These threads invariably end up clogged with urban legends and other questionable stuff. How the heck has someone supposedly been able to measure the 9 years of yellin -> cup of coffee thing?

Oh well, might as well use this to dispel urban legends.

The world was generally believed to be round during the Middle Ages, and Flat Earth was never a part of official church dogma. The big gamble of Cristopher Columbus was that he thought the diameter of the Earth to be about a third of its actual size, and that it would be easy to reach India by sailing west. He was completely wrong, but the existance of a silly little piece of land known as the Americas saved his butt. =P

According to the American Solar Energy Society, enough sunlight falls on the earth's surface each minute to meet world energy demand for an entire year.

^^ thats pretty astounding....we should get on that

 The only problem is that we'd have to put enormous amonts of solar panels everywhere and it has to be constantly sunny in the areas we put them. 

im in the mood for cofee *starts yelling*

My genitals are the darkest part on my body

Several of the Bond girls, namely Ursula Andress, Shirley Eaton, Eunice Gayson, and Claudine Auger, were unable to match an alluring voice to their sexy physical attributes. For each of them, their lines were dubbed by aspirant actress Nikki van der Zyl, who later left the film industry to practice as a legal professional. On "Doctor No," van der Zyl did every female voice except Miss Moneypenny and a Chinese girl, and she also dubbed Raquel Welch's grunting in "One Million Years B.C."

It is illegal for Hackney carriages (British taxis) to operate without a bag of oats and a small bayle of hay.

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.