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Random Facts Thread,

SGNL_05SGNL_05 Posts: 3,501 just the tip
edited August 2010 in Off Topic
Post your random facts about pretty mucn anything, anywhere in the world.

Alaska has over 3 million lakes (94 of which have a surface area over 10 miles)

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.

It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).

The pancreas produces Insulin.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

World Tourist day is observed on September 27.

Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.

There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.

Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.

The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.

The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary "Peter Rabbit" children's stories in 1902.

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.

Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.

A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

Cats can hear ultrasound.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Children grow faster in the springtime.

On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.

Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"

Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

February is Black History Month.

Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.

The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
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  • GULCH_OF_ROTGULCH_OF_ROT Posts: 5,795 salt miner
    HAWAII HAS EVERY CLIMATE IN THE WORLD
  • SGNL_05SGNL_05 Posts: 3,501 just the tip
    Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
  • GULCH_OF_ROTGULCH_OF_ROT Posts: 5,795 salt miner
    THE PRINTING PRESS CHANGED THE WORLD MORE THEN ANY OTHER SINGLE INVENTION
  • SGNL_05SGNL_05 Posts: 3,501 just the tip
    If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
  • ComptonAssBertoComptonAssBerto Posts: 3,899 just the tip
    1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.

    2. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors - assuming no incest was involved.

    3. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.

    4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth.

    5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.

    6. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom - 4,000 miles down.

    7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.

    8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.

    9. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off.

    10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

    11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.

    12. Everytime you sneeze your heart stops a second.

    13. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.

    14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.

    15. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.

    16. Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello.

    17. The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.

    18. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.

    19. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.

    20. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister.

    21. The longest English word without a vowel is twyndyllyngs which means “twins”.

    22. 1 x 8 + 1 = 9; 12 x 8 + 2 = 98; 123 x 8 + 3 = 987; 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876; 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765; 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654; 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543; 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432; 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

    23. The word “dreamt” is the only common word in the English language that ends in “mt”.

    24. Albert Einstein never wore any socks.

    25. The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime.

    26. In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity.

    27. Hummingbirds are the only creatures that can fly backwards.

    28. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

    29. Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads before they starve to death.

    30. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

    31. The lighter was invented before the match.

    32. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.

    33. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

    34. Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns.

    35. The first Internet domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.

    36. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, only six phones were sold in the first month.

    37. Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.

    38. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $7.5 million.

    39. In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.

    40. In Canada, the most productive day of the working week is Tuesday.

    41. In a study by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest colour to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow.

    42. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

    43. On average a business document is copied 19 times.

    44. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.

    45. Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song “Happy Birthday.” They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.

    46. All babies are colour-blind when they are born.

    47. Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.

    48. Each nostril of a human being registers smells in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril.

    49. Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.

    50. May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.

    51. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

    52. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.

    53. Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had.

    54. Rolling Stones band member Bill Wyman married a 19 year-old model Mandy Smith in 1988. At the same time Wyman’s son was engaged to Mandy Smith’s mother. If his son had married Smith’s mother, Wyman would have been the step grandfather to his own wife.

    55. There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.

    56. There are about 6,800 languages in the world.

    57. There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

    58. Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

    59. The coconut is the largest seed in the world.

    60. There is cyanide in apple pips.

    61. If you were to take 1 lb. of spiders web and stretch it out it would circle the whole way around the world!

    62. If every person in China stood on a chair and jumped off at the same time…it would knock the earth off its axis!

    63. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

    64. The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes.

    65. The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells.

    66. The symbols + (addition) and - (subtraction) came into general use in 1489.

    67. If you save one penny and double it every successive day, (day two you have 2 pennies and day three you have 4 pennies, and so on), by the end of 30 days you’ll have $5,368,708! (or ?’s or whatever currency).

    68. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.

    69. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.

    70. The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty-five miles long.

    71. Due to precipitation, for a few weeks, K2 is taller than Mt. Everest.

    72. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

    73. There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars.

    74. The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.

    75. A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds that a person can hear. If a person can just hear a noise that is coming from 10 feet away, a dog could hear that same noise from 100 feet away.

    76. If a sole (a type of fish) lays upon a chessboard it can change the colouring of its body to match the pattern of the chess board. The sole takes about 4 minutes to make the change.

