The fun facts thread---share your useless trivia!

[Solid Reece]

# Cat's urine glows under a black light.
# All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
# Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
# If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
# It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
# In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.

 

[Angryranter101]

Jesus said that the two most important things are to love your God, and love your neighbour. He said that they were the most important and so therefore everything should simply be an extension of that, like I robots three rules. FUN FACT: Thats been the case for over 2000 years and people still listen to the coat-holding-at-stoning-needed-to-be-struck-down-by-god-to-be-converted-never-even-met-Jesus-indecisive St Paul when they read the bible and mindlessly parrot a name and a number! Not that I'm a bitter fucking follower of Christ or intend to become Pope through an extensive campaign of murder and trickery so I can enforce the two greatest commandments by simply removing all else from the Bible except for the stuff about forgiveness and perhaps the old testiment. No, that would be a phycotic plan to either change Christian views or at least out all the homophobes hiding within it.

 

[dragonslayer32]

Fun fact on how heavy metal got its sound:

Tony Iommi (guitarist of Black Sabbath) had his fretting hand's finger tips cut off in a machine accident at work. He then tuned down his guitar to relieve tension on his finger tips and it resulted in a "heavier" sound.

I always thought he lost his finger tips because of working with acid...

 

[Solid Reece]

?The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
?One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
?Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
?TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
?A snail can sleep for 3 years.
?Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
?Only female mosquitoes bite.
?Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
?If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

 

[Count Igor]

Did you know dogs can't look up?

All guns in bars are loaded!

 

[Solid Reece]

?A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
?Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
?A group of frogs is called an army.
?A group of rhinos is called a crash.
?A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
?A group of whales is called a pod.
?A group of geese is called a gaggle.
?A group of ravens is called a murder.
?A group of officers is called a mess.
?A group of larks is called an exaltation.
?A group of owls is called a parliament.

 

[Nopraptor]

A single Blue Whale testicle weighs half a ton

 

[GameMaNiAC]

Fun fact: The cake is not a lie.

 

[Woodsey]

Dolphins have sex up to 5 times a day.....dont ask me why I know this

Did it involve taking interracial sex to the next level?

*shudder*

OT: You're more likely to be killed by your own trousers than in a plane crash.

 

[fluffybunny937]

So far, only 9 logia devil fruits have been revealed in One Piece.

 

[steeple]

On this planet, the amount of chickens and humans is roughly the same.

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so is on any other planet

 

[bak00777]

Fun fact on how heavy metal got its sound:

Tony Iommi (guitarist of Black Sabbath) had his fretting hand's finger tips cut off in a machine accident at work. He then tuned down his guitar to relieve tension on his finger tips and it resulted in a "heavier" sound.

I always thought he lost his finger tips because of working with acid...

nope it was in shop class during English version of high school. Him dropping the tune of his string helped create the genre metal.

 

[dragonslayer32]

Fun fact on how heavy metal got its sound:

Tony Iommi (guitarist of Black Sabbath) had his fretting hand's finger tips cut off in a machine accident at work. He then tuned down his guitar to relieve tension on his finger tips and it resulted in a "heavier" sound.

I always thought he lost his finger tips because of working with acid...

nope it was in shop class during English version of high school. Him dropping the tune of his string helped create the genre metal.

Fair enough... You learn something new every day Thanks for the fact.

 

[Quinadin]

Fun Facts:
1. Most English dinner terms stem from the Norman Invasion in 1066. Deer=English, Venison=French. Sheep=English, Mutton=French. Cow=Eng, Beef=Frenches.

2. Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, discovered a way to impale a man from bottom to mouth which would keep the victim alive for days. He also impaled an entire village to scare away the Ottoman Turks. It worked. ALSO when a noble complained about the stench of the dying villagers, Vlad stuck HIM on a pole and said "Let's see if the smell can reach you there". Also also, he is supposedly the inspiration of Dracula.

3. I am greatly enjoying reading this thread.

 

[Chased]

Fun fact on how heavy metal got its sound:

Tony Iommi (guitarist of Black Sabbath) had his fretting hand's finger tips cut off in a machine accident at work. He then tuned down his guitar to relieve tension on his finger tips and it resulted in a "heavier" sound.

I always thought he lost his finger tips because of working with acid...

I heard it from a documentary and they said a machine (not like some dude on a forum is a reliable source of info. just what I heard).

EDIT: Dah nvmejoiehgoaenf

 

[Anarchemitis]

NASA launched 9 probes at the moon in order to capture images up close of the moon, as part of the Ranger program. They were used to test engineering techniques as well as verify possible landing sites for the Apollo missions. They were carried out in 1964 and 1965 and specifically designed to smash into the surface of the Moon at about 5000km/h.

Ranger 1: Launch failure
Ranger 2: Launch failure
Ranger 3: System failure on route to the moon, missed
Ranger 4: System failure on route to the moon, impacted
Ranger 5: System failure on route to the moon, missed
Ranger 6: Camera failure nearing moon, impacted
Ranger 7: Successful transmission of images of the moon for 17 minutes, impacted on schedule and on target.
Ranger 8: Successful transmission of images of the moon for 23 minutes, impacted on schedule and off target.
Ranger 9: Successful transmission of images of the moon for 19 minutes, impacted on schedule and on target. Broadcast live on public television. (Shown in time-lapse)

 

[SuperUberBob]

Did you know that people with red hair need to given 20% more anesthesia than your average person before surgery?

 

[J3llo]

I you feed male fishes anti-pregnancy-pills (not sure what its called in the U.S) it will cause them to change gender.

 

[Saviordd1]

Despite popular belief Napoleon was not short, he was an average 5 foot 6 inches. His personal guard just made him look short

 

[captainwolfos]

Well, with threads like these, who needs education? XD

OT:

The dot above an 'i' is called a tittle.

Shakespeare did not technically write any of his works, as he could not even write his own name.

Shark meat (and in particular, shark fins) contain very high levels of mercury, which can cause impotence and sterility if eaten in excess.

Most rodents engage in coprophagy.

Blue whales let loose approximately 400 gallons of sperm each time they ejaculate.

Only 10% of that amount reaches a mate. So the other 360 gallons are left in the sea.

The spermatozoa cells of most worms are shaped similarly to jellyfish.

The most poisonous kind of jellyfish is called a Man o' War.