http://theportalwiki.com/wiki/Core_voice_lines#Fact_core

1. The Just Dance series of video games was named after the Lady Gaga song of the same name.
2. The fans of Republica call themselves Republicans.
3. CPR, in the rare case it actually saves a person's life, still causes rib fractures.
4. The song "Im Nin'alu" was a diatribe against the Arithmetic Logic Unit and its great defender, Alu.
5. Despite what Microsoft may have told you, there is no recycle bin in windows; just look at any building.
6. The Bilderbergers are a misnomer: They're really the Build-A-Burgers, restaurants where you can ask for all manner of strange toppings on your burger; they're pricey, because they actually go out to the stores to find whatever it is you ask for right after you place your order.
7. Guns don't kill people: Rappers do.
8. Samus Aran was originally supposed to be male but made female for political correctness; just look at the name.
9. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is not real, because spaghetti cannot fly.
10. Rage Against the Machine arose from anger against samplers, synthesizers, and drum machines, whose defenders would later be led by Florence.
11. Although one type of human cone cell is commonly called "green," it is not the only type of cone cell that picks up green light, and there is no light that affects only that kind of cell.
12. A "nor'easter" gets its name because its wind comes from the west, not the east.
13. Squarepusher is English for Sokoban.
14. The story of Mario is derived from Genesis 3:15, which said that humans were destined to strike the heads of serpents; snakes were difficult to draw in 8-bit, so tortoises were considered "close enough."
15. When someone goes bankrupt, a bank blows up, so use this power sparingly.
16. Kimbra uses her real name, but Nicki Minaj does not: "Nicki" is short for "Onika."
17. Arsenic is all-natural and therefore good for you.
18. The duo Zero 7 got its name from a shared fascination with James Bond.
19. A tourniquet is not recommended to stop the bleeding from a gunshot wound unless the rest of the limb has no hope of recovery.
20. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs were named after their battle cry, which they shout at all their concerts.
21. The sun looks yellow for the same reason that the sky looks blue.
22. BSD was named after the dæmon figure in its logo.

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/20817/what-are-all-the-facts-that-core-3-babbles-about-in-portal-2

[Edited on December 30, 2012 at 5:11 PM. Reason : numbered for your convenience

12/30/2012 5:02:16 PM

tldr

12/30/2012 5:03:57 PM

Quote :

" A tourniquet is not recommended to stop the bleeding from a gunshot wound unless the rest of the limb has no hope of recovery."

I pretty sure I remember learning in Scouts, that tourniquets are a last resort and should only be used if its bleed out vs. lose a limb.

12/31/2012 4:01:20 PM

That's one of the true statements in the bunch.

12/31/2012 4:06:22 PM

Quote :

"I pretty sure I remember learning in Scouts, that tourniquets are a last resort and should only be used if its bleed out vs. lose a limb. "

Try to use pressure to stop the bleeding, if that doesn't work, try to put pressure on the closest pressure point to the wound, if that doesn't work, try to a coagulating agent such as QuickClot (shit burns like hell) if that doesn't work you tourniquet and try to do it below the closest joint if possible to make it easier for them to have an artificial limb because yeah, odds are they're losing it. Also, never undo a tourniquet and always make a 'T' and time you applied the tourniquet with the victims blood on their forehead.

12/31/2012 4:15:17 PM

What are some of the reason why you never undo a tourniquet? Other than the obvious one...

12/31/2012 4:22:56 PM

The most obvious one. Unless you're at a hospital or a trained surgeon, you're not going to be able to stop the bleeding a second time so you never want to undo it or loosen it within (and I think) under a minute of it's application.

12/31/2012 4:26:42 PM

Because I can't help myself, here are the true statements: 1,3,11,16,19,21
The following false ones are rather misleading...
5. It actually is possible to mount a recycling bin in a window.
7. Just because Goldie Lookin' Chain made a song with that title doesn't make it true.
9. Although the FSM isn't real, and spaghetti really cannot fly, neither fact follows from the other.
13. Sokoban means "warehouse-keeper" and if you mangled the translation enough, it could end up sounding like "squarepusher."
22. A frequent misunderstanding of the meaning of BSD (the Berkeley Systems Distribution of Unix) was as some sort of dæmon (a background process), because normally dæmons have names that end in d, like sshd for the SSH dæmon, syslogd for system logging, or httpd for both the original Web server (an HTTP dæmon) and the ever-popular Apache HTTP Server; in response, the creators of BSD decided to make its logo look like a cute little (mediæval Christian) dæmon, and the most popular open-source derivative, FreeBSD, maintains the tradition with a red spherical logo with round horns, devilishly reminiscient of the original.



Finally methinks 21 deserves more explanation: The sun emits electromagnetic radiation over a very broad spectrum (though not gamma rays), including visible light in small part, so from outer space, the sun looks white, while the surrounding space looks black; the atmosphere filters out much of that radiation, allowing only ultraviolet B and lesser frequencies to reach Earth's surface, where Rayleigh scattering causes the higher frequencies to appear to come from everywhere in the sky (appearing blue on average), while the lower frequencies appear to come straight from the Sun (appearing yellow on average).

For this reason, although the shade does block out some ultraviolet radiation, it isn't as effective at that as in blocking the Sun's heat (infrared): http://www.skincancer.org/prevention/sun-protection/shade/seek-the-shade

12/31/2012 11:21:11 PM