Sniff, sniff. I think I smell a Top 10 "Little Known Facts" in our future. Keep up the good work, buddy.

(And you MUST check out the video of the chick losing her cellphone) -- click over for the link.

Later.

[Ace's Warning: If you go to son of nixon's site, you'll find links to stuff on Entensity.net. Some of this stuff is funny, some of it isn't, and some of it is actually pornographic, as in hard-core.

So, it's not work-safe. Unless you work at, say, Juggs magazine.]

P.S. "Abu Ghraib HQ" is a nice touch. Cute.

Son of Nixon,

Thanks for the tip. (Nice site design, by the way.)

Try to give a warning, though, if the site you're linking to contains stuff that isn't safe for work.

Re: #18
Chameleon's eyes "provide nearly 360 degree vision without turning the head, and allow the chameleon to see in front of and behind him."

http://chamownersweb.com/misc/likkinlizerds1.htm

Also,
"The highly developed [octopus] eyes have monocular vision but are so big that the field of view for both eyes reaches almost 360 degrees."
http://bss.sfsu.edu:224/courses/Fall01%20projects/giantoctopus.htm

OK, last time and I swear I will give it a rest.
"Together, the ommatidia sample the surrounding visual environment, forming an almost complete picture (i.e., almost 4pi steradian)."

That means a blowfly can see behind itself without turning its head.

http://www.ub.rug.nl/eldoc/dis/science/c.schilstra/c1.pdf

Pfft. My mom can see behind her without turning her head either. At least it always seemed that way growing up.

#2 must be at least marginally false, as one would at the very least have a scar from the umbilical cord.

#5 is an urban legend/old wives tale.

I don't buy #9. That would suggest that 10% of every day is spent in a line. From the day you're born.

#20 logically, I'm assuming that the state anthems of all 50 states are in the public domain, and as such, are not ownable. This would be especially true for a state as old as SC. He may have title to a specific RECORDING of the anthem, but couldn't possibly own complete rights to the song.

#21 is true, and what's more, when you see a Turkey coming out of an oven in a TV commercial, typically the turkey has been wrapped in duct tape and painted the desired "roasted looking" color. Also, any time a restaurant brings out a desert tray which includes ice cream, it's actually usually crisco, not real ice cream (to avoid melting).

#24 is right out - it is highly illegal to sell human body parts.

FWIW, the actual story of Blade Runner the movie is based on the Philip K. Dick story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". In fact, Dick is probably one of the most successfuly adapted writers in SF history. check out the link for additional info:

http://www.philipkdick.com/films_intro.html

10-4. Duly noted.

#8 is False. Newborns do have kneecaps. Kneecaps form about the fourth month of fetal life. However, they don’t show up on x-ray very well because they’re not ossified, or bony. At this point in life, the kneecaps are made of a cartilaginous material. The growth centers surrounding the kneecap form late in developmental life in utero and may not appear until just before or just after the infant is born.

#7 is Not True. According to a 1998 article in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), during a three-year study, there were 914 new dog bite injuries requiring emergency room visits per day. With 1,440 minutes in a day, that's less than one bite per minute.

#9 is clearly false. This means that one tenth of ones life would have been wasted in line. An average of about 8 hours per night. We can assume that no one is waiting in line while they are home in bed. So now we have 16 hours per day x 50 years. This gives us 292000 hours of available waking time. 5 Years is 24 hours x 365 days. This works out to be 43800 hours. This means that 15% of our waking hours for 50 years would have to be spent in line. This means, every day of our lives for half a century we would have to have spent an averade of 3.6 hours in line. I have to call this one false.

#24 False. The original formula called for caramel to give Coca-Cola its rich brown color, and although the recipe has undergone some changes through the years, none of them affected the ultimate color of the product.