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Fun Fact:
Giraffes can't Swim
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The base of the pyramids of Giza is a perfect square wit each side being shorter/longer than the other side by mere millimetres
There is a parasite that causes ants butts to become very large and bright red. infected ants walk slowly with their butt's in the air. Eventually, a bird will think it's a berry and eat it. This allows the parasite to complete it's life cycle.
"Four inch" and "door hinge" definitely do rhyme with orange. The rest are rhymes to orange, too, they are just not as "pure".
True, they may sound the same, but they are actually not
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-Nothing in the english alphabet ryhmes with orangeClick to reveal
Just becuse they end in 'nge' doesn't mean they sound the same, or said the same
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-Nothing in the english alphabet ryhmes with orange
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Fun fact that most phobias are thought up on the spot and travel much like jokes do.
tmplumbernothing is something
Nothing is not something. Nothing is just the word us humans thought of for the absence of something.
I think we might be going into a philosophical question here, though. Let's not continue this and agree on that I am right
Flakes of paint are a danger to satellites, as they are moving fast enough to smash into the satellite and destroy their electronics, in turn creating more space "Junk" endangering more space vehicles, space stations, or satellites.
Fun Fact:
-The fastest muscle in you body, is the muscle used for blinking.
-Traffic lights were created before the car
-You create as much as a drum full of spit in your life time
-Nothing in the english alphabet ryhmes with orange
-The fastest muscle in you body, is the muscle used for blinking.
-Traffic lights were created before the car
-You create as much as a drum full of spit in your life time
-Nothing in the english alphabet ryhmes with orange
Before the big bang there was nothing. But nothing is something, however there was nothing there. Inducing a Paradox!
Pretty much what I was trying to explain...
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Fun Fact: No one in the world, will ever catch all the pokemon, unless he/she is cheating.
Fun Fact: Nothing is actually something(There is no such thing as nothing)
Yes there is. It's called vacuum.
There is still something there (trust me)...
Before the Big Bang there was 'nothing' but in actual fact there was something
EDIT: It's kinda hard to explain...
Before the Big Bang there was 'nothing' but in actual fact there was something
EDIT: It's kinda hard to explain...
Fun facts:
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Coca-cola was called coca cola because it used to contain cocaine. People used to think it was good for you. Please druggies, don't reply with 'cocaine is good for your brain'. It's not. Someone was bound to say it.
Weird facts [I found some weird facts too - these were my favourite ones.]:
A man is selling evidence that Nicolas Cage is a vampire for $1 million dollars.
Someone bought gum supposedly spat out by Britney Spears on ebay.
The Harry Potter books are the most banned books in America.
A jar of honey may remain edible for over 3000 years.
A London double-decker bus jumped the gap in Tower Bridge when it was opened without warning.
The most recent beheading for sorcery in Saudi Arabia was in 2012.
In 2010 a British policeman drove an Ice cream van into the middle of a riot and played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm the youths. The official report was, ‘humor defused the situation and the trouble stopped’.
There is scientific evidence that money can buy you happiness.
In 2006, some guys climbed Britain’s highest mountain and discovered a piano on top of it.
In the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
A king penguin in Japan was rescued and nursed back to life. He refused to leave, and now lives with the family. He has his own extra cold room, and he goes out on walks around the neighborhood to pick up groceries.
World war two facts [lol] - the allied forces troll.
During the WWII, the German forces built fake airfields with fake wooden planes in it. The allied forces waited until they finished them, then sent out air raids in which they dropped wooden bombs on them.
During WWII, Germans tank drivers in Africa would drive tanks over camel poop for luck. Allies responded by planting land mines disguised as camel dung. Germans got wind of this and began riding over dung that was already overrun with tank tracks. In turn, Allies made mines looking like overrun dung.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Coca-cola was called coca cola because it used to contain cocaine. People used to think it was good for you. Please druggies, don't reply with 'cocaine is good for your brain'. It's not. Someone was bound to say it.
Weird facts [I found some weird facts too - these were my favourite ones.]:
A man is selling evidence that Nicolas Cage is a vampire for $1 million dollars.
Someone bought gum supposedly spat out by Britney Spears on ebay.
The Harry Potter books are the most banned books in America.
A jar of honey may remain edible for over 3000 years.
A London double-decker bus jumped the gap in Tower Bridge when it was opened without warning.
The most recent beheading for sorcery in Saudi Arabia was in 2012.
