General Random Facts Topic

[Sebastian Moran]

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. 
 

[saillith]

Giraffes only sleep for half an hour a day =D

[Moon Chaser]

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.

[Catstorm]

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.

[ShiraBliss]

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

[Buttons The Plural™]

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.

[ShiraBliss]

^ YOU just stole half of mine xP

Mice are ticklish. No joke.

[Liam]

^How can you steal facts lol. =]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Black magic.

[Buttons The Plural™]

there is enough gold in the earth's crust to completely cover the land up to knee deep!

[Kdintranet & Scizau]

Kangaroos can not walk backwards. :/

[PiPlUp_94]

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!

[Moon Chaser]

Taser is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle.

[Shaymin]

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

[Moon Chaser]

If they still tested medicine on guinea pigs penicillin would not be used as guinea pigs are horribly allergic to the stuff.

[Milsap]

Most of the characters you see as the assassins in Assassin's Creed are real people.