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Misc => Random Randomness => Topic started by: Laprabi on November 02, 2010, 21:14
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Since the old ones all died, here is a new one.
Did you know...
Spiders have transparent blood?
Al Gore actually won the 2000 US presidential election?
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Did you know that Jaffa Cakes don't actually contain any oranges?
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Did you know that wild llamas are known as guanacos?
Did you know that guanine, one of the nucleobases of DNA and RNA is abundant in guano?
Did you know that a smooth flow of a fluid is known as a laminar flow?
I'll think of facts that I don't tell people all the time later or something.
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Bonobos [Chimps, Pygmy] and Dolphins are, like humans, can have sex for pleasure rather than procreation.
Also, the female in the Bonobos calls the shot when it comes to sex, even though the male are stronger. Yeah, I'm pretty much in THAT perverted mood that I decide to read facts.
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Some wasps lay their eggs in catpillars.
The larvae develop teeth to get out the caterpillars skin when they are too big for the host.
they go and cocoon themselves, the caterpillars still alive though.
then suddenly the Caterpillar is like 'i will protect these wasps' and is messed up
then it makes a protective layer over them too. The Caterpillar turns very aggressive and tries to protect the wasps until it dies of starvation.
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David Cameron met a man once.
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The Puss Caterpillar is the most venomous one in the USA
One out of 20 people have an extra rib! ->Not to sure about this one
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Since the old ones all died, here is a new one.
Did you know...
Spiders have transparent blood?
Al Gore actually won the 2000 US presidential election?
No. He won it in popular vote, but NOT the electoral vote. The electoral vote is needed to win the presidency.
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Did you know that wild llamas are known as guanacos?
Different species! O:
Did you know that Jaffa Cakes don't actually contain any oranges?
lol
Random General fact:
Gobitto's family and Baurchai were designed by James Turner, making them the first Pokémon to be designed by an American. o;
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Giraffes have no vocal chords
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The ancient Egyptian name for Egypt was Kemet, which means Black =]
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Sharks will only attack you if you're wet.
For somebody who drowns themselves constantly in useless pieces of knowledge, I'm really not very good at thinking up random facts. Hence why I steal them from comedians.
Newton was a keen alchemist. King Herod [that of Biblical fame]'s wife's name was Doris. Camels evolved in America. At one point a cure for syphilis was to give the patient malaria- the high fever would kill the bacteria. Donkey milk cannot be made into cheese. Probably.
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Newton was a keen alchemist.
I knew this one. ^_^
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A black box in a plane is actually orange.
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No. He won it in popular vote, but NOT the electoral vote. The electoral vote is needed to win the presidency.
That election was blatantly rigged.
The Norwegians invented the Christmas tree
Lincoln is the only US president on Mt Rushmore who was assassinated.
Microsoft programmed the first Apple OS.
Samuel Goldwyn's real name was Samuel Goldfish
Even though the village of Caldmore that makes up part of Walsall is spelled as it is, the locals pronounce it 'Karma'
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Your nails are made of hair.
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Sharks will only attack you if you're wet.
;o
Erm... Alan Shearer is the top scorer in Premier League history?
/me isn't in a thinking mood at the moment obviously ^^;
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Rape within Marrige was legal up until 1990 or so in England and Wales (not sure about Scotland).
It is illegal to be drunk and in possison of a cow in Scotland.
Elephants are one of the few creatures besides humans that can apparantly recgonise themselves in a mirror.
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Dragonflies can't walk. They don't have knees.
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Your nails are made of hair.
no, your hair is made of nails....
anyway....
4x2's don't actually measure 4x2....
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Sharks will only attack you if you're wet.
It's pretty ovious.Think about it.Sharks dont go on land.That means you have to go in water to see/find/get eaten by a shark.Water makes you wet.Shark sees you wet.
Dividing by zero does NOT destroy time and space like rumors say.If you divide Dialga And Palkia by 0,that does.(This isn't nessisaraly true)
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You can't sleep with your eyes open.
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You can't sleep with your eyes open.
I FREAKING BEG TO DIFFER
A firework uses up fuel as it goes up so it becomes lighter
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the Uk eats more baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
there are more people alive today than have ever died.
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A firework uses up fuel as it goes up so it becomes lighter
That's true for anything that uses fuel. Rockets, cars, trains...
The continents' names all end with the same letter with which they start.
If one places a tiny amount of alcohol on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Chrysler built engines for the B-29s that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
The housefly hums in the key of F's middle octave.
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The continents' names all end with the same letter with which they start.
Uh, North America, and South America?
They don't start with A. :P
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Uh, North America, and South America?
They don't start with A. :P
Twas an American site I got them from. You know what they're like.
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^^ Put North and South America as just America. Then you're right. Am I correct in saying North and South america are on continent. America?
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If you have a food that doesn't contain natural red food colouring, you're eating/drinking the blood of a crushed pregnant louse :3
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If you have a food that doesn't contain natural red food colouring, you're eating/drinking the blood of a crushed pregnant louse :3
lol dat's my favourite fooooooooood
Cows produc more greenhouse gases in a year than cars o:
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A British guy invented the internetz
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An American guy (two actually) invented the airplane.
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The first self-powered fixed-wing aircraft was created by Englishman John Stringfellow, whose unmanned model made its first successful flight in 1848. Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian living in France, built the first practical dirigible balloons at the end of the nineteenth century.
The Wright Brothers only had the first powered, sustained flight with a human on board. The actual 'invention' goes back to the 1800s
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The Wright Brothers only had the first powered, sustained flight with a human on board. The actual 'invention' goes back to the 1800s
mislap is the best man of all time
your blood pressure should be around 120 over 80 to 140 over 100. over or under and you're a freeeaaaaaak
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Iams contains more high quality nutrition than many other cat foods.
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The Chaco Golden Knee Trantula is known as the gentle giant as they have an impressive legspan of up to eight inches or more and they, unlike many other monstrously large species, are docile and very easy to handle.
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Cocroaches can live for 9 days without their heads.
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Scotland has the highest rate of alchohol related deaths in europe. (not suprising tbh :v)
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Two weeks after having "Lucky" tattooed on his neck, Professor Green was stabbed right next to the tattoo and had life saving surgery. If the stab had damaged any of the arteries (there was contact but no damage iirc) then he wouldn't have made it.
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mislap is the best man of all time
Too much time spent watching stuff like QI
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It takes 2 signatures from different doctors to put you in an asylum for life.
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A mans special Parts manufacture 10 million new cells each day – enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!
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men have immature sperm
LOL immature
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gingers will one day become extinct
aww :(
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gingers will one day become extinct
aww :(
I heard that wasn't quite true.....
people say the same about blondes aswell....
did you know that in the time takes to read this, you could have learned something 0.o
aparently Xerox invented the PC, but gave the idea away because it WASN'T a printer....
