Cool Facts Thread

[Thunder Dan]

Post some facts you think people might find interesting. When I'm bored I like reading facts


- Kurt Cobain's neighbor when he killed himself was the founder of Starbucks


-The Capitol Building has 365 steps, one for each day of the year


-Howard Stern lives in a penthouse directly above Regis Philbin


-Elvis used to work for a trucking company before he was famous. That company was owned by Frank Sinatra

-The light atop Luxor Hotel and Casino can be seen by pilots as far from Los Angeles on clear nights, and can be seen by astronauts in space.

[DPG21920]

Driving while talking on a cell phone leaves you more impaired than drunk driving at .08.

[manufan10]

Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

[manufan10]

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

[manufan10]

A watermelon is a vegetable not a fruit.

[Thunder Dan]

I don't know exactly what is it, maybe someone can tell me. But the whole thing about traveling at the speed of light and returning to earth and earth evolving hundreds of years thing always blows my mind.

[Thunder Dan]

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

cremated ashes are not really ashes, they are bone fragments and left over calcium deposits

[manufan10]

Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.

[manufan10]

cremated ashes are not really ashes, they are bone fragments and left over calcium deposits

:toast

[WildcardManu]

Found this one.
Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

[manufan10]

It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979.

[Thunder Dan]

It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979.

thats a good one

[PakiDan]

I have hairy nipples.

[manufan10]

I have hairy nipples.

:ttiwwp:


:lol

[I. Hustle]

China has more English speakers than the United States.

[manufan10]

I found this one, maybe Thunder Dan can shed some light on if it's true or not:


On Sunday, it is illegal to sell cornflakes in Columbus, Ohio.

[manufan10]

Found this one.
Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.


Rats can tell the difference between two human languages.

[I. Hustle]

quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” has the 26 letters of the alphabet in it

[Spursfan092120]

-A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
-A whale's penis is called a dork.
-All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
-Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
-In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
-In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
-Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
-The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
-The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
-The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
-The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
-The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
-The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
-The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. Unless you ask KBP...he has...ALL LIES!!
-The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
-The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
-The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
-The state of Florida is bigger than England.
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
-There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
-Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
-You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
-111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

[marini martini]

Elvis had an identical twin, Jesse Garon, that died at birth.

[Mark in Austin]

"typewriter" is the longest word to use all its letters from only one line of a qwerty keyboard.

[CuckingFunt]

"typewriter" is the longest word to use all its letters from only one line of a qwerty keyboard.

And "stewardesses" is the longest word to use only the left hand in home position.

There are 51 Springfields in the United States and 13 states without one.

[sonic21]

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants

[duncan228]

There are 122 pebbles per square inch on a Spalding basketball.

[760Spursfan]

I have hairy nipples.


:lmao:lmao:lmao


Can't buy alcohol at retail stores in Georgia on Sundays.

[duncan228]

-The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. Unless you ask KBP...he has...ALL LIES!!

:lol

[Summers]

Learned in school the other day that gin and tonic was developed by the British Army when they colonized India as a malaria prevention. The tonic was quinine water, which had to be mixed with something palatable to be drunk on a daily basis.

[ManuTP9]

it is impossible to lick your elbow and that 50% of people will try to after reading it.

[Dex]

Four year olds ask an average of 435 questions a day.

[Summers]

Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were roommates at Harvard.

[Dex]

Two days from now, tomorrow will be yesterday!

[Summers]

My bio II instructor and her wife and fellow fish researcher discovered a species of fish in South Texas that appears to be all female. They mate with a similar species but their super egg destroys the male's chromosomes after conception and she just births clones of herself. Seriously, what are the odds??

[mookie2001]

chuck berry taped hidden defecations

bo diddley was not a headhunter

mel gibson is american

people knew the earth wasnt flat long before columbus

[Slydragon]

it is impossible to lick your elbow and that 50% of people will try to after reading it.

This girl at my work can, I seen it.

[Frenzy]

i can guess one...

the least favorite planet is uranus. ^

[ploto]

Falling coconuts kill 150 people worldwide each year, 15 times the number of fatalities attributable to sharks.

[boutons_deux]

"A watermelon is a vegetable not a fruit."

To botanists, there is no such thing as a vegetable.

[marini martini]

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[jack sommerset]

The referee tossed a jump ball after every basket in basketball until 1937

[Wild Cobra]

For those who believe in the Bible and like math, the number 6 is the number of man, and the number 7 is the number of God.

There is an interesting mathematical thing with 7. First of all, its reciprocal is a rational number with six repeating digits. .142857142857....

Now if you take the pairs and graph on a x,y plot as follows:

1,4
4,2
2,8
8,5
5,7
7,1

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x262/Wild_Cobra/science/OneSeventhEllipse1.gif

you can put an ellipse through it. You can do the same thing with the two diget pairings:

14,28
42,85
28,57
85,71
57,14
71,42

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x262/Wild_Cobra/science/OneSeventhEllipse2.gif

See:

One-Seventh Ellipse (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/One-SeventhEllipse.html)