Random facts thread

[Matackable 534]

There are more cars in California than there are people living there.

[Killian Jones 2,653]

When France refused to join the American-led coalition against Iraq, some Republicans argued that the name french fries be changed to “liberty fries.”

 

French fries comes from to french, as in cutting food into strips.

 

Which means the Republicans don't know anything about etymology or where the french fry was invented.

[Fire_Fly 499]

The pyramids are actually 3-dimensional diamond-shaped structures, originally held upright by stakes and ropes until half-buried by the sand. If they were really pyramids with flat bottoms, it'd be impossible for them to have lower levels underground.

[pondus30 152]

The human body, how much poop can it hold

 

 

 

anywhere between 5 and 25 pounds at any given time,

depending on your diet, and your weight.

[~asdf~ 110]

The humans small intestines are larger then the large intestines and are the organ where most of food digestion is done.

 

The attention span of a gold fish is 3 seconds.

 

Contrary to popular belief human hair and nails do NOT grow after death.

 

Bananas have a chemical in them that is used in Prozac, so eat bananas when you feel upset.

 

Energy, what everything (including atoms) is made of, cannot be created or destroyed.

 

Buddhism (not sure if spelled right) existed longer then the famous Buddha, who was a rich child that revolted against his father who wanted to keep him confined within their house complex.

 

When you sneeze your heart stops for a brief moment.

 

The electrons in an electrical circuit move from the negative node to the positive node.

 

Any month that starts with a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th.

 

Da Vinci mapped out the remains of humans and discovered the majority of humans inner workings, in the mean time he was breaking strict law set by the Roman Catholic Church which stated it was a sin to cut open the remains of another human.

 

Canada had African slaves.

 

Abraham Lincoln didn't originally have a bear until a child said he would look good with one (can't remember if the kid drew him with one) and after then Lincoln grew a beard.

 

Sleep paralysis, is the state in which the human body is physically asleep, but the mind is awake. The following out come causes the mind to project thoughts from withing dream state into reality (only in through the persons eyes) causing people to believe they've been abducted by aliens.

 

Panophobia is the fear of everything.

 

Dysania is the physical state of being unable to awake from slumber.

 

(Some of my friends call me the Guru-of-random-ass-knowledge, all the above are straight from my head. )

[Dany Heatley 160]

 

 

The attention span of a gold fish is 3 seconds.

 

 

I don't believe this is true...

 

Hitler was born on 4/20

A woman has played in the NHL (1 game)

 

When a dog is having intercourse, its penis is known to swell to conform to the entirety of the hole it's entering. The point of this is so said dog's mate cannot escape until he's reached orgasm; just another one of biology's ways of ensuring that babies keep being made.

 

Now consider for a moment a considerably obese dog with numerous heart problems doing the horizontal boogie, everything is fine... but wait! The excitement is too much for this hound and he has a heart attack, dropping dead on the spot mid-coitus. Understanding the nature of canine sex and the way their members swell to prevent their mate's escape, keep in mind the concept of rigor mortis which indicates the almost immediate stiffening of all of an animal's muscles upon being dead for a while.

 

Swelled penis, all up in there, hardens and cannot soften to allow exit of the vagina, etc.

 

The result of this is that the female dog - or zoophiliac deviant, of course! - having intercourse with this obese animal will be stuck with stiffened dead dog weiner inside of them and, subsequently, a dog attached to them until it is removed by means most likely necessitating surgery.

 

tl;dr - If you are, for whatever reason, having sex with a dog, do not allow it to die or you'll be in store for what's likely going to be an awkward visit to the physician.

 

This happened to my lab and my chihuahua. The chihuahua(a female) was hanging by the labs penis. It was pretty weird and hilarious at the same time

[Shankveld 4,945]

 

 

Crazy pinkie ~

[PinkieFry 91]

If you stretch your intestines out from end to end, you'll die.

Crazy, huh?

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,892]

Da Vinci mapped out the remains of humans and discovered the majority of humans inner workings, in the mean time he was breaking strict law set by the Roman Catholic Church which stated it was a sin to cut open the remains of another human.

