Fun Fact Compilation Thread

[MetaKnight19]

The universe smells of steak.

Space is beige, not black.

There is a word that rhymes with orange, sporange. Sporange is defined as a botanical term for part of a fern plant.

There is also a word that rhymes with silver as well, chilver. Chilver is defined as a ewe-lamb.

Nintendo originally made playing cards.

They also did a number of other things, like setting up a love-hotel chain. Weird...

 

[ChaoticKraus]

10. No word in the English language rhymes with orange, month, silver or purple.

If you cheat a bit you can make orange work with hinge, door hinge works even better if we allow two words.

Napoleon was actually of average height.

Gavrilo Princip's first attempt at killing Franz Ferdinand failed. He sat down for a sandwich afterwards when Franz Ferdinands parade approached and gave him his second chance.

Hitler originally wanted to be a painter, but was rejected by the art school in Vienna.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

All English Dubs for animes suck ass...

Oh, wait, that's already common knowledge, right?

You ARE joking, right?

 

[scottonfire]

176. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second.

Nope, people say this because, in the olden days, it was believed that sneezing was your soul trying to escape. Blessing you was a way of making the soul remain in the person, thus saving them from damnation.

 

[BlastedTheWorm]

161 is true. its just slightly off. they carried posies because of the belief that the plague was transmitted by smell.

Nope, not true. It wasn't even around till well after the plague.

 

[Who Dares Wins]

202. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

202.) I can swear that there are more. Just found these online: Aerious, Education, Automobile, Evacuation, Authorities, Authentication, Precaution, Multimillionaire, and a few more.

It says in order and as far as I know it's a, e, i, o, u, so I think he's right.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Napoleon originally dreamed of joining the British Royal Navy but was sent to learn in France, dooming him to be delivered to his inevitable exile by the same force.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Apollo 1: Manned 'plugs-out' test of Saturn V launch vehicle on launch pad. Fire caused the deaths of all three astronauts aboard. Resulted in system redesign of a large portion of Vehicle and Command Module.

Apollo 2: Testing of SIVB stage of Saturn V.

Apollo 3: Testing of SIB stage and Internal automatic guidance systems.

Apollo 4: Testing of the SIIB and SIIIB stages as well as unmanned Reentry tests and scenarios.

Apollo 5: Unmanned test of the Lunar Module.

Apollo 6: Lunar injection trajectory test, successfully simulated an orbit that would take the Service Module to the moon, direct abort test and reentry scenario also successful.

Apollo 7: Manned testing of service and command module systems in Earth orbit.

Apollo 8: Initially planned to be further testing similar to 7, accelerated schedule re-designated the mission to be a circum-lunar flight. Man orbits the moon for the first time, December 24th, 1968.

Apollo 9: Manned earth-orbit testing of the Lunar Lander.

Apollo 10: Procedure testing of Lunar landing including deployment and docking of Lunar module, no landing.

Apollo 11: First manned landing on the moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 2.6 hours

Apollo 12: Launch suffered near-abort problem due to Saturn V being struck by lightning twice. Second manned lander on the moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 7.8 hours

Apollo 13: Mission aborted during lunar-transit due to oxygen system explosion. Astronauts currently hold Human altitude record.

Apollo 14: Third manned landing on the moon. Malfunctioning computer led to ad-hoc repogramming of Lander computer system while it was descending to the moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 9.3 hours

Apollo 15: Fourth manned landing on the moon, first usage of the Moon Rover. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 18.5 hours

Apollo 16: Fifth manned landing on the moon, Astronauts Young and Mattingly return largest rock from moon. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 20.2 hours

Apollo 17: Sixth and thussofar most recent landing on the moon. One of the astronauts takes the famous "Blue Marble" photograph. EVA on surface by Astronauts: 22.0 hours

Apollo 18: Repurposed as Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

Apollo 19: Repurposed as Skylab 1.

Apollo 20: Cancelled due to Budgetary reasons under the Johnson Administration.

 

[A3Bf72rVWE5hA]

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55 and 201 are the same.
as for facts? i really can't think of any other than what was already posted

 

[Gaderael]

How about I put this here and walk away:
http://www.youtube.com/show/qi

Anything that I type here would just be coming from Stephen Fry anyway.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

soooo do i win?

21. Human beings are the only animals with the ability to have sex facing each other. Creighton Smith (a primatologist) disagrees with this and he sent us proof click here Thanks Creighton !
61. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. Gabriel Gabriel challenges this. She says, the flag on the Canadian 2 dollar bill isn't the American flag, its the union jack.....check it out with a good magnifying glass and you'll see.

There are other bits like that too, and repetitions. So unless you write the article this was copy-and-pasted from, no, you don't win

Um... Time to contribute...
Everest is the mountain that comes the highest above sea level in the world, but Mauna Kea is the actual tallest mountain. A good portion of its height is below sea level i.e. underwater

 

[Gudrests]

All English Dubs for animes suck ass...

Oh, wait, that's already common knowledge, right? For a real one though...

ADHD = Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
In Hawaii, we don't live in Grass Shacks on the beach
We have electricity. I don't plug my laptop into a coconut when I need to charge it.
We have phones and cell phones.
Just because I or anyone else lives in Hawaii, it does NOT mean I am Hawaiian.

...this...all of this made me sad. I was hoping to go to hawaii and plug things into fruit and watch a monkey make it work or something... na watch gurren Laggen.....english dubs are great...ANDDD full metal alchemist

 

[Confidingtripod]

A dog was killed in egipt when a piece of mars (the planet not the bar) fell on it.

Elephant's and humans are the only animals known to recognise and be scared by their own bones.

The well known hole in the ozone layer may be releasing greenhouse gasses (Theory)

If sea levels rise too high all of Ireland and most of england will become an achepalango... (Lukily I can swim)

 

[GodofCider]

Just because I or anyone else lives in Hawaii, it does NOT mean I am Hawaiian.

Yes it does. Just as living in Vermont makes me a Vermonter.

 

[okok715]

Just because I or anyone else lives in Hawaii, it does NOT mean I am Hawaiian.

Yes it does. Just as living in Vermont makes me a Vermonter.

living in Jersey makes me a Jerseyian but Jersey doesn't mean that jersey shore shit though most people here arent like that

 

[Confidingtripod]

Volks wagen (god the misspelling) was invented by hitler as "people's car" in order to rebuild german industry before he showed his true agenda... lets see them use that in an advertising campaign

The most poisonous gas on earth is; actually take three guesses (hint; it almost destroyed animal life):

Spoiler

Oxygen! scientists believe that when the first animals and plants developed a single breed of plat developed that form of photosynthisis and killed all compeditors and preditors, and prettey much everything that wasnt anarobic, after that all new species had to develop the ability to process oxygen!

 

[GodofCider]

living in Jersey makes me a Jerseyian but Jersey doesn't mean that jersey shore shit though most people here arent like that

I only vaguely know what you're referencing.

 

[Cpt. Red]

The Eurofighter Typhoon was designed to be aerodynamically UNSTABLE to make it more versatile in a dogfight.

It requires over twenty separate computer systems simply to remain airborne.

Most if not all modern fighters are designed this way.

 

[drbarno]

If Bill gates put all of his money under his bed, and then fall off his bed, It would take him 18 minutes to fall to the ground.
If you factor in Interest, he would never hit the floor.

 

[Confidingtripod]

Leonardo da Vinci invented the first handgun.

And his skeches involved a tank, his theory also inspired the helicopter (though his desighn didnt work)