Random facts thread

[Senor Citizen 516]

I believe this was proven to be wrong.

 

Are you sure? Hmm...

[Inactive01 5,299]

In a recent survey, the country that's the best at cyber-bullying people is Australia.

[Guest]

Dolphins in captivity have committed suicide.

 

During the First World War, starving wolves gathered in great numbers near Russian and German fighting forces, causing the two armies to form a temporary truce to fight off the animals.

 

Elmo is the only non-human to testify before the U.S. Congress.

 

After Germany surrendered in WWII, everyone in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.

 

Drinking 8 glasses of water a day isn’t scientifically supported health advice.

 

In 2007 Tennessee death row convict Philip Workman requested his last meal to be vegetarian pizza delivered to homeless people; it was denied.

 

In a recent survey, the country that's the best at cyber-bullying people is Australia.

 

It is due to all the pent up anger about their strict violence ratings on games and movies.

[Chill Mists (Chilly) 801]

If you laid all your blood vessels in a straight line, you would die. Sorry, too tired to be serious. I'll be back tomorrow.

[spunkboy 17]

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Edited August 28, 2017 by Epic Duck

[Flow 1,628]

Kim Jong Il has a fear of heights

[Raptor_a22 83]

 

In a recent survey, the country that's the best at cyber-bullying people is Australia.

 

It is due to all the pent up anger about their strict violence ratings on games and movies.

 

I find that actually believable.

 

Also, we are the only country in the world that telecomms salespeople actively try to avoid calling.

This is because we will do one of two things:

1. Continuously swear at them until they hang up. (The most common)

2. Try and waste as much of their time as possible by dragging them out in this long pointless conversation

 

I myself prefer the second. Had this one guy going for about 50 minutes.

The longest anyone I know has ever had someone on the phone is two and a half hours. My friend had one call, and he said he couldn't do anything because he wasn't the landowner. He then went back to playing videogames leaving the phone off the hook

Then when his parents got home, he realised that the phone was still there, so he gave it to his parents. The guy was still on the phone. He had been sitting there for more than two hours, patiently waiting.

Edited April 21, 2012 by DJ Raptor

[Inactive01 5,299]

EDIT: Whoops I put MLB link on wrong thread

 

Another random fact? George Frederic Handel was rumoured to be a homosexual for much of his life because his pieces alluded to it very subtly.

Edited April 21, 2012 by Derpity Derp

[go away seb 367]

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered abortion, but her doctor talked her out of it.

 

There were no ponies in the Pony Express, just horses.

 

On average, 12 babies are given to the wrong parents every day.

 

Celery has "negative" calories (you burn more calories while eating it than how much the celery had to begin with).

 

1000 is the first number to have an A in it's spelling.

 

Roses are red, but violets are not blue.

[Aureity 3,055]

The inventor of the frisbee was cremated and turned into several frisbees when he died.

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,892]

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

 

Actually, that age is derived from a lack of firm evidence as to the birth date of Pope Benedict IX. He was anywhere between 11 and 20 when he began his reign as pope, though no age is definitively known, though some sources list him as being between the ages of 18 and 20. Edited May 4, 2012 by Lady Rarity Pony

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Apple trees (Malus) are in the same family (Rosaceae) as roses, blackberries, apricots, peaches, pears, cherries, raspberries and strawberries.

 

Common oranges are a hybrid between the pomelo and the mandarine.

[Champion RD92 8,658]

I just saw this yesterday and I was like dafuq?

 

 

When a male honey bee climaxes, his testicles explode and he dies.

 

[Otter 1,942]

The original Draconian, Draco of Athens, executed people for stealing cabbage.

In the 1970's, Grenada fell to Marxists after its Prime Minister got fixated on UFOs.

Winston Churchill was one sixteenth Iroquois.

 

I could go on all day. I've got an entire Bathroom Reader full of this stuff.

[NewCalamity 3,454]

Kim Jong Il had a fear of heights

 

In the Second World War, Otto Carius' gunner shot down a Soviet aircraft with his Tiger I's 88mm L/56 cannon.

 

Lieutenant Colonel Jack Churchill is the only recorded British soldier to have felled an enemy with a longbow. He also carried a Scottish broadsword, bagpipes and arrows with him into battle.

