Random facts thread

[SongBrony 419]

In France, it is illegal to name your pig Napoleon.

 

Apparently, Napoleon Bonaparte was going to eradicate that which brings us bacon.

[murkyx 904]

Gilese 581g is an extrasolar terrestrial planet 22 light years away that is one of the most likely to harbor life. However, due to it orbiting a red dwarf star, the sky and sunlight would be a very deep red and any plant life would be pitch black in color.

[Brook 663]

My name (in Hebrew), Peleg, is more common as a last name than as a first name.

 

The top selling consoles in the world are as followed:

1. Playstation (PSX)

2. The first GameBoy

3. Nintendo DS

4. Playstation 2

5. The Wii

 

Most people have one larger foot, by about 7 millimeters (Don't know how much that is in inches)

 

Male nippels are completely useless.

 

The guy who realized Colombo's mistake was Vasco da Gama.

[moneyshredderofdeath 414]

Hedy Lamarr, who was a very famous Hollywood actress during the 30s and 40s, was also an inventor: She and composer George Antheil developed "frequency hopping", which would later be used for wireless technology such as cell phones.

[Jokuc 8,173]

DID YOU KNOW? A Minecraft world is 64,000 km wide and has about 130 Quadrillion (130,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) blocks in it, making it almost 6 times larger than Earth..

[letterone 1,204]

Thrice is best experimental band.

 

Linkin Park's "Living Things" is good.

 

letterONE's favorite pony is Rainbow Dash.

 

Any game that features a playable character that's blue I play like a Sonic game. I call it "Sonic Syndrome".

[ChuniaC 52]

Here's one i can't quite remember where i heard so there's a chance it's not true.

 

Sweden has the most computers in the world, if you compare computers per person that is.

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,892]

Roman crucifixion was known to be so painful that it couldn't be accurately described with any known words. The result was the creation of the word "excruciating" which literally meant "out of the cross."

[Driku12 64]

All hair colors are actually a shade of brown, just at various different values.

Monday is the most favored day for suicide.

Odontophobia is a fear of teeth.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Stressed is desserts spelled backwards.

[longgone 873]

It was never scientifically proven that 2+2=4. It was proven mathimatically, but not scientifically.

 

The Swastika is actually an ancient india symbol for peace.

 

When the brits left washington dc after torching it, a hurricane and tornado both hit the british column. (guess god wasn't happy bout them torching our captial)

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

The difference between a lunar free return trajectory and Earth escape velocity is less than 0.1km/s.

(That is, less than 0.1km/s difference between Apollo astronauts going to the Moon, or flying off way too fast away from the Earth and never coming back.)

 

The least trafficked hour of the day for MLPforums.com is 3am, Eastern US Time.

At that time, it is 10am in the United Kingdom and 1am in Western North America.

This website so most heavily trafficked shortly after the end of a standard school day before mealtime in Eastern United States - 2:00 to 4:00pm.

Edited September 26, 2012 by Blue

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,892]

The Inquisition technically still exists today.

 

The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition was renamed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

[Arcus (Silver Lining) Wind 983]

The Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. The cup was purchased by Canada's then Governor, Lord Stanley of Preston, in 1892,for$48.67. The trophy was awarded to the top Canadian amateur hockey teams. In 1910 the National Hockey Association obtained it as its championship trophy.The league later became the NHL and the trophy has continued to be its top prize.

[Ivory Moth 19]

There is an ongoing police investigation named "Operacion Pokemon" (Operation Pokemon) in Spain. It got it's name from the seemingly endless amount of politicians that had commited fraud, so the police took the motto of the game, "Gotta Catch 'Em All!"

[Forlong 1,726]

The Solar System has eight planets, four dwarf planets and one star,

 

Ironically, most of these "dwarf" planets are larger than Mercury. Also, by the new definition of planet; Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn aren't planets. Yeah they didn't think that through to well.

 

On topic:

Goofy's full name is George Maximilian Goof Sr. I kid you not.

 

Over 3,000 species of frogs can glide.

 

This is Quetzalcoatlus, the largest animal that ever flew:

 

Um...yeah...

