Best trivia I learned while working on this: 'Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.
http://www.xkcd.com/802/
This is a fun explanation to prepare your kids for; it's common and totally wrong. Good lines include 'why does the air have to travel on both sides at the same time?' and 'I saw the Wright brothers plane and those wings were curved the same on the top and bottom!'
http://www.xkcd.com/803/
The Banach-Tarski theorem was actually first developed by King Solomon, but his gruesome attempts to apply it set back set theory for centuries.
http://www.xkcd.com/804/
Take me down to the paradise municipality / where the grass is mauve and the girls aren't fromthisreality.
http://www.xkcd.com/805/
I recently had someone ask me to go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it. He refused to move further in the script until I said I had done that.
http://www.xkcd.com/806/
Or love in general, for that matter. It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect, and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you're LYING when you say 'I love you'.
http://www.xkcd.com/807/
Not to be confused with 'making money selling this stuff to OTHER people who think it works', which corporate accountants and actuaries have zero problems with.
http://www.xkcd.com/808/
The test didn't (spoiler alert) destroy the world, but the fact that they were even doing those calculations makes theirs the coolest jobs ever.
http://www.xkcd.com/809/
And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ... oh.
http://www.xkcd.com/810/
Don't worry! From the light's point of view, home and your eye are in the same place, and the journey takes no time at all! Relativity saves the day again.
http://www.xkcd.com/811/
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