Ok I am looking for some really good useless facts to accompany tests I am giving to my classes. I usually start off the exam with some sort of useless fact, basically as a tool to break the ice for the students, so they are not so tense when it comes to test taking… Here’s a couple I have used lately:
In the average humans lifespan, you will spend more time sitting at a stop light, than you did in Highschool.
India has a bill of rights for cows.
Until the 1960’s men with long hair could not enter Disney.
111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell. that seems high
Coconuts kill more people world wide than sharks in any given year.
Anyone have others that stand out as particularly funny?
Hmmmm… Guess the coconuts one was a bad example. And yes I have found some good sites with interesting facts, but I was more interested in facts of the lesser known variety. Like from dopers here on the boards…
After browsing that site for about 2 minutes I found over half of their “facts” to be total crap.
They should call that sitw www.amusing-facts-that-some-joker-heard-from-a-friend-of-a-friend’s-mother’s-uncle’s-roommate-who-once-saw-a-late-night-science-fiction-movie-about-said-subject.com
Yes, theres a few good tidbits there, but most of what I saw was bunk.
Why not go to Snopes, pick an urban legend, and give its true/false status? The headings are usually interesting enough to catch student’s attention, and you could inoculate them against a whole bunch of garbage at the same time.
