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

[VegetaPrinceofSaiyans]

The Bible is the world's most shoplifted book.

The bible is also the world's most sold book.

well du I hate when someone tells me that and is expecting me to be surprised it is over 500th years old has to be bought by people who go to school and I the book of the largest world religion why the hell wouldn't it be the worlds most sold book?

OT: The escapist isn't the only website that is mostly made of smart, reasonable people.

It's far, far older than fivehundred years old, but thanks for your imput. Even as a book, it existed way before Gutenberg decided to put it into print.

I meant to say 5000 I think I some how did partially 5thousand and 5000 put yea it's old nearly as old as your mom

Fivethousand is about as hilarious as your "blah blah blah your mom" reply. Think about it; When did Christ die (or so we assume)?
The bible as we know it came to be a few centuries after that, at a church-summit which I CBA to find the date for right now.

I believe that you are referring to the Council of Nicea

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

One of the few things I learned in the little time that I wasn't sleeping in my High School Comparative Religions course @_@

 

[Wondermint13]

Did you know a squid got three hearts? A little red bean told me this
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Within the first 16 hours of a tiger shark's life it is allergic to straight alchohol.

 

[what.twitch]

Did you know that you can temporarily survive off of a transfusion of coconut milk instead of blood? Trufax. In World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the nurses ran out of blood while trying to patch up the troops, so instead, gave them coconut milk transfusions until more blood could be donated.

 

[kiwisushi]

When you curve your thumb upwards, there is a small gap at the base of it where the two tendons split, this is known as the Anatomical Snuffbox.

 

[C95J]

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

"Typewriter" is the longest word you can type with one row of letters on a QWERTY keyboard.

What about PROTEROTYPE?

 

[Shiftysnowdog]

When chefs cook crabs they can leave the top of the pot off.

This is because, when one of the crabs gets to the top of the pile, the other crabs grab him and pull him back down into the boiling water with them.

Something similar happens every day to me at work

 

[Realitycrash]

The Bible is the world's most shoplifted book.

The bible is also the world's most sold book.

well du I hate when someone tells me that and is expecting me to be surprised it is over 500th years old has to be bought by people who go to school and I the book of the largest world religion why the hell wouldn't it be the worlds most sold book?

OT: The escapist isn't the only website that is mostly made of smart, reasonable people.

It's far, far older than fivehundred years old, but thanks for your imput. Even as a book, it existed way before Gutenberg decided to put it into print.

I meant to say 5000 I think I some how did partially 5thousand and 5000 put yea it's old nearly as old as your mom

Fivethousand is about as hilarious as your "blah blah blah your mom" reply. Think about it; When did Christ die (or so we assume)?
The bible as we know it came to be a few centuries after that, at a church-summit which I CBA to find the date for right now.

I believe that you are referring to the Council of Nicea

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

One of the few things I learned in the little time that I wasn't sleeping in my High School Comparative Religions course @_@

Yes, that would be the one. Basically a group of old people got together and decided which stories of Jesus the Savior's life would be remembered as "true", and which would be remembered as "bullshit".

No wonder Gospel of Judas got sacked.

Oh, there we go - Trivia; There was actually a Gospel of Judas.

 

[Realitycrash]

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.

He's not suposedly anything he IS the inspiration for Dracula, his name is actuall Vlad Dracula.

His name isn't Vlad Dracula, but Vlad II, Prince of Wallachia. Dracula was just a nickname the Turks gave him, meaning "Devil".

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Old Icelandic and Old English are virtually identical.

 

[darkless]

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.

He's not suposedly anything he IS the inspiration for Dracula, his name is actuall Vlad Dracula.

His name isn't Vlad Dracula, but Vlad II, Prince of Wallachia. Dracula was just a nickname the Turks gave him, meaning "Devil".

"His Romanian surname Drăculea (also spelled "Drakulya"), by which Vlad was referred to in several documents, means "son of the dragon", in reference to his father, Vlad Dracul"

Taken from wikipedia not the most reliable source I know but it was the quickest one to get.

 

[brodie21]

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

they also have prehensile penises, dont ask

 

[A Satanic Panda]

Did you know that the video format MPEG stood for Moving Picture Experts Group? And the video format MPEG-3 was made to accommodate HDTVs, but MPEG-2 could handle the high data so it was made in to a separate MPEG-2 profile.

 

[Headsprouter]

Bulbasaur's Japanese name means ''isn't it strange?''.

 

[brodie21]

Did you know dogs can't look up?

i have seen my dog look up

 

[thenoblitt]

Sea cucumbers excrete their internal organs to entangle their foes, and escape because they can re-grow them

Swans are the only bird with a penis

There's a kind of spider that breaks it's penis off inside the female spider after intercourse

Gandhi was an Anti-Semite (This is not my opinion but I've heard it from a few places/people)

Hitler was a vegetarian

Some people believe Nazis had help from aliens

A member (or former member) of the Nazi part was one of the most important people who worked on NASA's project to get a human on the moon

Samurai swords can cut a speeding bullet in half

(might have more later)

ducks also have penises and they are a bird

Ya don't say? ^^

sorry for the bad grammar in that sentence, i wasn't really paying attention when i wrote it, but yes most waterfowl have penises, unlike most birds who have a cloaca.

 

[brodie21]

Highly concentrated oxygen (what you use for a blowtorch) and simple fat used for cooking or shining your shoes is EXTREMELY flammable, and will in most cases turn into an explosion upon contact.

oxygen and sugar is the basic formula for rocket fuel. you can also create a rather weak rocket using the filling for oreos using a chemical that is known as an oxidizer

 

[brodie21]

Hitler was a vegetarian

Some people believe Nazis had help from aliens

A member (or former member) of the Nazi part was one of the most important people who worked on NASA's project to get a human on the moon

hitlers vegetarian cook was jewish, and Wernher Von Braun was the guy. he worked on the v2 rockets for the nazis and got captured by the americans and worked for nasa in exchange for not going on trial for war crimes

 

[sluggyfreelancer]

Did you know dogs can't look up?

All guns in bars are loaded!

Was that a Shaun of the Daed referance?

OT: Uh, don't know any off the top of head that hasn't alreay been said.

 

[Ghhostface]

Quantum entanglement is the unexplained phenomenon in the universe where two particles are inextricably linked together and any action on one particle causes the other particle to react instantly (faster than light speed) no matter what distance the particles are separated.
Also, for those too young to remember there was originally 150 pokemon ^.^

YEH FERGOT MEW!
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=261

 

[coolkirb]

I was a member of my schools reach team (which is kind of like jeopardy) we made it to the provincial level of competion so I learned all kinds of random facts, for example...

-The popes ring is called the fishermens ring and is destroyed open his death
-The Color Purple was nominated for 8 acadamy awards but won none
-An orcastra allways tunes to an oboe because it has the purest sound
-Their are only two books of the bible written by women, Ruth and Ester
-Louis the XIV of France was the Sun King
-Canada has been a country longer then Germany
-Spain was a crumbling failing empire untill they accedently discovered the Americas, They then took the wealth from the natives and became a super power ( they thought the Aztec city was El deraldo the legendary city of gold)
-Pachabel is considered the one hit wonder of the classical world


Those are off the top my head but I'm sure more will pop in