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The creator of Noddy was born 5-10mins away from my house. o:
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A cat can lick its nose. I'm jealous.
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Mexico once had three presidents in one day.
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Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day. Thats alot......
zzzzzZZZZZ
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There is a bug (I can't remember the name) who ends up pregnant with 16 babies, 15 of which are females. The 1 male develops inside the mother, mates with all his sisters, then dies before he is born, and the females are then born pregnant.
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There is a bug (I can't remember the name) who ends up pregnant with 16 babies, 15 of which are females. The 1 male develops inside the mother, mates with all his sisters, then dies before he is born, and the females are then born pregnant.
does it happen to be a
GREENFLY?!
(http://www.gwynedd.gov.uk/upload/public/docimages/Image/f/h/m/PryGlasStori.jpg)??
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There was a London bus driver who carried on doing his shift during the blitz just north of St pauls cathedral where most bombs was aimed. Crazy fool.
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The City of Pittsburgh was officially renamed Sixburgh for a day on Feb. 3, 2009.
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None of the members of the Film Actors' Guild in Team America gave permission for their likenesses and names to be used. Parker and Stone went for it anyway.
In the film The Football Factory, all of Bill's lines when he and Fred are at the kids' football match were improvised, right down to the "are you pissed off cos you gotta open your kebab shop in 10 minutes?" slur. Tamer Hassan (Fred)'s disgusted look was genuine.
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Frogs use their eyes to aid in swallowing food.
Ants cannot blink.
The stegosaurus had a brain (or a mass of nerves that could serve as a brain) in its rear.
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The composer of the musical score for Tron and A Clockwork Orange (among other things) was known as Walter Carlos until 1972 when he had gender reassignment surgery and renamed herself Wendy Carlos.
(I have no idea if that's a good fact or not)
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The name Wendy was created for the book 'Peter Pan' - before that it wasn't a name.
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The longest gestation period is of a fish - up to 3.5 years. :D
Yep, I'm a science geek!
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You can't burp in space.
Fish can drown.
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Pi = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqpWETqoD5Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqpWETqoD5Q)
Nah, pi actually goes on to infinity.
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You say "goes on to infinity" like infinity is an end point.
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Infinity is a concept, not a number. It essentilly means that it will never end. Ever. Like numbers.
Also, the amount of numbers between 0 and 1 is also infinite.
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Even with the amount of numbers calculated for Pi, it is still an irrational number; they are yet to find any kind of pattern or repeat.
Also, pie is nice.
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Also, pie is nice.
Understatement of the year.
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Moving on.
Did you know no-one can draw a perfect circle. Not even with a compass. (Excluding the Davinci fellow ;)).
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^ Brunel could draw a perfect circle!
Living in Cornwall exposes you to increased levels of background radiation.
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^PICTURES!
I beg to differ.
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^ Refusing to accept Brunel's perfection is blasphemy...also I have no pictures. =[
A type of sheep with wool that looked golden was bred in the Kingdom of England centuries ago.
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Carrots used to be purple.
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Rhinoceros horns are made of hair :ohmy:
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Icabod Crane escaped from the Headless Horseman....
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Chuck Norr-- ohwait, wrong thread sorry.
Interestingly, some scientists believe mushrooms are able to survive in space. Their spores are thought to float in suspended animation for decades, until they land on an asteroid or rock of suitable environment.
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54% of Americans who watch House do no believe Hugh Laurie is English.
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Carrots used to be purple.
white not purple ¬¬
Patrick Stewart collects Beavis and Butthead merchandise.
/me did not read a random fact book shush.
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The name Wendy was created for the book 'Peter Pan' - before that it wasn't a name.
Vanessa has a similar litrerary origin....
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Green day recorded their first album: 39/smooth in 22 hours, over the course of 2 days.
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As a naturally bald man, Samuel L Jackson chooses his own wigs for films
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Did you know that if you type 5077345 into a calculator then turn it upside-down yet get 'Shellos'.
As in this one.
(http://pokebeach.com/scans/japanese/bonds-to-the-end-of-time/shellos-west-sea.jpg)
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Wow! ^
Did you know, kangaroo's can't fart.
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King Ramses III of Egypt fathered over 300 children
That's an episode of Jeremy Kyle I'd love to see.
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Did you know, kangaroo's can't fart.
It's the same with birds.
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^ Speaking of birds, If you give one asprin it exploads. ;/
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Thanks for the advice.
loljk... >>;
Did you know that baby koalas have to eat their mummy's poo?
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75% of statistics are made up, (excluding this one ;) )
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The letter J was the last letter added to the English Alphabet. Before that, the letter I was used in its place.
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^ Speaking of birds, If you give one asprin it exploads. ;/
Why am I learning this now?
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.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
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It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour.
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King Ramses III of Egypt fathered over 300 children
That's an episode of Jeremy Kyle I'd love to see.
It was Ramesses II.
Ramesses III was assassinated as part of the Harem conspiracy =]
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He's a playa.
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Lead guitarist for Queen, Brian May, dropped out of a physics PhD at Imperial College London to follow the path to rock stardom. He finally completed his thesis in 2007, so that is ‘Dr’ to you and me.
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^ Tom Scholz (Boston) is another musician that has qualifications out of his arse as well.
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^ Frank Lampard of Chelsea is a footballer which a large amount of qualifications too, and would have been a lawyer if he wasn't a footballer. He also has a huge IQ too.
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^ Frank Lampard of Chelsea is a footballer which a large amount of qualifications too, and would have been a lawyer if he wasn't a footballer. He also has a huge IQ too.
There are quite a few clever sports stars, but they never show it, do they?
Mark Webber is very clever too, and James Woods (Mike Toreno in San Andreas) is a member of MENSA
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You can't touch all your teeth wifth your tounge.... you just tried it didn't you, Now you're smiling.
Red is the most common colour in countries flags.
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Of all the words in the English language, 'set' has the most definitions. Look it up if you don't believe me.
Before the American Civil War, the south had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else on earth.
One billion seconds is about 32 years.
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You can't touch all your teeth wifth your tounge.... you just tried it didn't you, Now you're smiling.
I managed it... I don't know whether that was the point or not. Didn't smile though xD
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Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.
“X”s at the end of a correspondence letter represent the contact of the lips during a kiss.
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“Sternutation” is a fancy word for the act of sneezing.
If the tracks on a typical CD ran in a straight line, they would travel for about three miles.
Apple seeds contain trace amounts of cyanide
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Most US dollars contain small amounts of drugs substances.
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Most US dollars contain small amounts of drugs substances.
Usually cocaine, actually.
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Vodka was used as an ingredient in early European gunpowder.
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You can use salami as rocket fuel; Mythbusters did it.
