General Random Facts Topic

[helenoftroy]

^^^^ Excellent! I will vow to put this to the test one day!

[Freestyler]

Astronauts can't cry in space because there is no gravity.

[Laprabi]

If an astronaut were to go into the vacuum of space unprotected, his body would explode due to the change in pressure.

[Ferox]

^And likewise a person travelling to the very depths of the ocean would implode due to the immense pressure.

[EMPIRE]

apparently the state of florida is bigger than england...

[MOP]

^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.

[Freestyler]

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

[IvanWolf♥]

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.

[Sebastian Moran]

More people per year are bitten by New Yorkers than by sharks. 
 
QI-watching time indeed~ 
 

[Kdintranet & Scizau]

In lieu is a phrase you can you for "instead of".

[OranBerrySandvich]

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.

[MOP]

In mammography they make use of characteristic radiation. 

[Spriter]

The Bible is the worlds best-selling book.

Michael Jackson's Thriller is the world's best-selling song to date(I think).

[Matty Cahill]

The Bible is the worlds best-selling book.

Michael Jackson's Thriller is the world's best-selling song to date(I think).

The album Thriller definitely is (in terms of album sales)

[MOP]

Hula Hoops are round, they're staying round, and they'll be around forever.

Its a fact.