Random Facts

[oneisenough]

So basically, leave a random fact, that seems kinda interesting, that may not be well known, or something like that.

For example:

For the longest time i wondered why that feeling in your elbow was called the funnybone, and my friends mom( a nurse) told me that it was because the bone in your upper arm is the humorus(which i knew). I thought that was kinda neat and i had never thougtht of it.

So what is your random fact?



P.S. you dont nessesarily have to provide how you found out about it. (like i did)

[James_Potter]

Twenty states have state soils (similar to state birds or flowers) as established by state legislature. Nebraska was the first to have a recognized state soil, back in 1979.

[ridingwithscissors]

the skin on your elbow is called the wenis

[Jerrick]

Random fact.

Wenis is not in the dictionary, and it isn't a medical term either. Just a made up word meant to be immaturely funny.

[Into the blue]

Random fact: Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year and it doesn't cost them a cent.

[James_Potter]

Random fact: Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year and it doesn't cost them a cent.
What about police dogs? Because they're doing work. And sled dogs, and seeing eye dogs...and any other working class dog.
So I think they're getting paid for the work they do, in deliciousness.
I wish I could be a police dog...or at least get paid in deliciousness.

[Brian MacKenzie]

the skin on your elbow is called the wenis

isn't that the skin on your...oh, nevermind

[James_Potter]

isn't that the skin on your...oh, nevermind
No, dumb high school students made up that word so they could yell YOUR WENIS IS SHOWING across the playground and then giggle to themselves.

[Brian MacKenzie]

Random Fact: Festivus begins with the Airing of Grievances

[UniBrier]

Bullwinkle's full name is Bullwinkle J. Moose (not Bullwinkle T. Moose, as sometimes reported). Rocky's full name is Rocket J. Squirrel. Both characters' middle initials allude to J. Troplong Ward and/or William J. Scott. Matt Groening gave the three male members of the Simpson family the same initial as a tribute to Rocky and Bullwinkle: Bartholomew J. Simpson (Bart), Homer J. Simpson, and Abraham J. Simpson (Grandpa).

[ridingwithscissors]

I admit now that I was wrong about the meaning of the word "wenis".
However, I know now that the word was not made up to be immaturely funny- it was in fact the name of an egyptian pharoah.

I shall redeem myself by contributing this: an earthworm has five hearts!

[wickedbob]

Wenis is a funny word, we killed it last year though.

Random fact: A whales penis is called a dork.

[James_Potter]

I admit now that I was wrong about the meaning of the word "wenis".
However, I know now that the word was not made up to be immaturely funny- it was in fact the name of an egyptian pharoah.

I shall redeem myself by contributing this: an earthworm has five hearts!
An Egyptian Pharoah with unusually baggy weenises.

[UniBrier]

The US Flag originally called for maple leafs instead of stars. Due to her arthritis, Betsy Ross couldn't handle the intricate cutting and stichery of the palmated leaf so she made an executive decision to go with stars that only involved simpler linear cuts.

In 1896 John Philip Sousa wrote "Leafs and Stripes Forever" to set the record straight but that was changed against his will to "Stars and Stripes Forever".

[James_Potter]

If you chill a liquid enough, it will freeze to a solid. If you heat a solid enough, it will melt to a liquid.

Except for eggs, if you heat them they turn from liquid to solid.

[gabetheunicycleman]

random demonstration.

but a beer or beverage in the freezer for 3 or so hours without disturbing it.
pull it out later...its still liquid(it should be). open the bottle and pour, it turns solid. this is known as supercooling. there is also superheating. because of this you should never reheat drinks in the microwave.

[Jerrick]

it was in fact the name of an egyptian pharoah.


As I remember, it was Unas.

Random fact: Im going to bed at 12:19am.

[mcnuggets300]

the rigid airship, 'USS Akron' (a.k.a. ZRS-4)had an internal trapeze that allowed a bi-plane to be stowed on board, and then launched once the airship reached altitude

[mawesome]

Most flies' wings beat in the key of F.

Most toilets flush in the key of Eb.

[kington99]

A glass of boiling water will freeze quicker in a refrigerator than a glass of cold water.

[john_childs]

If you chill a liquid enough, it will freeze to a solid. If you heat a solid enough, it will melt to a liquid.
Except for cases of sublimation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_%28chemistry%29) where a solid can transition directly to a gas. Or desublimation where a gas transitions directly to a solid.

Freeze drying (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_drying) (for example freeze drying food) makes practical use of sublimation to remove the water from the food.

[jamessd]

Im sure there was a massive thread on this before that was really interesting... :cool:

[sp4rky-m4rky]

A glass of boiling water will freeze quicker in a refrigerator than a glass of cold water.

I heard that on the radio once ages ago and have been ever since puzzled about how it works. Does anyone know the answer or reason for why this happens?

[mcnuggets300]

bad ju-ju magicks i would presume...

[john_childs]

I heard that on the radio once ages ago and have been ever since puzzled about how it works. Does anyone know the answer or reason for why this happens?
Start here: the Mpemba effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect)

[gkmac]

A glass of boiling water will freeze quicker in a refrigerator than a glass of cold water.I foresee two problems Neither the boiling or cold water will freeze at all, because they are put into a refrigerator, not a freezer. The boiling water will warm up the rest of the refrigerator, making the cold food warm up and potentially giving food poisoning to whoever eats it.

[uni57]

If you chill a liquid enough, it will freeze to a solid.[BTW, interesting note about the eggs!!!]

Yes, if you "chill" liquid coconut oil enough, it turns solid. You have to "chill" it below 76 degrees.

Coconut oil has a melting point of 76F. Thus, it is solid at room temperature in most parts of the world. However, it is classified as an oil (oils are liquid at room temperature) because its point-of-origin is the tropics, where the climate is warm.

If you put a chunk of it in your hand, it will melt. And in the summer (unless you have an air-conditioned kitchen), it is always in its melted state, so you need a spoon instead of a knife to get it out (you cook with it).

When it melts, it goes from a white solid to a clear liquid.

[thejdw]

A pigs orgasam lasts for 30 mins. (don't ask me why I know that)

[Brian MacKenzie]

random demonstration.

but a beer or beverage in the freezer for 3 or so hours without disturbing it..

Different from the last two in there that remain undisturbed till you get up in the morning :(

[oneisenough]

A pigs orgasam lasts for 30 mins. (don't ask me why I know that)
i heard that to... in an e-mail that i got.


also....(in the same e-mail)

humans and dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure.
(what about the pig??!!:D )

[James_Potter]

humans and dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure.
(what about the pig??!!:D )
Bonobos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo) do too.

[harper]

In Massachusetts it is illegal to put trousers on a goat.

[kington99]

I heard that on the radio once ages ago and have been ever since puzzled about how it works. Does anyone know the answer or reason for why this happens?

With cold water a cap of ice forms on the surface which acts as a good insulator, stopping the rest of the water from cooling down so quickly. Hot water freezes from the bottom so avoids this problem.

[Hazmat]

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

[oneisenough]

if you place a paper cup full of water in a fire(and it doesn't tip right over), the water will boil. the top of the cup will burn to the water level but then stops burning until all over the water is boiled away. my brother learned this in his firefighter class....and we put it to the test at our bonfire to night. we were all quite impressed.

[James_Potter]

I want to try that now...how do you get the cup in there?
Also, does the paper burn down along with the water level?

[skrobo]

trucks are meant to be driven, not taken airborne... trust me...