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Asda asks your sexual orrientation when applying for a job there
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It costs 2 Yen to make a 1 Yen coin.
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The king of hearts in a card pack is the only king without a moustache.
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Usually cocaine, actually.
And sniffer dogs can detect it
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
... French derp xD (oh noes, Hetalia coming to mind! Nuuuuuuuuu!)
Coconut milk can be substituted for plasma in the blood. Go figure.
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I hope this hasn't already been said, but oh well.
It costs around 3 cents to make an average dollar bill.
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About 50% of people don't develop an itchy rash when exposed to poison ivy.
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at one point, 80% percent of german soldiers were overweight, or so I heard.....
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so I heard.....
SO I HERD!
After the Easter Holiday, if you're lucky like me, you'll have a 5 day weekened followed by another 4 day weekend! Hooray for royal weddings!
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SO I HERD!
I don't think she's talking about a group of animals. :???
Edit: when do memes die?
Tea was seen as vital to morale so large quantities were stockpiled in the UK in the run up to World War II. Churchill even briefly considered plans to grow tea in the UK.
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I don't think she's talking about a group of animals. :???
...so i herd u liek? helloooo?
Mount Everest isn't the highest mountain, it's actually Mauna Kea, in Hawaii.
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Horses cannot breathe through their mouth. If their nostrils become obstructed, they could suffocate.
It is bad luck to whistle in a theatre. The superstition dates back to the time when off-duty sailors would run the fly system in theatres, and the sailors would whistle the cues to each other. Therefore, if you were to walk through a theatre carelessly whistling a tune, you might cause a scenic piece to fall on your head.
Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was saved from a nasty railroad accident by Edwin Booth. Edwin was the brother of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth
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The battle of Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle in human history, in which over two million people were killed.
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It requires more calories to eat a celery than the celery actually has in it.
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Asda asks your sexual orrientation when applying for a job there
... why would they need to know
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Uhm, most places ask for your sexual orientation as part of "Equal Opportunities"... asking for your ethnicity, sexual orientation, relationship status etc. It's apparently meant to limit discrimination in employment or something... different companies ask different things though.
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...so i herd u liek? helloooo?
Mount Everest isn't the highest mountain, it's actually Mauna Kea, in Hawaii.
If the mountain is measured from Sea Level.
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Mascara was invented by a chemist for his sister, Mabel, because she wanted to look more appealing to this man of hers, or something along those lines, I don't know, I wasn't there.
He made a mix of coal dust and vaseline, and somehow that turned into mascara and presumably didn't just make her eyes stick closed.
Became pretty popular, and he made a cosmetics company around that, naming it Mabelline.
mabel + vaseline, har.
Which to me just for some reason sounds like it shouldn't be true. Which is unfortunate as it appears to be the only thing that I remember from my "chemistry in real-world applications like paint and cosmetics!" module, on which I am to be tested tomorrow.
...snap.
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Giraffes only sleep for half an hour a day =D
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A camels hump doesn't store water. It stores fat, so it allows it to go months without food. If the hump becomes depleted, it will shrink, flop over at the camel’s side.
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In the game Solar Jetman for the NES, there are multiple glitch planets that can be accessed through single-letter passwords (such as QQQQQQQQQQQQ.)
Also, one of the real planets is called "Urownd". Hee hee.
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Dolphins are the first animals other than humans - that we know of - that make their own toys: bubble rings.
I didn't learn this from either =3/Ray William Johnson OR OMGfacts. I heard about this from our marine-biologist family friend, Claudia :3
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cats have an odd amount of whiskers.
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
Water has the only solid form that floats in it's liquid form. If ice sank the planet would not be able to sustain life.
There is a type of jellyfish that, apon reaching adulthood, can reform it's cells back into childhood, it can repeat this as many times as it pleases, thus enabling it to live forever.
There is an all female species of lizard that does not need a male to produce eggs, in effect this process would be the same as cloning, as the lizards born would be -exactly- the same as the mother.
Polar bears have the most sensitive smell of all species, even greater than that of sniffer dogs.
most types of fish can live in a tank of human blood.
Degrees in Celsius is determined by the freezing and boiling points of water, Fahrenheit is measured by the same system but for human blood.
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^ YOU just stole half of mine xP
Mice are ticklish. No joke.
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^How can you steal facts lol. =]
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Black magic.
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there is enough gold in the earth's crust to completely cover the land up to knee deep!
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Kangaroos can not walk backwards. :/
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If you put a frog in boiling water it'll jump out straight away but if you gradually heat it up it won't notice.
yay for facts i learned from frankie boyle!
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Taser is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle.
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Guinea pigs do not have the enzyme L-gulono-gamma-lactone oxidase which catalyzes the last step of L-ascorbic acid biosynthesis.
i searched it and apparently humans don't have it either o.o
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If they still tested medicine on guinea pigs penicillin would not be used as guinea pigs are horribly allergic to the stuff.
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Most of the characters you see as the assassins in Assassin's Creed are real people.
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the lostprophets are welsh!!!
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(http://input-image.info/physics-troll/1285635304166.png)
True story bro
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^ the water surface tension wouldn't be enough to hold the water up.
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Depending on how much suction you could create from the turbine, I'd say it has a fair chance of working! But yeah it's not exactly safe or practical...
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it doesn't matter on the suction... the weight of the water would be too much for the surface tension.
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The natural gas used in many homes to run furnaces, stoves and other appliances is actually odorless. Gas companies add an odorant that smells like spoiled meat so the human nose is able to detect that scent at a very minute concentration.
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Bodies are buried six feet under because that is the minimum distance that human and most animal noses can't detect the rotting flesh.
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I don't think she's talking about a group of animals. :???
Edit: when do memes die?
they die as easly as Fidel Castro......
anyway, apparently during the first half of the 20th century britain and russia both tried to use black magic to win wars, with varying sucess....
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Edit: when do memes die?
unfortunately for a load of disgruntled cakes who are questioning their existence, not soon enough sometimes.
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Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
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Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
They should have made star of david ones to tap in to the jewish market!
Axoltls have spend their lives looking like young newts, but have an 'adult' form that they can grow into with certain hormones...
I don't think that it's good for them though...
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
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speaking of airlines.
airplanes windows are circular because the DeHavilland Comet had square ones, in which the stress of pressurising and depressurising made them crack and fall out of the sky.
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Pretzels were invented by an Italian monk who used the treats as a bribe to get kids to memorize scripture. In fact, the criss-crossed bits are supposed to represent the folded arms of pious children in prayer.
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In the UK white bread and flour must have calcium added by law.
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A human's small intestine is roughly 20.7 feet feet long at adult size.
Likewise, the large intestine is 4.9 feet long at adult size.
Why is the small one the one that's longer?
