Factoid (n) A statement that could plausibly be true, but probably isn't.
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Rosie - The venom extracted from one cobra could kill the entire population of Basingstoke, Milton Keynes and Cwmbran combined.
Kim - By the time this game is finished, at least 1.4% of the statements contained in it will be not just plausible but actually true.
Raak - [Rosie] If that's true, why hasn't anyone done it yet?
Raak - For some species of butterfly, their larval form is not a caterpillar, but a plant.
Chalky - It is impossible to eat a jam doughnut without licking ones lips.
Botherer - If there are 3 men in any one room, there is a 12.7% chance that one of them has slept with Leah from Big Brother.
Raak - Truffles are cancerous growths that bud off the roots of certain trees.
Rosie - In Canada people over 60 purchasing condoms are required to present a doctor's certificate. (Raak) I was hoping someone would say that. Good man.
Software - The first World Cup was played in South America between the Incas and the Aztecs. The Aztecs won 1 - 0.
Néa - If a baby boy is born in the first half of the year, the chance that he'll be named Michael is 38% greater than if he'd been born in July or later.
Raak - 100% pure ethanol is as corrosive to human flesh as sulphuric acid.
Botherer - Nobody has ever actually been to the North Pole. All footage of claimed forays was filmed on a permanently erected soundstage at Elstree.
Darren - The word "chicken" originated as a contraction of "chick-to-hen," describing accurately the lifecycle of the bird, which, uniquely, has no male of the species.
Botherer - Don't buy replacement printer cartridges. It's cheaper to but a new printer with free replacements.
Software - The Eiffel Tower is constructed entirely out of pipe cleaners and drinking straws [Both] Actually, that is entirely believable.
Inkspot - Plankton are the most promiscuous life from on the planet.
Raak - There is more water underneath the Sahara desert than there would be in a lake of the same size.
Darren - Jupiter's density is so low that its total mass is less than all the sand in the Sahara put together.
Rosie - The real reason people born just after WWII are called baby boomers is due to their poor diet, consequent on food rationing, which cause them to be quite outrageously flatulent.
Botherer - Before Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity in 1666, people and objects floated in the air unless they were tethered down. The discovery on the 2nd September meant everything suddenly fell to earth. This was the real cause of the Great Fire of London.
Raak - For certain medical conditions it is possible to have Guinness prescribed on the NHS.
Software - The game of cricket was called after the insect of the same name because of the similarity between the sound of the bat on the ball and the noise made during mating.
Tuj - A football weighs less than an elastic band ball of the same size would.
Rosie - A glass of red wine every day provides protection against all known diseases. (Botherer) What air?:-)
Phil - The word kara-oke is Japanese for I will survive
Darren - In Dad's Army, Captain Mainwaring's famous line, "You stupid boy," was originally written as "You f***ing tw*t, Pike," and was only changed at the very last minute after concerns were raised among BBC bosses.
Software - hen dropped from an aeroplane, elastic band balls of 1.41M diameter do not bounce.
Software - imagine a 'W' at the beginning of the last sentence and it might make sense.
Raak - A grommet is one and two thirds groats.
Kim - A hen dropped from an aeroplane would be able to control its descent with a 1.41m ball of elastic bands.
Botherer - If a meteorite the size of a house brick were to strike Loch Ness, all life within the Loch would be ended and thus conclusive proof of the exictence or otherwise of Nessis would be garnered.
Raak - "Wallace and grommet" is actually an old folk saying which is too rude to translate here.
Blob - It is illegal to mash potato in certain cantons of Switzerland.
Raak - The original form of the "Big Brother" format was a gay SM role-playing summer camp at a disused prison somewhere in Eastern Europe.
Tuj - Half the male population of England has a middle initial beginning with the letter "J".
Software - Charles de Gaulle was actually born in Slough while his parents were at the reading of his great uncle's will.
Phil - John Prescott MP has a third nipple.
