Random Fact

[Jamanticus]

Begone vile being! Begone!
Seriously, wasn't someone put on probation for mentioning the state of glass? Everyone got real sick of it real fast.

The mentioning of the state of glass is really, really, really annoying.

Spoiler: For Monopoly Guy

Monopoly Guy, I wasn't attacking anyone, nor was I stating something that did not belong in this thread- its title is 'Random Fact', and I was stating a random fact. Notice that I didn't say that glass was a liquid or anything......So, what made you so annoyed that you clobbered me for what I wrote?

-William Howard Taft was so fat that he once got stuck in his bathtub. He then had a new one made that was four times bigger.

-Stainless steel is unsuitable as a material for sword blades, as it is very brittle and likely to shatter.

 

[TheIr0nMike]

I don't know if these have been said, but:
>Superman is one of the leading causes of the KKK's decline in the 40s/50s

>In 1933, Prescot Bush (George Bush Sr.'s dad), the DuPont family, and the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, and Standard Oil plotted to lead a military coup to create a facist dictator ship in the US. They failed when the general that was to supply the army sold them out.

>There is a group out there that is fighting for the "ethical treatment of plants"

 

[Anarchemitis]

Plants are people too!
Sheep are people too!
People Guns are people too!

 

[Rosszul]

Some spiders actually eat birds.... live.

 

[Birras]

On a front-wheel drive car, you get more traction by driving in reverse

Half-Life still has the possibility to be based on true events as calendars in game read '200X', meaning anytime between 2000-2009

C4 is very stable, it can only be dentonated by another explosion. Shooting it does nothing. Setting it on fire will cause it to burn slowly.

Vietnam soldiers used bits of C4 as a campfire. See ^

 

[iseko]

1/2 womens breasts get smaller if they drink (more than) 3 cups of coffee a day.

 

[SmoothGlover]

1/2 womens breasts get smaller if they drink (more than) 3 cups of coffee a day.

*runs into kitchen and destroys espresso machine*

 

[Anarchemitis]

Oh, and while we're on the subject, it has yet to be unproven that Coca Cola can increase rates of male sterility.

 

[COR 2000]

(Maybe not so oblivious, but what the hell..)
Men who masturbate have a decreased chance in receiving prostate cancer.

The japanese translation for merry-go-round means, in literal context,"pony toy go round".

In SW: Republic Commando, the sound of the Trandoshans walking was produced by hitting two halves of a pine-apple against a board of wood.

The two movies to receive a 1 on metacritic, the lowest possible rating, are "The singing forest" and "Bio-dome"

For those oblivious to Lesbos, it was an island that, in ancient times, was dominated by only females. The only way to, uh, reproduce was when Minoan sailors stopped by. And nine months later, A child came along. The Females-only "policy" was so strict, however, that if the baby was a boy, he would be killed, most likely by being hurled off a cliff.

It has been proven by top scientists that the bird is, in fact, greater than, or equal to, the word.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

 

[Dramatic Flare]

Zirconium is a ceramic material that can be made into a blade sharper than, stronger than, and lighter than steel blades. Unfortunately, I don't know about how flexible it is as it is mostly used in cooking knives. However, should it be proved to be at least be flexible enough to not break at after six blows, I am going to find a way to get myself a custom Zirconia sword, as it would defeat metal detectors.
To be fair, it's Zirconium Oxide that's made into a blade, not just Zirconium itself which is a brittle, powdery substance.

 

[LukeUK90]

It has been proven by top scientists that the bird is, in fact, greater than, or equal to, the word.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

You, Sir, are a hero.

But anyway:
- Indonesia has more active volcanoes than any other country.
- The 1st bomb dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in Berlin zoo.
- Google has catalogued over one trillion web pages.
- Every cruise liner has it's own on-board Morgue.
- The third brake light in your car's rear window is called a chimsil.
- Aircraft oxygen systems have only 12 minutes worth of reserves.
- The maximum speed of revolving doors in NY is 15 turns per minute.
- 1086 Subaru Impreza's were used to spell out Colin McRae's name in a recent memorial.

There, some randomness blown out for the night.

