I New Zealand it is illegal to name you child "Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii".
There's one McDonald's in the USA for every 260,000 residents.
There's one Tim Hortons in Canada for every 12,000 residents.
KFC is so popular in Japan that many Japanese assume it is a Japanese brand.

This is a very good example of a question a Texan wouldn't think to ask.

Racist.

Not a serious comment.

Playing through Borderlands three times isn't boring.

Playing through Uncharted 2 three times is.

The world record for a women's fingernails' length is 8.65 meter.

The US interstate highway system has a guideline requiring at least every fifth mile to be a straight line. The straight line portions of the highway can be used as emergency runways/landing strips in the event of a war or other necessity.

False.

A lot of people have been mislead into thinking this is true though.

I can't find the drinking on the internet thread because I'm drinking and it's Thursday.

It's Wednesday.

You really are drinking, you don't live in New York, or you have the day wrong.

Or... maybe something about yourself?

The m in my user name stands for something.

I think I already used that one.

There. Something about myself.

The B in my user name stands for something too. Big whoop.

Does it stand for MMHMMMMMMM....?

Jack is curious about what the B stands for.

There is a statue you can buy on the internet that is supposed to mimic a zombie crawling out of your garden.

Garden Gnomes don't all have red hats.

Garren actually stands for 'Great, Awesome Really Radical and Entirely Narly'. The Windspear is me. Basically I'm just perfect. Except my 'words meaning good' is apparently stuck in the 90's. That's probably bad.

I used to participate in an IRC community, where I was known as Cat, an abbreviation for my original wotc name of catowner. This became a problem because the client pinged me every time someone said my username, and people frequently discussed cats that were unrelated to me. Thus, I extended my name another letter to "Cato", and the name stuck. There is a conservative think tank known as the Cato institute to which a law student friend of mine applied after getting drunk and mistakenly believing that I worked there.

US interstate highway system was originally meant to help move missiles around the country along with helping the cities Evac in case of war with those dirty commies.

The cloest the US has ever come to going to all out nuclear war was during the Cuban Missile Crisis when US forces were put at Defcon 2

You can now buy an old ICBM silo.

At any given time there are a number of black Semi trucks with black trailers with black on the highways...these for Government use in case of nuclear attack.

National Security Presidential Directive-51 (NSPD-51)/Homeland Security Presidential Directive-20 (HSPD-20), National Continuity Policy, specifies certain requirements for continuity plan development, including the requirement that all Federal executive branch departments and agencies develop an integrated, overlapping continuity capability. FCD 1 also serves as guidance to State, local, and tribal governments.

It also believed that Russia has a dead hand system in place.

Diamonds can be formed by meteor impacts.
The ratio of single births to identical twin births is fairly consistent worldwide, but fraternal twin rates vary widely from nation to nation.
Tomatoes contain nicotine.
The dark patch between two rainbows is called an Alexander's band.

False.

A lot of people have been mislead into thinking this is true though.

Also false.

The only thing that the interstate system has to do with missiles is that when it comes to the vertical clearance of bridges and such. Originally the clearance was set at 14 feet which was sufficient for all military vehicles and equipment to safely travel under but after the launching of Sputnik that number was changed to 17 feet to allow for movement of things like the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile which could not be transported via the rail network.

Rather than continuing to spread rumor and old wives tales gang, lets actually stick to linking facts! Or at least fact check something before simply copy/pasting it from some random site.

For more information on the Eisenhower Interstate System refer to the following:
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/faq.htm
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/interstatemyths.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
http://www.history.com/topics/interstate-highway-system

Rats, I never knew that wasn't true. Well, I didn't teach anyone a cool fact, but at least I learned something today!