Irouléguy - It is impossible to grow courgettes on the Isle of Wight
Darren - [Phil] He has any number of nipples at his disposal, from what I've heard.
Raak - No British telephone number contains three consecutive sixes.
Botherer - Slugs cannot bear the smell of braised red cabbage. Smearing some on your garden will protect your rhubarb.
Raak - If you perfectly relax all the muscles in your tongue and throat, and gently take hold of it with a pair of sugar tongs, it is possible to pull it out from the mouth a distance of six inches or more. However, if you do this you will not be able to fit it back in again without surgical intervention.
Software - The electric drill was invented by Stanley Gibbins. [Raak] really?
Raak - [Software] Emergency rooms have to deal with several cases every year, usually the result of drunken bets. And that's a factoid!
Darren - Due to the angle of the teeth, it's easier to remove a snooker ball from your mouth than to insert one.
Rosie - Snooker balls are now made partly of depleted uranium, there being so much of this by-product now.
Software - Radiation is now not as bad for you as it once used to be.
Raak - When a snooker ball is in the center of the table and the cue ball near one corner, the task of potting the ball into the opposite corner is measureably influenced by the gravitational fields of the players.
rab - The world deflates when you remove an earth rod from the ground.
Raak - The "blueberries" in commercially made blueberry muffins are actually pieces of apple, dyed blue.
Néa - The IP address of your computer can tell a lot about who you are. For instance, if the first digit in the first group is 5, you are strong-willed but kind, whereas if it is a 6, you are somewhat shy but still self-assertive, and a good listener.
Tuj - Carcinogens are more likely to be found in Tyne and Weir than any other county.
Raak - The rate of growth of plant material worldwide in spring is nine hundred times the maximum rate of production of all the factories in the world.
Software - There are lightning strikes every second of the day across the world.
Tuj - Crabs make love with a long penis on the end of their front leg.
Raak - Aliens masquerading as human first outnumbered genuine humans in 1957.
Botherer - Peter Crouch is the only footballer in the world who actually jumps lower than his height.
Kim - [Raak] The "fruit" in commercially produced fruit yoghurts is acutally just bits of coloured tissue paper.
Raak - Only about 2% of the population actually have a self. This includes most of those who think they are in the 2%.
Raak - Games on Crescent servers can only be terminated by unanimous decision of a conclave of Elders of the server, summoned by the ritual announcement "Mornington Crescent".
Audience - *shouts, screams generally goes wild for Raak*
rab - Before the introduction of "general-purpose cling film", it was a legal requirement within the catering industry to use a different types of film to cover bakery, dairy, meat, fish and fruit/vegetable products.
Raak - There are certain snakes which, if you grab them by the tail, let the tail break off in your hand and escape to grow a new one. It is not commonly known that some mammals have a similar capability. If you take firm hold of a man's genitals and jerk very suddenly and hard, they will come off in your hand with minimal bloodshed. Unfortunately, they do not grow back.
sammie - yer yer sexy time xx :)
sammie - sarah ,, likes girls
sarah - sammie takes it up the bum bum ;-)
sammie - yer so what, its the best way
sarah - youve obviously never used a strap on then have u
sammie - i prefer the feel thing
sammie - use odviously never had ur little minge tickled
sarah - i have by both boys and girls you jealous?
sammie - iv had more then my minge tickled, iv had it licked all out by both male and female
sarah - sickoooooooooooooooo
sarah - i like to have my toes licked
sarah - i like to have my toes licked
sammie - i like to have nmy toenails bitten of my old men
sarah - i like it when my nana licks my belly button
sammie - i prefer it wen i lick my nana's belly button
sarah - i also like it when your nana licks my belly button
sammie - although my faverite thing of all is to lick out ur grandads hairy bum hole,
sarah - sounds good, my grandads come tastes of cheese tho
sammie - yer i no, i noticed that,, ur nanas is cheesier
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