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Factoid (n) A statement that could plausibly be true, but probably isn't.
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There will never be thirteen British monarchs with the same name, since it would unleash a constitutional crisis as to whether the last should be designated XIII or XIIb.
In 1977, one teenage in four in Burnley was in a punk band.
People choose to live near Heathrow airport because of its much acclaimed air of tranquility and silence.
Lightning is an illusion caused when the shockwave of the thunder noise passes through the aqueous humour of your eye.
There are no such things as cats, just many genetically modified rabbits.
Girls are much cleverer than boys these days.
That's because all the clever boys change sex.
(I can easily disprove at last three of the above; more plausibility please!)
When attempting to produce a statement that could plausibly be true, but probably isn't, the probability that additional statements will enter outright lie territory rises in proportion to the 2.5th power of the number of statements made thus far.
All Italians know each other.
Liechtenstein is the only European country that England has not been to war against.
The sex organs of mammals evolved from symbiotic organisms that eventually became permanently attached to the bodies of their hosts.
There is no word for yacht in Afrikaans.
Your home PC will run much faster if it is submerged in a bath of cold water.
Sky TV has never shown a Shakespeare film.
The average person has 29 friends, of whom at least 8 will not reciprocate the friendship.
The venom extracted from one cobra could kill the entire population of Basingstoke, Milton Keynes and Cwmbran combined.
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.
[Rosie] If that's true, why hasn't anyone done it yet?
For some species of butterfly, their larval form is not a caterpillar, but a plant.
It is impossible to eat a jam doughnut without licking ones lips.
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.
Truffles are cancerous growths that bud off the roots of certain trees.
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.
The first World Cup was played in South America between the Incas and the Aztecs. The Aztecs won 1 - 0.
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