re about 300 miles apart.

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I actually knew #2 - about the mules, and only "tomatoes" from #1, which I think are actually pretty famous among the non-fruity fruits. So here goes:

Cashews actually grow out of the end of a cashew fruit:

Thunder is the sound of the moisture-laden air around the lightning bolt super-heating and being pressurized so quickly that it breaks the sound barrier and causes mini sonic-booms all the way down. Hence the many times "rolling" sound of thunder.

 

[Father Heathen]

I'm a legally ordained minister.

 

[Lorgar-Aurelian]

I'm a legally ordained minister.

MY God... The lies we believed...

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

The Earth isnae ****in' flat!

 

[Iti oj]

durring ww2 a Jappenes man planted bombs in Brookings OR . He was found out and stopped. Latter he turned himself in, apologized and gave up his sword. The town forgave him and made him and honorary citizen.

Yes something happened on main land USA durring ww2

 

[icehorse]

If your body's range of motion is limited (perhaps by protecting an old injury), in most cases, through the proper use of "functional movement" exercises, you can regain full mobility.

In other words, that old knee injury doesn't have to keep you from ever playing tennis again

 

[LuisDantas]

A large amount of our naturally occurring Mercury is contained in a red colored mineral called Cinnabar, which is the famous red stone used in a lot of Eastern carvings. Mistaken for hundreds of years to be a 'healing stone,' warming up Cinnabar can release toxic levels of mercury.

There is (or used to be) a little-prestiged hypothesis that Brazil's name comes from Cinnabar ("bar-cinna" does not sound too dissimilar from "Brazil").

 

[Rival]

There is (or used to be) a little-prestiged hypothesis that Brazil's name comes from Cinnabar ("bar-cinna" does not sound too dissimilar from "Brazil").

Oh. I was pronouncing it like chinna-bar. Must be my Romanian coming out. I'm still gonna say it that way.

 

[LuisDantas]

Oh. I was pronouncing it like chinna-bar. Must be my Romanian coming out. I'm still gonna say it that way.

Actually, Romanian pronounciation is usually significantly closer to Brazilian portuguese than English would be.

I don't think the word "cinnabar" is an exception.

 

[Rival]

Actually, Romanian pronounciation is usually significantly closer to Brazilian portuguese than English would be.

I don't think the word "cinnabar" is an exception.

'C' in Ro is either like k or 'ch' as in 'cheat'.

How is it in Brasilian Portuguese?

 

[Unveiled Artist]

1) Bell peppers, sugar peas, walnuts, rice, cucumbers, tomatoes, okra, and acorns are all fruits.

2) Mules do not beget baby mules.

3) The north magnetic pole does not coincide with the geographic north pole Today they' re about 300 miles apart.

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The earth is flat if you're living in Arizona or Texas

Neil Armstrong isn't the first man to walk on the moon

Actually men don't walk on the moon, they hop.

They test nuclear weapons at one of the military bases where I live. You can hear it when the tests go off and it rattles the ground.

All common Christian denominations have the sacraments of christ

Not all Muslim woman wear full Hijab (not all Hijab has to be black)

There are actually straight people who are more gay than us gay people

I just found out conversate is not a word. It's converse.

 

[dust1n]

Once your RF account turns 9.5 years old, you get a check from Rex for 20k dollars.

 

[Skwim]

There's been a handful of occasions where mules have given birth (specifically hinnies.) But it's very rare. I guess that's one.

Thing is, there's a difference between a mule and a hinny. A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, and a hinny, is the offspring of a female donkey and a male horse. So hinnies don't qualify as mules. There are male and female mules, but they're incapable of producing offspring.
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[ADigitalArtist]

Thing is, there's a difference between a mule and a hinny. A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, and a hinny, is the offspring of a female donkey and a male horse. So hinnies don't qualify as mules. There are male and female mules, but they're unable to produce offspring.
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Depends on who you talk to colloquially mule are offspring of horses and donkeys regardless of the sex of parentage, hinnies is a specific insider terminology for breeders. Genetically they're so similar that it would not be surprising for either to be possible. And, in fact, there have been (spef) mule offspring too, but hinny offspring is more common, and actually are hybrids (this and other cases of mule birth so far don't involve recombinant chromosomes.)
Mule’s foal fools genetics with “impossible” birth – The Denver Post

 

[LuisDantas]

'C' in Ro is either like k or 'ch' as in 'cheat'.

How is it in Brasilian Portuguese?

In "cinnabar", it sounds like "s" - "see-nabar". I guess this is indeed a difference between Romanian and Brazilian Portuguese.