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A human's small intestine is roughly 20.7 feet feet long at adult size.
Likewise, the large intestine is 4.9 feet long at adult size.
it's not the length it's the area that matters.
During the times of smallpox, one way of ensuring you didn't get it was to infect yourself with cowpox (:
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it's not the length it's the area that matters.
Bow Chikka Bow WOW
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That is all
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During the times of smallpox, one way of ensuring you didn't get it was to infect yourself with cowpox (:
Cowpox? That's one I've never heard of. I assume it's similar?
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^Yeah, it's a less deadly variant that cow milk maids used to get, which is why they didn't get smallpox. This led to the first vaccinations by a guy whose name escapes me.
There is a type of jellyfish that, apon reaching adulthood, can reform it's cells back into childhood, it can repeat this as many times as it pleases, thus enabling it to live forever.
Yes, and it is appropriately named the Immortal Jellyfish.
There is also another species of Jellyfish that they found in marine dead zones in the Mediterranean that can survive without oxygen.
This could mean that we could send water to the moon and put these jellyfish in it.</innovation>
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The most poisonous animal is the box jellyfish. It has caused at least 5,567 recorded deaths since 1954. Their venom is among the most deadly in the world. It’s toxins attack the heart, nervous system, and skin cells. And the worst part of it is that jelly box venom is so overpoweringly painful, that human victims go in shock, drown or die of heart failure before even reaching shore. This is so that it will instantly stun or kill prey, so the prey unable to struggle and damage it's delicate tenticals.
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^ Cnidocytes and nematocysts. The venom is so deadly because the cnidocytes and nematocysts that box jellyfish use makes your cells explode.
Nematocysts are loaded with calcium ions, which when injected into the cnidocytes of the jellyfish - or the spear-like cells which act as needles to inject the poison into the prey - causes osmotic pressure inside the cnidocyte, which propells the poison into the victim at a tremendously high velocity. I can't remember the exact numbers, but I think it's something like 4000 or 40000 g's of force in a microsecond.
Ouch, right?
Exploding cells is one of the most traumatizing and deadly injuries you can get, not only because any toxins that your cells were carrying prior to the explosion get re-released into the body, but the body automatically goes into shock with high concentrations.
The only 'normal' way your cells explode is when macrophagocytes - after presenting the foreign substance to your T-Cells (the cells that are responsible for activating the phagocytes and telling them what to do with a foreign virus/bacterium/disease) - are ordered to engulf the substance in question and poison it with radioactive oxygen.
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The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
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In an average person's lifetime, they will have walked an amazing 5 times around the equator.
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^ The average 1900's person or the average i-do-nothing-but-sit-at-home-all-day-playing-video-games person?
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A catfish has approximately 100,000 taste buds.
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The first cloned animal was a sea anenome and the first cloned pet was a cat whom they named Copy Cat.
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You can hypnotise a shark or a crocodile by turning it upside-down (lol our catfish does this to herself all the time).
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On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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Random Fact 1: Drinking tea causes cancer.
Random Fact 2: Drinking tea cures cancer.
Thankyou Daily Mail!
Thanks to every comedian for predictable joke.
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Prostitution is legal in the UK, as long as you make the offer to buy/sell in a private place.
What? They can be dark facts.
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ALL blue-eyed people can be traced back to one ancestor who lived 10,000 years ago near the black sea
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Love is one of the best feelings ever. FACT.
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There are loads of cockroaches in the south.
Loads...
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blonde haired blue eyed people are descendents of people from Scandiwegia.
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Hitler had one testicle.
Which I beleive, the other one was shot off in WWI
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Hitler had one testicle.
Which I beleive, the other one was shot off in WWI
mao zedong only had one aswell...
yeah, must be proof the ball make you evil...
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Hitler had one testicle.
Which I beleive, the other one was shot off in WWI
It has been alleged that Hitler had monorchism, the medical condition of having only one testicle. Hitler's personal doctor, Johan Jambor, supposedly described the dictator's condition to a priest who later wrote down what he had been told in a document which was uncovered in 2008, 23 years after the doctor's death.
Soviet doctor Lev Bezymensky, allegedly involved in the Soviet autopsy, stated in a 1967 book that Hitler's left testicle was missing. Bezymensky later admitted that the claim was falsified. Hitler was routinely examined by many doctors throughout his childhood, military service and later political career, and no clinical mention of any such condition has ever been discovered. Records do show he was wounded in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, and some sources do describe his injury as a wound to the groin.
Wikipedia you've done it again!
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An ion is an atom with up to three more or less electrons than the normal. The number of electrons it gains or loses is determined by how many electrons it needs to gain or lose to have a full outer shell.
While, in theory, it is possible to add or take more than three electrons, it doesn't tend to go well.
The number of electrons a non-ionic atom has is the same as the proton number.
To find the neutron number of an atom, you deduct the proton number from the atomic mass number.
DNA is located inside the nucleus of a cell.
DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid.
DNA is a double helix, while RNA is a single helix.
RNA stands for ribonucleic acid.
The laws of physics change depending on where you are in the universe. However the amount of change is incredibly slight over massive distances.
The laws of physics are stupid. You drop something and gravity pulls it down to the ground. What's up with that? (no pun intended)
All mass has a gravitational pull to some extent.
Sorry they're all science facts. I'm in the middle of my unit 2 exams (even though a lot of these facts aren't even mentioned on the papers) XD
Love is one of the best feelings ever. FACT.
Fiction.
Edit: The longest word ever published in an English dictionary was the 45 letter word pnuemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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Scotland has 790 islands, with only 100 that are populated.
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British Army tanks have built in kettles so the crew can have a nice cup of tea among other things. :)
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If you leave the door of a fridge open, the room will heat up.
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The star Betelgeuse could go supernova next year, meaning you could see two suns during the day (ooh, sci-fiy!) or you'd have no night (as it'd light up the sky so bright it'd look like day)
or it could go in the next 35243265443 years
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^But wouldn't it take many years for the light to reach us? Or do think it might have gone super nova already, a long time ago and now we might see the effects? I want two suns now. :P
(Much love for the dance hog by the way.)
Iron Age British round houses didn't need chimmneys. =]
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i just had the 2000th view of this topic :P
binary code only has 1s and 0s in it.
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Due to background radiation left over from the big bang, nowhere is currently known in the universe to be at Absolute Zero, or -273*c.
It is not possible to be in complete zero gravity, as you are always in something's gravitational field.
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Walsall FC is the only football league club in the West Midlands to have not been in the top division. The highest they've ever been was 1st in what used to be called Nationwide Division One.
Stopping off en route to Iceland , the Albanian national team were thrown out of England in 1990 after going on a shopping spree at Heathrow. They had thought "duty free" meant help yourself.
