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I don't know about the rest of you, but I LOOOOOOVE random facts. Thus, I've decided to start a thread devoted solely to the entertainment of us all, where we can provide each other with awesome random facts. My only requests are that these be believable facts and that we limit it to maybe 4 or 5 facts per post? Otherwise we'll have posts with like 20 random facts... best to give everyone else a chance to wow us all, no?
So here goes:
1. Legistlation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed. (Guess I'm a wanted criminal then...)
2. Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name used on all state documents is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
3. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. (Oh yeah, well the first computers were a lot bigger than mine is now... I like to think that evolution just made things a bit more compact and useful.)
4. There are eight insect legs in the average chocolate bar.
submitted by Tempest, age Lucky 13, Mild Boredness
(March 28, 2010 - 12:26 pm)
(March 28, 2010 - 12:26 pm)
Okay, just for the record, number 4 is gross. I'm never eating chocolate again. Here are my random facts, hope you like!
1. Chewing gum while cutting onions will help decrease the crying.
2. Coca-cola used to be green. (I think that would be cool, actually!)
3. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
4. China has more English speakers than the United States.
(March 28, 2010 - 3:56 pm)
!. In response to the chocolate one: Peanut butter is allowed to have 30 insect fragments per 100 grams.
@. In 2002 a Japanese scientist found 1.24 trillion digits of pi using a powerful computer. This broke all previous records. (My question is, why'd he bother?)
So that one day he could be used in a ridiculous fact like this.
Admin
(March 29, 2010 - 9:26 am)
good answer admin! :)
(March 29, 2010 - 3:05 pm)
Yes, Admin, I guess you're right. :-) Although I also read, in the same place, that we will never know the exact circumference of any circle because we will never know the exact value of pi. Of course we can always use string ...
(March 30, 2010 - 8:09 am)
Okay, these are not TOTALLY believeable, but here goes:
1: It is illegal in illinois to tie a giraffe to a telephone post.
2: It is illegal in North Carolina to plow a field with an elephant.
3: It is illegal to snore in Massechusets unless all the doors and windows are locked.
4: The Guiness Book of Records holds the record for being most stolen from libraries.
Vick says eecn. EE! Cartoon Network! or maybe *turns it around* North Carolina-ee? idk.
~~NDT~~
(March 31, 2010 - 9:50 pm)
Oh, the occasional insect leg is good for you, I'm sure. If you could see what goes on in most food packaging plants...
The reason Flamingos are pink is because of the shrimp they eat. That's why some have varying shades of pinkness. That was on a Snapple cap.
Black capped Chickadees and Carolina Chickadees have hardly any distinguishable features from one another.
There are actually five easter bunnies, not just one.(Is this a believable fact?)
It takes me approximately 97 steps to get the mail. This can vary with running, jumping, size of the mail load, etc.
(March 29, 2010 - 2:26 pm)
Haha... the flamingo one is cool, i never knew that. Don't really get the easter bunny one though...
Here's a few more I couldn't resist putting up:
1. Walt Disney was afraid of mice. (haha, ironic)
2. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
3. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.33333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost ten more people live on this Earth now from when you started reading this.
4. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
(March 29, 2010 - 4:44 pm)
I hope the archaeologists did tests on it and stuff first, and didn't just go around eating thousand-year-old food to see if they could...
Yes, one would hope...
Admin
(March 29, 2010 - 8:36 pm)
Well, my mom told me that if you hold a guinea pig upside down by its tail its eyes will fall out. Gross and disgusting and cruel... i don't know who would want to try. Or who would be so mean in the first place to actually do that to a guinea pig. but there you go. goes without saying, don't try this at home.
(March 30, 2010 - 4:07 pm)
Hurrrrggghhh.
You said it.
Admin
(March 30, 2010 - 9:21 pm)
That's horrible! I really, really hope that Molly's mom is wrong...
(March 31, 2010 - 8:19 pm)
Eeeewww!
(April 3, 2010 - 4:18 pm)
No offense meant to your mom, but I find it more believable that she said that to keep you from being cruel to rodents than that it's actually true. . . .
And I know I've posted this before, but in Nevada it is illegal to conceal a spray-painted shopping cart in your basement.
Booyah.
Ha ha... Nevadans must have some very weird hobbies if they go around spray-painting and concealing shopping carts.
Admin
(April 5, 2010 - 2:26 pm)
okay... i just heard this one today...
Every time you sneeze, some of your brain cells die
(I feel bad for people with allergies.)
(April 6, 2010 - 7:31 pm)
Wow, these are all really cool (and weird)! I hope the sneezing one isn't true though... I have a cold!
(April 8, 2010 - 11:49 pm)