[ridingwithscissors]

trucks are meant to be driven, not taken airborne... trust me...
That puts a stopper in my evening's entertainment...

[Hazmat]

A snail can sleep for three years.

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

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.

[mcnuggets300]

I want to try that now...how do you get the cup in there?
Also, does the paper burn down along with the water level?
because the flame is not what causes paper to burn, its the heat. the water acts as a heat sink. as the water boils at 100 degrees, this isn't hot enough to make a paper cup burn

or so i assume anyway :)
the paper would burn down with the water level, yes. because theres no water to take the heat from the paper

[bungalistic]

Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

[john_childs]

trucks are meant to be driven, not taken airborne... trust me...
If you're going to ship a truck it is best to do it by ground. I don't even think Airborne (DHL) will take a package as big as a truck.

[Hazmat]

If you're going to ship a truck it is best to do it by ground. I don't even think Airborne (DHL) will take a package as big as a truck.
Depends on the truck i guess, if its a military one, then they would use this behemoth. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Antonov-AH-124-100.JPG) :eek:

[thejdw]

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

A rat can last longer without water than a camel. - hmmm wonder if mine can.

In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour than butter.

Un-dyed coca cola is green

[john_childs]

Somewhat related to the hot water freezing more quickly than cooler water thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ3CKgZEitw

[jamessd]

Well we have:
Possibly the longest palindrome (http://www.palindromelist.com/longest.htm)...

and Sulphur Hexafluoride (http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=sulphur+hexafluoride&search=Search) ! - ok it's nothing special to some of you; but those who haven't seen it :eek:

[saskatchewanian]

Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.
nah, you can look at moose, you just cant go on a flight for the purpose of looking at moose. This is to prevent outfitters from locating moose before hand for their clients giving the hunter an unfair advantage.

edit: I was thinking the Yukon not Alaska but it is probably the same. You also can't do amy type of hunting activities until the next morning if you fly during the day.

[James_Potter]

Un-dyed coca cola is green
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp

[kington99]

Somewhat related to the hot water freezing more quickly than cooler water thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ3CKgZEitw


I love the scientific inaccuracy of news reports, how exactly have they experimented with different boiling points for the water in a non-pressuirsed container?

[kington99]

[QUOTE=jamessd]Well we have:
Possibly the longest palindrome (http://www.palindromelist.com/longest.htm)...


and what am i missing because none of thos seem palendromic to me e.g

"All ewes lessen ill. I see sheep in Syria? He, not I, deep in Syria, has done. No one radio drew old one."

and in reverse

"eno dlo werd oidar" and so on
?

[James_Potter]

Well we have:
Possibly the longest palindrome (http://www.palindromelist.com/longest.htm)...


and what am i missing because none of thos seem palendromic to me e.g

"All ewes lessen ill. I see sheep in Syria? He, not I, deep in Syria, has done. No one radio drew old one."

and in reverse

"eno dlo werd oidar" and so on
?
The entire thing is a palindrome...go to the verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry bottom of the page, and read backwards from there all the way to the top.

[kington99]

The entire thing is a palindrome...go to the verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry bottom of the page, and read backwards from there all the way to the top.


Ahhha!

[john_childs]

Ahhha!
notloB?

[Matt_V]

the skin on your elbow is called the wenis

If you squeeze your wenis as hard as you can, it won't hurt at all. Ive put mine in a vice grip before and you can make it extremely tight before it starts to hurt.

[oneisenough]

I want to try that now...how do you get the cup in there?
Also, does the paper burn down along with the water level?
you just go for it, it may burn some arm hair off;) but it is worth it:p . do it when the fire is relatively small.

and ...
the top of the cup will burn to the water level but then stops burning .

[thejdw]

and Sulphur Hexafluoride (http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=sulphur+hexafluoride&search=Search) ! - ok it's nothing special to some of you; but those who haven't seen it :eek:
I wonder if that how they make that women sound like a man on the light beer add.

[uni57]

I want to try that now...how do you get the cup in there?
Also, does the paper burn down along with the water level?It won't burn even if you torch it for a long time. We tried this two summers ago at a campground.

[oneisenough]

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

(Hardly seems worth it.)


If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.:eek:

(Now that's more like it!)

[ridingwithscissors]

40% of McDonald's profits come from selling happy meals.

[UniBrier]

It is a sad state of affairs when 60% of McDonald's profits come from meals that aren't happy.

[James_Potter]

I bet that's the same reason 60% of marriages end in divorce.

Also, all the numbers on a roulette wheel added together add up to 666.

[bob1993]

humans and koalas are the only animals w/unique fingerprints

[DigitalDave]

peeing on feet cures athletes foot

[Hazmat]

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

(Hardly seems worth it.)


If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.:eek:

(Now that's more like it!)
1) I want my coffee now. :mad:
2) So that's how they make WMD. :D
40% of McDonald's profits come from selling happy meals.
I like happy meals very much. :D



Random facts
Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia
combined.

The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

[James_Potter]

Pisan Zapra is a Malaysian term meaning the time needed to eat a banana.
Source: Times Online (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2759260.ece).

[thejdw]

It is a sad state of affairs when 60% of McDonald's profits come from meals that aren't happy.
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/mcchick.jpg

[ridingwithscissors]

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/mcchick.jpg
uurgh.. :eek:

[thejdw]

uurgh.. :eek:
Never eat at mc donalds!!!

[oneisenough]

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to
death.:eek:
(Creepy:rolleyes: .)

[dave_the_b]

You can not lick your own elbow.





































I bet you just tried:D :D :D :D

[oneisenough]

I bet you just tried:D :D :D :D
nope... but i did when i first heard of it:D ;)

[surfer1024]

Random fact: My name is Zachary Wenner (When-ner, Not Weiner lol)

[Into the blue]

Did you know million-to-one chances succeed nine times out of ten.

[surfer1024]

Did you know million-to-one chances succeed nine times out of ten.
Huhh????:confused: :confused:

[oneisenough]

Huhh????:confused: :confused:
thats what i said!!:confused:

[forrestunifreak]

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.


Along with "No." Right?

[foforackard]

the average pencil can draw a line 35 miles long.

[James_Potter]

Along with "No." Right?
Nah, because that does not contain a verb, so it isn't a sentence.

[mcnuggets300]

not a grammatically correct sentence anyway

[Hazmat]

1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.

3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks -otherwise it will digest itself.

4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

5. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

6. Every person has a unique tongue print.

7. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.

9. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

10. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

11. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

12. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill
a small sized dog.

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

14. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

15. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

16. American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

17. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

[Borges]

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
Which part of that makes her qualify for the label "life-size"?

[peleschramm]

dracula actually existed, except he wasnt really a vampire. he was just an evil guy with rabies who bit people and infected them.(from what i hear)

[Jack_C-B]

The man who invented electricity was actually a very poor man and he stayed that way till the grave.

[wickedbob]

dracula actually existed, except he wasnt really a vampire. he was just an evil guy with rabies who bit people and infected them.(from what i hear)

Wrong. Rabies will kill you. He was an emperor for sure maybe in Romania, I think. He had a disease which makes you pale, your gums recede, and sensitive to sun light. All these things are traits of a "vampire". Hes was indeed an evil man. There were stakes outside of his castle which he would hang men from. It was said he would drink there blood, yet another "vampire" trait. It is not exactly know whether this is true or not. As for his name I used to know about it. I am almost certain dracula is either a shorted version of a common name or his fathers name.

