Random fact thread

[20% Cooler Than Cake 161]

Holding in a sneeze and vomiting violently can both be fatal if it is intense enough to rupture a blood vessel.

Edited December 2, 2016 by 20% Cooler Than Cake

[Anneal 2,197]

Most people have a tendency to view things above and tilted at an angle, and rarely from above or straight ahead.

 

Reading from a computer screen instead of a book or even a Kindle is a bit more tiring because of how the light reflects to you when you read it. 

 

Your most vivid memories tend to be the ones that are the most incorrect.

Edited December 2, 2016 by Minccino

[ChikaChan 7,323]

People are just too scared to see changes in their daily lives o~o since they are soooo comfortable with it,that they are willing to go all savage if things are different to them!!! :=:

[Anneal 2,197]

People are just too scared to see changes in their daily lives o~o since they are soooo comfortable with it,that they are willing to go all savage if things are different to them!!! :=:

People are just too scared to see changes in their daily lives o~o since they are soooo comfortable with it,that they are willing to go all savage if things are different to them!!! :=:

That's a perception, not a fact.

[AaronMk 280]

New York State was ruled up until the mid-19th century as essentially a defacto feudal state under the patroons, a remnant of aristocratic Dutch rule that presided in the region since the Dutch colonized the region and established New Amsterdam.

 

The fall of the patroonships occurred when the tenant farmers of the massive estates basically rebelled and refused to pay their rent and formed political opposition in local government to the patroon families.

[Midnight Solace 5,132]

Bananas can help cure severe depression.

Hugs can help cure severe depression as well.

[Kevin Tang 2,426]

You can't plow a mare with ideas.

But ideas can make money and you can definitely plow as many mares as you want, if you have money.

- DWK

[babzy 3]

Birds can't taste spicy food. The natural defenses of peppers are useless against them (and of limited usefulness against creatures that sometimes enjoy spiciness)!

[Here No Longer 5,276]

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

Folk tales are technically memes.

Edited December 24, 2018 by Santa Barik

[O-78 28,605]

The number 3,435 is the sum of its digits raised to each digit's power.

3^3 + 4^4 + 3^3 + 5^5 = 3435

Edited December 24, 2018 by shyabetes3939

[Prospekt 11,018]

The human body has some reflexes that, in a way, allow the spinal cord to briefly control a limb in lieu of the brain. It takes slightly longer for a message to reach the brain than it does for a message to reach the spinal cord; in case of an extreme emergency, time is of the essence, so basically your central nervous system buys you a tiny bit of time by stopping the message at your spine rather than your brain.

For example, if you reach out and touch a hot pan on a stove, once the pain signal has traveled up the nerves from your hand to your spine, your central nervous system automatically causes you to recoil.

This is why your doctor tests your reflexes by tapping you on the knee with a little mallet thingy--if something about the reflex is abnormal, that could be a sign of damage to the central nervous system.

[Odyssey 5,716]

Clenching your fists pumps blood in your body and simulates your brain, making you far more likely to remember things you might've forgotten. 

[Cash In 22,258]

Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, a duck is watching you. 

[CypherHoof 26,482]

2 hours ago, Cash In said:

Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, a duck is watching you. 

[Lucky Bolt 35,062]

Did you know Daryl Dixon has fleas? 

[Prospekt 11,018]

Leif Erikson Day is an actual holiday. 

[SkyPie 261]

Polar bears have black skin and transparent fur instead of white.

Owls can't digest fur and bones so they cough them back up in a bundle called a pellet.

[Tao 7,618]

 Anime specifically refers to Japanese commercial animation. Anime is different from conventional animation due to the fact that Japanese creators were never bound by the 20th-century convention that animation was something solely for children. Anime is a broad medium that ranges from the purely innocent to the pornographic. Some of it fetishizes young girls. In Japan the manga, anime, video game, television and media industries are all interrelated. Many popular manga characters find their way into video games and anime DVDs.

[Kevin Tang 2,426]

Do you know that messing around with your sleeping schedule is bad?

[Odyssey 5,716]

Winter in Uranus lasts for 21 years.

12 minutes ago, Kevin Tang said:

Do you know that messing around with your sleeping schedule is bad?

No. Way.  What am I doing with my life.

[Denim&Venöm 18,775]

Did you know that Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is a licensed commercial airline pilot? 

And here's another bonus fact for you: Bruce also flew a Fokker Tri-plane in a dog fight reenactment over the Sonisphere metal festival on the 100th anniversary of the day the first world War started. 

Metal Hammer magazine would rate the event an 11/10. 

[Twilight Luna 31,352]

Harrison Ford was not the first actor to be considered to play Indiana Jones.

[Dreambiscuit 9,690]

Every death in history was caused, through one effect or another, by a lack of blood to the brain.

 

Okay, go back to thinking happy thoughts now.

[Prospekt 11,018]

Everybody is related; we all have a common ancestor. It's just that 99.999999+% of us are very distantly related.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,306]

On 12/27/2018 at 8:22 AM, SkyPie said:

Polar bears have black skin and transparent fur instead of white.

Owls can't digest fur and bones so they cough them back up in a bundle called a pellet.

I actually knew about polar bears. Years ago at the Philadelphia zoo, the polar bears looked all green. A zoo employee told us that it was because algae grew in their hollow hair. It didn't hurt them, but it looked icky! I heard about the owl thing too. I read somewhere that it you find a pellet (EW!) you can take it apart and glue the bones back together!

Now for my random fact. It's another nasty animal tidbit.

 

Rats can not vomit. It's why rat poison works.

 

YUCK!