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[Luke5515]

It is still legal to Kill a Scotsman within the city walls of York with a Bow and Arrow!

I feel like killing anyone with any weapon is illegal in most of the civilized world, not just a Scottish Yorksman with a bow and arrow.

My fact: In 2000 the Harlem Globetrotters named Pope John Paul II an honorary trotter. His number is 75.

 

[Krion_Vark]

It is illegal in California to eat an orange while taking a bath. Odd I know.

It is also illegal to shoot a whale from a moving vehicle.

If you have 3 quarters 4 dimes and 4 pennies you have a dollar nineteen you also have the most change you can have without being able to make change for a dollar.

The word Nerd was originally penned by Dr. Suess in his book If I ran a Zoo.

The slinky was created from a spare part from an engine of a boeing 747

 

[Aspergo]

The plastic thing you use at the supermarcets to sepparate your wares from other customers, has no name

 

[Krion_Vark]

"Luke, I am your father" is the most misquoted line in film history.

Isn't it not the most well known though. I thought that one belonged to the line 'Play it again Sam" from Casablanca. Great movie btw

 

[Krion_Vark]

The plastic thing you use at the supermarcets to sepparate your wares from other customers, has no name

Of course it does its called the plastic divider used in supermarkets to separate your wares from other customers.

As for another random fact:
The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

 

[217not237]

10 body parts have 3 letters (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

On average, a McDonalds burger's bun has 178 sesame seeds.

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931.

 

[Krion_Vark]

Christmas is not Christian-specific.

It's impossible to lick your own elbow

*Snaps off elbow. "Hah!" *Licks elbow then proceeds to die from blood loss. On a more serious note, I can't believe that no one can do that. There are people with abnormal qualities but humanity has still failed to lick their below?

I know someone that actually can. He broke his arm so he can bend it in a strange way now.

 

[Dethenger]

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

To expand on this, the reason is that people selling typewriters would be able to type the word while pitching it in order to impress the customer.

Also, the QWERTY arrangement was designed because the early, more fragile keyboards had a tendency to jam when two keys next to each other were pressed in rapid succession, which meant spreading out the more commonly used letters around some.

 

[EpicEps]

Ducks reproduce by rape.

I'll see your duck rape, and raise you bedbugs reproduce via rape, but the males don't actually penetrate the female's reproductive tract, they inject it directly into their blood through a random place on their carapace, if I recall correctly, this kills them females 1/3 of the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination

Also, ducks have spiral/corkscrew penises... just say'n.

It's called traumatic insemination, and their penis is a literal corkscrew to break through the females abdomen.

And there is a type of duck, the Muscovy duck, that can't get raped. Yes, the male's penis can reach it's full size in less than a second, but the female's vaginal canal has multiple twists and turns, making it nigh impossible for the male to fully penetrate. They can only reproduce if the female relaxes her canal and allows the male.

Statistics, all true.

33.3 percent of the Jonas brothers have diabetes.

One out of ever four kids with the initials ADD actually has it, and four out of four kids with the initials ADHD have an annoying, self righteous mother who wouldn't just shut the fuck up and take her husbands last name.

One out every 44 US presidents can DUNK. its Miller Fillmore, you racists.

The average child of Sarah Palin has 46.2 chromosomes.

The average person has one Fallopian tube.

The average penis length is 5.5 inches, and the average penis length of a man who googles ''average penis length'' is 3.5 inches.

Ahhh, Bo Burnham is hilarious.

My facts are:
1. The genome for the Black Death plague in the 1300's has recently been decoded, and has been found to be close to the origin of Y. pestis, or the Plague disease.

2. The name for the medical condition that the Viagra and other male enhancers warn you about, "if you have an erection lasting longer than 4 hours...", is called priapism. It causes the penis or clitoris to swell without sexual stimulation and prevent de-inflammation. Priapisms can be very painful and lead to scarring. It can occur because of drugs, some cancers and blood disorders, and some venomous spider bites.

3. For every 35 pounds an overweight man loses, his penis gains an inch.

4. Back before we knew about bacterium and viruses, John Hunter did research on the STD's syphilis and chlamydia. He believed that they were different stages of one disease, and to prove it, he took samples from another infected male's sore (a symptom of syphilis is an open sore on the penis) and lacerated the only clean penis that he had, his own, and infected himself with it. He ended up getting both syphilis and chlamydia and wrongly claiming they were one disease. But the reason that he got both was because his original sampler unknowingly had both.

I apparently know a great deal of random facts about intercourse. Thank you honors classes!

 

[217not237]

For every 35 pounds an overweight man loses, his penis gains an inch.

I now have to start excercising

 

[EpicEps]

For every 35 pounds an overweight man loses, his penis gains an inch.

I now have to start excercising

It has something to do with how the fat is distributed throughout the body. Both genders have fat deposits around their thighs and for men, that includes their penis. If you're already of a healthy weight, though, you won't see any effects.