 

[Combined]

Most of this has probably been said at one time or another, but...

Tanks are buoyant.

Plywood is very strong. Roman shields used to have plywood covers on the front to improve their durability and Germany used plywood to support tanks during transportation by air.

Germany had a space program during World War II. It involved things like the "Death mirror space station" and the "Space Bomber".

The first modern machine gun was made by a man named Gattling, but repeater weapons were in use since the 2nd and 3d centuries.

The Germans made the first assault rifle - the STG44. It is the only weapon to appear in every Call of Duty game to date.

 

[Berethond]

There is no law that makes blowing up a nuclear bomb a crime. This is because everyone figured that no one would actually be stupid enough to detonate one.

Yeah, in California "detonating a nuclear device in city limits will result in a $500 fine"
That refers to ANY nuclear device.

 

[Berethond]

Tofu can decrease a males fertility levels. No really. I just can't find the right article about it.

Yeah, it has a kind of 'plant estrogen' in it

 

[Anarchemitis]

These are the trains with the greatest amount of wheels ever:
[img_inline width="500" caption="The Milwaukee Railroad EP-2 Bi-Polar Engine. One of the more powerful pantograph engines ever made. A famous photo exists of the electric train having a tug-of-war with two equivalent size steam locomotives with their throttle valves open wide over a bridge, and it won in less than a minute. In AAR Notation, it is a 1B-D+D-B1. Thats 14 axels."]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/MILW_Bi-Polar.jpg[/img_inline]
[img_inline width="500" caption="Built by the Baldwin Engine Company for the Virginia Railroad, this was the experimental Triplex Mallet 2-8-8-8-4, or 16 axels. Due to having 6 cylinders, it could easily consume more steam than the boiler could produce in one cycle, so it couldnt go faster than 8km/h. When it was scrapped, it was rebuilt into two more engines, a 2-8-8-0 and a 2-8-2."]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/28884.jpg[/img_inline]

 

[Birras]

There is no law that makes blowing up a nuclear bomb a crime. This is because everyone figured that no one would actually be stupid enough to detonate one.

Yeah, in California "detonating a nuclear device in city limits will result in a $500 fine"
That refers to ANY nuclear device.

Feeeeeecccckkkkk...I spent all my money on the nuclear bomb itself (and two years' subscription to Entertainment Weekly), I can't afford $500, I guess I'll have to hold off on my dastardly plans....

 

[Anarchemitis]

[li]The Study of clocks is Horology[/li]
[li]The first intermeshing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_Fl_282] rotor helicoper was developed by Nazi Germany as an anti-submarine air vehicle.[/li]
[li]The name 'Combine' for Half-Life 2 came from a book about a Rebel-without-a-cause who went to a very corrupt Mental Institution called "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The warden combined the bureaucracy and horrid institutionalization as the nickname "The Combine".[/li]
[li]Oversight in Wikipedia is a type of deletion where it is absoloutely removed from existence. Not even Administrators can see it once it's deleted.[/li]
[li]The word white comes from the Common Germanic hwitaz though the Old English word hwīt.[/li]

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

Portsmouth F.C. won the FA Cup in 1939 with a 4-1 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In anaerobic respiration the human body creates lactic acid.

Portsmouth FC is one of the only 5 teams to win the season twice back to back since World War Two.

The smallest town to win the English Premier League is Blackburn Rovers.

Hitler's idea of perfection was: German, Not Jewish, Blond, Tall, Blue-Eyed and (for the men) well endowed. Hitler himself was: Austrian, Part Jewish, Short, Brown-haired, Brown-eyed, and only had one testicle.

 

[Higurashi]

Some would argue the relativity theory was advanced by Ruđer Bo?ković over 200 years before Einstein published it. Nikolai Tesla stated this as a fact. They were countrymen, and he has said Ruđer Bo?ković, the "great philosopher" (in his words), "wrote a thousand volumes of excellent literature on a vast variety of subjects".
This from the man who was on his way of developing a "teleforce" weapon that could "send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks."

 

[Anarchemitis]

That would be that fantastical Tesla Coil he wanted to make. That was one of his claims of its power, but the true nature was to bring wireless power to about half the state.