A The bitters fan was banned in 1995 from bringing dead chickens into City's Maine Road ground. He used to celebrate City goals by swinging the birds around his head.
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A The bitters fan was banned in 1995 from bringing dead chickens into City's Maine Road ground. He used to celebrate City goals by swinging the birds around his head.
Lawl, reminds me of how Red Wings fans throw an octopus on the ice.
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The coldest known place in the universe is in a lab on Earth.
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The copper that makes up the Statue of Liberty is only the thickness of a £2 coin.
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Due to background radiation left over from the big bang, nowhere is currently known in the universe to be at Absolute Zero, or -273*c.
I believe that the third law of thermodynamics states that to be impossible anyway
... i don't have any interesting facts. damnit, I've made a fool of myself.
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you can make a 1 yen coin float on water
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1. Putting on thick socks and gloves is better than putting on a jumper to keep you warm.
2. Ray Mears is the ultimate survival tool. Not only can he build you a shelter out of anything he also has enough meat on his bones to make a good meal and does enough exercise to ensure the meat is firm and not fatty.
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Ray mears?
Better drink piss.
(http://www.badassoftheweek.com/grylls.jpg)
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did you know that in one place on earth i don't remember where it's forbidden to park your elephant without paying the parking ticket like who would do that thats just wrong and i don't lie there is many extremely weird laws in the world.
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Bored, bringing this back. TEACH ME THINGS O PEOPLE OF PKMN.NET
so far all i have is
The word "pedigree" is derived from "pied de gru", French for "the foot of the crane", because when drawing a family tree, the decent lines apparently look like crane feet.
The can opener was invented nearly fifty years after the tin can was patented in 1810: it required a hammer and chisel to open it.
Oh, and they were also sealed with lead, which isn't too good for one's health.
95% of the most commonly used words in the English language have one syllable.
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If you were to swallow some food and then hang upside down the food would still reach your stomach as a mechanism called perasaltsis pushes food down without taking gravity into account.
A single blood cell can travel round your whole body in 60 seconds.
some biological facts there P:
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A Jiffy is a measure meant of time, I know its do do with light traveling but don't know more than that.
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Bored, bringing this back. TEACH ME THINGS O PEOPLE OF PKMN.NET
so far all i have is
The word "pedigree" is derived from "pied de gru", French for "the foot of the crane", because when drawing a family tree, the decent lines apparently look like crane feet.
The can opener was invented nearly fifty years after the tin can was patented in 1810: it required a hammer and chisel to open it.
Oh, and they were also sealed with lead, which isn't too good for one's health.
95% of the most commonly used words in the English language have one syllable.
camber means "to arch in the middle"
peristalsis is what happens when food goes down
you have epithelial cells in your gut
=)
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Did you know that Snoop Dogg has a musical family of nephews O0
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^^^^ Excellent! I will vow to put this to the test one day!
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Astronauts can't cry in space because there is no gravity.
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If an astronaut were to go into the vacuum of space unprotected, his body would explode due to the change in pressure.
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^And likewise a person travelling to the very depths of the ocean would implode due to the immense pressure.
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apparently the state of florida is bigger than england...
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^And likewise a person travelling to the very depths of the ocean would implode due to the immense pressure.
Are you sure? People are mostly water and you can't compress that. Definite death down there though. Poor deep sea dead people.
Men are many times more likely to get some form of colour blindness than women.
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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body
It is possible for your nose to remember over 50,000 smells
9 million condoms are used in the world every year
A moment is 1:30 minutes
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A Jiffy is a measure meant of time, I know its do do with light traveling but don't know more than that.
a Jiffy is one-hundredth of a second. :)
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More people per year are bitten by New Yorkers than by sharks.
QI-watching time indeed~
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In lieu is a phrase you can you for "instead of".
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apparently the state of florida is bigger than england...
I feel so very small right now.
Vikings never had horns on their helmets.
Kunais are a myth.
Pirates never had their victims walk the plank.
Blackbeard's real name was Edward Teach.
Blackbeard enjoyed setting his beard on fire.
I'll admit I'm not sure about the kunai one.
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In mammography they make use of characteristic radiation. :)
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The Bible is the worlds best-selling book.
Michael Jackson's Thriller is the world's best-selling song to date(I think). :dry:
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The Bible is the worlds best-selling book.
Michael Jackson's Thriller is the world's best-selling song to date(I think). :dry:
The album Thriller definitely is (in terms of album sales)
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Hula Hoops are round, they're staying round, and they'll be around forever.
Its a fact.
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Hula Hoops are round, they're staying round, and they'll be around forever.
Its a fact.
an if anyone tries to change the shape of them i shall say oi
you
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Manhole covers (as in those steel circles covering the sewer entrances) are circular so that they cannot fall into the hole no matter how they are turned.
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The definition of the Football League 'Great Escape' are that you survive relegation at the end of the season after being rock bottom on New Year's Day. Only two teams have done it: Northampton Town and Walsall.
Portsmouth also pulled it off in the Premier League, but no one cares about them =P
apparently the state of florida is bigger than england...
Most of them are =P
You can fit fourteen Frances into the country of Canada and still have room left over.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by us building ships for the Confederacy. They originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million. They never got the money.
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Singapore is an island made up of 63 smaller islands c:
It is also one of the four Asian Tigers. The Asian Tigers are the four countries in Asia which have excelled in economics, and those are Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and I.. forgot the other ID.
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The word smashing comes from the gaelic phrase 'S math sinn', which means good or great and it's pronounced in the same way as in english. Other words of gaelic origin include: galore (from gu lore, meaning enough)
pet (from peata - a tamed animal)
Smidgen (from smidean - meaning small bit)
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Tea has such a weak Caffeine level that you would have to drink 10 cups of tea for the Caffeine to equal just one cup of Coffee
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The last prisoner to be excuted at the Tower of London was a German spy. He was shot.
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If every single person in china jumped at the same time it would cause a big enough earthquake to sink it!
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In bangladesh you can go to young offenders for not doing your homework
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If someone pokes the inside of your tummy button it feels really creepy.
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^ does that include yourself?
Cat's urine glows in the dark
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Parrotfish aren't male or female until they mature, then whatever gender they meet and try to mate with they'll become the opposite sex.
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^ does that include yourself?
Got to be someone else who does it. Especially when you're not expecting it. Then again maybe its just me who finds it uncomfortable?
Edit: get a girlfriend, rip your shirt off, demand a tummy button poke, report back on results.
Medieval sheep farmers in England bred a sheep with golden coloured wool.
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^ aww, I have no-one to feel my tummy button,
No matter the size of the paper, it can only be folded 7 times.
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The last question c: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7aWfArTVLU)
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^That was weird, that clip.
I don't watch Teen Titans.
