1 grosz (Polish cent) costs about 5 that much to make and the metal alone costs 1,6 that much.
I doubt:
In Massachusetts - It is illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder
That kind of law is most probably a result of a precedent, which makes the above "fact" invalid without providing complete context.
And this is totally incorrect:
Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop (remember this next time you bite your nails)
Fingernails are made of keratin, while fly poop is pretty much made of regular poop; what they eat, they poop. They don't eat keratin.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
I doubt it, car requires far less work hours. All in all, it depends on the method of estimating the cost.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
No it isn't. Not only it's not strictly defined, originally it was defined differently and it wasn't even close to 10 ms.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
They see in blue and UV, that means they're attracted to anything moving which reflects blue. Obviously, white clothes reflect the most blue light. There's no reason why they should be attracted to blue clothes as they can't see any difference between certain blues and grays. Probably a misconception which grew into a myth (like with spinach containing 10x that much iron than other vegetables - which is also false).
I propose we post "facts" that are facts, not factoids.
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