| "heave" and "throw" are geologic terms. |
| The Moon has no atmosphere. |
| Ink never completely dries. |
| The Earth is not a perfect sphere. |
| Venus has a highly acidic atmosphere. |
| Every couple of hundred million years Venus re-surfaces itself. |
| It is still uknown what triggers/causes Venus's re-surfacing. |
| Sharks never sleep because they would drown. |
| When sharks first developed 365 million years ago, they were the prey of placoderms. |
| Placoderms went extinct shortly after sharks developed, paving the way for sharks to "rule the oceans". |
| The Earth and the rest of the solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old. |
| The oldest rocks found on Earth are 3.8 billion years old. |
| The oldest form of life (fossils) ever found on Earth is bacteria living in the before-mentioned 3.8 billion year old rocks. |
| These 3.8 billion year old rocks are part of the "Canadian Shield" (a rock formation found throughout the Eastern portion of Canada and down into the Northeastern parts of the US). |
| The oldest oceanic rocks on Earth are 200 million years old. |
| Mercury (the element, not the planet) was used to fill teeth. |
| Olympus Mons (located on Mars) is the largest and tallest volcano and mountain in the solar system. |
| The atmosphere of Mars is unusually thin due to Mars losing most of it to space. |
| Olympus Mons is so tall that it's peak sticks out into space. |
| Space is not a true/pure vacuum, but it is close enough to being one that it is considered one. |
Only about half of the oil/gas in underground reservoirs is recoverable.  |
| The human body is worth $0.87 of chemicals and precious metals when it is melted down. |
| The Moon is about 4.2 billion years old. |
| The Moon had active volcanoes on it's surface for a period of time in the past. |
| Earth's oceans are, on average, 4.5 km deep. |
| Human hair and nails grow about 6 inches after death. |
| Edgar Allan Poe was a necrophile. |
| Lightning burns about 6 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. |
| Mars has a very weak (almost to the point of having none at all) magnetic field. |
| Mars has a completely solid core and this causes the little/no magnetic field. |
| Glass tail lizards grow their tails back if their tails are broken off. |
| Everything deforms. |
| Robert Smith has eaten a glass sandwich. |
| The movie "Titanic" is the highest grossing movie ever. |
| Taking inflation into account, the movie "Gone With The Wind" is actually the highest grossing movie ever. |
| Les Claypool favors a Carl Thompson 6-string fretless bass, while Simon Gallup favors the Stingray or Thunderbird. |
| The Righteous Brothers are not real brothers. |
| Gary Burghoff is missing the tips of his fingers on his left hand. |
| The concept of 'nothing' is false because even nothing is something. |
| Two infinities exist: positive infinity and negative infinity. |
| The number zero was not used until long after Jesus Christ was born. |
| The main side effect of Prozac is depression. |
| The human finger nail has a hardness of 2.5 - 3 out of 10 on the hardness scale. |
| Only one diamond can scratch another diamond. |
| Diamonds are so abundant that they are, for all intensive purposes, worthless. |
| DeBeers is the worlds largest diamond supplier. |
| Due to diamonds being so abundant, DeBeers has to limit how many they release in a given year to keep prices up. |
| Beach sand is mainly quartz. |
| Quartz has a hardness of 7. |
| France's population is in decline. |
| Jar Jar Binks is a tall, walking, talking space frog who does nothing but old Bill Cosby routines. |
| The 'slashdot effect' is defined as overwhelming your servers due to your site having a link on slashdot.com. |
| John Wayne won one oscar. |
| Camel hair brushes are not made of Camel hair. |
| Fog horns are not made out of fog. |
| Cat gut DOES come from cats. |
| Dogs don't sweat. |
| Pigs do NOT sweat either. |
| Pigs do NOT over-eat. |
| Billy goats love bananas. |
| There are only 92 naturally occurring elements. |
| The caloric intake of the French is twice that of Americans. |
| Heart burn is caused by a lack of acid. |
| Alcohol dehydrates the human body. |
| David Linch needs help. |
| Everything is in motion. |
| Plant life is usually sedentary. |
| Hal Lindon's real name is Harold Lipshitz. |
| A pack of pirhana can strip a human to it's bones in a matter of seconds. |
| The Goliath tarantula is the world's largest spider, measuring in at 12 inches long. |
| The oceanic crust is, on average, 5 km thick. |
| The oceanic crust is mainly composed of basalt. |
| The continental crust is, on average, 35 km thick. |
| The continental crust is mainly composed of granite. |
| If it is present on the Earth's surface, molten rock is called 'lava'. If it is below the Earth's surface, molten rock is called 'magma'. |
| At the Earth's surface, lava is 1000 degrees C. |
| The average man shaves 16 feet of facial hair off his face in his lifetime. |
| Cows are used in some countries to test whether or not recent volcanic fallout is cool enough to walk on. |
| 4/4 time is the most used time measurement in music today. |