...Well, this is a GENERAL random facts thing, so that's a random fact!
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Dick Turpin was found and hung because a postie recognised his handwriting.
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^ And there are a couple of pubs in this area named after him.
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Everyone is inherently good but it's the way you're brought up that turns you bad.
OH YEAH I'M A PSYCHOLOGIST
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The car is actually a German invention, not created by Henry Ford as the urban myth goes.
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If Wal-Mart was classified as a country,
it would be the 24th most productive
country in the world.
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i was the first one who made a thread like this
a second is defined to be the time it takes for a cesium atom to go through over 9 billion oscillations
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Did you know that Freud died at the age of 83?
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Edward John Smith was the Captain of the RMS Titanic, which was built in Befast Harbour.
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^ Which is where I'm proud to live :D
The sound of a heat-beat is most commonly described as a 'lub-dub' sound.
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California has the largest population of
Native Americans totaling 422,440.
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Did you know pigs can't look up to the sky, they lack the muscles to allow them to do so.
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The world isn't actually a sphere.
It's more of a slightly ovally spherey shape.
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It's an oblate spheroid, slightly compressed at the north and south poles
I don't have any facts; "oblate spheroid" is just one of my favourite things to say
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I live in the same city the titanic was built... Dont mock me, I know it sank...
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US Dollar bills are made out of
cotton and linen.
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The world's gonna end in 2012. I... feel scared and worried because of a scary Youtube ad about Jesus and his 'Trumpets' (which are comets).
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The world's gonna end in 2012. I... feel scared and worried because of a scary Youtube ad about Jesus and his 'Trumpets' (which are comets).
you can't be serious. there is no scientific evidence to say the world will end in 2012 just because some stupid calender ends.
Slow worms are actually lizards without legs.
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The biggest rodent fossils ever found (to date) were found in Venezuela.
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Bumping this because I found something interesting.
Today is all about having the same D.O.B! Three pairs of celebrities all were born on this day, but in separate years:
- Constance McCashin and Linda Thorson - both born in 1947
- Isabella Rossellini (Italian actress; she starred in Blue Velvet) and Carol Kane - both born in 1952
And, most famously (and oldest):
- Paul McCartney and Roger Ebert - both born in 1942
Happy birthday to each of them!
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The design for the announcer woman of Team Fortress was created by someone on DeviantArt, and not by someone from inside Valve. They found her from a Daily Deviation (which was unrelated) and hired her to be their new character designer.
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The design for the announcer woman of Team Fortress was created by someone on DeviantArt, and not by someone from inside Valve. They found her from a Daily Deviation (which was unrelated) and hired her to be their new character designer.
you must give me this person's deviantart RIGHT NOW K?!
um... random fact ummmm....
Cheese does not give you nightmares?
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Francium submarines are unlikely to be used, as the metal is too weak. Amongst other things.
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Hilarious references to its high reactivity aside, there's also the small fact that less than 20 atoms of francium are throught to exist on the earth at any one time, due to its extremely short half-life.
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The west coast of scotland has the 2nd most jaggiest coastline in the world after norway.
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Is there a scale for that?
Anyway, fact...space does not exist
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Is there a scale for that?
Anyway, fact...space does not exist
spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
ahem
The planet Jupiter has no solid surface.
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its hypothesized we absorb 11 million details from our environment, but are only consciously aware of a maximum of 40.
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spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
I Love you!!!!
Ahem. Did you know that the Hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards?
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The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the Pacific.When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
10% of all woman registered for computer dating are teachers.
The last name in the Toronto phone book is Zzyzzer.
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Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees C:
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you can write the word "typewriter" using only the top row of the letter keys on your keyboard
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In Chess, 'Checkmate' comes from the Persian phrase 'Shah Mat' which translates to 'The King (shah) is dead (mat)'
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Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapik imaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters), is the longest official place name in the world. It's in New Zealand, and means "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one". It beats the Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysili ogogogoch (58 letters) by nearly thirty letters.
In addition. The capital of Thailand is not Bangkok, but Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. Which is the official name.
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you can write the word "typewriter" using only the top row of the letter keys on your keyboard
I heard that the QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to do that as a sales gimmick....
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Did you know that a notch in a tree will stay the same distance from the ground as the tree grows? C:
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The first novel ever written on a typewriter was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Good thing I have this book of random facts right next to me.
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I love this random fact. Wandering albatross will pair up in their teens and can be together for more than 40 years. :3
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Over 60% of Engligh comes from Latin.
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((I learned this a few months ago so, I barely remember it.))
There is this bird that migrates the most. It is the most travelled bird IN THE WORLD. It lives in North Pole/South Pole then migrates to the South Pole/North Pole when it get to cold. Read THAT in a book on migration.
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In WW2, out of the 3.2 million Germans killed, 2.2 million of them were killed by Russian soldiers ^^
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Pigs are actually very intelligent. They have been taught to play basic computer games in return for rewards and are being looked at as possible guides for the blind.
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if you are at a party you can put your hand in the air a bit and people will notice you are having fun
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Did you know?
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.
Coincidence or what?
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The ancient Egyptian name for Egypt was Kemet, which means Black =]
That was because the soil there was black and fertile, the dersert around it was known as the Red Land.
Giraffes have no vocal chords
I learned that in kindergarden. I asked, though.
Lewis Carrol never refered to his character as the "Mad Hatter". He calls him mad, and the "Hatter", but not the "Mad Hatter".
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you must give me this person's deviantart RIGHT NOW K?!
um... random fact ummmm....
Cheese does not give you nightmares?
You mean... it's not supposed to? o_?
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Did You Know?
something something dark side.
Seriously; worms have 5 hearts.
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maths stands for Mathematical Anti-Telharsic Harfatum Septomin
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Dinosaurs did actually exist.
Don't laugh this is news to some people. :/
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Chocolate has caffeine in it.
It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Silence of The Lambs (1991) are the only films to grab all 5 major Oscars at The Academy Awards. (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay).
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Chocolate has caffeine in it.
there seems to be this sort of circle of natural stuff with alkaloid xanthines in it it's weird
the cocoa bean
tea
coffee
yerba mate
guarana
they all have differing levels of theophylline, theobromine and caffeine
and like differing levels of each seem to have completely different effects
like yerba mate is coffee buzz but w/o coffee jitters and is mostly caffeine and theobromine
chocolate just makes you feel ~nice~ and its mostly theobromine
tea chills you out and its mostly caffiene and the amino acid theanine (which is cheating a little)
coffee hypes you up like you've just done a line cos its mostly caffeine
science eh
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Rats cannot vomit at all
Noob Saibot from Mortal Kombat is the last name of two of the creators backwards
In 2003, a six year old girl found something shocking about her Hulk plush toy that can't be mentioned on this site!
