I ran across this web site which is the home to so many interesting facts that I thought that I’d submit it to the teeming critical consiousness that is the SDMB for verification.
Are any of these fun factiods real?
I picked three at random and would say that they are more or less true, if vast (or in the case of the first jet engine: vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast) oversimplications