In 2010 a British policeman drove an Ice cream van into the middle of a riot and played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm the youths. The official report was, ‘humor defused the situation and the trouble stopped’.
There is scientific evidence that money can buy you happiness.
In 2006, some guys climbed Britain’s highest mountain and discovered a piano on top of it.
In the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
A king penguin in Japan was rescued and nursed back to life. He refused to leave, and now lives with the family. He has his own extra cold room, and he goes out on walks around the neighborhood to pick up groceries.
World war two facts [lol] - the allied forces troll.
During the WWII, the German forces built fake airfields with fake wooden planes in it. The allied forces waited until they finished them, then sent out air raids in which they dropped wooden bombs on them.
During WWII, Germans tank drivers in Africa would drive tanks over camel poop for luck. Allies responded by planting land mines disguised as camel dung. Germans got wind of this and began riding over dung that was already overrun with tank tracks. In turn, Allies made mines looking like overrun dung.
Fun Fact: The human body has enough bones to make a skeleton.
Fun fact: It takes 35 seconds to cook the smallest meat patty at Mcdonalds.
that's just sad lol
Yeah exactly
The average snail can sleep for up to four years.
Many lizards can't chew.
Bats are the only mammal that can fly without foreign assistance.
A majority of the animal-based masks in Majora's Mask are based on Starfox characters.
Trollface was a Deviantartist's attempt at drawing another person's character named "R*** Rodent."
The first color anyone sees is red.
Corn has ears.
Colonel Sanders was a real person, born in 1890 and dying in 1980.
Many lizards can't chew.
Bats are the only mammal that can fly without foreign assistance.
A majority of the animal-based masks in Majora's Mask are based on Starfox characters.
Trollface was a Deviantartist's attempt at drawing another person's character named "R*** Rodent."
The first color anyone sees is red.
Corn has ears.
Colonel Sanders was a real person, born in 1890 and dying in 1980.
Potatoes have eyes.
civil war fun facts o3o
An 2 foot oak tree at the Spotsylvania, VA, battlefield was cut down by Minnie balls.
During the Civil War, glasses with colored lenses were used to treat disorders and illnesses. Yellow-trimmed glasses were used to treat syphilis, blue for insanity, and pink for depression. Thus we get the term, To see the world through rose-colored glasses
After the Battle of Gettysburg, the discarded rifles were collected and sent to Washington to be inspected and reissued. Of the 37,574 rifles recovered, approximately 24,000 were still loaded; 6,000 had one round in the barrel; 12,000 had two rounds in the barrel; 6,000 had three to ten rounds in the barrel. One rifle, the most remarkable of all, had been stuffed to the top with twenty-three rounds in the barrel.
Myfacts make you wanna fall asleep!
FACT 5: There really is scientific validity in the saying “red sky at night, shepherd’s delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning”? Despite the saying having ancient roots within the Bible (Matthew 16:2-3 to be exact), two scientific factors contribute to its legitimacy: the first being that weather systems generally travel from west to east in the mid-latitudes and because the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, a rising sun in advance of an approaching weather system would illuminate the approaching high-level clouds to create a red sky in the morning. Alternatively, if the sun sets as a weather system exits, then the departing clouds would be illuminated. In short, this would create a red sky at night with fair weather to follow. Confused? You should be!
FACT 1: Yawning really is contagious. If you’ve ever wondered why watching someone else yawn action us to yawn in return, look no further! Recent investigations has revealed that our yawn mimicking possibly relates to subconscious ‘herding behaviour’, similar to the mechanism that cause flocks of birds to take flight simultaneously. And it's not just humans who suffer from contagious yawning – apes are at it too! Chimpanzees are thought to be the only other creatures, apart from humans, who do so.
FACT 3: Cats don’t always land on their feet. It is said that if a cat fell out of a 20-story building it would have a better chance of surviving than if it fell from a 7-story building, because it takes the feline critter at least 7 stories to co-ordinate itself to land on its feet.
oh yeah and ever since the play A midsummer nights dream people believe shakesspear was drunk when he wrote his plays *go google the play to see their reasoning xD*
An 2 foot oak tree at the Spotsylvania, VA, battlefield was cut down by Minnie balls.
During the Civil War, glasses with colored lenses were used to treat disorders and illnesses. Yellow-trimmed glasses were used to treat syphilis, blue for insanity, and pink for depression. Thus we get the term, To see the world through rose-colored glasses
After the Battle of Gettysburg, the discarded rifles were collected and sent to Washington to be inspected and reissued. Of the 37,574 rifles recovered, approximately 24,000 were still loaded; 6,000 had one round in the barrel; 12,000 had two rounds in the barrel; 6,000 had three to ten rounds in the barrel. One rifle, the most remarkable of all, had been stuffed to the top with twenty-three rounds in the barrel.
