Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-32609364-20180618070337/@comment-25856498-20180729113604

"To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror."

"In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning."

"The square root of rope is string."

"It is incorrectly noted that Thomas Edison invented 'push-ups' in 1878. Nikola Tesla had in fact patented the activity three years earlier, under the name 'Tesla-cize'."

"Pants were invented by sailors in the sixteenth century to avoid Poseidon's wrath. It was believed that the sight of naked sailors angered the sea god."

"Before the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, anyone wanting to fly anywhere was required to eat 200 pounds of helium."

"The first person to prove that cow's milk is drinkable was VERY, VERY thirsty."

"Humans can survive underwater, but not for very long."

''"The first commercial airline flight took to the air in 1914. Everyone involved screamed the entire way." ''

"89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery."

"If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: One, comes before two, comes before sixty, comes after twelve, comes before six trillion, comes after five hundred and four. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal."