Random Fact

[gjkdioepppp]

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a charlie chaplin lookalike competition.

 

[Cymraeg Phill]

The British Rail Class 395 "Javelin" train will be the first Japanese built train to be used in the United Kingdom.

 

[SnowCold]

A black hole isn't a hole, its a VERY compressed planet
And for earth to be as compressed as a black hole, all of it's mattar needs to be compressed into a sive of a tennis ball!

 

[darkless]

There are no muscles in your fingers just tendons controlled by the muscle in your hand so no matter how much you work out your fingers technically never get any stronger

 

[Garrtoone]

--- The defining feature of a black hole, the event horizon, is a surface in spacetime that marks a point of no return. Once an object has crossed this surface there is no way that it can return to the other side. Consequently, anything inside this surface is completely hidden from observers outside. Other than this the event horizon is a completely normal part of space, with no special features that would allow someone falling into the a black hole to know when he would cross the horizon. The event horizon is not a solid surface, and does not obstruct or slow down matter or radiation that is traveling towards the region within the event horizon.

 

[COR 2000]

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.

*Blushes*

Aw, Shucks. I mean, come on: It's only common knowledge! Don't you know about the bird? Oh, everybody knows that the bird is the word! B-b-bird, bird, bird bird bird ......

 

[Sporky111]

A new animal has not been *domesticated* in 1000 years. For the record, putting some exotic thing in a tank is not considered domestication.

 

[Birras]

Fun fact:It has been found that a homemade ballistic armor made from two layers of bathroom tile sandwiched between plaster can stop rounds from a 9mm pistol, a .45 pistol, and even twelve-gauge buckshot!

 

[Mythbhavd]

[li]William Shakespeare was 46 when the King James Bible was published. In that bible, in Psalm 46, the 46th word in is "shake" and the 46th word from the end is "spear". This is because he was called upon to help write the translation, and slipped his name in as a bit of a joke, for which he was well known at the time.[/li][/li]

I love pointing out this little oddity to mess with people, but alas, he wasn't one of the translators.

Marie Curie's papers are considered too dangerous to be viewed. In order to read the originals, one must wear protective clothing to avoid radioactive contamination.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

The planet Uranus is tilted 90 degrees, so it rotates south to north.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Team Fortress 2 is one of the first games ever to feature full-screen real-time motion blur.

 

[Sporky111]

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.

There is actually a town in California where you can be fined $500 for detonating a nuclear bomb. Seriously, $500.

Here is another fact, spider silk is so strong that if it could be made as thick as a pencil, it could stop a Boeing 747 in mid-flight.

 

[whoops1995]

some butterflies have ears on their wings
Donald Trump has a phobia about shaking hands.
a mature mushroom can release more than 16 billion spores
Uranus is a gas giant (losts of people know that but i couldn't resist)
there are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible different soduku boards

I could go on but i won't read the bathroom reader, it's where i got all these facts.

 

[Berethond]

-Shakespeare invented 1600 words that are unique to the English language
-Any adult under 4'10" is legally considered a midget

 

[Berethond]

-The 'peace sign' is derived from the Germanic rune called the 'Toten-rune'. The Toten-rune represents death. The peace sign was invented by Hitler's propaganda officers during World War II and then adapted to the Hippie movement.

 

[Avalanche91]

-more then 30 percent of all male ducks is homoseksual.
-there is no sound in space. Star Wars, Dead Space, it all lied.
-a chicken will lay bigger, stronger eggs if you use the light to trick him in thinking the day is 28 houres long
-the sentence: 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
-Ever been so absorbed in a book or the tv you noticed/heard nothing else in the room? this is a definition of a trance state.
-an ostrich eye is bigger then its brain.

 

[Anarchemitis]

A ship that has all of it's parts replaced is still the same ship.

 

[megapenguinx]

black holes don't actually suck you in. It's just the gravity of it pulling you in because it has the same mass (size? can't fully recall) as the star it was originally made from

 

[Auron555]

Their are more insects in one square mile of earth than their are people on the planet.

Antarctica? 7 billion insects? I don't believe you.

-The 'peace sign' is derived from the Germanic rune called the 'Toten-rune'. The Toten-rune represents death. The peace sign was invented by Hitler's propaganda officers during World War II and then adapted to the Hippie movement.

I thought I read somewhere that the peace sign came from Semaphore. It has either A, D, G, K, N, or V. It could be N and D for No Death.
You know, I might have gotten that from Snopes. Hm. I still like semaphore better than creepy toten runes.

Here is another fact, spider silk is so strong that if it could be made as thick as a pencil, it could stop a Boeing 747 in mid-flight.

What do you mean by this? If a 747 flew into a fence made of pencil-spider-silk, then would it be stopped?

-There's a fourth state of matter: Bohn-Einstein Concentrate, or something that sounds like that. It's what happens when you uber-chill a solid. Like, to .0000000000137 degress Kelvin.

 

[smithy1234]

Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.