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A few facts that blew my mind (25 Photos)

October 18, 2011 | In: Funny, Interesting, Mind Blowing

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: Still disgusting though…

Nick

Funfact #26

Bryan Adams and Ryan Adams share the same birthday.

trotterman

So when is Gomez Adams' birthday, smartypants?

:):):)

Duvel

Apparently we hate you

Darth_Ozzy

Interesting stuffs.

Duvel

But you're cool

dastlast

#14 Those were the times….
#12 True story!

duder

First, those aren't monkeys. They are chimps and there's a big difference in genetics. Also, this article can clear up any questions about #12 http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=38.

Re: #14 it was actually the Bayer company that created heroin as a *less* addictive cough supressant to morphine. oops.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000219160779 Teresa Rebecca Cunningham

#4, champagne will not form bubbles in an absolutely clean glass. Without nucleation points, like motes of dust, it remains perfectly calm and unbubbly.

Wino

*hic!* Thas gwod ta naow!
Bubba

Hurray for nucleation points!
https://www.facebook.com/brandon.anyzeski Brandon AnyZesty

In pint glasses, that is referred to as "beer clean."
http://thechive.com/ GernBlansten

Look at the big brain on Teresa!

http://www.tube8.com simon phoenix

I'd rather look at the big boobs on Teresa!

Just kidding … ROCK ON GIRL! A smart Chivette … GOTTA LUV THAT!

Notsofast

That is incorrect. The bubbles are a direct result that occurs during secondary fermentation(in methode traditionelle) while the champagne spends its time "on lees" in the bottle. Or in the case of the charmat method the bubbles are force feed into the champagne much like soda. Bubbles of carbon dioxide nucleate shortly after the pressure is released from a container of carbonated liquid.

The smaller the bubbles the higher quality the sparkling wine. It is what the French refer to as "Pearling".

Father teresa

get back to the kitchen teresa
Guest

None of what you said contradicted Teresa.

doesn't matter

What Notsofast means is that the bubbles are there in whatever you pour champagne into after the bottle is opened.

;) 8=D

#9…."Totsuken" Pedo Bear Approved.

Lokobo

You sir, are awesome!

;) 8=D

no, you're awsome

Alan

#23 Lies. I do it every day.

The_Stif

Agreed.
Guse

The post said "convincingly." Your love might know you're full of crap.

Yo Mamma

didnt mention your love, just a hot chick

morebeer

Depends on whether or not they want to believe the lie
Gizno

I can't tell the true convincingly to someone I'm attracted to.

CaptainInsano

Haha now THATS the truth!!!

k-9

dont worry, ill pull out.
jimbojones

If it were true, juries would be stacked with gorgeous people.
nomyia

Hahahaha. It actually true. Try lying looking into their eyes.

nomyia

is*

Noidios

#19 Not a saguaro. Maybe a euphorbia?

Arizonian

I was thinking an Oregon Pipe?
Arizonian

I was thinking an Organ Pipe?*
uronmytoe

looks like a San Pedro to me

aleXTC

I wish they had those here

Ken

No not really it's hotter than hell most of the year

George

I was thinking the same thing. That fact needs the caption "not pictured: a saguaro"

Lokobo

#4 Really? THIS blew your mind?

theyellowfever

My thoughts exactly.

Head Chef

#11 bullshit !!

greg

most of these seem like bullshit.
NightSky0

Mythbusters did a special on this

Groggy

Note that it only states it removes alcohol breath, doesn't say it would neutralize the alcohol content of the breath.

In other words, it probably just did a better job of covering the smell than other gums of the time. Speculation, on my part.

xXbeermonkeyXx

#15 i dont get it, is that assuming you wash yourself with your own pee?

peebody

No, it means you pee while you wash yourself

caleb

goddamn beermonkey, you're an idiot.