Contrary to belief, Lynard Skinard's Freebird is NOT about Duane Allman
There was a bet in a Scottish club to prove that LaToya and Micheal Jackson were the same person
Skunks will never spray unless provoked and are generally shy creatures. Before they DO spray, they will hiss and stamp their paw as a warning
Tula, the Bond girl from For Your Eyes Only was born a man
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In 2003, a six year old girl found something shocking about her Hulk plush toy that can't be mentioned on this site!
just say "the toy had The Incredible Bulk" we've all seen the sun article
it was gr8 cos i used to live in the area of spain where that doll was made and like omg im not surprised they did that hahaha like omg only spain could do that
what was she even doing taking off the shorts of a doll anyway????? i mean we all did it when we were little ADMIT IT but like why how did she why did her mum and the Sun and why and you're that kid who was in the newspaper for pulling the pants off a hulk doll haaaaahaha what was SHE THINKING
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just say "the toy had The Incredible Bulk" we've all seen the sun article
it was gr8 cos i used to live in the area of spain where that doll was made and like omg im not surprised they did that hahaha like omg only spain could do that
what was she even doing taking off the shorts of a doll anyway????? i mean we al when we were little ADMIT IT but like why how did she why did her mum and the Sun and why and you're that kid who was in the newspaper for pulling the l did itpants off a hulk doll haaaaahaha what was SHE THINKING
Apparently she was playing with the toy and noticed a bulge!
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A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
...strange thought.
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When you cut a worm in two it doesn't regenerate into two worms, it just lays there slowly dieing thinking your an * insert worm swear word *
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When you are on a night out do not drink someone elses drink that you have found
(i have made this mistake, it was a good idea at the time xD)
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Never cross an angry bear.
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It's apparently scientifically proven that men can see and rotate images in their mind better than women, who can't do that but are more likely to be able to tell whether a person's smile is genuine or fake.
yay psychology!
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When you are on a night out do not drink someone elses drink that you have found
(i have made this mistake, it was a good idea at the time xD)
if you're lucky enough you can get away with it
i mean it was some really fizzy lager (idk im used to ale ok) but even so if you do try to take someone's lost drink don't expect it to be any better than your own
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maths stands for Mathematical Anti-Telharsic Harfatum Septomin
Lol noooooooo! i disagree. MATHS stands for:
Mentally
Affected
Teachers
Harassing
Students
Nah not really its a very old joke =P.
Ok i like animals so don't expect any better from me.
Golden eagles use their speed and sharp talons to snatch up rabbits, marmots, and ground squirrels. They also eat carrion, reptiles, birds, fish, and smaller fare such as large insects. They have even been known to attack full grown deer. Ranchers once killed many of these birds for fear that they would prey on their livestock, but studies showed that the animal's impact was minimal. Today, golden eagles are protected by law.
Golden eagle pairs maintain territories that may be as large as 60 square miles (155 square kilometers). They are monogamous and may remain with their mate for several years or possibly for life. Golden eagles nest in high places including cliffs, trees, or human structures such as telephone poles. They build huge nests to which they may return for several breeding years. Females lay from one to four eggs, and both parents incubate them for 40 to 45 days. Typically, one or two young survive to fledge in about three months.
These majestic birds range from Mexico through much of western North America as far north as Alaska; they also appear in the east but are uncommon. Golden eagles are also found in Asia, northern Africa, and Europe.
Some golden eagles migrate, but others do not—depending on the conditions of their geographic location. Alaskan and Canadian eagles typically fly south in the fall, for example, while birds that live in the western continental U.S. tend to remain in their ranges year-round.
Took me a while to type that @_@
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In the original script for Final Destination 2, the character Timmy was originally going to be a little kid
Barbie and Ken have broken up THREE time, the first being unknown and actually was an official poll from Mattel for fans but the results were SO close that they threw it out and disregarded it!
There is no hidden messages in The Beatles song Revolution 9, OR Queen's Another One Bites the Dust
I've Never Been to Be by Charlene has a monologue in the original verison that people often misunderstand it for talking about abortion. It is actually about wishing to have taken the time to have children!
Owls CAN be found awake during the day, just not active. The reason is they cannot see well in light.
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Took me a while to type that @_@
random fact: Flamelunar11 writes for the national geographic (http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/golden-eagle/).
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No i don't. The facts are based on those.
Rodents are very fast breeders. In one year they could have over a million descendants.
Owls can see a candle burning at a distance of 1 kilometer in the dark.
Diamond isn't the strongest substance on Earth. It's titanium.
All big cats except Cheetahs can roar. Cheetahs can only purr and mew.
Giraffes were thought to be mute. But they produce two vocal sounds. Males grunt and females whine.
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Diamond isn't the strongest substance on Earth. It's titanium.
And diamond is the best conductor, despite being a non-metallic solid c:
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o.O i thought water and gold are excellent conducters of electricity.
Bald eagles take the bones of their prey and fly 20,000 feet high. Then they drop the bone on a rock, causing it to shatter. Then they eat the soft marrow inside.
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Originally the song It's Raining Men was offered to Diana Ross and Barbara Striesand and both turned it down. It was then given to two women who called themselves Two Tons of Fun before becoming The Weather Girls. The song was written by Paul Shafer of the Tonight Show. Martha Was, one half of The Weather Girls, later was the lead voice on C+C Music Factory's Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) and lead female singer for the group Black Box. When both groups featured model lip syncing her voice in their videos, she sued. C+C Music Factory and Ms. Wash settled out of court and she continued working with them until David Cole's death in 1994.
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o.O i thought water and gold are excellent conducters of electricity.
Actually, water barely conducts electricity at all. I think (if my C in 4th year chemistry helps here) that only one atom conducts electricity.
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1. The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
2. Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
3. A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
4. Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The Wright brother's invented the airplane.
5. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
6. One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
7. The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have four noses.
8. Sharks can live up to 100 years.
9. Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
10. Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
11. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.
12. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
13. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
14. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
15. Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
16. There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
17. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
18. The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
19. Octopus have three hearts.
20. If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
21. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
22. 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
23. The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
24. Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
25. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
26. Most cats are left pawed.
27. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
28. A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
29. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
30. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
31. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
32. People are supposed to feel hungry when they see the colour red. Thats why many hotel, restaurant and fast-food joint owners use red in their advertising board.
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Goldfish are capable of telling the time, can learn multiple tricks, and have a memory of up to 5 months.
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Even though in representations and comparisons, the horse in Ancient Egypt seemed to be a largely preferable animal, the donkey remained perhaps the most important functional creature in the Ancient world, until the introduction of the Camel in the 27th dynasty, I believe it was.
The modern donkey is a hybrid of the Nubian wild ass.