[peleschramm]

Wrong. Rabies will kill you. He was an emperor for sure maybe in Romania, I think. He had a disease which makes you pale, your gums recede, and sensitive to sun light. All these things are traits of a "vampire". Hes was indeed an evil man. There were stakes outside of his castle which he would hang men from. It was said he would drink there blood, yet another "vampire" trait. It is not exactly know whether this is true or not. As for his name I used to know about it. I am almost certain dracula is either a shorted version of a common name or his fathers name.
did i say the rabies didnt kill him? no. i just said that he got rabies and bit people. these dont cancel each other out.

[forrestunifreak]

did i say the rabies didnt kill him? no. i just said that he got rabies and bit people. these dont cancel each other out.

Well, it's kind of hard to bite people when you are dead... :p

[dudewithasock]

14. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

Random fact: That...is freaking awesome.

[ridingwithscissors]

As for his name I used to know about it.
I'm pretty sure it was Vlad the Impaler, also known as Vlad Dracula.

[Hazmat]

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

An old law in Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. (The suits or the astronauts?)

In the late 1700's, many houses consisted of a large room with only one chair. Commonly, a long wideboard was folded down from the wall and used for dining. The "head of the household" always sat in the chair while everyone else ate sitting on the floor. Once in a while an invited guest would be offered to sit in this chair during a meal whom was almost always a man. To sit-in the chair meant you were important and in charge. Sitting in the chair, one was called the "chair man." Today, in business, we use the expression/title "Chairman."

[jamessd]

I'm pretty sure it was Vlad the Impaler.

And his dad was Dracul. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_the_Impaler :rolleyes:

[oneisenough]

10. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.


and people say doctors are smart!?:p

[Grinn]

If your parents don't have kids, there's a good chance you won't either.

[James_Potter]

If your parents don't have kids, there's a good chance you won't either.
What if you were adopted?

[Grinn]

I don't think that changes the fact... :?

[James_Potter]

Sure it does, because the original fact implies that your parents not having kids causes you to not exist in the first place, thereby rendering it impossible for you to have kids. But if you're adopted, then your parents might have never had kids but you do indeed still exist, and so you can still have kids yourself.

[Grinn]

Yes, but speaking biologically...well, you get it. :)

[peleschramm]

Sure it does, because the original fact implies that your parents not having kids causes you to not exist in the first place, thereby rendering it impossible for you to have kids. But if you're adopted, then your parents might have never had kids but you do indeed still exist, and so you can still have kids yourself.
yea, u c, if youre adopted the ones who raise you aren't your real parents. they may act like it, but they aren't really.

[saskatchewanian]

yea, u c, if youre adopted the ones who raise you aren't your real parents. they may act like it, but they aren't really.
sure they are parents just not biologically.

If they are parenting are they not parents?

[peleschramm]

sure they are parents just not biologically.

If they are parenting are they not parents?
technically no. they are serving as parents and taking the parents place. they are parenting, but no they are not parents. they do raise you, but your dna does not match theirs. not to dis those who adopt a child, but they aren't parents, though they are symbolically and metaphorically, just not technically.
but this is a stupid argument since neither side can win since its all about opinion and interpretation of the definition of the word parent.

[johnfoss]

dracula actually existed, except he wasnt really a vampire.Unfortunately, nobody was really a vampire. But I just caught the second half of a thing on the History Channel about "The Real Dracula." "Vlad the Impaler" was what he was known as, after he'd established his reputation in the 1450s-1460s Wallach Empire (now Romania). His real name was Vlad Tepes. His father was the king and this title passed to him. Also his father was given a special name by the Catholic church, Dracul, which meant "wings of the dragon" or something similar. I think this title was bestowed upon him from keeping the Turks/Ottomans/Muslims from overrunning the more Christian Wallach Empire and areas to the north.

"Dracula" means "Son of Dracul." Vlad got his impaling reputation after regaining his throne (it's a long story and I'm already probably getting some of it wrong) and impaling lots of people. This means to kill them by hanging them on sticks in the ground, kind of like crucifiction in its gruesomeness. Among other atrocities, apparently he (and his army) impaled several thousand Turkish soldiers after defeating them in his homeland. He was a bad, bad guy.

There were also stories of how he would have some of the blood collected from his impaling victims and dip his bread in it at dinner. Eww. For a few years he was in prison in another country after being militarily ousted from his. While in there, he reportedly bribed his guards to bring him small animals and birds, which he tortured and impaled. I think today we would call this mental illness.

Anyway, when he died (around 1475) his head was delivered to the leader of his Turkish enemies to prove it. The rest of his body was entombed beneath the altar in a church he had had commissioned while he was king. In 1931 his tomb was excavated by the Romanian government, and the casket and body were not in there. What happened to them is apparently unknown.

Anyway, that's how I remember it. Rabies was not mentioned.

[peleschramm]

Unfortunately, nobody was really a vampire. But I just caught the second half of a thing on the History Channel about "The Real Dracula." "Vlad the Impaler" was what he was known as, after he'd established his reputation in the 1450s-1460s Wallach Empire (now Romania). His real name was Vlad Tepes. His father was the king and this title passed to him. Also his father was given a special name by the Catholic church, Dracul, which meant "wings of the dragon" or something similar. I think this title was bestowed upon him from keeping the Turks/Ottomans/Muslims from overrunning the more Christian Wallach Empire and areas to the north.

"Dracula" means "Son of Dracul." Vlad got his impaling reputation after regaining his throne (it's a long story and I'm already probably getting some of it wrong) and impaling lots of people. This means to kill them by hanging them on sticks in the ground, kind of like crucifiction in its gruesomeness. Among other atrocities, apparently he (and his army) impaled several thousand Turkish soldiers after defeating them in his homeland. He was a bad, bad guy.

There were also stories of how he would have some of the blood collected from his impaling victims and dip his bread in it at dinner. Eww. For a few years he was in prison in another country after being militarily ousted from his. While in there, he reportedly bribed his guards to bring him small animals and birds, which he tortured and impaled. I think today we would call this mental illness.

Anyway, when he died (around 1475) his head was delivered to the leader of his Turkish enemies to prove it. The rest of his body was entombed beneath the altar in a church he had had commissioned while he was king. In 1931 his tomb was excavated by the Romanian government, and the casket and body were not in there. What happened to them is apparently unknown.

Anyway, that's how I remember it. Rabies was not mentioned.
hah ok. apparently the guy who told me he had rabies was wrong...

[Mikeswarbrick]

not to dis those who adopt a child, but they aren't parents, though they are symbolically and metaphorically, just not technically.
but this is a stupid argument since neither side can win since its all about opinion and interpretation of the definition of the word parent.

A father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian.

The definition mate. Give it a read and try to concentrate more in English, I have seen better English from people who don't speak it day by day.


Cheers,

[kington99]

A father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian.

The definition mate. Give it a read and try to concentrate more in English, I have seen better English from people who don't speak it day by day.


Cheers,


Mike your recently attained adulthood is showing, you pwned him proper.

[oneisenough]

random fact:

this is the first thread that i have ever created to reach 100+ replies

and this is my 401 st post

[Bondo]

The most dangerous animal is the deer. 200 people every year die from hitting them.

Picture windows kill 2 million birds every year.

I just killed a six-pack.

b u r p

[Sir Wojak]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.

Seriously.

[oneisenough]

i learned that in health the other day but couldnt remember how to spell it. thats awesome!:D

[peleschramm]

A father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian.

