Fun Facts

[hortez the champion of the frozen wastes]

did you know that this thread has been done before like a million times?

On a side note, did you know that xkcd was actually added to the dictionary as a word that has no phonetic pronunciation. That might not be true though my friend told me that.

 

[eatenbyagrue]

Because of blinking, most people send 1/2 of the day with their eyes closed.

The little plastic caps on the end of shoelaces? They're called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.

 

[Pax1]

Scotland is the only country in the world where Coca-Cola is not the number 1 selling soft drink, it is in fact Irn Bru

Scotland isn't a country.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

Did you know, that velociraptors were actually the size of a turkey and covered in feathers? It shares a remarkable number of similarities to modern day birds.

THANKYOU! Nobody believes me when I say that.

Did you know that the Barbie doll is modelled after a German masturbation aid designed for soldiers in wars?

so that gag about nazi barbie in rat race was true!

Did you know that right before the war against the japanese was announced over,there was a japanese sub stationed right next to a very important trading post style bay or something,anyway,due to the timing of the official end of the war,a second pearl harbor style incedent was avoided by mere moments.

 

[Babypummeler]

I'm a a very talented killer. I plan on becoming supreme dictator of this solar system, but govern it from my home system trillions of light years away. You life may end withing 7 and 1/2 human earth minutes of reading this post. I am accredited with making very good cake.

Edit: I said a a twice, not as an accident, but because it aided me in planting a camera in your eye's and a tiny bomb in your brain.

 

[Spaghetti]

Scotland is the only country in the world where Coca-Cola is not the number 1 selling soft drink, it is in fact Irn Bru

Scotland isn't a country.

Is that a fun fact or a Geography fail?

 

[Cabisco]

Water is blue.

The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old. The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago ? it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun.

 

[Tyburn Cross]

Scotland is the only country in the world where Coca-Cola is not the number 1 selling soft drink, it is in fact Irn Bru

Scotland isn't a country.

Is that a fun fact or a Geography fail?

Scotland is part of the United Kingdom. It is not an independent, sovereign nation.

http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/scotlandnot.htm

 

[Smagmuck_]

Did you know that you all are idiots? Nah, just kidding, did you know that fruit flies can die from constipation? That's my fact.

 

[Spaghetti]

Scotland is the only country in the world where Coca-Cola is not the number 1 selling soft drink, it is in fact Irn Bru

Scotland isn't a country.

Is that a fun fact or a Geography fail?

Scotland is part of the United Kingdom. It is not an independent, sovereign nation.

http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/scotlandnot.htm

Fine, if we're going to play semantics, Scotland is the only NATION where coke is not the best selling soft drink

 

[Zacharine]

Did you know that us Finnish developed Molotov Cocktails and the name has an actual reason behind it?

The reason being that as Helsinki, our capital, was bombed by Soviets, the Soviet Foreign Minister, one Mr. Molotov, said to both national and international press that they were not dropping bombs but bread to the hungry workers of Finland. This became a joke to the Finns, going so far as naming the Soviet bombs as bread baskets and resulting in a song played over the radios.

Finns being the polite people we are, decided that if Molotov and Soviets brought the bread to the table, then it's up to the Finns to provide the drink to go with that bread.

Hence, Molotov Cocktail, gifted in large numbers to Soviet tank crews...

 

[MrNades]

Cow's don't eat bee's.......

 

[sheic99]

Also, humans and dolphins are the only animals to have sex for pleasure. I find this fun because i wonder how scientists figured this out. Did they suddenly see a dolphin pull out some Durex?

Bullshit. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Sexual_social_behavior] Don't worry you're not the only person I have corrected on this. In fact, I do every time this thread comes up.

OT:The correct line in the Empire strikes back is "No, I am your father."

 

[Joshimodo]

Did you know, that velociraptors were actually the size of a turkey and covered in feathers? It shares a remarkable number of similarities to modern day birds.

THANKYOU! Nobody believes me when I say that.

Yup.


Did you know that Icthyology is the study of fish?

Or that fish only float on the top of the water if their swim bladder was infected or blocked?

 

[Darth Pope]

The first bomb dropped by allied forces on Berlin killed the only Elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Also U.S. Grant was sickened by the sight of blood. Rather ironic for a general of his stature.

 

[A teenage old man]

It takes 1.25 seconds for light to go from the Moon to Earth.

It takes 8 minutes for light to get here from the sun. That's how much farther away it is. Also, that means if the sun went out, we wouldn't know for eight minutes. then we wouldn't see anything but little dots in the sky... and we would freeze to death.

 

[Toty54]

In a lifetime an average person has eaten about 100 spiders in his sleep.

If you having trouble sleeping after reading this post it's not my fault.

 

[The_Echo]

The plastic end on a shoelace is called an aglet.

Did you know that you all are idiots?

Your jerk!

Nah, just kidding,

Oh, OK. I forgive you now!

 

[Axeli]

Did you know that due to eye movement you spend several hours in a day completely blind?

Try it, look from one object to another some distance away. You won't see what happens during the time your eyes move.
It turns out brain doesn't deal well with images blurred by motion, thus it just blocks them.

That the creators of FFX2 view X2 as a prequel to FFVII.

The creators of FFX-2 are also mildly retarded.

 

[Axeli]

In a lifetime an average person has eaten about 100 spiders in his sleep.

If you having trouble sleeping after reading this post it's not my fault.

Did you know that the fact people eat several spiders in their sleep during their live is actually one of the most quoted scientific "facts" that are in truth total BS?

Sleep well and peacefully.