Munchkinfucker

It saves the water you use flushing the toilet..

xXbeermonkeyXx

but i never flush unless its full
oh so thats why i didnt get it

JMikeH

You're not flushing a toilet.
http://twitter.com/StrongAsMeat @StrongAsMeat

But every man alive has done it at least once.
loso

The Yellow Discipline
JHarris

Hipsters save thousands more gallons per year by peeing outside and not showering.

the other Jen

if it's yellow, let it mellow. if it's brown, flush it down.

Costanza

Why is it disgusting?

It's all pipes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRppqaanECA
guest

i think that the point is that you don't have to flush your toilet
Jack_LeMac

Why is that gross? You stand on one end, pee near the drain, wait til it's all gone, continue showering. Efficiency
TAMZ

If you are in the shower and piss hopefully you do a re-wash or re-rinse. And it's not nasty to piss in the shower. Better than pissing on yourself when your totally drunk. Just saying.
Cory

um, I call bullshit on most of these, but especially this one. The average toilet uses 1.4 gallons per flush. Who the fuck showers over 1,000 times per year? That's almost 3 per day.

mitch

At 2 showers a day with 1.4gallons being saved each time thats around 1000gallons being saved. Of course thats only if you shower twice a day. Im not sure how they calculated this but it seems off
unclealbert

Agreed. Showering twice per day will waste at least 3,000 gallons of water per year, so the net is still negative 2500 gallons. Not very efficient. But there is nothing wrong with peeing in the shower when you do use it.

https://www.facebook.com/iholly Holly Pieper

can't tell if trolling…………….

caleb

psst, Holly. Chive pics, let's go.

http://twitter.com/IceLegatus @IceLegatus

no it's because you don't flush the toilet when you go in the shower.

mouchette

#7, What about dudette?

Leonardo

Cowabunga!
Texas Made

Devin!

dashete

#20 I guess realising you're insanely beautiful will do that

MonkeyMadness

Even beautiful people have insecurity issues.
Rhayzor

So will gargling presidential semen
JHL1

By the age of 18 men stuttered whenever in her presence.

James

#12 – sounds legit….

Johnny Two Toes

But it's not true, besides, those are apes, not monkeys. Huge difference.

This guy

so not true

SimonPhoenix

TOTALLY TRUE!

Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. I mean there was a book writtne about in the 1990s ( I haven't read it yet)
AND then
There is the "Alien Asternaut" Theory.

Totally puts all the pieces together and fills in ANY mixmixed

DanielB

#7 Does that means the correct term would be chivine?
JPV310

#7

Come on Chive, your based in Venice beach CA and don't know the feminine version of dude is Dudette?

GrammerCop

Come on JPV310, you read The Chive and don't know the difference between "your" and "you're"?

OrthographyCop

Come on GrammerCop, you know the difference between "your" and "you're" and you don't know how to spell grammar?

Jack_LeMac

LOL
GCV

you win

Insomniac

#1 since then, MGM has kept on with the tradition of killing everything it touches

Herp Derp

jewish criminals

Steamboat Willie

Found your photo…
#6

Jess

There's no evidence to support this 'fact'. Even The Chive gets it wrong sometimes.

ThatGuy

THIS
ROK247

there were, in fact, several lions used in different logos for MGM over the years. none of them ever killed anyone.
…

SOMEtimes? now that's a good one.

FionnR

He's also Irish, born in Dublin Zoo
LoyolaLion

That Lion lived at Loyola Marymount University in the beginning of the school as a mascot

JPV310

not that mind blowing; man was a sadistic son of a B, but he did take his country from the shitty state that post WWI created, to a world power again in 20 years. If he would've died before WWII, well we wouldn't of had WW2, but he would of also went down is history as one of the greatest leaders of a nation

#6

MCMLX

I doubt he would have gone down in history as one of the greatest leaders.Hitler imprisoned or killed so called enemies of the state from day one,and all the work he did prior to 1939 was preparation for war,re-arming ,building autobahns etc. Reducing unemployment to 0% is a great achievement but not if the reason for it is flawed.

THIS IS MADNESS!!!