The definition mate. Give it a read and try to concentrate more in English, I have seen better English from people who don't speak it day by day.


Cheers,
what about this definition:
"any animal, organism, or plant in relation to its offspring"
thats what im saying by how this is a stupid argument. different people/dictionaries define it differently. so therefore, its impossible to prove one another wrong, since we have both proved ourselves right.

[thejdw]

"There is next to nothing that proves thats Jesus existed", if anybody has any please post

[jamessd]

"There is next to nothing that proves thats Jesus existed", if anybody has any please post

I don't think anybody ever said there was - it's just a belief isn't it, and if beliefs make people feel better then great, good for them.

[thejdw]

I don't think anybody ever said there was - it's just a belief isn't it, and if beliefs make people feel better then great, good for them.
True

[Triball]

Isn't it a fact that Jesus really lived?

[James_Potter]

"There is next to nothing that proves thats Jesus existed", if anybody has any please post
Way to turn a perfectly friendly thread into a religious debate!!
I think Godwin's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law) applies to Jesus too.

[forrestunifreak]

"There is next to nothing that proves thats Jesus existed"

....Except for all the eye witnesses and historians.


That holds about as much water as "There is next to nothing that proves thats Julius Ceaser existed".

[thejdw]

....Except for all the eye witnesses and historians.


That holds about as much water as "There is next to nothing that proves thats Julius Ceaser existed".
hmmm historians, you got any links for that?

Way to turn a perfectly friendly thread into a religious debate!!
I think Godwin's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law) applies to Jesus too.
Mabey i should switch threads

[UniBrier]

There is next to nothing that proves I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts. And that is a random fact.

[thejdw]

There is next to nothing that proves I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts. And that is a random fact.
A picture of you with them would be a start ;)

[Tomahawk]

The most dangerous animal is the deer. 200 people every year die from hitting them.
Actually, the animal responsible for the most human deaths is the mosquito. And yes, it is an animal :)

150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

50 people die each year from falling out of bed.

Pollen can travel up to 500 miles a day.

Cats can hear sonic sound.

Cat's pee glows under a blacklight.

Jazz fans and gun owners are among the most sexually active Americans.

Flies see in slow motion- tha't why they usually get away when you have a fly swatter ;)

Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R.

[Tomahawk]

The most dangerous animal is the deer. 200 people every year die from hitting them.
Actually, the animal responsible for the most human deaths is the mosquito. And yes, it is an animal :)

150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

50 people die each year from falling out of bed.

Pollen can travel up to 500 miles a day.

Cats can hear sonic sound.

Cat's pee glows under a blacklight.

Jazz fans and gun owners are among the most sexually active Americans.

Flies see in slow motion- tha't why they usually get away when you have a fly swatter ;)

Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R.

[kington99]

Cats can hear sonic sound.



sonic sound? sonic sound?


Humans can see visible things.

[Into the blue]

I didn't see that tree root that forced a UPD the other day.

[oneisenough]

a blue whales heart is about the size of a Volkswagen:eek: . an average sized human could crawl in the cavities.!

[habbywall]

Actually, the animal responsible for the most human deaths is the mosquito. And yes, it is an animal :)


Maybe of all time, but I do believe that deer have cause the most deaths each year.

To add to this thread:
Swimmers are the most sexually active athletes.

[James_Potter]

Swimmers are the most sexually active athletes.
What about professional fornicators?

[peleschramm]

What about professional fornicators?
well, we first have 2 decide if sex is a form of athleticism...:p

[Jerrick]

I wouldn't say so, you dont burn much calories while having sex.

[peleschramm]

I wouldn't say so, you dont burn much calories while having sex.
is that a fact?

[Det-riot]

Swimmers are the most sexually active athletes.
hahah, you dont know how often i think to myself "damn, there are a lot of whores who swim"

while on swimmers (haha) ...


Swimmers seem to only hang out with swimmers (if you swim you know what i mean)

[Apoc56]

hahah, you dont know how often i think to myself "damn, there are a lot of whores who swim"

while on swimmers (haha) ...


Swimmers seem to only hang out with swimmers (if you swim you know what i mean)
heh, I know exactly what you mean. I'm a competitive swimmer, and its pretty much the truth. Nearly all my friends are swimmers.

And the sex thing, it may be because of all the practice undulating our hips swimming butterfly that makes some (repeat: Some) swimmers more... active :)

[bob1993]

The man who invented electricity was actually a very poor man and he stayed that way till the grave.
he didn't invented electricity he discovered it.

[schoesno1]

Random Fact: A Blue Whales tongue weighs more than an elephant

Random Fact: Americans consume 42 tons of aspirin every day

Random Fact: the average human will grow 590 miles of hair in their lifetime

[thejdw]

sonic sound? sonic sound?


Humans can see visible things.
Mabey he means super sonic

[kington99]

Mabey he means super sonic

that would also make no sense, sound that travels faster than the speed of sound? I suspect he meant that they can hear ultrasound, i.e. frequenices over 20kHz

[Hazmat]

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish have no brains.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

[thejdw]

that would also make no sense, sound that travels faster than the speed of sound? I suspect he meant that they can hear ultrasound, i.e. frequenices over 20kHz
Or this guy?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Sonic_the_hedgehog_2006_game.png

[Hazmat]

Or this guy?
:D I was thinking of this guy actually. :D

[kington99]

:D I was thinking of this guy actually. (http://supersaiyan.oldiblog.com/sites/images/photos/296/photo_296920.jpg) :D

care to try that link again?

[Hazmat]

care to try that link again?
I posted a picture of it. :D

[oneisenough]

Hazmat---jw...where do you get all these, and do you just copy from a huge list, b/c soem are repeats. jw

[James_Potter]

The at sign -- @ -- is called a "Monkey" or "Monkey's Tail" in many European states.
It's called a "Snail" in Hebrew, Esperanto, and Ukrainian.
It's called a "Dog" by the Russians, and a "Duckling" by the Greeks.
The Swedes and Danish think it's an "Elephant's Trunk."
The Hungarians say it's a "Maggot."
Amerikans are so boring.

@ in other languages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#.22Commercial_at.22_in_other_languages).

[forrestunifreak]

The at sign -- @ -- is called a "Monkey" or "Monkey's Tail" in many European states.
It's called a "Snail" in Hebrew, Esperanto, and Ukrainian.
It's called a "Dog" by the Russians, and a "Duckling" by the Greeks.
The Swedes and Danish think it's an "Elephant's Trunk."
The Hungarians say it's a "Maggot."
Amerikans are so boring.

@ in other languages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#.22Commercial_at.22_in_other_languages).

That sounds rather silly.


forrestuni(Monkeystail)gmail(dot)com

[UniBrier]

A picture of you with them would be a start ;)This picture proves I have a Lovely Coconut that my father carved and brought home after his WWII service.

But there is still next to nothing that proves I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.

[James_Potter]

That sounds rather silly.
forrestuni(Monkeystail)gmail(dot)com
Silliness > boringness

That is another fact/.

[thejdw]

Hazmat---jw...where do you get all these, and do you just copy from a huge list, b/c some are repeats. jw
www.Google.co.uk/ www.google.com.au

[Naomi]

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.



Rubbish! I have seen a flea jump. It was nothing like a human jumping the length of a field. It seemed quite an insignificant event.


Nao ;-)

[johnfoss]

It seemed quite an insignificant event.
To you, or to the flea?

