Water is very, very slightly blue under balanced light conditions actually.

In physics, an single electron that can pass with equal chance through one of two holes passes through one of the holes when you are observing it and both (!) of them when you aren't.

The world's largest organism is a honey mushroom that covers 8.9 square kilometers in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon, underground but appearing as isolated clumps across the area.

In a rainbow event on Earth, there is a main rainbow, a second (often called a "double") rainbow and a third rainbow around the Sun. You can also have an icebow.

the population of nigeria--a tad over 131 million.

i got asked this question for an interview. for a trader (at a wall street market maker firm) position, no less. it's a great interview question, as it turns out--it goes way beyond the typical "estimate how many mcdonalds there are in NYC" kind of question.

Huge lists like this always consist of at least 1/10 provenly false urban legends. I recommend nobody even reads them to stop them from spreading.

1 + 1 = 2

This is a random fact.

 I'm still sticking to my post, but only because things don't have color.  They absorb light and reflect light.  The bands of light reflected give it it's color.  Water just happens to reflect blue light.

I like the show Reboot.

Viagra was originally supposed to be blood pressure and heart medication.

Actually I think I have a few..

It was not generally believed that the Earth was flat during the Middle Ages. It's just a myth propagated during the Enlightment to make the contemporaries seem smarter than the previous generations.

Greek and Roman warships were generally rowed by professional seaman rather than slaves, at least during early antiquity. The most common types, triremes and biremes, had one oar per rower, and even one guy goofing off (let alone trying to sagotage every else's efforts) could get them all killed. The larger kinds of ships with less oars with many men per each were actually developed because they were running out of competent rowers, and needed a type of propulsion where pure muscle could compensate for individual skill.

The guys at the Shaolin monastery were only placed there by the Chinese government after a Bruce Lee movie made the name super-popular. The original monks were all driven away or killed, and the current guys have no lineage with the "masters of old". Not that they couldn't still kick my ass of course.

The Okinawan martial arts (early karate etc.) were not developed by peasants, but the nobility. Peasants simply didn't have time to do anything except farm, while the nobility found it a "good and noble" thing to do. Build character, defend the honour of your clan and blah. Weapons were never outlawed by the Japanese occupiers, who themselves numbered only a few dozen at a time, as they were expected to fend off any pirates and other invaders by themselves.

 Hmmm odd, I can lick my elbow and then 4 women came pounding on my door.   Bummer, I hate it when I make even gene simmons jealous when I stick out my tongue.

 **licks my eyebrows then I part my hair with my tongue**