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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 Legistlation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.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)
I'm allergic to Silly Putty!
I found that out the hard way. *ugh*
Smile :P
Bummer!
Admin
(April 9, 2010 - 3:32 pm)
This is rather gross, but have you ever noticed that your eyes close for a fraction of a second whenever you sneeze? Probably not; it's too quick to notice before you're told. If you have, though, have you ever wondered why? You don't do it on purpose; it just happens, like blinking. Well, according to one of my teachers, it's because, if you didn't (which won't ever happen because our bodies are built so that it won't), your eyes will fall out.
Another way to kill brain cells is to sniff Sharpies, dry-erase markers, or hand sanitizer.
But here at Cricket we'd rather you didn't kill any brain cells...
Admin
(April 9, 2010 - 4:04 pm)
Haha! That actually reminds me of something (not really a random fact, but still funny).
I was telling my mom that you can't sneeze with your eyes open, and she said that if you laughed while you sneezed your brain would shoot out of your ears. It seems really silly reading it now, but tell it to someone right before they sneeze... the faces they make as they laugh and try not to sneeze are HILARIOUS.
(April 9, 2010 - 5:11 pm)
Right. I don't; I'm just saying that if you did those things, that's what would happen. It really came out the wrong way.
(April 9, 2010 - 5:44 pm)
OK, I'll try not to sniff those. They stink, anyway.
(April 13, 2010 - 6:11 pm)