[Chris.James]

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish have no brains.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
two of these scream as incorrect

the tongue is really 18 muscles that work in unison. The cardiac muscle does the most work in a lifetime and the masseter (jaw muscle) is the "strongest" in that it can exert the most force on an external object

and the dolphin and human are not the only animals that have sex for fun. The bonobo also does.

The starfish one is correct however. But it is also misleading, they truly lack a brain but they have many sensory inputs. They have nerve rings that circle the mouth and coordinate movement, feeding, among other things.

[oneisenough]

www.Google.co.uk/ www.google.com.au
well i know about google:p , but i didnt just search for random facts on google when i posted, i got them from school, and emails and things that i here in regular life, so i was just wondering if he got them from someplace like that.

fact:The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

[Apoc56]

Speaking of tongues, those who choose to have their tongues split (I know....) can control both halves separately, thats pretty cool and disturbing.

[James_Potter]

Speaking of tongues, those who choose to have their tongues split (I know....) can control both halves separately, thats pretty cool and disturbing.
Like in Defect.

[Hazmat]

Hazmat---jw...where do you get all these, and do you just copy from a huge list, b/c soem are repeats. jw
I have a big folder full of unicycles, anime, funnies, cars that i like and whatnot. :D

[Naomi]

To you, or to the flea?


I wasn't on sufficiently intimate terms with the flea as to be able to ask it.


Nao

[mcnuggets300]

You can not lick your own elbow.

my friend can, no joke

[Mikefule]

The word "gullible" is not in the Concise Oxford Dictionary.

There has never been a law passed making the Union Jack (sometimes called the Union Flag) the official flag of Britain.

[mcnuggets300]

Speaking of tongues, those who choose to have their tongues split (I know....) can control both halves separately, thats pretty cool and disturbing.
tongue bifurcation


There has never been a law passed making the Union Jack (sometimes called the Union Flag) the official flag of Britain.
i think its supposed to be called the Union Flag, but its called the union jack when at sea on a ship

[Mikefule]

i think its supposed to be called the Union Flag, but its called the union jack when at sea on a ship

That is a modern myth. The two names are in fact interchangeable, whatever the circumstances in which they are flown.

A jack is a flag flown on a jackstaff on a ship. The Union Flag is flown on the jackstaff in certain circumstances. However, the name "Union Jack" is not derived from that usage. People think it is because it sounds like it ought to be.

From a very long article in Wikipedia: <<The Flag Institute, the vexillological organisation for the United Kingdom, asserts that this is not the case and is a "relatively recent idea". It also states "the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either [the Union Jack or the Union Flag] name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that 'the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag'.">>

[oneisenough]

The word "gullible" is not in the Concise Oxford Dictionary.
hmmmm..... i wonder ho many people actually tried this!!!:D :p

[Naomi]

hmmmm..... i wonder ho many people actually tried this!!!:D :p


Dunno: in here he should have probably said Webster's

Nao

[monkeyman]

Wenis is a funny word, we killed it last year though.

Random fact: A whales penis is called a dork.

Random unfact: No (http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/006133.htm) it's not.

Most flies' wings beat in the key of F.

Most toilets flush in the key of Eb.

Yes, well, duh. There are 12 pitches (notes) used in Western Music. 7 of those are used in F Major (f is repeated in the 8 note scale). That's just with Major though. If we include the natural minor scale, 10 pitches are used. The same applies to the key of Eb.

Here's to a generation's worth of fake chain emails.

[Mikefule]

But allowing for a slight mistake in terminology, try, "Most flies' wings buzz the note F" or, "Most toilets flush to the note Eb," and there is no obvious reason why it should be untrue.

The flies' wings one is most convincing because it is a single sound, at quite a distinct pitch. If the wings typically beat at a standard frequency, then it will have a note value of some sort. The toilets one is less convincing because there are so many sources and types of sound.

[James_Potter]

I've heard actually that you can tell roughly what temperature it is by the note that flies' wings buzz in...I don't remember where I read that, but chyeah.

[Mikefule]

Dunno: in here he should have probably said Webster's

Nao

Is Websters some damn' fool colonial dictionary, or something? If so, there may be all sorts of made up words and spellings in there. "Tomayto", "potarto", sidewalk, railroad, color, humor, gray, encyclopedia, etiology, aluminum...

[oneisenough]

my shins *and butt hurt:p

* i guess thats not random, most people on these forums probably have sore shins:D

[Hazmat]

In 2001, St. Patrick's Day was banned in Ireland because of the scare caused by foot and mouth disease

The "Mexican Hat Dance" is the official dance of Mexico.

A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body.

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

Amish people do not believe in the use of aerosal air fresheners.

Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.

Approximately 1 billion stamps are produced in Australia annually.

Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water.

Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.

DC-10, the name of an airplane stands for "Douglas Commercial."

Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make.

Fires onland generally move faster uphill than downhill.

[Naomi]

But allowing for a slight mistake in terminology, try, "Most flies' wings buzz the note F" or, "Most toilets flush to the note Eb," and there is no obvious reason why it should be untrue.

The flies' wings one is most convincing because it is a single sound, at quite a distinct pitch. If the wings typically beat at a standard frequency, then it will have a note value of some sort. The toilets one is less convincing because there are so many sources and types of sound.

I would think that the fly's wing note must vary from species to species, or at the very least vary with the size of the fly. Somewhat akin to the way that large birds wings beat far more slowly than the likes of wrens and humming birds. I suspect the most you could say is that species x has wings that vibrate at y Hz, give or take the odd wing beat or two.


On birds: a recent avian visitor to the UK was an american robin. A very rare visitor here, and so it attracted the usual mass of twitching bird-watchers all eager to see it, much to the amusement and sometimes annoyance of the locals. One afternoon, having failed to see their quarry all day, they were surprised when one of the said locals ran down the hillside towards them, dressed in a red caped costume, flapping his arms wildly: an American Robin, complete with mask.

Postscript: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3545679.stm

Nao

[Sir Wojak]

Contrary to popular belief you do NOT use only 10% of your brain at one time.

[johnfoss]

Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water.I must be in the 25%. Water never smelled that bad!

Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.Being married can shorten it instantly. Be a good husband!

DC-10, the name of an airplane stands for "Douglas Commercial."Which goes back to the DC-1, which was not very famous, but the DC-3 is one of the most famous aircraft of all time. It was Douglas Aircraft Company back then, and later McDonnell Douglas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas). In 1997 that company was swallowed up by Boeing.

Fires onland generally move faster uphill than downhill.Yeah. In the water they don't move well at all.

[thejdw]

Amish people do not believe in the use of aerosal air fresheners.

Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.

Approximately 1 billion stamps are produced in Australia annually.

Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water.

Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.

DC-10, the name of an airplane stands for "Douglas Commercial."

But surley being in a relation ship will do that same?

[James_Potter]

Contrary to popular belief you do NOT use only 10% of your brain at one time.
So...how much do you use?

[Hazmat]

The largest ketchup bottle in the world is a 170 feet tall and is located in Collinsville, Illinois

The most famous movie theatre is the "Chinese Theatre" located in Los Angeles, USA.

It takes 72 minutes for the restaurant at the top of the CN Tower to make one revolution.

The CN Tower located in Toronto, Ontario Canada took a total construction time of 40 months to complete.

The most popular vacation destinations for Americans in 1956 was Niagara Falls.

The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude.

The North of Scotland's oldest inhabited castle is Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye.