 

[feebstalicious93]

Belly button lint comes from your underwear
fly larvae helps to heal wounds quicker
Natural animal explosions can occur for a variety of reasons. On 2004, a buildup of gas inside a decomposing sperm whale, measuring 17 meters (56 ft.) long and weighing 50 tons, caused it to burst in Taiwan. The explosion was reported to have splattered blood and whale entrails over surrounding shop-fronts, bystanders, and cars.

That is the first time I've ever seen a sextuple post. Fucking awesome.

OT: Shouting your question with the preface "Gun to your head..." while pointing your index finger and your middle finger at someone's head in the shape of a gun is an appropriate way to get their true answer and, occasionally, a fist to the face.

You may leave someone within the first 5 minutes (300 seconds, act fast) of any date for whatever reason, you simply say "I'm going to have to Lemon Law" and leave. The Lemon Law, it's a thing.

I am better than every single one of you and everyone you know and love by several country miles.

i once did the lemon law on someone who knew about the lemon law. true story.

 

[feebstalicious93]

Hitler was a vegetarian.

From a complete stop, a human can outrun a formula one race car for about 30 feet.

"Luke, I am your father" is the most misquoted line in film history.

Christmas comes from the Pagan Holiday Saturnalia. In fact, the star on the tree is supposed to be a sun, as it was Saturn who pulled the sun along with his chariot.

another misquoted line is "Beam me up Scotty"

 

[Burst6]

For every 35 pounds an overweight man loses, his penis gains an inch.

I really doubt that.

If that was true i would have a 9 inch penis.

I really wish it is true, though.

 

[feebstalicious93]

Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader
Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
According to statistics, Australian women are most likely to have sex on the first date.
A group of officers is called a mess.
there is a superman in every episode of "Seinfeld"
Mark Wahlberg has three nipples
A is the first letter of the alphabet
B is the second letter of the alphabet
1 is the loneliest number

 

[4RM3D]

It's possible for a human to survive unprotected in the vacuum of space for up to around 2 minutes. You don't lose much heat because there's nothing for it to conduct to and the body is tough enough not to immediately die from the pressure difference.

After about 30 seconds, however, the blood vessels in your skin will begin to burst, and of course you'll asphyxiate. You'll also get extremely bad sunburn if you're anywhere near a star.

I thought the temperature in space is close to absolute zero (minus 273 degrees Celsius) and thus you would freeze instantly?? At least on the "dark sides" of space. If you are in space when facing the sun you get burned to death (without protective gear or an ozone layer to protect you). No?

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

To expand on this, the reason is that people selling typewriters would be able to type the word while pitching it in order to impress the customer.

Also, the QWERTY arrangement was designed because the early, more fragile keyboards had a tendency to jam when two keys next to each other were pressed in rapid succession, which meant spreading out the more commonly used letters around some.

And little did he know that QWERTY would set the standard for the keyboard. Because even though the problem of jamming was no longer an issue, people found out you could type faster if the commonly used letters are further apart.

 

[Talshere]

Mt Everest is the highest point on earth but not the highest mountain. That honor goes to Mauna Kea. Which is not the highest mountain on earth because some 8000 meters of it is underwater.

I get what you were trying to say, but it made little sense.. the meaning of mountain changed.

Actually, you are both wrong.

Mount Everest is considered to be the highest mountain above sea level. But it is NOT the highest point on earth. That honor goes to Mount Kilimanjaro. The reason for this is its location. Kilimanjaro is closer to the equator. At this point the landmasses are higher. Making Kilimanjaro the winner.* As for the highest mountain with its base below sea level, that is indeed Mauna Kea.

*This is still disputed. Mount McKinley and Nanga Parbat are also contenders, but Kilimanjaro is considering to be the most probable.

Also this wont be true in some 22.5k years as Mt Everest is actually growing 60cm a year. Also imo submarine based volcanes shouldnt count because they have the advantage of reduces gravity and generally higher angle of internal resistance.

 

[Volkov]

Coal power plants emit far more radiation into the environment than nuclear power plants.

 

[Vausch]

1 is the loneliest number

But 2 can be as bad as 1, it's the loneliest number since the number 1.

Piccolo is Akira Toriyama's favourite character from Dragonball, and he believes Vegeta will be the first to die of natural causes due to high blood pressure.

Theory is often misused in place of "hypothesis" (the two words are NOT synonyms).

Ralph Bakshi punched the producer of Cool World in the mouth for changing almost everything behind his back.

Friday the 13th will always fall on a month starting on a Sunday.

If you heat a diamond to 1405 degrees Fahrenheit, it will turn into vapour.

 

[VoidWanderer]

Die Hard is based off of a novel called Nothing Ever Changes that is a sequel to a previous book called The Detective. The Detective was adapted into a film of the same name in 1968, starring Frank Sinatra. The characters' names in Die Hard were changed for it to be a standalone movie, but in a roundabout way, Frank Sinatra is the original John McClane.

So the plot of all the movies takes after the novel title... Cool