Random facts thread

[Swit Swat 536]

PONIES ARE THE COOLEST THING IN THE UNIVERSE!

 

A shrimp's heart is in it's head.

 

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

 

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

 

If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.

 

Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

 

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

 

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London.

 

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

[Lostwanderer 366]

A squid's stomach is transparent.

 

Towards the end of the TV show friends, the main six cast were being played close to $1,000,000 an episode.

 

Celery has such little nuetrients that the energy expent chewing it is more then the energy gained.

 

The man who intevted the Segway met his deathw hile riding one,he fell off a cliff.

 

The reaction between Potasium iodine and hydrogen poroxide is called Elephant's toothpaste.

 

The game type abriviation for the popular game Dota and league of legends is called a MOBA(multiplayer online battle arena)

[I used to be a stranger 7,989]

This post has been redacted by the author.

Edited April 29, 2021 by Blue

[A Blithering Div 247]

The reason Indigo exists in the rainbow is because Isaac Newton liked the number 7.

 

There is only 20 to 30 grams of the element Francium on earth at any given time.

 

Titanium Dioxide is the whitest substance known to humans.

 

Bismuth has a half life of 19,000,000,000,000,000,000 (19 quintillion) years.

 

By mass, polonium-210 is around 250,000 times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide.

 

Sodium Cyanide smells like almonds.

 

A nanosecond is 11.8 inches long.

[Clover Heart 978]

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

 

They're also extremely deadly. In Japanese, their name means "Giant Sparrow Wasp." I've actually seen some in captivity. Scary things...

 

Breast milk tastes different in the beginning of breast feeding than toward the end of breast feeding.

 

Pink (or more accurately, magenta) isn't a color in the light spectrum. Things that are magenta in color give off both red and violet wavelengths. With both signals going into our brains, they interpret this as the color we call magenta.

 

Beethoven liked strong coffee, and counted exactly 60 beans to the cup every time he made some.

Edited May 27, 2012 by Clover Heart

[NavelColt 22,877]

They're also extremely deadly. In Japanese, their name means "Giant Sparrow Wasp." I've actually seen some in captivity. Scary things...

 

Yup. Cause 60 human deaths a year :3

[Nightfall 3,950]

First word that just came to my mind: bananas. I'm going to eat one of those soon.

I should be in bed.

I am amused easily when it is late at night.

It is late at night.

[PinkSlippers 14]

There is a parasite that comes from cow feces. A snail eats the feces. Then, the parasite burrows out of the snail, covered in a ball of slime. An ant comes along and eats said ball of slime. The parasite gains control of the ant's brain. For whatever reason, the parasite makes the ant sit upon the top of the tallest blade of grass it can find at night, and it stays there, all night.

 

The first bulletproof vest was invented by a woman.

 

Birth control pills also work on gorillas.

[I used to be a stranger 7,989]

Antarctica is the largest landmass on earth that is not a country.

It is also the tallest continent, in addition to being the coldest.

[Taillesskangaru 7]

The Battle of Karansebes

In September of 1788, according to an account by A.J. Gross-Hoffinger, a 100,000-men Austrian army en route to engage the Ottomans camped near Karansebes, Romania. The cavalrymen got drunk, then brawled with the infantry. Someone fired a shot, and a panic ensued. The officers shouted "Halt!" to restore order, but this was taken by the soldiery as cries of "Allah!", thus confirming their belief that the Ottomans had ambushed them. Everyone fired at everybody else, and the whole army retreated in the face of the imaginary enemy, leaving 10,000 dead Austrians.

 

The Aleutian Islands Campaign

In June of 1942, in the midst of the Pacific War, Japanese troops occupied the islands of Attu and Kiska in Alaska (the only part of what would become the 50 states of the USA that was under occupation during the war). Due to the remoteness of the islands, it would be almost a year before the United States attempted to take them back. Attu was retaken in May of 1943 after one of the most intense, at times hand-to-hand, combat in the entire war. Realising the futility of holding on to Kiska, the Japanese staged a quiet retreat from that island through the dense Allied naval blockade; so well-organised that the Americans and Canadians showed up on August 15th with more than 30,000 troops expecting to face 10,000 Japanese, only to find out that they had all left. The Allies did suffer more than 200 casualties, from Japanese mines, exposure, and at least 82 dead and wounded from friendly fire.