The oldest inhabited house in Scotland is the Traquair Castle

The only flying saucer launch pad in the world is located in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada.

The Sears Tower consists of nine framed tubes, which connects nine skyscrapers as one building.

The Sears Tower in Chicago contains enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles.

The Sears Tower located in Chicago, Illinois is made up 76,000 tons of steel.

The steepest street in the world is Baldwin Street located in Dunedin, New Zealand.

The tallest freestanding sculpture in the world is Chief Crazy Horse in South Dakota, USA.

The world's tallest roller coaster is located in England and reaches a peak height of 72 meters.

There are places in Saskatchewan called Elbow, Eyebrow, and Drinkwater.

There is enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to pave a two lane highway from San Francisco to New York

There was a post office on the Russian space station Mir.

Tomatina is the legendary Spanish tomato-throwing festival held in Bunol, Spain.

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.

98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set.

A Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

A washroom that was built by Lam Sai-wing is the world's most expensive washroom.

About 26 per cent of all indoor water used by households in Sydney, Australia are for laundry.

About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket.

America's favorite Crayola crayon color is blue.

Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.

Americans on average use about 580 pounds of paper per year per person.

An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

[Sir Wojak]

So...how much do you use?
Well it varies with what we are doing and everything. But to my understanding the 10% myth came from the belief that we only use 10% of our brains for conscious thought. The rest is for involentary actions, one which we don't think about. (heard beating, digesting, feelings, senses)
Some people say that we use 100% of our brains 100% of the time, but I don't think that this is correct either. I haven't done enough research to disprove this though. And I don't really care all that much either. I'll let the scientists argue about that. ;)=

Anyway back on Topic:

On average a person eats 4 spiders a year while he/she is asleep.

[saskatchewanian]

Well it varies with what we are doing and everything. But to my understanding the 10% myth came from the belief that we only use 10% of our brains for conscious thought. The rest is for involentary actions, one which we don't think about. (heard beating, digesting, feelings, senses)
Some people say that we use 100% of our brains 100% of the time, but I don't think that this is correct either. I haven't done enough research to disprove this though. And I don't really care all that much either. I'll let the scientists argue about that. ;)=

Anyway back on Topic:

On average a person eats 4 spiders a year while he/she is asleep.
I cant remember which science magazine i read it in but apparently more of your brain is active when you are not actively thinking about something. When you are "using" your brain there is a higher level of activity in certain areas and other areas quiet down.

[James_Potter]

I cant remember which science magazine i read it in but apparently more of your brain is active when you are not actively thinking about something. When you are "using" your brain there is a higher level of activity in certain areas and other areas quiet down.
Chyeah, they've done studies on like Buddhist monks who spend hours a day meditating, and...yeah. Basically what you said.

[oneisenough]

On average a person eats 4 spiders a year while he/she is asleep.



acctually... this is not true. there is no evidence that this occurs. however, it has been proved that *spiders are scared of people and try to get away when they here our breathing*. they only bite if they feel threatened and cannot escape. this goes for most spider, i am not sure about the big & highly poisiones ones though.


* i got this from the mythbusters website on one of their tests

[tobbogonist]

A man will sometimes bend over after he has dropped something of value.
The same rule goes for a women unless she has a man with her, then the man will bend over and she will make it some how his fault the she dropped the item.

[johnfoss]

The world's tallest roller coaster is located in England and reaches a peak height of 72 meters. Sorry, that one's well out of date. The current record is held by Kingda Ka (http://www.ultimaterollercoaster.com/news/stories/092904_01.shtml), at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ.
Height: 138.898m (456')
Speed: 205.996kph (128mph)
This ride opened in 2005.

This is similar to (a little taller and faster than) the Top Thrill Dragster (http://unicycling.smugmug.com/gallery/728955#32019978), which opened at Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH in 2004, and is quite a rush to ride on!

But my favorite is still Millenium Force (http://unicycling.smugmug.com/gallery/728955#32020088), over on the other side of the park. It's the first roller coaster to top 300' and reaches speeds of 92mph.

[peleschramm]

On average a person eats 4 spiders a year while he/she is asleep.
I think i once heard 8 in one lifetime... but idk.

[Tomahawk]

Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.

desert turtles can't jump :)

[oneisenough]

I think i once heard 8 in one lifetime... but idk.
thats what i heard to but:
acctually... this is not true. there is no evidence that this occurs. however, it has been proved that *spiders are scared of people and try to get away when they here our breathing*. they only bite if they feel threatened and cannot escape. this goes for most spider, i am not sure about the big & highly poisiones ones though.


* i got this from the mythbusters website on one of their tests

[James_Potter]

desert turtles can't jump :)
Neither can worms, or dogs with no legs.

I think actually the "fact" is supposed to be something like they're the only mammal that can't jump.

[oneisenough]

Neither can worms, or dogs with no legs.

I think actually the "fact" is supposed to be something like they're the only mammal that can't jump.
niether can elephats.

and turtles are mammals, are they? i though the were reptiles.:confused:

i cold be wrong though

[James_Potter]

Hazmat said that elephants are the only animal that can't jump, which clearly is not true, because there are many animals that can't jump such as turtles. But supposedly elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.

[john_childs]

Here's a really random fact. A cow fell from a 200 foot cliff and landed on a minivan driving below (http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_110605WAB_falling_cow_hits_minivan_JM.1e34a65e4.html).

Fetchez la vache!

[James_Potter]

Here's a really random fact. A cow fell from a 200 foot cliff and landed on a minivan driving below (http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_110605WAB_falling_cow_hits_minivan_JM.1e34a65e4.html).

Fetchez la vache!
I know someone who wanted to go cow tipping, so one day he decided to, and so he tipped a cow, but he tipped it on the edge of a hill, and so it rolled down the hill, and it died.

[harper]

Hazmat said that elephants are the only animal that can't jump, which clearly is not true, because there are many animals that can't jump such as turtles. But supposedly elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.

I don't think whales jump that well. They can leave the water but is that called jumping in the conventional sense? I would like to see a hippopotamus jump. Watching a mole or a sea lion jump might also be entertaining.

[peleschramm]

I don't think whales jump that well. They can leave the water but is that called jumping in the conventional sense? I would like to see a hippopotamus jump. Watching a mole or a sea lion jump might also be entertaining.
im quite positive all those can jump. and are whales even mammals? i thought they were something else.

[oneisenough]

im quite positive all those can jump. and are whales even mammals? i thought they were something else.
yea they are mammals.

[john_childs]

I know someone who wanted to go cow tipping, so one day he decided to, and so he tipped a cow, but he tipped it on the edge of a hill, and so it rolled down the hill, and it died.
Impossible, cause cow tipping does not happen.

[UniBrier]

If they give good service I don't see why you shouldn't tip a cow well.

[Tomahawk]

150 PEOPLE ARE KILLED EACH YEAR BY FALLING coconuts.

[Naomi]

The Sandtiger shark is believed to be unique in the animal kingsom. Its young are cannibalistic BEFORE THEY ARE BORN. Apparently by birth their numbers are usually down to two. Ensures bigger healthier young.

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Two forms of within-the-womb cannibalism are known in sharks. The most extreme form of intrauterine cannibalism — in which the largest and strongest embryo actually consumes its lesser womb-mates — is termed "embryophagy" or, more colorfully, "adelphophagy" — literally "eating one's brother". It was discovered accidentally in 1948, when a researcher probing the uteri of a late-term Sandtiger Shark (Carcharias taurus) was startled by a bite on the hand. To date, adelphophagy is known only in the Sandtiger.

