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[li]Over the course of their life, the average person eats 700 pounds of human hair.[/li][li]Snails can be trained to count.[/li][li]There are no more and no less than 116 ways to skin a cat.[/li][li]It’s illegal to publish a statement known to be false on the Internet.[/li][/ul]
Damn, we’ve got some good liars here.
I think that’s the first time anyone has quoted me on SDMB. 
Coffee berries were originally picked and baked into a sort of pie by the ancient Aztecs. Roasting the beans and boiling them to make a hot beverage resulted from a practical joke. The Aztec burned their trash and the would be prankster scooped up some of the burnt garbage, which was mostly coffee beans, ground it up and served it to someone with whom he was angry, touting it as an elixer of sorts. To his surprise and dismay the victim of the prank liked the beverage and soon began drinking it all the time.
The screwdriver was invented by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a tool for tuning the harpsichord.
The taco was invented by the Chinese.
The White House did not get indoor plumbing until FDR took office.
If you sneeze while jumping in the air you will faint.
During periods of extreme stress, the Mohave Tortoise will emit vocalizations that sound like a weeping human infant. This is the basis for the myth in Desert Southwest Native American myth that the earth is in fact, the back of a giant tortoise.
In Denver, Colorado it is illegal for a man to ride shirtless in the back of a moving pickup truck while discharging a firearm.
By USDA regulations a Fig Newton cake may not contain more than 27 insect heads.
Starbucks is really a front organization for cocaine imports. The FBI is only months away from shutting down the whole operation.
Use of the Sonovox is banned by the RIAA from use in any recording having a Christian theme.
Was that a typo, or genius surrealality.
100% of statistics are false.
The internet was originally conceived as a vast computer network allowing the storage and cataloguing of all pornography known to man.
Stonehenge was actually built on the 14th September 1836 by one William Snelton of Basildon as the result of a drunken bet.
It is legal to go naked in the Royal Parks of London, provided one accompanied by a mandrill.
Typo. “Paprika”, of course, should have been spelled “Susan B. Anthony Dollars”.
The belief that the moon is made of “green cheese” has its origins in the Bible.
Recently translated cuniform tablets have provided linguists with the earliest known example of a dirty limerick.
Among the more obscure emperors of China are Poohn Tang, Chin Gao, and Sum Yung Gai.
The tradition of an orchestra conductor waving a baton goes back to a concert in Vienna in 1810 when Ludwig Von Beethoven resorted to wielding a loaded pistol to “encourage” his instrumentalists to follow his signals.
The Rio Grande is the longest man-made river in the world.
The mysterious “Athena” wombat is the most advanced member of the animal kingdom to reproduce through parthenogenesis.
The name of the west Texas city of El Paso was misspelled on its original incorporation paperwork. Unfamiliar with Spanish, a State official misunderstood the city’s name and wrote it as “The Piss Hole.” The document went through several drafts before the mistake was caught and corrected.
Communists burned down the Reichstag.
Don’t be fooled by the name. “Deadly Nightshade” is actually quite tasty.
If you want to work as a keeper for an elephant, one basic requirement is that you *have * to be a body-builder. In the unlikely event that the elephant sees the mouse, and jumps into your arms, you must be able to support it for at least 3 seconds.
Gummi Bears exist.
If everyone in China jumped at the same time, it wouldn’t shift the world off its axis. It will, however, cause so much dust to rise that it would be an ecological disaster.
Some of the “girls” at Hooters are actually men.
Every book with the page 54 in it will also have the word ‘and’ on it.
You can get feline diabetes from letting your cat lick your nose. Whether or not the cat has the disorder.
Frank Loyd Wright was actually left handed.
Siesma Graff invented the first device that could detect shock waves.
The antics of Elmer J Fudd along with his hunting techniques are depicted on cave walls on an island off of New Zealand.
Hey, that one’s true, I’ve eaten them!
No, no, no. It’s been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that 78.3% of all statistics are made up.
And, on the OP, ALL factoids are false. The -oid suffix means “imitation of.” A humanoid * is an imitation human. A factoid* is an imitation fact. A genuine little fact is a factlet.
However, it is true that the style of house known as a “Cape Cod” has nothing to do with the locale in New England. It derives its name because it is generally so lacking in insulation that its occupants feel like cold fish, and because it is so lacking in closet space that its owners cannot store ordinary winter coats and are restricted to wearing capes. These capes used to be called “Cod Capes,” but the term was often confused with “codpiece,” thus the transposition to “Cape of Cod.” The house style became associated with the garments of the residents. And that’s the rest of the story.
A chemical known as Aveshytomine (found only in bird shit) is required in the creation of most household soaps and cleaners.
100% of which are false,
whilst the 22.7% of accurately calculated statistics are also 100% false. As are all the statistics on this page.
There are three states of matter, edible, ineddible and Broccoli.
From what I’ve seen of it, it appears to be true 
In The Beatles’ song “I am the Walrus,” the phrase “Goo Goo Ga Joob” is actually an ancient Mayan bridal chant which roughly translates as “May your children be sighted.”
The doorknob was patented in 1947 by Thaddeus Kremholz. Before that, everyone thought it had already been done.