The Random Facts Thread

The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was made after the disease hat makers would get from some chemical the used while making hats. It made them crazy.

The A Bomb only contained a baseball size amount of Uranium.
 
Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket.

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day :eek:

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
 
- Insects shiver when they are cold.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US treasury
The average persons hair grows a combined 55,000 inches per month
- The average life of a major league baseball is seven pithces
- one person in two billion will live to be 86 or older
- The average person has a totla of 6 lbs of skin
- The body has 2-3 million sweat glands
- Snakes fangs fold inward when they close their mouths so they don't bite themselves
- For night vision like an owl, you'd need eyes like a grapefruit
- An eyelash lives for about 150 days before it falls out
- The biggest brain: the sperm whaile at 20 lbs.
- In Altanta it was illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole. :confused:
 
In Altanta it was illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.
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*wipes tears*

-Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

- According to U.S. FDA standards 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to containt 10 fruit fly eggs but only 2 maggots *notes never to drink orange juice again*

- In Mexico, the Tooth Fairy is referred to as the "Tooth Mouse"

- Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

- Currently 70% of US businesses do not have a website.

- Antartica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

- The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats.

- Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor polution.

- Polar bears can eat more than 50 pounds of meat in one setting.

- The word "set" has more definitions than any other English word.

- Approximately $25 million is spent on lapdances each year in Las Vegas. :eek:

- Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.
(thanks alot, now I blink everytime I swallow).

- People who are modestly overweight are less likely to die than those that are normal.

- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of cofee.

- In India it is not illegal to marry a dog!

- People who ride on rollercoasters have a higher chance of having a blot clot in the brain. (Yay for my chicken self!)

- Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.

- The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used. (I don't think they were talking about Bush here :lol:)
- In ancient Japan public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and the longest!

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:lol: That's so cool. I don't think there's a name for it in Arabic.

-->I just found out George Bush used to be a cheerleader.
 
I've heard the same thing about George W.

I didn't know this until the other day:

The last Civil War Veteran died in 1959 at the age of 117.
 
On average people use 54 feet of dental floss per year. However dentists recommend using 548 feet of dental floss per year.

Ancient societies used urine as a mouthwash. It actually was a good for the mouth because the ammonia killed all the bacteria in their mouthes.

Alcohol and antifreeze are processed by the same enzyme (I think it'd be an enzyme but am not positive) in your body. If you ever drink antifreeze by accident go drink a shit load of alcohol and your body won't be abvle to process the antifreeze.
 
Ancient societies used urine as a mouthwash
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Ugh, that is nasty. Why would someone do that? What comes out, gotta stay out. :lol: :rolleyes:

In Mexico, the Tooth Fairy is referred to as the "Tooth Mouse"
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That is too cute. :lol: Tooth mouse, I'm gonna call it that from now on. :D

Ingrown toenails are hereditary
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Oh dear god. *prays that it'll skip a generation*

I got one, that stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. *tries it* Wow, that's so cool. :lol: It's like when you type typewriter, it feels funny. :rolleyes:

ETA: OMFG!
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 :eek: That is unbelievably cool, and how the hell did I not know that? :eek:

ETA2: Sorry for all the editing. :rolleyes: It's an obsession. :p
'In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from.'
Wow do I love me a random fact. :lol:
 
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