Myfacts make you wanna fall asleep!
FACT 5: There really is scientific validity in the saying “red sky at night, shepherd’s delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning”? Despite the saying having ancient roots within the Bible (Matthew 16:2-3 to be exact), two scientific factors contribute to its legitimacy: the first being that weather systems generally travel from west to east in the mid-latitudes and because the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, a rising sun in advance of an approaching weather system would illuminate the approaching high-level clouds to create a red sky in the morning. Alternatively, if the sun sets as a weather system exits, then the departing clouds would be illuminated. In short, this would create a red sky at night with fair weather to follow. Confused? You should be!
FACT 1: Yawning really is contagious. If you’ve ever wondered why watching someone else yawn action us to yawn in return, look no further! Recent investigations has revealed that our yawn mimicking possibly relates to subconscious ‘herding behaviour’, similar to the mechanism that cause flocks of birds to take flight simultaneously. And it's not just humans who suffer from contagious yawning – apes are at it too! Chimpanzees are thought to be the only other creatures, apart from humans, who do so.
FACT 3: Cats don’t always land on their feet. It is said that if a cat fell out of a 20-story building it would have a better chance of surviving than if it fell from a 7-story building, because it takes the feline critter at least 7 stories to co-ordinate itself to land on its feet.
oh yeah and ever since the play A midsummer nights dream people believe shakesspear was drunk when he wrote his plays *go google the play to see their reasoning xD*
There are more people on facebook right now then there were in the world 250 years ago.
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The description of the standing stones in the Oblivion DLC, The Shivering Isles, is a paraphrased description of a similar phenomenon in the science fiction story, 2001: A Space Oddyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke.
Each of the four kings in a traditional deck of playing cards is likely based on a king in history, though there is much speculation about this. They are typically believed to be Julius Caesar, Alexander The Great, Charlemange, and the Biblical David.
Easter Eggs usually are not checked by rating companies like the ESRB.
There is a room in the first portal game containing a cake much like the lie in portal 2. This cake is also a lie, as placing the nearby companion cube into it shows that it is, in fact, a hologram.
There is no bigfoot in the Grand Theft Auto game.
Each of the four kings in a traditional deck of playing cards is likely based on a king in history, though there is much speculation about this. They are typically believed to be Julius Caesar, Alexander The Great, Charlemange, and the Biblical David.
Easter Eggs usually are not checked by rating companies like the ESRB.
There is a room in the first portal game containing a cake much like the lie in portal 2. This cake is also a lie, as placing the nearby companion cube into it shows that it is, in fact, a hologram.
There is no bigfoot in the Grand Theft Auto game.
Also, Mrs. Doubtfire never actually said "Oh no, I'm on fire!" in the movie, even though I've heard several people attempt to quote the movie with that line.
If you type in "Hidden Test" while the old 3D pinball game for windows is open, you can control the ball with your mouse.
The term Honeymoon originated from a Scandinavian tradition when the father supplied the son-in-law all the mead, (An alchoholic drink made from honey) he could drink for a month, this time was called the honey month.
If you type in "Hidden Test" while the old 3D pinball game for windows is open, you can control the ball with your mouse.
The term Honeymoon originated from a Scandinavian tradition when the father supplied the son-in-law all the mead, (An alchoholic drink made from honey) he could drink for a month, this time was called the honey month.
Fun Fact: The phrase "took an arrow in the knee" is actually old Nordic slang for getting married.
To you guys who say duck's quacks have no echo. You're wrong. http://mythbustersresults.com/episode8
All sounds produce echos. Sometimes they're just really hard to detect.
All sounds produce echos. Sometimes they're just really hard to detect.
Dracula has never said 'Bleh' during his existence as a character until Hotel Transylvania.
If you get run over by a steamroller, you die immediately from shock when it goes over your shins.
Mickey Mouse's name was going to be Mortimer, but Disney's wife hated that name and Mortimer was given to another character later on.
If a pea runs into a can of pepsi in outer space, the pea will be crushed on the surface of the can.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and science does not have an answer to this.
If a weak adventurer gets shot in the knee, they wiill be forced to retire and be a guard for the rest of their miserable lives.