Nao

[Mikefule]

From Wikipedia

Intrauterine cannibalism is a behaviour in some carnivorous species, in which multiple embryos are created at impregnation, but only one or two are born. The larger or stronger ones consume their less-developed siblings as a source of nutrients.

In adelphophagy, the fetus eats sibling embryos, while in oophagy it feeds on eggs.[8]

Intrauterine cannibalism is known to occur in lamnoid sharks[9] and in the Fire Salamander,[10] as well as in some teleost fishes.[8] The Carboniferous chimaera, Delphyodontos dacriformes, is suspected of having practiced intrauterine cannibalism, also, due to the sharp teeth of the recently born (or possibly aborted) juveniles (adults are unknown), and the presence of fecal matter in the juveniles' guts.[11]

[Triball]

150 PEOPLE ARE KILLED EACH YEAR BY FALLING coconuts.

Every year more people die by a falling coconut than sharks. But a falling coconut wouldn't be so great for a horror movie:D

[Zzagg]

Every year more people die by a falling coconut than sharks. But a falling coconut wouldn't be so great for a horror movie:DWhat about "The return of the doomed adelphophagic coconut"?:D

[Triball]

What does adelphophagic mean? I googled it and got nothing:D But yeah, sounds dangerous

[Zzagg]

scroll 3 post up (Mikefule's post):rolleyes: ;)

[Triball]

A coconut eating another coconut? That would be the end of coconuts:eek: and slightly boring:p

[oneisenough]

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its
body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

("Honey, I'm home. What the..?!"):D :p

[oneisenough]

No body has anymore:confused: ??!!:( i loved redaing stuff that got posted in here:)

[Hazmat]

:D Here's some more. :D

A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake sold on eBay.

Many years ago, a fish was caught that was 33 inches long and seemed to be heavier than it should.

38% of Americans eat breakfast everyday.

850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.

95% of the entire lemon crop produced in the U.S. is from California and Arizona.

A common drink for Tibetans is Butter Tea which is made out of butter, salt, and brick tea.

A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar.

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.

After chocolate and vanilla, orange is considered the world's most favorite flavour.

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.

All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building

Americans consume the most peanut butter in the world.

Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.

Americans eat approximately 20 pounds of pasta per person each year.

An American chews an average of 300 sticks of gum in a year.

An average American eats approximately 60 hot dogs per year.

An egg shell can have up to 17,000 tiny pores on its surface.

An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.

Annually, an Australian eats 15 kg of bananas, which comes out to 27 meters of bananas.

Annually, British people eat more than 15 pounds of beans.

Another name for licorice is "Sweet Wood" or "Spanish Juice."

Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year.

[glen]

ow ow ow. I just read this whole thread and my bullshit detector is hurting from over-use.

Fact: "Facts" spread through emails are wrong. 100% of the time.

Ok, maybe not ALL of them, but even the ones that are plausible are usually too vague to be of any use. 98% of American homes have a TV? Here's a true stat for ya, No American homes have a TV. Course, I'm talking about year zero. What year are you talking about?

Fact: A statement such as, x and y are the only animals that have sex for pleasure means that scientists know how to measure the thought process of every type of animal while having sex, and they have done so.

One a more serious note:

-Lemmings don't commit mass suicide

-If there are 50 people in a room, there is a ~97% chance that two or more share the same birthday

-Superheating of water will only occur if the container is so clean there is nowhere for nucleation to occur. So for the safety of your loved ones, don't do the dishes. Ever.

[Naomi]

[QUOTE=Hazmat]:D Here's some more. :D

Many years ago, a fish was caught that was 33 inches long and seemed to be heavier than it should.
QUOTE]


Is that just half the random fact? Why was it heavier?


Nao

[Hazmat]

Is that just half the random fact? Why was it heavier? Nao
:D It's still a random fact regardless. :D

[kington99]

-Superheating of water will only occur if the container is so clean there is nowhere for nucleation to occur. So for the safety of your loved ones, don't do the dishes. Ever.

yes this one erked me too, theoretically exactly the same thing could occur when sticking a pan on the stove, if there wasnt a single tiny imperfection in the entire wetted surface. One minute scratch will be enough to stop this phenomenon.

[kington99]

Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.

An average American eats approximately 60 hot dogs per year.


Apparently it was 80 a year in 2000.

[oneisenough]

Thanks Haz!:D

those are some good ones!

[Mikefule]

Every year more people die by a falling coconut than sharks. But a falling coconut wouldn't be so great for a horror movie:D

Most years, no one at all is killed by a falling shark.

[thejdw]

Most years, no one at all is killed by a falling shark.
Email the jaws guys, that would be good for a film

[James_Potter]

The world's oldest known dildo is a siltstone 20-centimeter phallus from the Upper Palaeolithic period 30,000 years ago that was found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm Germany.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo

[thejdw]

-Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

-What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

-"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

-More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

-Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. (I wonder in what directions though)

-The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

[Mikefule]

The world's oldest known dildo is a siltstone 20-centimeter phallus from the Upper Palaeolithic period 30,000 years ago that was found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm Germany.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo

Leaving aside the question of why you were searching Wikipedia for "dildo"...

I don't know for sure, but I wonder if that is one of the occasional "hoax" amendments to Wikipedia. Palaeothic is the old stone age, a time of hunting and simple herdsmanship. Tools were often made of bone or wood, and stone tools were the height of technology. They made some very fine stone tools, but whether they would have invested the considerable time and effort to make a stone sex toy is an open question. Not to put too fine a point on it (ouch!) it would have to be well finished, and smooth, if it were to be used for the purpose suggested. Even then, shall we say it wouldn't be very warm or, er, pleasant.

Without DNA evidence, I'd suggest "ritual item" rather than "dildo" might be a safer term for anything resembling a penis. And why only 20 cm long?;)

[James_Potter]

I wasn't searching for it, someone else posted it on another random facts group thing.
Anyway, it goes on to say this:

A vase with a woman using a dildo depicted on it was found by scientists. This vase was made in the fifth century B.C.

So, at least we know that dildos were used in ancient times.
Unless it was indeed a hoax amendment, like you said, which is possible.

[Mikefule]

(1) I wasn't searching for it, someone else posted it on another random facts group thing.


(2) A vase with a woman using a dildo depicted on it was found by scientists. This vase was made in the fifth century B.C.

(3) So, at least we know that dildos were used in ancient times.



(1) Do we believe him, boys and girls?:D

(2) "Scientists"? heh heh!

(3) Although there is a huge gulf between the old stone age (palaeolithic hunters and herdsmen) and the 5th century BC (bronze age, classical Greece, complex social structures, architecture, poetry and philosophy).

[James_Potter]

(1) It's true, go here: http://community.livejournal.com/useless_facts/
(2) There's a fine line between science and pr0nning.
(3) True, but both can be considered "ancient times" I think.

[Mikefule]

[QUOTE=James_Potter]


Aha, the semantic argument...

Some people think the 1960s were ancient times.;)

[dan de man]

but they are ...

[jamessd]

:D Here's some more. :D

A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake sold on eBay.

Many years ago, a fish was caught that was 33 inches long and seemed to be heavier than it should.

38% of Americans eat breakfast everyday.

850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.

95% of the entire lemon crop produced in the U.S. is from California and Arizona.