 

With many Tiger I units having a kill ratio of 10:1, it was still insufficient to stave off the Soviet union's stunning production time.

[Whiteshade 1,426]

In mid-1944, USA shipyards were producing at a rate where every 3 days, the ships produced would be sufficient to replace all losses at Pearl Harbour

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,892]

On August 9, 1942, Soviet prisoners of war were forced to play a match of soccer/football against German Luftwaffe members, as team "FC Start" and "Flakelf" respectively.

The Soviet POWs went on to win the soccer match and were subsequently tortured by the Gestapo, and then executed by a firing squad (which the exception of one, whom died from the torture).

 

After the Japanese surrender during World War II, many Japanese inhabited Pacific islands refused to surrender, while others had no idea the war had ended. These became known as "Japanese holdouts". Hiroo Onoda, a former Japanese army intelligence officer in the Philippines held out until 1974, 29 years after the war had ended.

 

In Nazi-occupied Europe, many prisoners of war and civilians were forced to fight for the Nazis. These forces included unique units comprised of Belgian, Danish, Estonian, French, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Norwegian, and British (including Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders) soldiers.

 

From 1944 to 1945, the Japanese launched over 9,000 "Fire Balloons" against North America. Only 1,000 made it to North America. While for the most part ineffective, 6 Americans were killed from a single explosion in 1945.

 

On June 3, 1942, the Japanese captured the Alaskan islands of Attu and Kiska from the United States in the Aleutian Campaign. The gained territory had no effect against the United Sates, with most of the Japanese casualties resulting from booby traps, bad weather, and friendly fire.

 

After the raid on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese pilot, Shigenori Nishikaichi crash landed on the Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau, as Japanese pilots were instructed to do, should they not be able to return to their aircraft carriers. The pilots were erroneously informed that the island was uninhabited. After crash landing, he was treated as a guest by the local inhabitants. Once the inhabitants learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor, he along with 3 local Japanese civilians who attempted to aid in his escape, were killed. This is known as the Ni'hau incident.

Edited May 5, 2012 by Lady Rarity Pony

[Love Hearts 93]

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters mt"

 

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

 

The worlds youngest mother was only Five years, seven months and 17 days old.

 

This thread is very interesting!x

Edited May 5, 2012 by ☆*:.｡. Aya .｡.:*☆

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

The main difference between a violin and a viola is how much firewood they make.

[Nightfall 3,950]

Bathroom Reader Facts:

15% of women start Christmas shopping in July

25% of men wait until "a few weeks" before Christmas to do their holiday shopping

On average, your left hand does 56% of your typing

The English sparrow isn't a sparrow, nor does it come from England... it comes from Africa

Female spiders spin better webs than males do

I like to talk

Aardvarks teeth never stop growing

What do people and lobsters both have in common? Both like to eat lobsters

A spider's blood is transparent

None of these sentences end with periods

[NavelColt 22,880]

The Giant Asian Hornet, Vespa mandarinia, is the largest hornet/wasp in the world. They reach two inches long, with a wingspan of about 3 inches. They often raid normal honey bee nests and slaughter them, stealing the honey bee's larva to bring back to thier own young. It takes only a few hours for twenty to thirty Giant Hornet's to massacre a colony of 30,000 honeybees.

 

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=L54exo8JTUs

Edited May 5, 2012 by ~Chaotic Discord~

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

The McDonnell Douglas F-15 "Eagle" fighter Jet has the best service record out of any military aircraft that has ever been put into service: somewhere in the order of 800 confirmed kills have been made by F-15s, and there has yet to be one that has been shot down. Thus its kill/death ratio is about 800:0.

 

It is also the only aircraft that has managed to make an

. Other aircraft have made landings or (successful ditches) with heavily compromised wings, but no other has done so with one actually missing.

[Marshmallow 1,137]

On Wikipedia, if you keep clicking on the first link that is not in italics or parenthesis, it will eventually take you to philosophy.

[NavelColt 22,880]

More money is spent on gardening than any other hobby in existence.

[MVC NVMXD JVRXD 2,406]

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE HUMAN HEAD WEIGHS 8 POUNDS