Don't Tri This at Home

Jupiter is nearly exploding with rage. "I hear tales of mere mortals trying to strike down us legends!" he booms. "Can you believe it?"

30,000 matches, amassed and lit, will create a huge fireball.
A bricklayer hoisting an overly heavy barrel off the roof of a building can be lifted to the roof, dropped back down when the barrel breaks and drops its load, and then hit by the empty barrel after he lets go of the rope upon hitting the ground.
A can of beans on a stove can explode with lethal force.
A car painted black will heat up faster than an identical car painted white.
A child on a seesaw can be sent flying to a safe landing on the roof of a seven-story building when a skydiver with a malfunctioning parachute lands on the other end of the seesaw.
A decomposing body can destroy the inside of a car.
A hero can save his comrades from a grenade by covering it with his own body.
A lead balloon can't fly.
A life raft filled with helium can allow a person to fly.
A medieval town made a cannon out of a tree overnight to defend itself from a neighboring clan, but lost a good portion of itself to an explosion when they test-fired it.
A modern firearm can be fired if completely submerged in water.
A modern-day ninja is capable of striking a bullet out of the air with his hand.
A ninja is capable of catching a sword between his bare palms.
A passenger without any flight training can be talked through a successful plane landing over the radio.
A person can be sucked onto train tracks by the vortex from a passing train.
A person can use a zig-zag running pattern to outrun a crocodile.
A piece of straw caught in a hurricane can penetrate all the way through a palm tree.
A plastic mesh tailgate provides better fuel efficiency than a standard metal one.
A police badge can stop a bullet.
A regulation NFL football filled with helium will fly farther than one filled with compressed air at regulation pressure.
A shock wave from an exploding bomb is sufficient to cause an SKS rifle to misfire.
A speedboat can jump off a ramp, fly through the air, and still remain functional after the landing.
An assassin could use a bullet made of meat to kill someone untraceably.
Beef increases one's rate of flatulence.
Cola can clean battery terminals.
Dropping alkali metals into a water-filled bathtub will create a massive explosion.
Dropping an electrical appliance into the bath can be fatal.
Filling a lock with gunpowder from six revolver cartridges, attaching an empty cartridge casing to it, and striking it with the butt of the gun will effectively blow the lock open.
Ginger pills can cure seasickness.
High altitudes or low air pressure can cause silicone breast implants to explode.
If a pair of trousers has farm chemicals spilt on it and then subjected to everyday abuse and wear, they can spontaneously combust.
If a truck contains birds, getting them to fly around will actually lighten the truck.
If placed in an open fire, a beer keg can explode with lethal force.
If someone else nearby yawns, it can subconsciously influence you into yawning.
If thrown with enough force, an ordinary playing card can be lethal.
If you're strapped into the rear flight attendant seat of an aircraft that's destroyed in mid-flight, the surviving tail section can slow your fall and absorb impact enough to allow your survival.
In the event of a car crash, a normal box of tissues kept on the backboard can fly with deadly force.
It's faster to slide into a base than to stop on it from a run.
It's possible for a superhero to change into his or her costume in a phone booth.
It's possible to be electrocuted by talking on the phone in an electrical storm.
It's possible to create a diamond by coating charcoal with peanut butter and putting it in the microwave.
It's possible to quickly paint a small room by exploding a stick of dynamite in a paint bucket.
It's possible to raise a sunken ship with ping-pong balls.
It's possible to use a rowboat as a makeshift submarine by walking along the ocean bottom and breathing the air trapped under the rowboat.
Pirates wore eyepatches so that one eye could maintain night vision.
Sharks can use low frequency sound waves in water to hunt for prey.
Silver bullets are more effective than normal lead bullets.
Sounds can be recovered from old pottery.
The Baghdad Battery could have been used for electroplating.
The damage to a plane's tail section in a widely circulated photo was caused by an angry wife with a chainsaw.
The door of a submerged car cannot be opened until the interior of the car is flooded.
Toothpaste can relieve the burn from hot chili peppers.
Vodka can kill bees like an insecticide.
When five hundred lighters are packed inside a car, they can explode with deadly force.
Yodeling can cause an avalanche.
You can hold on to the hood of a car when it makes a sudden stop.
You can't polish poop.