The average donkey can carry up to 40kg of weight, if evenly distributed. Carrying this weight, they can travel for 2-3 days without water, depending on how fast you travel.
Although donkeys are likely to have not been eaten, their flesh etc were used for medicinal purposes. Their milk was drank, especially by young children.
For the Ancient Egyptians, donkeys were valued possessions and were priced highly. Renting a donkey often cost more than standard wage, so it was likely that whoever rented them took on a second job to fund it.
Hyksos buried donkeys in pairs, often standing upright, at tomb entrances so that they may carry on their usefulness in the afterlife.
According to texts and art, it is unfitting for an Egyptian to ride a donkey, as it is not dignified. It is a demeanour reserved for foreigners. Ironically, in the Bible donkeys are used to transport women, children and important figures.
(I got a first in this dissertation I will spam you with my knowledge of donkeys in the ancient world..)
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if you highlight some text on a website you can copy it to the clipboard with Ctrl+C and then paste it into a post with Ctrl+V!
Try it with some facts online!
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wow I just sat and watched QI I should be able to think of something, haa
People used to think that televisions were heavier when they were turned on. The reason for this is apparently attributed to the fact that TVs had little warning labels on them telling people that they should turn it off before attempting to move it.
7. The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have four noses.
How many noses do the other slugs have?
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A group of geese on ground is called a gaggle. A group of geese in the air is called a muster. Snapple said so.
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Important Topic Revival!
As you may have heard in the news beards are now proven to be attractive to women.
Fact.
Thank you.
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The average person spends 9 weeks of life staring at a refrigerator.
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Octopus have three hearts
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If you stared at someone's elbow while giving a high-five, you would always hit the person's hand.
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The average human uses 57 sheets of toilet paper a day.
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^The average human needs to improve their diet. ._.
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An old man robbed 1 dollar from a bank so he could get free life insurance from the jail
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Revival because this is fun stuff:
You can survive with one Kidney.
The weight of a whale testicle is 1 tonne.
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Karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
Mayonnaise is great for removing rings off a coffee table.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
It is still law in England that men should practice archery once a week.
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It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (not sure how they enforce this one, maybe cardiac arrests count?)
It is a legal requirement in the UK to visit church on Christmas Day (old law that they never got rid of)
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It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (not sure how they enforce this one, maybe cardiac arrests count?)
It is a legal requirement in the UK to visit church on Christmas Day (old law that they never got rid of)
I went to Parliament and had a tour with my MP the other week - he said that even if you were having cardiac arrest the main priority would be to get the person out of parliament even if they could be saved because it is supposed to be a pure and focused place and that having a person die there would take the focus of the government off politics and the country.
It is also illegal to be in Parliament whilst in labour (having a baby).
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I went to Parliament and had a tour with my MP the other week - he said that even if you were having cardiac arrest the main priority would be to get the person out of parliament even if they could be saved because it is supposed to be a pure and focused place and that having a person die there would take the focus of the government off politics and the country.
But if they're dead you can't really prosecute them... Stupid English law...
Anyway, some Jellyfish de-age after reproduction... JELLYFISH ARE IMMORTAL!!!
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aptly known as "the immortal jellyfish" q:
iirc in some places suicide is illegal too so... shrug.
i know that the space between the seats in the House of Commons is said to be two sword lengths apart (~4m), haha. politics is serious stuff.
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Doesn't that depend on the length of the sword? :tongue2:
The heaviest chicken ever recorded weighed 22lbs, around 10kg
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Its standard sword lengths. - The two swords would only reach each other if they were extra long and even then no one would be able to inflict harm.
Unless they threw it!
Another Parliament based one.
In the main atrium there is a statue of each part of England's parton saint - you can remember where everything is because of this as they are at the ends of the four corridors leading from the atrium.
Towards the House of Lords is Saint George (England) because that is the part of the building that the Queen uses.
Towards the House of Commons is Saint David (Wales) because that is where all the business is done and Welsh politicians are known for wanting to get things done.
Towards the Exit is Saint Patrick (Ireland) because the Irish are known for not being interested in politics.
And Towards the Bar is Saint Andrew (Scotland)... for reasons which are probably obvious
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The average person spends 9 weeks of life staring at a refrigerator.
i have more than that already
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The son of Abraham Lincoln was once saved from an injury by the brother of Abraham's assassin.
Christopher Columbus was rewarded with 300 euros for discovering America.
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Christopher Columbus was rewarded with 300 euros for discovering America.
man they took their sweet time in paying him in that case.
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It will take you 68 years to sleep in all of Disney World's rooms.
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On average, you sleep away a third of your life.
At least, I think you do...
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You can make smores in a microwave. I've done it.
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An ant is small enough to avoid microwave radiation, so it can come out of a microwave unscathed.
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But if they're dead you can't really prosecute them... Stupid English law..
Same way it was illegal to commit suicide until the late 60s. How do you prosecute a dead guy?
If you put a bowl of water in with some pizza in the microwave, it stops the pizza going soggy.
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We are all at risk for spontaneous combustion! :D
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Someone owns a pet python which has learned how to open doors. Sleep tight, everyone! (Except Kay. She'd love that.)
Also the Japanese word for fireworks is 'Hanabi', which is made of 'Hana' (flower) and 'bi' (fire). So essentially fireworks are 'fire flowers'. Japanese and German are the best languages for awesome compound words.
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Someone owns a pet python which has learned how to open doors. Sleep tight, everyone! (Except Kay. She'd love that.)
Also the Japanese word for fireworks is 'Hanabi', which is made of 'Hana' (flower) and 'bi' (fire). So essentially fireworks are 'fire flowers'. Japanese and German are the best languages for awesome compound words.
So basically, every time Mario grabs a fire flower, he's shooting off fireworks, not fireballs?
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So basically, every time Mario grabs a fire flower, he's shooting off fireworks, not fireballs?
There's your answer. That's probably the basis for the Fire Flower powerup.
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Oh, makes sense.
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The only Robins (in batman) to have survived have the second letter of their surname as 'R'.
Dick Grayson -> Survived
Jason Todd -> Died (although was resurrected)
Tim Drake -> Survived
Damian Wayne -> Dead
Although Stephanie Brown did die, in the New 52 universe she doesn't exist, so she's not included ;D
Very random fact :tongue2:
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The character Vanellope von Schweetz from Wreck -It Ralph was written especially for Sarah Silverman (her voice actress) as Vanellope's character bears a resemblance to Sarah's child self (her glitch was that she wet the bed into her mid-teens. She also used to use a similar dialect and had very similar traits.)
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The light bulb was invented by Sir Humphrey Davey about 30 years before Thomas Edison was even born.
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The director of The Amazing Spiderman is called Mark Webb
I think that may have been why he was hired...
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In Singapore, you can get fined about $500 for chewing gum.