 

Actually, that is little more than a medical superstition.

 

The entire foundation of the accusation of the Roman Catholic Church outlawing dissection and the study of human anatomy is based on no more than supposed decrees of the Church in which there is absolutely no historical evidence that such decrees were ever made by the Papacy.

 

In fact, the only recorded decree the Papacy ever made regarding dismemberment was The Bull De Sepulturis of Boniface VIII. In which the only form of dismemberment outlawed was in relations to burials and made no mention or opposition to dissection for the use of scientific study.

 

Fact, Fact and Fact.

Edited March 25, 2012 by Lady Rarity Pony

[Marcato 2,143]

The square root of pi cannot be discovered until the full number of pi is fully calculated.

[Killian Jones 2,653]

There are an equal amount of rational numbers (numbers that can be written as a fraction of two integers) as there are positive integers. However there are more real numbers then integers.

[NeverNeverland 1,940]

Doctor's can't shower before performing surgery.

[Killian Jones 2,653]

Think, of the largest number you can think of, after you thought of that, I know a bigger number, and it's called Graham's Number. What is funny about this number is that it ends in a 7.

[Marcato 2,143]

4g networks aren't actually as fast as they say they are, even right underneath a phone tower.

[I used to be a stranger 7,989]

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Edited April 28, 2021 by Blue

[Marcato 2,143]

improv on the piano and normally mopst other instruments is a lot of fun.

[Finesthour 7,284]

When you tap on the class of any aquatic species, it hurts their ears.

[SPLinux 374]

The Linux mascot Tux was drawn by Larry Ewing in 1996.

 

Linus Torvalds choose a penguin as the mascot being inspired

from a Little Penguin(name of a penguin species) that actually once bit him on a trip to a

Zoo in Australia. Linus even jokingly claimed to have a condition called "penguinitis" which

makes you stay wake all night thinking about penguins, and feeling love towards them.

[Bunni 1,075]

Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!

 

The 'vintage date' on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling!

 

25% of your bones are located in your feet.

 

Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.

 

Cat urine glows under a black-light!

 

Cats cannot taste sweet things.

 

Cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten.

 

Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!

 

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!

 

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

 

It is illegal NOT to smile in Pocatello, Idaho!

 

Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.

Edited March 26, 2012 by TheBrokenToast

[Matackable 534]

You may not fart in a public place after 6 pm in the state of Florida.

[Raptor_a22 83]

Some wierd things from Britan

 

In the town of York, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a longbow, except on Sundays.

The town of Berwick-upon-Tweed was officially at war with Russia for 110 years.

Males over the age of fourteen are required by law to complete two hours of longbow practice a day.

In 1945, a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of Big Ben and put the time back by five minutes.

It is illegal to drive a cow or a steam locomotive while intoxicated, and doing so carries a fine of 200 pounds.

In any library in Britan, it is illegal to gamble. Abusive or obscene language is also illegal.

[Aureity 3,055]

1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

9. Only in America.....do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

11. Only in America......can a homeless combat veteran live in a cardboard box and a draft dodger live in the White House.

Edited March 26, 2012 by Auroreita Borealis

[DrOphthalmos 497]

Doctor's can't shower before performing surgery.

 

Wait, what? I like smelling nice when I operate...

[NeverNeverland 1,940]

Wait, what? I like smelling nice when I operate...

 

That's because when you shower, you don't get rid of germs - you just rearrange their positioning. And sometimes, the germs can get on your hands (hooves in your case), and if somehow you're working on an open body and the germs manage to reach a vital organ or something, the patient can get REALLY sick or die even from the operation!

[DrOphthalmos 497]

 

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!

 

 

Female cats tend to be right-pawed and male cats are more often left-pawed.

 

Also, calico cats are almost always female.

 

That's because when you shower, you don't get rid of germs - you just rearrange their positioning. And sometimes, the germs can get on your hands (hooves in your case), and if somehow you're working on an open body and the germs manage to reach a vital organ or something, the patient can get REALLY sick or die even from the operation!

 

That's why we scrub, glove, and gown before surgery... Keep me away from your smelly surgeons!