# I’m looking for scientific statements of fact **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 18, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866 "2022-08-18T05:38:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/41 "2022-08-19T16:12:12Z")
You can eat any wild mushroom you find in the woods. And you can eat some of them a second time. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/42 "2022-08-19T16:14:49Z")
Oh, I actually got the idea of your statement, it just tripped the adam and eve bit for me. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/43 "2022-08-19T16:15:01Z")
The majority of dogs have three legs. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/44 "2022-08-19T16:16:41Z")
I’ve always like that one. It’s equally horrible or funny depending on the way you think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/45 "2022-08-19T20:15:27Z")
Why is it horrible? The majority dogs presumably also have 2 legs and the majority have 1 leg. Oh yeah, and 4 legs too! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/46 "2022-08-20T00:32:58Z")
Dinosaurs existed so long that they could have found fossils of earlier dinosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/47 "2022-08-20T01:25:06Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > ISTM that like Mr.E’s statement about the boiling and freezing points of water, this doesn’t meet the OP’s criterion of being “deceptively and woefully incomplete”. The initial impression that the average person would get from that statement is in fact an accurate reflection of reality. One could simply say that most drivers _are_ above average. That’s probably true, at least year-by-year, for the same reason that most people have an above-average number of legs. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/48 "2022-08-20T01:49:07Z")
well, if you think about it “correctly” it’s just a funny way of saying that most dogs have the expected number of legs. If you don’t think about it “correctly” it leads you to wondering where all these dogs with fewer than the expected number of legs are and what happened to them that they don’t have the expected number of legs, or what’s wrong with this person making this statement and will smiling and nodding while backing away slowly work etc. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/49 "2022-08-20T01:52:05Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The majority of dogs have three legs. A variation on “Which months have twenty eight days?” ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/50 "2022-08-20T02:09:47Z")
When you were born the odds that you were the oldest person born on your birthdate were only fair, but if you’re reading this, every year those odds have gotten better. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/51 "2022-08-20T02:20:19Z")
Water is lethal. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/52 "2022-08-20T02:24:20Z")
And the absence of water is fatal. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/53 "2022-08-20T02:34:04Z")
Not all water is wet. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/54 "2022-08-20T02:35:01Z")
Under the right conditions, any body can walk on water. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/55 "2022-08-20T13:10:25Z")
Another one from Zach Weinersmith on SMBC: You can make cheese out of clown milk. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/56 "2022-08-20T13:27:06Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > There is no such thing as a fish. And if there is such a thing as a fish, a whale is a fish. And while we’re at it with the averages, the average human has approximately 1 testicle and 1 ovary. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/57 "2022-08-20T14:56:28Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And while we’re at it with the averages, the average human has approximately 1 testicle and 1 ovary. Corollary: Virtually no person is average. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/58 "2022-08-20T14:58:54Z")
The biggest number you can think of is closer to zero than to infinity. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/59 "2022-08-20T16:42:05Z")
On the contrary: The mean human has 1 testicle and 1 ovary. All humans are mean. Therefore, all humans have 1 testicle and 1 ovary. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-looking-for-scientific-statements-of-fact/969866/60 "2022-08-20T16:48:09Z")
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