A common drink for Tibetans is Butter Tea which is made out of butter, salt, and brick tea.

A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar.

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.

After chocolate and vanilla, orange is considered the world's most favorite flavour.

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.

All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building

Americans consume the most peanut butter in the world.

Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.

Americans eat approximately 20 pounds of pasta per person each year.

An American chews an average of 300 sticks of gum in a year.

An average American eats approximately 60 hot dogs per year.

An egg shell can have up to 17,000 tiny pores on its surface.

An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.

Annually, an Australian eats 15 kg of bananas, which comes out to 27 meters of bananas.

Annually, British people eat more than 15 pounds of beans.

Another name for licorice is "Sweet Wood" or "Spanish Juice."

Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year.
Although these are good, something makes meh think the lists are being copied in full form from some website only Hazmat knows and being passed off as someone elses :eek: :rolleyes:

But i spose that's what this thread is all about

[glen]

[QUOTE=Mikefule(3) Although there is a huge gulf between the old stone age (palaeolithic hunters and herdsmen) and the 5th century BC (bronze age, classical Greece, complex social structures, architecture, poetry and philosophy).[/QUOTE]

I agree. I mean, there were no civilizations in the palaeolithic era, but by the 5th century BC, Mesopotamia had already been an established monarchy for over quarter of a million years accroding to the Sumerian King List (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_king_list) :D

[Hazmat]

Although these are good, something makes meh think the lists are being copied in full form from some website only Hazmat knows and being passed off as someone elses :eek: :rolleyes:

But i spose that's what this thread is all about
1) Maybe. :p
2) Of course

[john_childs]

Some people think the 1960s were ancient times.;)
Newbies in the US consider anything in the time Before Clinton (B.C.) to be ancient times. Can you believe that there were actually US Presidents before Clinton?

The equivalent in the UK would be knowledge of politics in the period during and before Margaret Thatcher.

[UniBrier]

So, at least we know that dodos were used in ancient times.They certainly aren't in modern times considering they went extinct in the 17th century.

-The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!That must have been under an even older old desk chair.


And I don't remember anything prior to the '60s.

[dan de man]

makes sense

[Mikefule]

Can you believe that there were actually US Presidents before Clinton?

The equivalent in the UK would be knowledge of politics in the period during and before Margaret Thatcher.

A true story, and a powerful argument against universal suffrage:

Margaret Thatcher, a Conservative, came to power in 1979. She was the first woman prime minister, and had a very distinctive style of presentation and government, which polarised opinion in the country. You either loved her or hated her.

Thatcher won two more elections, becoming the first prime minister to win three in a row. She was then controversially forced out of office by a rebellion in her own party, and her successor, John Major won the next election. That made 4 consecutive Conservative victories.

Fast forward to 1997 - 18 years of Conservative government. An election is called for 1st May. It is the most important election for decades, because if Labour loses (again) then the party will probably collapse, leaving Britain as effectively a one party state. The labour leader is a charismatic young man with excellent presentation skills: Tony Blair. The battle between Blair and Major becomes intensely personal. This is the most bitterly fought election for a long time, and dominates the news and media.

And at work, only a day or two before the election, a colleague says, "Oh, I can't be bothered to vote." She is a married woman with a child, with a decent white collar job, a mortgage - one of the "target voters" for both main parties.

I try to persuade her of the importance of voting. Her response, after 18 years of the most controversial government of modern times...

"Why, who's in now?"

[Hazmat]

Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.

Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham fisted operators," a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e., pounded their fist).

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.

Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.

Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc. (A reader of this page stated that this statement is not true: Aerogel is the densest solid in the world at 1mg/cc.)

Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.

The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.

The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.

The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.

and

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

[thejdw]

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
Hahaha superstishion getting in the way of logic :rolleyes:

[Mikefule]

Hahaha superstishion getting in the way of logic :rolleyes:

Of course, if they had been logical, they wouldn't have been expending all that energy on building castles, or hitting each other with swords. Instead, they would have diverted it to peaceful and productive ventures to ensure prosperity for all.

[dan de man]

Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.

Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham fisted operators," a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e., pounded their fist).

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.

Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.

Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc. (A reader of this page stated that this statement is not true: Aerogel is the densest solid in the world at 1mg/cc.)

Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.

The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.

The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.

The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.

and

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
aero gel is the least dense substance!

[Hazmat]

aero gel is the least dense substance!
and that. :D

[dan de man]

and that. :D
what do you mean?

[dan de man]

Hi tom



can some one here enlighten me to what PHI is ?

[Hazmat]

what do you mean?
Never mind. I was thinking of something else. :D
Hi tom
can some one here enlighten me to what PHI is ?
Well in Greek, it's a letter of the alphabet. But it might mean something else. :D

[dan de man]

so was I

[thejdw]

Of course, if they had been logical, they wouldn't have been expending all that energy on building castles, or hitting each other with swords. Instead, they would have diverted it to peaceful and productive ventures to ensure prosperity for all.
if only gandhi had gotten his way now adays

[Zzagg]

-What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.Maybe in "ancient times" but I've never heard such an expression. For most french people "English kiss" is an oxymoron...:D
Talking from my experience I'd say this probably comes from the fact that french people usually kiss english people during a language trip in England, at the age of 12-13 y/o;)

[Zzagg]

Back to random facts:
it takes only 78 seconds for frenchman Alexis Lemaire to calculate the 13th root of a 200 figure number.
(I guess he hasn't installed mscalc.exe on his computer yet:D )

[mattsmith]

The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
I think you'll find that's "octothorpe". The word came out of Bell Labs in the 60's but there's some confusion over exactly who was responsible and how it came about.
There's a fairly comprehensive discursive on it here:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm


The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

Don't stop there. Tittle applies to a lot of letters and punctuation. Being a minute apex to any letter, including the Spanish circumflex on ñ and the cedilla (ç), it's also the name for the hebrew and arabic vowel-points and the name for pips on a dice.

[Triball]

We call the # sign "lojtra" or ladder in English

[harper]

aero gel is the least dense substance!

Where do you get this misinformation? Most (but not all) gases are less dense than Aero Gel.

[James_Potter]

Hahaha superstishion getting in the way of logic :rolleyes:
In the dictionary, superstition is defined as:

1 a: a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation
b: an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition
2: a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary

[thejdw]

In the dictionary, superstition is defined as:

1 a: a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation
b: an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition
2: a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary
thats still kind of backs be up

[James_Potter]

thats still kind of backs be up
What?

[Mikefule]

There is no such thing as "the dictionary". There are various dictionaries, each of which attempts within the limited space available to describe how language is used, not prescribe how it should be used.

[James_Potter]

Fiiiiiiine, the online Merriam Webster dictionary....

[thejdw]

Fiiiiiiine, the online Merriam Webster dictionary....
What?

[asthian]

If we moved our legs at the same rate as an ant, our movement would be 800 MPh (500 km/h).

[asthian]

If we moved our legs at the same rate as an ant, our movement would be 800 MPh (500 km/h).

[asthian]

Sorry for the double post.
trying to type while holding a big book of useless facts.

[Hazmat]

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.

US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.

Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.

98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.

A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.

Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

A “2 by 4″ is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.

It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

[burjzyntski]

RJ Reynolds (Tobacco) and Reynolds Wrap (foil, wrap, etc.) founders are brothers.

pie != pi

kangaroos cannot move backwards...

[Hazmat]

kangaroos cannot move backwards...
Nope, but they can give you a serious beating if they wanted too. :D