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[DeltaEdge]

75-95% of Americans are vitamin D deficient.
Dalmatians are born without spots.
Months that start with a Sunday always have a Friday 13th.
Turtles can breathe through their anus.
Hitler dated 3 women in his lifetime who all tried to commit suicide. 2 succeeded, one of them, being his niece.
Children are spanked at birth to help them to breathe.
The first known form of birth control was crocodile feces, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Elephants cannot jump.
Males produce at least 1,500 sperm cells a second.

 

[BlackEagle95]

Pauley Perrette (Abby from NCIS) is 42 years old

LIES!!!
*Checks*
O.O What the hell?! My guess was 30ish.

OT:Immortal Jellyfish(It can revert back to a sexually immature state if it doesn't reproduce, and then grow again.)

[link]http://www.jellyfishfacts.net/turritopsis-nutricula-immortal-jellyfish.html[/link]
[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula[/link]

Spoiler: Behold the full gory of the easter island heads!

 

[eggmiester]

a fun one! did you know that when you sneeze, you release the same chemicals that you release when having an orgasm?This explains why it is so satisfying to sneeze!

moreover, you only release a 6th of the chemicals released during an orgasm while sneezing, which explains why people don't collapse from relief when they sneeze. which basically means that, if you sneeze 6 times in a row....

 

[Dutch 924]

In Britain, it is illegal to enter the House of Commons wearing a suit of armour

It is also legal in the UK to urinate in public, but only on the back-left wheel of your car, with one hand touching the vehicle

 

[MrGseff]

According to Professor Brian Cox, a diamond is made up of 99.9999999999999% empty space.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

In the Brigade of Gurkhas 13 of 26 victoria crossess have been awarded to native Gurkhas, the other 13 have been awarded to British officers serving with the Gurkhas.

The T-34 was designed from the US Christie tank chassis

The Bismark was sunk by torpedoes fired from the HMS Dorsetshire

 

[4RM3D]

According to Professor Brian Cox, a diamond is made up of 99.9999999999999% empty space.

Not just diamonds... If you compress the earth, it would fit in a match box.

 

[SckizoBoy]

In Britain, it is illegal to enter the House of Commons wearing a suit of armour

It's also illegal to die in the Upper House... quite how they enforce that, I don't know, but hey...

OT:

... ugh... because I can't think of anything interesting: no-one knows then the Battle of Waterloo started...

 

[Wushu Panda]

In a very early draft of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones carried brass knuckles instead of a bullwhip.

 

[diebane]

The oldest known living creature on the planet is a sponge in the arctic sea, about 10.000 years old.

 

[bojackx]

Jon Cryer from Two and a Half Men (Alan) was the first choice for the role of Chandler in Friends.

 

[TheOneBearded]

The Monty Hall Paradox - Suppose you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1 [but the door is not opened], and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

You are actually twice as likely to win if you switch.

Hey, wasn't that on Mythbusters?

 

[doomspore98]

the color purple was invented by crayola. Also the image of santa that we have locked in our minds forever, was made by coca-cola for a marketing campaign.

 

[bluegate]

the color purple was invented by crayola. Also the image of santa that we have locked in our minds forever, was made by coca-cola for a marketing campaign.

I think you might want to elaborate on that a bit further, or write it a wee bit different, because the color purple was around way before the Creyola company was founded.

 

[Gizmo_Gia_Gias]

There is a planet made of diamonds

 

[4RM3D]

the color purple was invented by crayola. Also the image of santa that we have locked in our minds forever, was made by coca-cola for a marketing campaign.

Earlier in this thread someone mentioned that fact about Coca-Cola, which turned out to be false.

"Images of Santa Claus were further popularized through Haddon Sundblom's depiction of him for The Coca-Cola Company's Christmas advertising in the 1930s.[8][33] The popularity of the image spawned urban legends that Santa Claus was invented by The Coca-Cola Company or that Santa wears red and white because they are the colors used to promote the Coca-Cola brand.[34] Historically, Coca-Cola was not the first soft drink company to utilize the modern image of Santa Claus in its advertising-White Rock Beverages had already used a red and white Santa to sell mineral water in 1915 and then in advertisements for its ginger ale in 1923.[35][36][37] In fact, Santa Claus had already appeared in red and white on the cover of Puck magazine at the start of the century.[38]"

 

[Derlwyn]

Annie Oakley shot a cigarette from the mouth of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German Emperor prior to and during World War 1.

She was drunk at the time. Imagine if she had missed her mark...deutsche mark that is...

 

[Daverson]

There is a planet made of diamonds

Despite their size, perfect diamonds are composed of a single molecule.

I don't know if the diamond planet is a single molecule, it'd be pretty awesome if it was...

 

[uhohimdead]

most toilet flush in E flat
The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
The symbol on the telephone "pound"/"hash" key (#) is called an octothorpe
The dot over the letters 'i' and "j" are called a tittle.
On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
Pearls melt in vinegar

 

[Starke]

There is a planet made of diamonds

Despite their size, perfect diamonds are composed of a single molecule.

I don't know if the diamond planet is a single molecule, it'd be pretty awesome if it was...

Honestly, nobody really knows either. I can't remember the details, but it does suggest our model for "weird" in space is horribly unimaginative.