Odd Facts You Know

[ZenMonkey]

This was done a few months back but was a really interesting thread and I figured Id start a new one-


In the title of the Shakespeare play "Much Ado About Nothing", "nothing" in Elizabethan England had 3 connotations.

1. Nothing
2. To take note of
3. Vulgar name for a part of the female anatomy (starts with a "p")

The third connotation was how the play was meant to be contextualized.

[Mercuryblade]

I don't even know where to start.
This is a thread custom tailored to me as I am a vat of worthless knowledge.

[BilltheButcher]

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

I got a worthless fact book in my office.

[backseatwitme13]

Katy perry's cat is named Kitty Purry.

The only sloth rehabilitation sanctuary is located in Costa Rica.

A duck's quack doesn't echo.

In Mississippi, a women can't be convicted of being a peeping tom.

Alaska is the only state without a state motto.

Crocodiles can't stick their tongues out.

[BFGUITAR]

Nylon was invented to mimic the properties of silk

The same forces that make a spider web's so strong is the same type of forces that allow kevlar stop bullets

The man to discover LSD actually took a dose many times greater than the usual amount by accident

George Bush looks like a monkey

[backseatwitme13]

Bears eat beets.
Bears beats battlestar Galactica.

[letsdoit]

33% of the cotton grown in the world has been genetically engineered to express a bacterial toxin that kills insects. So unless all your clothing is organic, you probably own some "transgenic" clothing!
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillu...r_pest_control)

[CiteCollegiale]

A duck's quack doesn't echo.

A common urban legend claims that duck quacks do not echo; however, this has been shown to be false. This myth was first debunked by the Acoustics Research Centre at the University of Salford in 2003 as part of the British Association's Festival of Science.[5] It was also debunked in one of the earlier episodes of the popular Discovery Channel television show MythBusters.[6]

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

[Detard]

62% of all facts are made up

[method115]

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

I got a worthless fact book in my office.

wow that Orca/shark one is bad ass.

[gohard]

Bears eat beets.
Bears beats battlestar Galactica.

nice segway

[platypus]

sharks are immune to almost all diseases, including cancer.

[WBBIRL]

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

I got a worthless fact book in my office.

What the hell movie is that from...

[Jboy]

Bit of astronomy facts/info. I'm quite fascinated by the universe and what our future may be like.

- In 7.6 billion years, the dying Sun will expand and burn up our planet completely.

- University of Sussex astronomers have calculated that the Earth, in around 1 billion years, will see its oceans boil away into space.

- The Andromeda-Milky Way collision is a predicted galaxy collision that is due to take place in approximately 3 billion years' time between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group – the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way which contains the Earth. (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androme..._Way_collision)

[View 1]

The number one ingredient in subways chicken isnt chicken

Peanut butter can stop hiccups.

Agave the plant that tequila that is made from takes 8 years plus to turn ripe before tequila can be made from it.

Bee's kill more people in a year than sharks do.

[tomv]

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Wouldn't that depend on the size of the calorie in question? I think that's a bit suss...

[Genacide]

62% of all facts are made up

37% of people know that.

50% of the time it works all the time!

[AKMass]

Wouldn't that depend on the size of the calorie in question? I think that's a bit suss...

Not really. A bigger piece of celery would require more calories to chew/digest.

[Southern Beast]

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen
in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
(That explains a few mysteries....)

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per
side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who
discovered this??)

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down
so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in
the USA."

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

[FFHill]

The Dude doesn't roll on shabbos

[Y2A]

What the hell movie is that from...

In Grandma's Boy, Shirley Jones says that she gave Charlie Chaplin a "HJ," I'm not sure if that's what you were thinking of

[Guitar90]

Actually, there are words that rhyme with orange, purple and silver. Rhyme is defined by the last syllable of two words rhyming. In these cases, that would be (phonetically), "ringe", "ull" and "ver". So,
For orange: syringe, lozenge.
Purple: Curple (horse's ass) and hirple (to walk with a limp)
Silver: Salver, River, Jupiter COULD possibly be classed as a para-rhyme.

My random facts are: It's illegal to tie a giraffe to a lamppost in Georgia.

It's impossible to squeeze an egg and break with your finger and thumb, if you hold it at the tip and the base.

I don't remember where, but apparently somewhere in America, it's illegal to push a giraffe out of a plane without a parachute on a Tuesday before noon.

[spectralshadow]

Actually, there are words that rhyme with orange, purple and silver. Rhyme is defined by the last syllable of two words rhyming. In these cases, that would be (phonetically), "ringe", "ull" and "ver". So,
For orange: syringe, lozenge.
Purple: Curple (horse's ass) and hirple (to walk with a limp)
Silver: Salver, River, Jupiter COULD possibly be classed as a para-rhyme.

My random facts are: It's illegal to tie a giraffe to a lamppost in Georgia.

It's impossible to squeeze an egg and break with your finger and thumb, if you hold it at the tip and the base.

I don't remember where, but apparently somewhere in America, it's illegal to push a giraffe out of a plane without a parachute on a Tuesday before noon.

It's also illegal to carry an icecream cone in your back pocket on Sunday in Georgia.

=/

[XMadmanX]

people in Tibet use cats as pets

[BilltheButcher]

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Beginning scene in BoonDock Saints.