Random fact thread

[Artimis Whooves 1,576]

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It was a genuine attempt to help while not being a dick to the best of my knowledge and ability. If people think I failed at either or both, then I apologise.

 

 

The world record for drinking a yard of ale is 5 seconds!

How do you measure liquid in a measurement used for distance?

[Star Racer 198]

It took the gamers of Destiny over a week to finish the Taken King dlc.

[4april 374]

String Theory says that the world has 11 dimensions!!

[-Octavia- 1,176]

How do you measure liquid in a measurement used for distance?

A yard glass. It contains approximately 1.4 litres of liquid.

[Artimis Whooves 1,576]

A yard glass. It contains approximately 1.4 litres of liquid.

Thanks for the clarification.... I got really confused...

[best poni 1,518]

There are an estimated 15 trillion cells in the human body.

[prfan93 123]

In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, although it's never stated, Ernie gives the teens all their orders for free because he figured out their identities.

[DJW 142]

Thanks for the clarification.... I got really confused...

Yard of ale.

 

Many pubs/bars have one hanging up somewhere.

 

I've seen someone do a 'yard' of Guinness; it took 20 minutes to settle... and about 2 minutes to drink. A decent effort as the guy had about 8 pints of the stuff in him already and was standing on the bucket we had used to make the punch we drank at the BBQ.

 

 

To be pedandic, you can measure something in any dimentionally inconsistent manner, so long as the other dimensions are contextually obvious or previously stated ('weight' being a common one).

Eg. If the 'standard' cross sectional area of a volume is fixed, then you can refer to the total volume in terms of it's length/height.

Edited October 6, 2015 by DJW

[zombienixon 330]

Here's one I learned from work- aircraft engineers can't do basic math. Happy flying!

[TerminalObsession 250]

Vampire squid are neither vampires nor squid. Go figure.

[StormdustPony 471]

If you drink too much water you can get water poisoning.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Tachyons are a theoretical type of particle that is constantly traveling faster than the speed of light. This makes their existence very hard to prove. (It's not that things cannot *travel* at the speed of light, only that things cannot *accelerate* {or decellerate} to the speed of light.)

[Star Racer 198]

Heres one for ya-Killer Whales found a way to efficiently kill sharks by drowning them.

[Literally Snails 2,307]

All snails have both reproductive organs. If they don't have a mate, they can fertilize their own eggs.

 

There you go, something you didn't want to know.

[Everleaf 541]

I can imagine half (if not all) of these facts have been stated already

 

 

Gaming

 

Pokémon was created due to Satoshi Tajiri's (the creator of Pokémon) interest in catching insects, this inspired him to create "Pocket monsters"

 

The original Pokémon green was called "Pocket monsters" though in earlier development it was called "Capsule monsters"

 

There was actually a Pokémon musical by the name of Pokémon live.

 

Mario was originally "Jumpman"

 

Pacman was originally "Puckman"

 

The first (known home videogame console ever was Odyssey

 

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Other facts

 

Shakespear created the word "bump"

 

Everybody's tongue print is unique

 

Barbie actually has a full name, being  Barbara Millicent Roberts

 

Banana's are berries but a strawberry is not

 

the name "Wendy" was actually created by J.M Barrie in Peter Pan

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

The main reason why aircraft are not permitted to fly near volcanoes is because if engines inhale ash, combustion cycles melt the particulate and coat the interior of the engine in a gooey carbon-based glass, which can clog part movement and, if it freezes, cause serious mechanical damage. This was discovered for the first time in 1982 when a jumbo jet flew through an ash cloud at night, and seriously damaged all four of its engines as a result-- as well as sandblasting the pilot's windscreen, making it impossible to see outside.

[Scrubbed user 3,416]

The original Xbox was so called because original prototype was basically a cut-down Dell PC with a custom version of Windows and called the "DirectX box". The name "Xbox" was also thought that consumers wouldn't like the name, but they were wrong.

Edited October 10, 2015 by Azure Flare

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A flock of crows is known as a murder.
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
Dying is illegal in the Houses of Parliaments.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
In the UK, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day.
Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift away from each other.
New Jersey has a spoon museum that has over 5,400 spoons from across the world.
Anually over 2500 left-handed people are killed from using right-handed products.
Mel Blanc – the voice of Bugs Bunny – was allergic to carrots.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
It snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes on the 18th February 1979.
Slugs have 4 noses.
James Bond creator Ian Fleming also wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Hewlett-Packard’s name was decided in a coin toss.
Newborn white whales are black.
Cherophobia is the fear of fun.
Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
None of the characters in Shakespear's plays smoke.
Allegedly, you can find out who "champ" is by reading the first letter of each sentence.

[DJW 142]

No point of the continuous 48 states is north of any part of the UK mainland (Northwest Angle vs The Lizard).

London is ~270 miles north of Seattle.

 

This site is a lot of 'fun' for certain people.

[Star Racer 198]

Toilets were invented by someone, last name Crapper.

[Kivil 1,721]

Alan Rickman was the only one who had a hint about his character's end in Harry Potter. I mean why not tell that sexy man

[SkyBurner's_Legion 63]

It took the gamers of Destiny over a week to finish the Taken King dlc.

Is this a destiny fan I see?

[Magic Rasin 180]

  Did you know that in Alabama it's illegal to have an ice cream cone in your back pocket? Why this is actually a law? I have no idea.

[RattPitt 172]

There's a mostly a capella metal band called Van Canto. I called them a 'mostly a capella' band because they have a drummer. I think they had a few people that tried to do the drums a capella style, but they were too worn out after just a few songs. Here's one of Van Canto's songs, a cover of Sabaton's Primo Victoria featuring Sabaton's lead singer, Joakim Brodén

 

[Invincible 2,091]

Pumpkins are actually berries.