# True Facts **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 11, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137 "2014-09-11T02:42:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/21 "2014-09-12T12:18:40Z")
I will be the last person to die in my lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/22 "2014-09-12T14:05:18Z")
An aspen grove in Colorado is considered one of the largest living organisms at 6,600 tons; one of the oldest living organisms at 80,000 years old. Aspen trees in a grove are connected by a single root system. This particular one has been named Pando (latin for “I spread”) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/23 "2014-09-12T14:11:11Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > You know, cows have to be brought into the barn every night. They can’t stay in the field, or they get pasturized. Silly city person, that was only true in the olden days! These days most milk cows are not brought in, hence the pasteurized milk you see in the grocery cooler. Meat cows, however, are still brought in at night. Pasteurized meat would just be weird. ---
**Author:** ![callander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@callander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callander)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/24 "2014-09-12T22:03:42Z")
True fact, been a long week and I thought that I started this thread but wasn’t sure where I had put it. Yes it can be any true fact, however I was talking about the “True Facts” on animal topics usually some of the weird sexual positions that they talk about are pretty funny. I like where this thread went organically though, so might be just as well that I forgot where I started it, funny the way things work. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/25 "2014-09-12T22:38:48Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Silly city person, that was only true in the olden days! These days most milk cows are not brought in, hence the pasteurized milk you see in the grocery cooler. Meat cows, however, are still brought in at night. Pasteurized meat would just be weird. I am not a city boy! I was organically grown on a farm. But, we had beef cows, hence my confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/26 "2014-09-13T00:01:49Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > I just recently learned that all bananas are female. Who’d have guessed? They don’t _look_ female. ---
**Author:** ![secretagingman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@secretagingman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/secretagingman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/27 "2014-09-13T05:21:46Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > They don’t _look_ female. I once saw a woman who had a nose like a banana. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/28 "2014-09-13T12:21:53Z")
> [@secretagingman](#): > > I once saw a woman who had a nose like a banana. Doesn’t sound appealing. ---
**Author:** ![callander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@callander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callander)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/29 "2014-09-13T14:33:04Z")
I love this thread. Ah… The circle of life. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Q1zbgd6xpGQ/maxresdefault.jpg "True Facts About The Dung Beetle") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1zbgd6xpGQ) ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/30 "2014-09-13T18:46:50Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > I’m trying to think of any _un_true facts… OK, I’m going to kill everyone’s buzz here and be the total nerd and pick this nit. It depends on your definition of “fact”. In rhetoric, the term is often used to refer to a statement whose truth is objective: it’s either true or false. “Don’t argue facts, check them.” Wikipedia has a fairly good bit covering this: > [@wiki](#): > > Alternatively, fact may also indicate an allegation or stipulation of something that may or may not be a “true fact”,[7] (e.g., “the author’s facts are not trustworthy”). This alternate usage, although contested by some, has a long history in standard English. In the context of the OP, your sarcasm is appropriate, but taking your statement literally, I could point out plenty. Just watch an episode of Fox News. 😉 Nerding over. Resume humor. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/31 "2014-09-13T18:53:01Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Doesn’t sound appealing. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/32 "2014-09-13T19:14:03Z")
The most recent Chicago Cubs World Series victory is substantially closer in time to Napoleon’s march on Moscow than it is to the present day. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/33 "2014-09-13T19:20:15Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Time flies like an arrow. > > Fruit flies like a banana. [Man rule #392.](http://quicklol.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/eating-a-banana-man-rule.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/34 "2014-09-14T03:07:48Z")
Jim “Sheldon Cooper” Parsons is in his 40s. ---
**Author:** ![callander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@callander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callander)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/35 "2014-09-15T04:44:11Z")
True fact, no unicorns, santa, tooth fairies, but there are some bad ass clowns out there. Why??? ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/36 "2014-09-15T20:11:48Z")
Roger Maris held the season home run record longer than Babe Ruth. Heavy ice sinks. (But does it sink in heavy water? I don’t know.) In the Japanese classification system (it is like gender only there about 20 cases), whales are fish and squirrels are birds. Hence both were edibile even when there was a taboo against eating mammals. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/37 "2014-09-15T21:05:12Z")
Among zefrank’s True Facts videos, I personally enjoy the many things that I learned about Tapir. Slightly sad as well, though. I’ll link later, when I’m not at work. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/38 "2014-09-15T21:55:40Z")
Hippos can’t be struck by lightning. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137/39 "2014-09-16T03:56:03Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Among zefrank’s True Facts videos, I personally enjoy the many things that I learned about Tapir. > > Slightly sad as well, though. I’ll link later, when I’m not at work. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zJm6nDnR2SE/maxresdefault.jpg "True Facts About The Tapir") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJm6nDnR2SE) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts/698137.md?page=1)