[SongBrony 419]

Did you know that the longer your finger is, the faster your fingernail will grow? Our fingernails grow faster than our toenails

[Mizune 37]

A tombolo is a sandbar linking islands.

A dihedron is a 2-polygon polyhedron.

Nigeria has approximately 192 million people.

Yew trees are poisonous, and will kill people who inhale their fumes when being burnt.

[Arcus (Silver Lining) Wind 983]

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.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

[Forlong 1,726]

Male sharks have twin wangs. That's why they call 'em great whites.

 

Spiders can survive in space.

 

Japanese anime was inspired by Disney animated films.

[MKT_707Z 34]

Antarctica holds about 70% of the world's freshwater in it's ice.

 

In Great Britain, it's illegal to die in the houses of parlament.

 

Adolf Hitler was a fan of Mickey Mouse.

[Nah 3,182]

Okay here we go:

 

World War II was the first war in which Napalm was used, on the cities of Dresden and Tokyo, the results were almost as devastating as the atomic bomb.

 

Caramel is the result of burning sugar.

 

You can tell if a snake is poisonous by looking at it's pupils, if they are round, its nonpoisonous, if they are slits, they are poisonous, run for your life!

 

Baby Ruth is named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Ruth, not the sultan of swat.

 

Texas was almost divided into 5 states before acquiring statehood.

[princess baconlestia 21]

Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!

 

Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate!

 

The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!

Edited October 9, 2012 by princess baconlestia

[NewCalamity 3,454]

The Soviet-built Object 279 tank was built to withstand the blast of a nuclear weapon of the Cold War.

 

During Operation Winter Storm the 6th Panzer Division's advance to relieve the 6th Army trapped in Stalingrad was halted by the Red Army just 48km away from the city.

 

The German Tiger II tank's frontal armour of ~180mm was never penetrated in combat. Though it had poor mileage and ran at around 160m per litre of fuel.

Edited October 11, 2012 by NewCalamity

[Nah 3,182]

Wanna here some more?

 

The Twin Towers of the WTC, both had a 13th floor (O_O, enough to send a shiver down your spine eh?)

 

Mercedes Benz is named after the founder's daughter

 

Not a single M1 Abrams has ever been captured by an enemy in 30+ years of service.

 

If Alaska were a country, it would be the 19th largest by landmass.

[ErBoi 501]

Despite popular belief, Santa Claus's modern depiction was not invented by Coke.

 

The Super Mario Bros. 2 that was released in North America was not originally a Mario game. The actual Mario 2 was deemed both too similar to the original and potentially too difficult for western gamers by Nintendo of America so they altered another game Miyamoto had made called Doki Doki Panic into a Mario game. The Mario version of Doki Doki Panic was later released in Japan as Super Mario USA. And we finally got the real Mario 2 in the form of "Mario: The Lost Levels" included in the Super Nintendo game Super Mario All-Stars.

 

At one point in development, Ocarina of Time was planned to play in first-person perspective.

 

Despite overwhelmingly common rumours of such (so much so that many fans state it as fact without a second thought), there is no proof at all that Akira Toriyama made a concentrated effort to end Dragon Ball with the Frieza arc. Toriyama has never made a statement to that effect. He did say that he was feeling at his limits by the third year of writing the manga which was very likely misinterpreted as being around the Frieza arc (since that was the third season of the Dragon Ball Z anime). However, the third year of him writing the manga would actually be around the Baba or Tien sagas of Dragon Ball. The Dragon Ball fandom could very well be the most festering pit of misinformation in existence.

 

Both Sean Schemmel and Eric Vale have passed out in the recording booth during recording sessions for Dragon Ball Z.

 

The GameCube startup animation (where the cube rolls around and draws the logo) makes different sounds if you hold Z on the first player controller and also if you hold Z on all 4 controllers.

 

In the original Final Fantasy, in the town of Elfheim, there is a grave that says (or rather translates to) 'Here Lies Link'. The English release of the game changed it to 'Here Lies Erdrick' as a potshot to the rival-ish series Dragon Quest/Warrior. The more recent remakes of the game say 'Here Lies Link' in their English releases.

 

Penn Jillette is usually seen on stage with red nail polish on a single fingernail which began as an inside joke with his mother.