Fun Facts

[Cari Scholtens]

Alright everyone...time to show just how smart you are! Well...maybe not smart...hmm. Time to show how well you could do on a game show! I'll begin. In honor of this week's Escapist, did you know that the exact sentence "Beam me up, Scotty." was never uttered in the original Star Trek series? Alright peeps...your turn!

 

[Cakes]

I did know that, actually. Snails fart out their mouths.
Though that's one of the things "some guy" told me, so, possibly false.

 

[ae86gamer]

I didn't know that thing about the snails. Thats actually really gross.

Heres mine. The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

 

[Grayjack]

I didn't know that. Did you know that on average, people can hold their breath for about one minute. The world record is 21 minutes 29 seconds, by David Merlini.

 

[JRCB]

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

 

[SilverHammerMan]

There was a second shooter.XD
The coldest place on Earth isn't actually Antarctica, it's somewhere in Siberia.

 

[razer17]

Did you know that Clint Eastwood never uttered the line "Do you feel lucky punk?" he in fact said "The question you have to ask yourself us: Do I feel lucky, punk?"

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?

 

[LockHeart]

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.

 

[You_have_a_name]

did you know that the pound sign is called a 'octothorp' and octopuses have 3 hearts

 

[Zacharine]

Did you know that protons that are in the core of an atom can be mathematically modelled as black holes?

And that if modelled as such, two or more protons would circle eachother at the speed of light, contain as much matter as there is in the entire universe and the gravitational waves this would produce coincide perfectly with what we currently call Strong nuclear force?

 

[Hazy]

Did you know that George Washington grew Hemp?
While never noted for actually becoming intoxicated, the man grew the products at his Mount Vernon home in Virginia.

 

[AvsJoe]

Didn't know that. Did you know that Canada didn't win the Olympic Gold Medal in hockey for 50 years between 1954 - 2004?

 

[JRCB]

Didn't know that. Did you know that Canada didn't win the Olympic Gold Medal in hockey for 50 years between 1954 - 2004?

Impossible. We won gold in 2002, and 2004 was in Athens for the summer Olympics. Just pointing that out.

Also, the "&" sign is called the Ampersand.

 

[Metric Monkey]

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Did you know that John Stamos occasionally plays drums for the Beach Boys, and he's actually not terrible?

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

There are only 46 states in The U.S

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

I know this has been done before, butn I don't care..

OT:
When the Celsius scale was invented by Anders Celsius he made it backwards with 100 as freezing and 0 as boiling, but since he was so weird they waited til he died to change it.

A bowl of lime Jell-O, when hooked up to an EEG machine, exhibited movement which is virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man or woman.

 

[AvsJoe]

Didn't know that. Did you know that Canada didn't win the Olympic Gold Medal in hockey for 50 years between 1954 - 2004?

Impossible. We won gold in 2002, and 2004 was in Athens for the summer Olympics. Just pointing that out.

Also, the "&" sign is called the Ampersand.

My bad. '52 - '02

 

[captainwillies]

Did you know that George Washington grew Hemp?
While never noted for actually becoming intoxicated, the man grew the products at his Mount Vernon home in Virginia.

everyone grew hemp. in fact it was illegal not to. hemp was what they made cloths and i think even currency out of. if you owned a farm you had to set aside a portion of land that you only grew hemp on.

@topic

male lions when in the heat can have sex up to 150 times a day

 

[Kiutu]

Alright everyone...time to show just how smart you are! Well...maybe not smart...hmm. Time to show how well you could do on a game show! I'll begin. In honor of this week's Escapist, did you know that the exact sentence "Beam me up, Scotty." was never uttered in the original Star Trek series? Alright peeps...your turn!

Those cops are gonna come beat you up for breaking the douche bag law. (I assume you were watching that Robot Chicken sketch when you made this)