Share an interesting random fact

[TheOneBearded]

Papaphobia - a fear of the Pope

 

[TheOneBearded]

Apple seeds are actually poisonous.

How much are we talking about here?

 

[Erttheking]

Apple seeds are actually poisonous.

How much are we talking about here?

Not very much, they're completely harmless to Humans.

 

[littlewisp]

Koumis (fermented mare's milk) is to Central Asia (the steppes, at least) what beer is to Europe, especially during and before the Middle Ages (a replacement for lack of or contaminated water).

Asia experiences monsoons because the Eurasian landmass is so large horizontally. If the Eurasian landmass stretched north/south instead of east/west it would not have monsoons.

When it is around -40 to -50 F you can take a cup of boiling water and toss it outside, and it explodes into snow powder just about instantly.

 

[4RM3D]

The average number is less than 2 (people who lost 1 or more legs). The same goes for arms and fingers.

exactly. Every person with less then 2 legs drops the average slightly.

Well, I tried to find a deeper meaning as the statement itself was pretty self-explanatory. I thought I was missing something here. Guess not. But thanks anyway for explaining.

 

[Kashrlyyk]

The reason CDs contain more than 60 minutes of audio from the start was thanks to the CEO of Sony who wanted to fit the entire 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven on one CD.

 

[TheOneBearded]

This:

Is an animal that actually exists.
It's a sea slug.

Do you think I can extract ADAM off of that thing?

 

[backinthepresentfuture]

humans and dolphins are the only mammals that have sex for pleasure.

 

[4RM3D]

Today I found the picture below with a lot of interesting facts.

Warning: the image is huge!

Spoiler

 

[Philol]

In England their is a pencil museum (I haven't been), and Winston Churchill was a racist.