It's just what it says on the cover; a thread for a bunch of stupid facts. This way while we sit around doing nothing on here, we at least get to learn something. It's kind of like a snapple. I'll start us off. Kangaroos can't jump backwards and there are muscles in your feet that have atrophied because you wear shoes.
Random Fact: TwiDash is my favorite ship. :derpe: Random Fact #2: I make up 7.8%~ of the forum's posts.
Fact: Americans are considered exempt from formalities in Japan. Fact: Daddy Longlegged spiders can't really bite you because they cannot puncture human skin, generally. If they do, their venom is too impotent and will give only a mild burning sensation. Fact: Water is bullet proof against high velocity weapons. The bullets shatter on impact. (Mythbusters is pretty damn awesome.)
20 years ago, our Solar system was near to have ten planets, Pluto was still a planet, and a big chunk of an asteroid, located in the asteroid belt between Earth and Mars, named 'Chile' had dibs for being labeled as a planet. Hadn't. (Technically, Pluto is a binary system, so that's 11 planets!) The Titanic really sunk because a fire in a Coal bunker originated in the departing day, weakened the steel wall between cargo hold 4 and boiler room 1, The flood was controlled till 1:40 AM, then the weakened wall collapsed because water pressure and started an unstoppable flood, it sunk at 2:20 AM. Sewer manholes got round covers, because with this shape is impossible to drop it inside the manholes. Canned food was invented 44 years before the can opener, the last was created in American Civil War to stop soldiers retiring bayonets from rifle for this task. The rim in Coins was rounded to avoid people using them as files. The Capacitor (electronics) was invented while trying to store electricity in water. The original Game Boy wasn't Tetris test compliant (A test consisting in check the capacity of a certain hardware to run cited game) it's screen avoided the top two rows due to space constriction.
If you take two pieces of apple, leave on in the open air and then create a paper pyramid with a stand in which to rest the apple so it sits in the centre of the pyramid, the Apple in the open air will rot much faster than the one in the pyramid. At this time of year In England, if you locate the lowest (and possibly the brightest) "Star" in the night sky and look at it with a high magnification device, you can see Jupiter and about 3 of it's moons. Spoiler: Slightly wierd / Inappropriate, but still fun If you touch the end of your nipple right now, it will be soft and squishy, if you flick it and leave it for 10 seconds, then touch it again, it will become rock solid.
Well, this just makes sense, really. My random fact - The nearest black hole is 1,600 light years away. My "makes you think" fact - Sometime in your lifetime, you will in hale one molecule of the air from the last gasp of Julius Caesar.
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect. [/FONT]
Sweetcorn, thats what's up. The best sleep position is face up, followed by side-facing, then the fetal position, and then face down. In the city of chester, it is legal to shoot a welshman in the back with a bow and arrow after 1.AM in the morning.
I don't believe this is true in general sense. On the other hand, my dad suffered from extremely bad sleep apnea. My mom's varying descriptions of the volume of noise he produced were hilarious.
Bleach tastes nothing like lemons. No matter how much it smells like them. Derived from childhood experience. :/
Sounds painful. Have some facts about gold: On earth more iron pours per hour than gold has since the beginning of recorded history. It's edible! In 2005 google and gold were worth the same on the stock market
(Previously posted by me in General chat.) Canadian Law! It's a criminal offense to sent a letter threatening a bird. It's a criminal offense to drag a dead bovine Southbound on any street called Main St., on Sundays.
A herd of unicorns is called a blessing. A man can divorce his wife in Saudi Arabia if she doesn't make him coffee. Owls are the only birds that can see blue. Beard hair grows 3 times faster in an aeroplane. If the population of China was to walk in a single-file line in front of you, it would never end due to the rate of reproduction. More than 10 people every year die from vending machines. On average, a drop of Heinz tomato ketchup leaves the bottle at a speed of 25 miles per year.