| Joseph Smith's mother barked at the Moon. |
| Hitler was a vegetarian and had one testicle. |
| The Hawaiian islands and Solomon islands are part of the same island chain and were created by the same hotspot. |
| 75% of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey. |
| 90% of blacks are lactose intolerant. |
| Marilyn Monroe's real name was Norma Jean Baker. |
| Light has mass. |
| Light is considered both a wave and a particle. |
| Dishwashers make what you put into them wet and hot, then dry and hot. |
| Pepsi can be used to clean up motor oil spills. |
| You can clean coiled bass and guitar strings by boiling them in water. |
| Steel is one ofthe most homogeneous materials in the world. |
| The surface of Io is covered with molten sulfur. |
| The surface of Europa is covered with ice. |
| The air pressure is too low on Mars to allow water to stay in a liquid form. |
| The Martian polar caps are mainly made of dry ice. |
| Titan is Saturn's largest moon. |
| Titan is larger than the planet Mercury. |
| Titan is the only solar body, other than Earth, to have a nitrogen-rich atmosphere. |
| Casey Cassum is the voice of Shaggy. |
| He-Man was from Eternia and his alter ego was Adam. |
| The entire Hoth scene was written to accommodate Mark Hamill's car accident. |
| Wookies are from the planet Kashyyyk. |
| Sir Alec Guiness hated his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi so much that he convinced Lucas to kill the character off. |
| Blood for a man's erection comes from the feet and legs, NOT HIS HEAD. |
| The human brain is a basic radio. |
| The Egyptian pyramids were used for irrigation, hydroponics, radio and beacons from the sky. |
| The Egyptians used DC current in building their pyramids. |
| Kamakazee pilots did NOT wear helmets. Instead, they wore paper mache hats that indicated their rank with insignia. |
| The ancient Incans carved immense images into the ground that could only be discernable from great heights. |
| George Washington grew and smoked pot. |
| Hemp rope is many times stronger than nylon, which is the instigation of pot's illegal status - a lobbied contract between Dupont and politicians. |
| An inch of rainfall is equivalent to a foot of snowfall. |
| Human beings have muscular inhibitors that prevent our muscles from contracting so tightly as to break our bones. |
| Horses do not have such muscular inhibitors. |
| Horses went extinct on the North American continent and were only brought back by the Spanish conquistadors. |
| The word 'babble' comes from The Bible when God struck the Babelonians each with their own language so that they no longer could understand each other. |
| Earth is 93 million miles away from the Sun. |
| It takes sunlight just over 8 minutes to reach the Earth. |
| The Earth is closer to the Sun during the Winter months (Northern Hemisphere Winter months that is). |
| Mercury is the only planet that does not spin on it's axis. |
| Mars has the least elliptical orbit of all the planets. |
| Saturn's rings are only 8 inches thick. |
| The Philadelphia Experiment went awry. |
| Cows will explode if left out in direct sunlight for too long after they die. |
| THACO stands for 'to hit armor class 0'. |
| A human's knees bend 3 degrees backwards when walking. |
| Calcite dissolves in cold water. |
| HF (hydrofloric acid) eats through concrete. |
| Water is slightly acidic. |
| A pH of 7 is neutral. |
| Acids have a pH less than 7. |
| Bases have a pH greater than 7. |
| Water has a density of 1 gram/cubic centimeter. |
| Density = mass/volume. |
| The Earth's mantle is mainly peridotite. |
| The battle of Kiev during World War II is the largest tank battle ever. |
| Tanks were first used in World War I as infantry support. |
| The Red October Factory was converted from a tracker producing plant into a tank producing plant in Stalingrad during World War II. |
| The Red October Factory was still turning out tanks for the Russians even as Stalingrad was being occupied by the Germans. |
| The U.S. rationed butter and sent it to Russia during World War II, but all they did with it was butter the outside of their tanks. |
| Stromatolites have been living and growing on Earth since the Precambrian period (over 560 million years ago). |
| The geologic term 'graben' comes from the German language and means "grave". |
| A graben is the low area (valley) between two mountain rangers and is bounded on both sides by normal faults. |
| A horst is the mountain range that bounds one side of a graben. |
| The terms 'hangingwall' and 'footwall' refer to different sides of a fault. |
| 'Hangingwall' and 'footwall' are old mining terms but are still used today. |
| A normal fault is where the hangingwall moves down relative to the footwall. |
| A reverse fault is where the hangingwall moves up relative to the footwall. |
| A strike-slip fault is where the hangingwall moves parallel to the footwall. |
| The largest earthquakes occur along low angle reverse faults. |
| A low angle reverse fault is also known as a thrust fault. |
| The term 'orogeny' refers to a mountain building event. |
