The Random Facts Thread

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  1. IeatEvidence

    IeatEvidence Prime Suspect

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    I said i 'd have more so...

    - No word in the English language rhymes with month.
    - On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
    - The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
    - To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
    - Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
    - Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
    - Starfish don't have brains.
    - Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
     
  2. TTHipFreak

    TTHipFreak Coroner

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    <font color="orange">Gorringe</font>!!!!!! :D He was our Grade 8 gym teacher. As for the other two, I haven't heard of any words either.
     
  3. heartagram69

    heartagram69 Head of the Swing Shift

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    gorringe, haha, i dont think that word would be in the dictionary somehow! :lol: atleast i certainly hope not!
     
  4. glam_chic86

    glam_chic86 Head of the Graveyard Shift

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    Damn I didn't know that. Now that toonies are being made instead of two dollar bills I'll never get a chance to check that out. Oh well.
     
  5. IHeartEric

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    Eek! What would he have done if it had rained?! :lol:
     
  6. heartagram69

    heartagram69 Head of the Swing Shift

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    lost the battle? hehe
     
  7. wibble

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    The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

    An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.

    Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes.

    The average person laughs 13 times a day.

    40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

    A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

    :D
     
  8. kazzy

    kazzy Head of the Swing Shift

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    Until President Kennedy was assassinated, it wasn't a federal crime to kill a president.

    It takes a drop of ocean water 1000 years to ciculate around the world.

    Cannalbalism is not illegal in Germany.

    It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas. :lol:

    Apple seeds are poisonous.

    When you eat too much, your hearing becomes less sharp.

    There has been over 7200 acts of terrorism against USA in the last 15 years.

    While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.

    Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.
     
  9. GoodLittle Wench

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    In Cleavland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star

    Cats can not taste sweet things

    68% of a Twinkie is air

    More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during the typical French kiss (Ummmmm...Ewww)
     
  10. heartagram69

    heartagram69 Head of the Swing Shift

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    omg some of these are hillarious!!!

    i think a pig can run faster then me, HAHAHAHAHA jks
     
  11. IHeartEric

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    Or everyone five seconds if you're me!

    How would you even measure that?
     
  12. csifreakaholic

    csifreakaholic Coroner

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    I found some random facts, and sorted them according to their original source. :)

    TAKEN FROM www.hookedonfacts.com

    * Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers!
    * There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
    * Bananas aren’t fruit! They are a type of herb.
    * Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.
    * The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
    * Black bears are not always black. They can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes white.
    * The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
    * Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.
    * All species of beetles are edible.
    * Baby beavers are called kittens.
    * 'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.
    * Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!
    * Hummingbirds can't walk.

    taken from www.ehumorcentral.com

    * "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
    * The longest place-name still in use is
    Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
    * There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
    * In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
    * When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
    * There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
    * S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
     
  13. heartagram69

    heartagram69 Head of the Swing Shift

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    what abot underpants? or undergarments?
     
  14. wibble

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    They don't also end with the letters 'und' though, do they? :p
     
  15. Roka4csi

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    i wonder how parents in New Zealand answer their kids when they ask them where theyre going:
    " oh we're going to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu!! "
    :lol: major props to anyone who can say that without choking :lol:
     

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