Hamburgers were invented in Hamburg, Germany, and (traditionally) contain no actual ham.
If Chuck Norris gets shot in the neck, the bullet bleeds to death.
None of Dr. Light's creations ever gain the ability to shoot up.
H.R. Giger built the alien suit, based on his Necronom IV painting, with the parts of an old Rolls Royce car.
If you can name a popular male fictional character, you will almost always find a female version online.
It would take 144 average ducks to weigh the same as the average bear.
If you put a frog into some hot water, it will jump out, if you put it into lukewarm water and heat it up slowly, it will stay still and boil to death.
If you get run over by a steamroller, you die immediately from shock when it goes over your shins.
Mickey Mouse's name was going to be Mortimer, but Disney's wife hated that name and Mortimer was given to another character later on.
If a pea runs into a can of pepsi in outer space, the pea will be crushed on the surface of the can.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and science does not have an answer to this.
If a weak adventurer gets shot in the knee, they wiill be forced to retire and be a guard for the rest of their miserable lives.
Hamburgers were invented in Hamburg, Germany, and (traditionally) contain no actual ham.
If Chuck Norris gets shot in the neck, the bullet bleeds to death.
None of Dr. Light's creations ever gain the ability to shoot up.
H.R. Giger built the alien suit, based on his Necronom IV painting, with the parts of an old Rolls Royce car.
If you can name a popular male fictional character, you will almost always find a female version online.
It would take 144 average ducks to weigh the same as the average bear.
If you put a frog into some hot water, it will jump out, if you put it into lukewarm water and heat it up slowly, it will stay still and boil to death.
You aren't touching anything at all at all times. There is ALWAYS a little space between you and the object (You and the floor for example). There is no way to actually TOUCH anything. Molecules, :L. If you DO touch something, you would know, since there would be an explosion, lol.
Fun fact : When you close your eyes you can't see
Fun Fact(s):
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only mamals that can't jump.
Starfish don't have brains.
Polar bears are left handed.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
Porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into to shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If you spell out consecutive numbers, you have to go up to one thousand until you would find the letter "a"
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times,but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
Coca Cola was originally green.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam".
In the TV series I Love Lucy, Ricki Ricardo never actually said "Lucy you have some 'splaining to do"
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original film "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
James Doohan, who played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, was missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
The city with the most Roll Royces per capita: Hong Kong
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of 11: £4000
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The term "whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the "whole 9 yards."
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The US Interstate road system was designed so that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of fuel that it burns.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
You can tell from the statue of a mounted horseman how the rider died. If all four of the horse's feet are on the ground, he died of natural causes. One foot raised means he died from wounds suffered in battle. Two legs raised means he died in action.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only mamals that can't jump.
Starfish don't have brains.
Polar bears are left handed.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
Porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into to shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If you spell out consecutive numbers, you have to go up to one thousand until you would find the letter "a"
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times,but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
Coca Cola was originally green.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam".
In the TV series I Love Lucy, Ricki Ricardo never actually said "Lucy you have some 'splaining to do"
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original film "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
James Doohan, who played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, was missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
The city with the most Roll Royces per capita: Hong Kong
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of 11: £4000
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The term "whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the "whole 9 yards."
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The US Interstate road system was designed so that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of fuel that it burns.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
You can tell from the statue of a mounted horseman how the rider died. If all four of the horse's feet are on the ground, he died of natural causes. One foot raised means he died from wounds suffered in battle. Two legs raised means he died in action.
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theyre all interesting, so why not? this threads for facts, right? xD
theyre all interesting, so why not? this threads for facts, right? xD
Fun fact: Dividing by zero can cause cataclysmic events.
Proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero#Historical_accidents
Proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero#Historical_accidents
dividing by zero gives you an undifined answer. plus wiki pages are not reliable. anyone can edit them so never post that as one of your sources
That really happened, though. An error in the ship's, USS Yorktown (CG-48), systems caused by a division of zero error ended up bringing down its systems.
If you don't trust wikipedia, here's an actual news article about it from 1998, not long after it happened: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/07/13987
If you don't trust wikipedia, here's an actual news article about it from 1998, not long after it happened: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/07/13987
Fun fact: Endermen hate water.
Fun Fact: Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Fun fact: bats can swim!
Whoever says 'Diamonds are a girl's best friend' never had a dog.
Instead, it should be 'Diamonds are a MC player's best friend'.
Instead, it should be 'Diamonds are a MC player's best friend'.
