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Random Facts
I just had a really cool idea. Why don't we make a random list of facts? Here are the rules.
~DO NOT post numbered facts. Use a ~ sign.
~Make sure they are true.
~Don't post inappropriate facts.
~Be nice!
~MAKE THIS LAST FOREVER!!
I'll start.
If
you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also
have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make
change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and
use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that
someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
submitted by CaykeTheCook
(May 1, 2015 - 11:57 am)
(May 1, 2015 - 11:57 am)
~All polar bears are left-handed.
~A snail can sleep for three years.
~In San Francisco, it is illegal to walk an elephant down Market St unless it is on a leash. I'm not even kidding. Has anyone EVER tried walking an elephant down Market St, on a leash or otherwise? And how did it turn out? Also, what good would a LEASH do in restraining an ELEPHANT?
(May 2, 2015 - 6:28 pm)
Top pot top pot toppot, pot top.
(May 2, 2015 - 6:29 pm)
It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
A group of hares is called a Husk.
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th. (love this one!!)
(May 3, 2015 - 8:51 pm)
Yup!
Also
~Aforementioned Arnold Schonberg was the first ever composer of 12 tone music.
~A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
~So once, Edwin Hubble (that's the dude the telescope was named after) was walking through the woods when two dudes grabbed him and tried to mug him-- or actually one dude held him while the other searched his pockets. And Edwin spun around on his heel, breaking the dude's hold, and landed a good one on his faces knocking him unconsious. The other dude was seen running through the forest. Guess his college boxing days had paid off!
~Lemmings DO NOT jump off cliffs.
~The original zombies were from Haiti. They were supposedly living people put in a trance by evil voodoo sorcerers!
~The poison in the guts of a pufferfish, Tetrodoxine or TTX, is a nerve poison 500 TIMES more powerful than CYANIDE.
(May 4, 2015 - 6:49 pm)
Peep!!! Thanks, Somebody, for keeping this alive!! I don't have time right now, so I will post later.
(May 6, 2015 - 6:50 pm)
-when you say "top", the thread moves to the top because of the amount of comments, not because you said "top".
Top!!! Top!!! Top!!!
(May 7, 2015 - 11:31 am)
~The average letter in skywriting is 1 mile high.
~Your skeleton grows until you're around 35. When you're 35, it starts shrinking.
~Peanut butter has a Wikipedia page.
(May 7, 2015 - 6:31 pm)
-Sleeping is so easy to do, you can do it with your eyes closed.
-If you put Diet Coke in water, it floats. Regular Coke sinks.
- I am doing this on my mom's iPhone.
-This seems to be run only by me and Somebody. =)
- After reading this you will realize the the brain doesn't recognize a second "the". (This totally got me!!)
- Most laughs on TV shows today were recorded from the 1950s. That means that technically you are hearing dead people laugh.....O.o
Anywho, keep this alive!!
(May 8, 2015 - 4:07 pm)
DOOON'T DIIIIEEEE
-If you cut off the head of a cockroach, it can survive for weeks before it starves to death.
-There are many kinds of infinity.
(May 9, 2015 - 11:30 am)
DOOOONNTTT DIEEEEE!!
- A Parisian street mime was so committed he got stuck in his imaginary box and died of starvation.
- It is impossible to say Good Eye Might without sounding Australian.
- All the characters in Toy Story blink one eye at a time.
- If all the people in China stood on a chair and jumped off at exactly the same time, they could knock the earth out of orbit. O.o
- The second person to survive going over the Niagara Falls died from slipping on an orange peel.
Again, DONT DIEEE!!
(May 10, 2015 - 12:20 pm)
Somebody, it's your turn. =)
PEEP!! CAKE!! (Credit to Somebody, though I should have invented it, haha.) PEEP!!
(May 11, 2015 - 1:06 pm)
~A group of jellyfish is called smack.
(May 11, 2015 - 8:11 pm)
I just realized that my last fact was already posted so here are some more:)
~ Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories per hour (but I don't recommend trying it).
~ May 29th is official "stick a pillow on your fridge day."
~ If you lift up a kangaroo's tail, it can't hop.
~ A flock of crows is called a murder.
(May 11, 2015 - 8:25 pm)
I'll try to help you keep this alive
~ roller blades were invented by two Minnesotan boys
(May 11, 2015 - 8:31 pm)
Luv it!
And ya made the right posts, people, cause I got da PRESIDENTS ON MY SIDE!
~Calvin coolidge was weird. Once, at a dinner,a woman bet she could make him say more than 2 words.
"You lose." All he said! Plus, he had a hippo, two raccoons, two lion cubs, a bobcat, some bears, and some other stuff.
`Abe lincoln. First president to have a cat.
And more!
(June 17, 2015 - 9:55 am)