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,892]

King George V of the United Kingdom, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany were all royal cousins.

 

George V was also head of the Church of England, Nicholas II was head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and Wilhelm II was head of the Evangelical Church in Germany.

 

 

 

Contrary to popular belief, the Spanish Inqusition did not kill millions or even hundreds of thousands of people. The correct number was under 2,000 over a period of around 350 years. The numbers were inflated by the enemies of Catholic Spain and used as propaganda.

 

The most common sentence by the Inquisitorial tribunals was to wear a cross, or go on a pilgrimage. Not death and torture.

 

 

 

When the Big Bang theory was first proposed many atheist scientists rejected it because it implied the universe had a beginning and at one point there was quite literally "nothing." Instead they went with the Steady State theory of the universe until that was proven false.

 

 

 

George V, Nicholas II and Wilhelm II also all had some find mustaches.

[moneyshredderofdeath 414]

Presidential trivia dump:

 

 

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the only future Presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence. Both of them died on the 50th anniversary of the signing, with Adams outliving Jefferson by mere hours. (Adams's last words were "Jefferson survives" as he hadn't known the news)

 

James Monroe also died on the 4th of July, in a later year. Calvin Coolidge was born on another separate 4th of July.

 

William Henry Harrison, the first President to die in office, served only a month in the Presidency since he was an idiot who spoke for hours in the rain without a coat.

 

The Democratic Party has a donkey for a symbol because Andrew Jackson was insultingly called a jackass - and he liked said insult.

 

James K. Polk had a specific agenda of campaign promises, and he fulfilled all of them in his one term. He died very shortly afterward, likely due to how hard he worked.

 

James Buchanan never married.

 

James A. Garfield might have survived getting shot had it not been for metal bed springs that distorted the metal detector's ability to find the bullet inside him. Also, his doctor had the given name of Doctor.

 

Grover Cleveland married a much younger woman while he was in the White House.

 

Theodore Roosevelt, by then a former President, was shot during a speech and finished said speech before getting help. He never had the bullet removed as removing it would likely cause complications.

 

William H. Taft was obese to the point he got stuck in a bathtub. He became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court later on.

 

Calvin Coolidge was said by Dorothy Parker to have been bet at a dinner he couldn't say more than two words. His response was "You lose". The story may or may not be real, but it still reflects Coolidge's silent demeanor: When he died, Parker quipped, "How can they tell?"

 

Herbert Hoover had the longest retirement of any President, though it's likely Jimmy Carter will beat the record. Hoover outlived his entire cabinet, and a lot of his critics. He said he "outlived the bastards" as his explanation to how he handled harsh criticism.

 

Harry S. Truman's middle name was only S. The S was used so his parents wouldn't be forced to choose one of his grandfathers' S name over the other.

 

Lyndon B. Johnson enjoyed, in his retirement, to drive 90 miles an hour while drinking scotch.

 

Gerald Ford, who was appointed to the Vice Presidency following Spiro Agnew's resignation and ascended to the Presidency after Richard Nixon resigned, was the only President to never be elected to either office.

 

Ronald Reagan loved jelly beans, and it is because of him blue Jelly Bellies exist - so he could have jars of red, white, and blue jelly beans.

 

George H. W. Bush banned broccoli from the White House. In more recent years, he's last skydived at the age of 85.

 

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,892]

Thousands of years before the movement for the abolition of slavery, there has been one group that has almost always opposed slavery.

 

These people were known as:

 

slaves

 

Edited July 27, 2012 by Lady Rarity Pony

[Jokuc 8,172]

Random fact: The guy who invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee was in the Olympic games opening cermony. He appeared from under a house.

