Random facts

[knumpify]

your eyes see your nose at all times. your brain just ignores it.

 

[standokan]

Step1 steal underpants
Step2 ???
Step3 profit!
Underpants gnomes don't lie, they just steal underpants.

 

[standokan]

A thread just like this one was made a couple of weeks ago.

Also, you really don't want to go into the Candy Mountain Cave.

Unless you want to lose your kidney of course.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Pedestrian Outrage is a very difficult game.

[sub][sub]Also cookies for those who know what show that reference is from.[/sub][/sub]

 

[caselj01]

Some trees can live for thousands of years.

 

[Triangulon]

The collective nouns for geese, hamsters and goldfinches are as follows;

A knob of geese
A horde of hamsters
A charm of goldfinches

 

[minarri]

A wooden katana is called a bokken.

that translates to house stick

If you write "bokken" in Japanese it becomes 木剣 which is literally "wood sword." Unless you were referencing something and I've missed your joke...

Incidentally the bamboo practice stick in kendo is known as a "shinai" (竹刀 "bamboo katana") and it's fun to make lame puns with it since it sounds the same as the Japanese しない ("don't do").

 

[EeveeElectro]

Leprechauns are not real.
Ive actually been asked my some American tourists before where we can find them :/

That's quite bad. Some American tourists asked me where they were in London.
"You're not in London, you're in Yorkshire."
"Oh, is that in London?"
"Where about in London is it?"
"It's not in London, that's about 6 hours down south."

People like that give Americans bad names...

Anyway, OT: Stressed is desserts backwards.
Money is made from cotton and silk.

 

[ThoseTwoDudes]

I made a thread like this on another forum.

 

[Crises^]

I wouldn't mind but when i went to cali on holidays and stayed with a friend most of the people over there were normal smart people(apart from all the people pretending there Irish. i mean come on ir your mexican you are not Irish also the fact he thought the Taoiseach was a sport in Ireland ha).

Also i told some girl i was from ireland and she said i heard that chat up line before i was wtf ha.

And some lad over there had the irish flag on his right arm even tho hes not irish or related to any irish people :/ and a celtic cross on the other arm and he didnt know it was a celtic cross.

Anyway rant over sorry for that.

o and Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour for the fact question

 

[Stu1701]

Charlie Chaplin's corpse has been stolen from his grave twice.

 

[ggamer2]

Glass is not a solid, it's an over-chilled fluid.
If you put a sheet of glass vertically after some years it will be thicker at the bottom and thinner on the top, because the glass will slowly flow down.

 

[DP155ToneZone]

golf is actually an acronym: Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.

Very untrue.

http://golf.about.com/cs/historyofgolf/a/hist_golfword.htm

 

[MasTerHacK]

When you're born, you have more than 300 bones which eventually merge as you grow up.

 

[Yuno Gasai]

The notes used in English currency aren't actually made of paper.

 

[manythings]

"Most people only use 10% of their brain" total bull

You only use about 10% of your brain power when your doing nothing
but most people are stupid anyway

That always struck me as one of the most retarded facts in the world. Ahead of it of course is the idea that in the "other 90%" reside magical powers that you can unlock... for a fee.

OT: Proprioception is the sense of your body and how you are arranged at any given time, e.g. how you can eat with your eyes closed and scratch an itch without having to aim. Screwing with that sense can cause out of body experiences. Something to do with the Tempoparietal lobe if I remember correctly.

 

[manythings]

I know, I train with them. I'm just adding another fact.

golf is actually an acronym: Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.

like that

I'm told the word came long before the acronym and that was just a joke they used to tell.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Purgatory was made up to help the Church sell indulgences.

And (according to a sophmore I met yesterday) Vatican City is in Germany

 

[SwagLordYoloson]

Six inches is the average size of a....
Six inch sub from Subway

 

[manythings]

Glass is not a solid, it's an over-chilled fluid.
If you put a sheet of glass vertically after some years it will be thicker at the bottom and thinner on the top, because the glass will slowly flow down.

Yes but imperceptibly, the reason people point to old houses where the panes have thicker bottoms than tops is because of the method used to make glass back then (glass spinning). It would take something in the region of 1,000 years for it to be a measurable change.