Weirdest Fact You Know

[Cheery Lunatic]

Detonating a nuclear bomb in the city limits of Chico, California will get you a $500 fine.

I lol'd hard.

 

[Andronicus]

Frogs swallow with their eyeballs; whenever they swallow, they blink, and their eyes apply pressure to the food to push it down.

 

[Gotham Soul]

Detonating a nuclear bomb in the city limits of Chico, California will get you a $500 fine.

+1

Thanks for the laugh.

 

[Red Pawn]

I have 2

1) you cannot lick your elbow.

This theory has been disproven by a friend of mine.

It is possible for a human being to fly on his or her own power. The trick is to throw oneself at the ground and miss.

 

[rhyno435]

Eating loads of chocolate is biochemically the same as having sex.

Glad I bought that chocolate factory.

enough kit-kats and you can lose your virginity!

Give me a break...

Get it, get it?

 

[Woem]

I know that less that 1 ‰ of the Escapist community ever uses the search bar. Weird huh!

 

[Lukeje]

Correction, your blood is colourless until oxygen combines with the haemoglobin, it only looks blue in veins because of the layers of skin and cells.
Or so I believe, not sure if this was the myth or the true one.

Since plasma's yellow (well "straw colour"), it's definitely not colourless...

I have 2

1) you cannot lick your elbow.

This theory has been disproven by a friend of mine.

It is possible for a human being to fly on his or her own power. The trick is to throw oneself at the ground and miss.

That's a strange way to lick your elbow?!

Yup, everyone knows the proper way to do it is to hack your arm off above the elbow, then lick it.

 

[Kaltazraza]

In one state which name i dont know its illegal to sell icecream to people after 8pm unless they have a medical statement

 

[oppp7]

Parasites outnumber everything else 4-1.

 

[asovietpie]

The first bomb dropped on Leningrad in 1942 by Germany killed the only elephant in the Leningrad Zoo. Then, 3 years later, the first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Soviets killed, you guessed it, the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

 

[NEVRINx54]

Luftwaffe fighter pilots suffered over 99% casualties (higher casualties than the Kamikaze corps)
+
In Stalingrad the average life expectancy of a russian soldier was 24 hours.

 

[Aerodyamic]

A cat, when struck with a hammer, will blink.

 

[Ben Lehman]

the FBI catches 20-30 bank robbers every year because they put their holdup note on their personal deposit slips(which have their name on them)

 

[Desert Warrior]

Geese have teeth...You ask how i know?...I'm not going to tell that horrible day -shivers-
Also Coca Cola would be green and gunky without the right componants and coloring in it
and There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos..
And also did you know if you have a big nose and you were a Proboscis Monkey you would be considered sexy?

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Bruce Forsyth, the guy who does all the family quiz shows on UK TV, once stared in an erotically charged movie called "Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?"

 

[GoldenCondor]

Resurrecting the thread, and changed my fact:
thinking about salt and then swishing the air around in your mouth will make you taste salt.

 

[Mechsoap]

When a woman gives births, she will empty her bowels.