[I used to be a stranger 7,989]

The "Valmy" was the heaviest Ship-of-the -Line ever constructed until Naval designs became more efficient with the advent of steam power to replace sails, and artillery batteries to replace cannons. She weighed 5,826 tonnes, and carried 120 guns mounted on three different decks. Launched in 1849 and decommissioned in 1856, her service record (six years) was less than that of the time it took to build her (9 years).

 

Built in France, her comparable opponents were the HMS Victory and the HMS Duke of Wellington.

Edited July 27, 2012 by Blue

[Twiliscael 3,960]

5 Randomly Obscene Facts by a Randomly Obscene Teen!

1. There is a pornographic parody of the popular 90's show Seinfeld.

2. When a male bee ejaculates, it's testicles explode and it dies.

3. Vibrators were originally created to cure hysteria. (fuck logic)

4. Premature ejaculation is not an actual proven ailment. It is used to get people to buy their products.

5. No 14 year old should know this stuff.

[I used to be a stranger 7,989]

The most common causes of death in the world are Heart or Lung Diseases, HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Accidental Injuries, Automobile Accidents or Suicide.

 

The least common causes of death are usually so obscure that they don't form statistics as much as they do unusual anecdotes. Least of these that cause massive panic are airline crashes. Less than 2000 people die per year because of aircraft mishaps.

Edited July 28, 2012 by Blue

[NavelColt 22,877]

The Golden Orb Weaver Spider makes webs so gigantic, that smaller spiders will often take up residence in parts of the web like tenants of an apartment building, and the Orb Weaver will sometimes not even be aware.

Edited September 22, 2012 by ~Chaotic Discord~

[ChuniaC 52]

If you were to fart continuously for 4.5 years you would release enough energy as the Hiroshima bomb. Now that's a good fact to know!

[Sakamoto 103]

• I love to take a bath
• My sister love to eat some meat lover pizza
• My father hates anything loud, even himself
• My mother loves rock-n-roll

Is this random enough of a fact?

 

And how the flying demonic torture my post only got 25 characters when it clearly shows 200 characters?

[K3WRO 79]

1. Gunpowder is invented by chinese alchemists when searching for a elixir of immortality, the test subjects did'nt make it though, leading to cannons and fireworks thanks to their explosiveness

 

2. Francium is the rarest element on earth, it's half life is only 32 minutes and pure samples no longer exist in the universe, only small isotopes remain

 

3. NHK (Japanese Educational channel) announced hologram TVs will be on market by 2015, the prototype is similar to Nikola Telsa's in the 1900s

 

4. Originally, the US planned Kokura (now known as Kitakyushu) as the second city to have the atomic bomb dropped on, however, due to cloudiness, it was skipped and moved to Nagasaki.

 

5. Without greed or market pressure, our technology would be more than 200 years advanced

 

6. Google earth has caused many border conflicts, notably Palestine and Israel

 

7. The united states government tested toxic agents and pathogens to simulate biological warfare in the 1950s, they sprayed biological agents over 6 north American cities and having researchers get into the city pretending to be a healthcare assistance

[The Awesome One 1,314]

Gentlemen, it is a universally known fact that a single video on youtube can cause thousands of Muslims to over react and start deadly riots which destroy their own country and kill many innocent people.

 

Also,

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Edited April 16, 2022 by throw

[I used to be a stranger 7,989]

This post has been redacted by the author.

Edited May 3, 2021 by Blue

[Silverhoof 2,840]

There is a parasite that comes from cow feces. A snail eats the feces. Then, the parasite burrows out of the snail, covered in a ball of slime. An ant comes along and eats said ball of slime. The parasite gains control of the ant's brain. For whatever reason, the parasite makes the ant sit upon the top of the tallest blade of grass it can find at night, and it stays there, all night.

 

The first bulletproof vest was invented by a woman.

 

Birth control pills also work on gorillas.

 

Are you talking about the "Zombie Fungus?" This 3 minute clip shows a rather chilling testament to a parasite fungus that takes over the brain of its victim...