WhatTheFact?! (FREE)
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference | Free | Ronald Bell | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
WhatTheFact?! is a collection of over 400 true and bizarre facts.
With WhatTheFact, you can impress your friends with your knowledge of pointless trivia, or simply waste hours of your life obtaining knowledge you'll never need in the real world!
Reviews
Out of date in more ways than one
EarInTheCrowd
This app will only work if you have not updated to iOS 11. But, not to worry. You can see most of these same entries on the Snapple site, where they show their Snapple cap "facts," organized by category. Many are false urban lore, like the Thomas Crapper inventing the flush toilet one, that someone else here mentioned earlier. (BTW, it was invented three centuries earlier, but Crapper was the one who made it more affordable, through a patent he bought, and marketed it to the masses.) Also, the slanted line that divides fractions is actually known as a "solidus," which can either be used in horizontal or oblique mode, not specifically a "virgule." The virgule they claim, is a specific typographical character that can and should be used for either slanted fractions or in situations substituting for the word "per" (i.e., "$15 ⁄ hr."), instead of a forward slash. A virgule is on more of an angle than a slash and does not venture below the baseline, as slashes do. Virgules differ from slashes like times signs differ from xs, foot marks differ from apostrophes, and curly quote marks differ from straight (typewriter) quotes. Some facts can be misleading, like George Washington growing marijuana. Washington grew hemp, which at the time was widely used in fabric and rope production. Others seem wrong, but are technically right, like the Panama/ocean sunrise one -- also mentioned buy another reviewer. (The Panama isthmus is "S" shaped that allows the sun to rise over the Pacific and set on the Atlantic in one section of the country.) Or, Alaska being the most eastern and western state is true, because the most western part of it is in the Eastern Hemisphere. But you tend to discount entries like this, when so many others are wrong. There are other facts that are tied to a moment in time, which most likely are not still be currently true and may be weirdly random and specific to be useful, much less worthy of brain cell occupancy. (i.e., "There are 83 people in the US named Edward Cullen.") This app smells of a school app-creation project where Snapple caps were collected and entered (with duplication of several, I must add). I doubt there will be any effort for the creator to update the facts to correct or add to them, much less update the app to be workable with current iOSs. It's been eight years without any updates already. Therefore downloading it will be a waste of your time, unless Edward Cullen (I suspect he is the name of the class teacher -- used for grade bettering) comes to the rescue.
Giraffes do not have vocal chords
TasmanianWeirdo
Giraffes do not have vocal chords. It is true. Maybe the only oneon this app but it's true. Check the ultimate book of useless information if you don't believe me.
Good its not free
alexfilo
Cool facts is way better.cf says that 47.3% of all statistics are made up. I bet that 90% if these facts are fake. The only reason o gave it two stars is because it's cleverly named