    77. Of all the animals on earth the mosquito has contributed to the deaths of more people than any other animal.

    78. In the courts of the Roman Empire, instead of swearing an oath on a bible, men swore to the truth on their statements while holding their genitals. Hence the word ‘testify’, from ‘testicles’.

    79. The first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Perborate and Silicate - hence its brand name, Persil.

    80. If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans. Only 1 would own a computer.

    81. All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.

    82. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

    83. Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States.

    84. Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood.

    85. It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago.

    86. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

    87. An octopus has 3 hearts.

    88. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

    89. The hair on a polar bear is not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.

    90. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

    91. The combination “ough” can be pronounced in 9 different ways; Read this: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

    92. The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessel is so broad, that a person could swim through it.

    93. A left-handed person finds it easier to open a jar than a right-handed person because they can supply a stronger anticlockwise turning force than a right-handed person. However a right-handed person will find it easier to tighten the jar up afterwards.

    94. The orbit of the Moon about the Earth would fit easily inside the Sun.

    95. A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.

    96. Typewriter is the longest word that can be made only using one row on the keyboard.

    97. Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the west than to the east.

    98. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

    99. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

    100. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (euro, pound).
  • Rex_Capone420Rex_Capone420 Posts: 69,596 spicy boy
  • BrianBrian Posts: 17,611 destroyer of motherfuckers
    It takes three licks and a bite to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
    nike Pictures, Images and PhotosTUPAC IS DEAD/THE LEGEND IS GONE/THEY SAYIN TUPAC'S BACK?/DEM NIGGAS WRONG
  • GazorpazorpfieldGazorpazorpfield Posts: 22,293 master of ceremonies
    edited August 2010
    The sky is blue
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  • Rex_Capone420Rex_Capone420 Posts: 69,596 spicy boy
    I like the one post at a time idea...as opposed to posting on gigantic list
  • ZmbieFlavrdCupcakesZmbieFlavrdCupcakes Posts: 32,259 jayfacer
    I like the one post at a time idea...as opposed to posting on gigantic list
    like you do in the fail/owned thread? oh wait..
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  • GazorpazorpfieldGazorpazorpfield Posts: 22,293 master of ceremonies
    edited August 2010
    I make one long post an you harass me for it

    Bianca and Rex lie
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  • Its_Meh_ChewIts_Meh_Chew Posts: 7,380 just the tip
    Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.
    Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
    Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
    Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.
    Chuck Norris can touch MC Hammer
    Chuck Norris once kicked a horse in the chin. Its decendants are known today as Giraffes.
  • Rex_Capone420Rex_Capone420 Posts: 69,596 spicy boy
    Chuck Norris can touch MC Hammer...i LOL'D
  • OPPOPP Posts: 50,132 spicy boy
    Chuck Norris can talk about the Fight Club at will.
    I love winning with women
  • GazorpazorpfieldGazorpazorpfield Posts: 22,293 master of ceremonies
    Boobys suffer from blue feet, instead of blue balls. The bluer the feet, the more attractive they are to female boobys.
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  • OPPOPP Posts: 50,132 spicy boy
    Chuck Norris beat The Game.
    I love winning with women
  • ZmbieFlavrdCupcakesZmbieFlavrdCupcakes Posts: 32,259 jayfacer
    just saying, dont be a hypocrite, bro
    *thumbsup*
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  • SGNL_05SGNL_05 Posts: 3,501 just the tip
    Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.
    Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
    Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
    Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.
    Chuck Norris can touch MC Hammer
    Chuck Norris once kicked a horse in the chin. Its decendants are known today as Giraffes.

    erm facts..not bullshit.

    chuck norris is nothing more than a old dude on bowflex commercials....

    well he used to...i think Christie Brinkley replaced his old washed up ass.
  • ZmbieFlavrdCupcakesZmbieFlavrdCupcakes Posts: 32,259 jayfacer
    im pretty sure theyre just both doing it
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  • SGNL_05SGNL_05 Posts: 3,501 just the tip
    im pretty sure theyre just both doing it
    eh ive seen his shows...he wasnt really that much of a badass...

    He was a pampered hollywood star..probably couldnt even tie his own shoes without someone to help him.

    lets see him be a badass without a harness, green screen and CGI.
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