h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Water is a compound, not an element.

I was going to refute the one in that video about the Declaration of Independence being written on hemp paper as I was fairly certain it was written on parchment.

It turns out to technically be true. The first and second drafts were indeed written on what was known as "Dutch" paper which contained hemp. Congress ordered that the Declaration be copied over to parchment. The delegates signed the parchment copy on 2 August, 1776.

I will refute the factoid about falling coconuts causing 150 deaths per year. There is absolutely no factual or statistical basis for this.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2405/are-150-people-killed-each-year-by-falling-coconuts

And how in the did this thread miss the one that says rats and horses can't vomit?

Anyways, I find several of those in that video to be dubious, but that's OK... I like checking them out either way.

According to this site

http://www.ratbehavior.org/vomit.htm

horses CAN vomit, Japanese quails can't. Horses only vomit rarely, which seems sensible to me. I hate throwing up.

Rats can regurgitate, which is less violent than vomiting. Seems a fine line. They can die choking on their own regurgitant, while pop stars choke on their own vomit now and again, if you believe what you read in the popular press.

All very distasteful, but undoubtedly useless.

Can pop stars do it under water?

only if the car is in the swimming pool

Isn't that a Britany spears video?

(How do I know that? I hate her)

Yeah! She's just a cheap rip-off of Debbie Gibson anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O92QcjT6vDY

If the dot in an "i" is called a tittle, anyone kow wha the cross is called in a "t"?

I'd love to be able to say "I've tittled my i's and my t's!"

A tattle?

Horses can definitely vomit, as evidenced on my lovely old Aigle riding boots one day

Rabbits aren't meant to be able to vomit either but mine used to

This is a link to a minefield of unnecessary facts:
http://www.unkno.com/

It's als'o a lin'k to lot's o'f unneces'sary apostrophe's.

RF

Here's a "link" to a lot of "unnecessary" quotation "marks".
http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQaRoZy8JlE

at the unnecessary "quotation marks" !! I've never seen anything like that before. Are they only found in the US?

Germany is heavy on apostrophe´s. Bakery next door nowadays offers "Snack´s"...As long as I don´t know which parts of him I won´t try the sausages.

Before the Enlightenment everyone was postrophe but were gradually converted after reading books by Richard D'Auqins.