Honestly, that sounds like something America should be doing now. Not the whole imprisoning and killing thing, nor start a world war, but building factories and cranking out shit here to export doesn't sound too bad.

Armedann Dangerous

You have no idea what you are talking about. If I could nominate this as the most ignorant post ever, I would.

Piesmagicos

And yet you offer no evidence to the contrary…just a negative assertion.

Armedann Dangerous

Piesmagicos,
First, MCMLX offered no evidence, but guesses ("If he would've died before WWII," he didn't die before WWII, so you have no evidence). His one bit of fact he added, "take his country from the shitty state that post WWI created, to a world power again in 20 years" was wrong. He was only in power 12. During that time, he brought them into war, and caused the destruction of his country including the killing of 6,000,000 of his own people, either by the war itself or by his regime killing them, let alone of the leveling of most of the infrastructure. His leadership put his country back beyond any perceived gain. Fact, he lead the world into war and was responsible for the deaths of 50,000,000 people. I will say it again, it was an incredible ignorant post.

Armedann Dangerous

Excuse, JPV310 not MCMLX made the ignorant post. I owe MCMLX a cold drink.

MCMLX

Make it a Jack : )

Armedand Dangerous

On the rocks, or with water. (I know you would never kill Jack with ginger)

Prof. Fate

This actually makes sense. "Man of the Year" can just mean "Most Influential", not necessarily "Nicest".
vahung

This topic comes up a lot, and people just don't seem to realize that "Person of the Year" in Time magazine is just the most newsworthy person of that year. It is the person that's making the most news. I believe Osama Bin Laden was PotY once as well?

http://echogeo.wordpress.com/ echogeo

The Ayatullah Khomeini was in 1980.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19800107,…

http://www.tube8.com USMC Chesty Puller

Yeah .. that guy helped kidnap my father and tortured him. They sentenced him to death but luckily Ross Perot and Old man Heinz (friend of the family) Senator from Pennsylvania saved my father's life and intervened. My father saved Ambassor Sullivan's life and a dozen other civilians.

TRUE STORY .. That Ayotullah Khomeini is FUCKING ANIMAL cock sucking piece of shit. I truly hope we goto to war with Iran so I can get some pay back on those people ( yes I know he is ALREADY dead) but maybe I can shoot someone related to him or what not.

Proof: Google: USMC Sgt. Kenneth L. Kraus 1979 or USMC Sgt. Kenneth L. Kraus Readers' Digest.

Time Magazine also did an article on him .. I forgot the name, but the Reaer's Digest was called "The American In Cell #5"

KEEP CALM, CHIVE ON .. and TEAM AMERICA … FUCK YEAH!

SimonPhoenix

The licking the lips HAS NOTHING to do with my post. Because I put the pound sign and number "5"

LOL it totally added it to my posting. ha a a

Igor

correct. It is not a popularity contest.

Frankenstein

Actually, it is a popularity contest. It's not a "nice guy" contest. Arg grrr blahg

fasterthanu

He built the first ballistic missile and dominated more than half of europe in less than 5 years. Most leaders today would be unable to conquer 1 countryJust because people admire success and determination doesnt mean they agree with their ideology.

And you are wrong about there being no WW2 had he died beforehand. The Soviet Union invaded Poland along with Nazi Germany, had the Nazis not invade the soviets still would have and the UK would have declared war on the USSR creating WW2.

Aremedann Dangerous

He dominated more than half of europe in less than 5 years, then gave it back in 1. Most leaders today would be unwilling to force the deaths of 50,000,000 people. Admire the complete package, his short term perceived success that was given back and then some.

I was up at the blackjack table for an hour, then lost my house payments for the next year and have to live in a van down by the river. So, admire the first hour I was at the casino. Hurray ignorant posters!

THIS IS MADNESS!!!

Unfortunately you didn't complete the analogy by popping yourself.

Armedand Dangerous

True that, THIS IS MADNESS!!!!. I should have added that. Please forgive.

fasterthanu

What a fantastic perpective you have. From your mundane outlook on life, you may aswel had said " Harry lived for 83 years then died in a few seconds, percieving everything he had ever accomplished in life as a waste.

I'd hate to ever be in your dreadful company.

Armedand Dangerous

What is a perpective?

MCMLX

The Russians invaded Poland because Hitler asked them to offering them a share of the country.You seem to forget that Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin and then invaded Russia.

His first act on coming to power was to abolish all political parties and trade unions.He ruled by fear and intimidation putting neighbour against neighbour.If I didn't like you I could just inform the Gestapo that you acted strangely and you would just disappear.Dachau concentration camp was set up just for this purpose.

As I said before,all he did before 1939 was in preparation for the war,to put right,as he saw it,the wrongs placed on Germany by the versalles treaty and he made sure that no one would stand in his way,German or otherwise.

The only good thing the man did was shoot himself and even that was far too late!!

fred9000

Whether you (or anyone else) likes it or not, he WAS and still IS one of the greatest leaders of all time. There is no doubt that most people dislike him (after WWII), but the definition of "leader" does not mean "a nice person" or "a person all people admire".

Armedand Dangerous

A leader that lead to demolish his leadership.

Wow! Let's cheer that! Whhhhhhhhhhhhoooooo! HURRAY! I am an idiot! Yea!

Let me lead a people to they loose! YEA! fred9000 has never read a book! YEA! WHHHHOOOOOOOO!!!!! I'm an idiot! Yea! Let's not forget what a leader is. A leader of all time must lead his team to the eventual demise. That is proof. God, get me a drink. The internet is now under fred9000's leadership. We all should feel good then.

fasterthanu

Clearly you have a chip on your shoulder.

Armedand Dangerous

Nope, I have read a book about this subject. I would suggest doing such things.

fuckhitler

yeah, except for the fact that his politics from quite early on where based on having a future war, which is the only reason he was able to get Germany's economy rising again so fast. Your argument is often used by neo-nazis here in Germany and, pardo me, complete and utter bullshit.

ely whitley

#5 it's actually the Masseter- the chewing muscle in the jaw (pound for pound)… NERD ALERT!

Machinist

Depending on how you measure "strength" you could also go with the gluteus (buttocks) or heart… but certainly not the tongue (which isn't even one muscle, but eight!) Hogwash science statement is hogwash!
Michael

I agree with that one.
asfd

i trust them… they seem like doctors…

kip

Most of these are completely wrong

Jak

No way! The interwebs are never wrong.
Encarta

113% of the facts found on the internet are actually made
Dr. Prof. Patrick

"Never trust facts found on the Internet" -Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana (World's greatest male ballerina)

ely whitley

#1 just isn't true, come on!

Chivalrous

Sounds a lot like an urban legend.

ely whitley

Bruce Lee was a Dance Teacher born in California and his mum was half German. FACTS!

Jack_LeMac

Charlton Heston actively enjoyed whipping nickels at the homeless and Thomas Edison was a notorious drunk-dialer

Benny Blanco

Betty Davis had 342 dogs, all named Max. She also invented the q-tip, and regularly ate her own feces in search of immortality.

SevenRiosEast

Idi Amin was the original voice of Bugs Bunny, but resingned shorty after the famous hare made an appeared in blackface. At his funeral in 2003, his grandson, actor Will Smith, gave the eulogy at his funeral.

moniesLOL

#23 hahaha.. wrong

"Do you have a girlfriend?"

"No"

igpr

So true!
Grifo

These researchers are clearly virgins…

9099

obviously. they're chivers.

http://www.tube8.com simon phoenix

I see what you did there ..

LMAO

ChiverBU

#4 What?

ThatGuy

#5 goes with this one. Its called innuendo.

gdarkcloud

#20…I don't think anyone would've noticed..

Dr_StrangePants

Happy…..Birthday….Mis-ter…..Presi….dent
igor

haha, no doubt, huh?? I would have listened to every syl….syl….sylable…….as she shook/jiggled with frustration.

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