# The Fake Factoids Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189 "2004-12-16T18:51:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/61 "2004-12-17T18:27:15Z")
In 1995, the Afghani Taliban banned viewing the SDMB, making it a crime punishable by flogging. In 1999 the Taliban amended this law to claim universal jurisdiction (meaning that they can prosecute anybody anywhere for violating this law). Due to pressing security issues, the current Afghani government has not repealed this ban. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/62 "2004-12-17T18:40:19Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > **Hal** , can you help me out here? When does one use paprika while banking? Is it supposed to be put into the deposits? Or used during withdrawls? 😉 We’ve already covered this…“paprika while banking”? That’s just silly. > [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Was that a typo, or genius surrealality. > [@Hal Briston](#): > > Typo. “Paprika”, of course, should have been spelled “Susan B. Anthony Dollars”. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/63 "2004-12-17T18:48:57Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > We’ve already covered this…“paprika while banking”? That’s just silly. This is what I get for opening all the threads I want to read, and then just working through the whole mess one at a time, around work… I get a little behind the time. Ooops. Anyways, in the spirit of the rest of the posts: The US Navy has been using dolphins to deposit nuclear waste onto the sea bottom in thermos bottles. Each dolphin can deposit four or five thermos per trip, and make about three trips before the radiation poisoning gets to them. The Soviet Alfa class submarine was powered by a liquid sodium cooled nuclear reactor, allowing for its high speed. The first ASROC, or missle launched torpedo, was fired in the 1800’s, but no one recognized the potential of such a weapon. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/64 "2004-12-17T18:51:55Z")
Threads at the Straight Dope never contain a post #13. A tincture of urine and dishsoap, rubbed on the gums, will relieve an infant’s teething pain. ---
**Author:** ![Spongemom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Spongemom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spongemom)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/65 "2004-12-17T19:22:42Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > Threads at the Straight Dope never contain a post #13. 99% of Dopers will go back and check. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/66 "2004-12-17T19:26:11Z")
> [@Spongemom](#): > > 99% of Dopers will go back and check. No posters will post a [link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5617920&postcount=13) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/67 "2004-12-17T19:49:07Z")
The first bar of soap was actually called ‘paos’ but an error at the engraving press (namely forgetting to reverse the image) meant the word appeard as ‘soap’. The name stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/68 "2004-12-17T20:12:22Z")
The first brassiere was patented by Heinrich Stopemfromfloppen. Babe Ruth could actually cartwheel to first base faster than he could run there. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/69 "2004-12-17T20:57:59Z")
It’s physically impossible to be satisfied from just one scratch. A cop is, by law, not allowed to give you a ticket if you say “The sparrow flies at first light.” Urine is found in many common foodstuffs. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/70 "2004-12-17T21:01:56Z")
There are actual FDA standards allowing for urine, bug parts, rodent parts, and rodent feces in most common foods. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/71 "2004-12-17T21:22:47Z")
**OtakuLoki** _The US Navy has been using dolphins to deposit nuclear waste onto the sea bottom in thermos bottles._ What is the most extreme depth the dolphins have reached? Could they reach the deepest part of the ocean? Would they be limited to twenty minutes? ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/72 "2004-12-17T21:22:56Z")
Before she married Jimmy, Rosalynn Carter sang backup for The Lovin’ Spoonful; she was replaced, briefly, by Dr. Joyce Brothers. Coincidentally, a common garden mole can eat 6.02 x 10^23 avocadoes over the course of an average lifespan. L. Ron Hubbard’s greatest shame was that his pet parrot Godiva reached clear before he did. Playwright Arthur Miller’s real last name is Murray, but he felt that he would not be taken seriously as a dramatist if he shared a name with a dance studio. > [@Trunk](#): > > Alexander Graham Bell lobbied to have the official phone greeting be, “What it is.” Seriously, this is the funniest thing I’ve heard all month. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/73 "2004-12-17T21:48:17Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > Seriously, this is the funniest thing I’ve heard all month. That’s actually the one I’ve been repeating to my entire office _all day_. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/74 "2004-12-17T22:21:13Z")
Technically, helicopters cannot fly. Technically, cats are not mammals – they are actually a type of fish. Technically, coffee is a hallucinogen. Technically, if you put the word ‘technically’ before a blatantly false statement, it becomes true. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/75 "2004-12-17T23:03:01Z")
Technically, you’re supposed to use the word “actually” to make a false statement be true. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/76 "2004-12-17T23:07:26Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **OtakuLoki** > _The US Navy has been using dolphins to deposit nuclear waste onto the sea bottom in thermos bottles._ > > What is the most extreme depth the dolphins have reached? Could they reach the deepest part of the ocean? Would they be limited to twenty minutes? They’ve made it to 1500 meters, but that’s not enough to get to the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean. Of course if they used a submersible, like us humans did, I’m sure they could do much more than twenty minutes. Even with 1960’s technology. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/77 "2004-12-17T23:15:18Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > Technically, you’re supposed to use the word “actually” to make a false statement be true. Actually, you just need to add a few specific words to the end of the statement, and no one knows why. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/78 "2004-12-18T00:13:34Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > The Soviet Alfa class submarine was powered by a liquid sodium cooled nuclear reactor, allowing for its high speed. I love this one. It warms the cockles of my geekly little heart. 🆒 Coffee, Chocolate, and Cocaine all come from the same plant. NASA and the Soviet Union _did_ actually provide astronaut crews with suicide capsules up until the late 1970s. However, what isn’t commonly known is that the capsules weren’t poisonous…they were explosive. The U.S. military routinely field-tests high tech weapons under code names like “Hammer” and “Toilet Seat Cover.” Why? So they can be included in annual budget reports, without compromising secrecy. Ted Koppel has a fully prosthetic jawbone. ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/79 "2004-12-18T04:02:53Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > **The first brassiere was patented by Heinrich Stopemfromfloppen.** > > Babe Ruth could actually cartwheel to first base faster than he could run there. Bolding mine. That was gold. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189/80 "2004-12-18T05:33:21Z")
Pandora’s Box was full of bees. Swallowing enough watch batteries will cause your fingernails to glow. Exactly 248 of the 1000 ships launched in the name of Helen of Troy were pity ships. Aspertame can be worn as a hat or a scarf, as fashion dictates. Apostraphes should never be taken internally. Right-clicking on any link in the SMDB will lead to porn. Try it! Several bills are before the US Congress that would link income tax to earned-run average. Nobody poops but you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fake-factoids-game/280189.md?page=5)