Post A Random/Amazing Fact

[CorvetteC3]

ALL polar bears are left handed.

Umm, I know the global warming and the cold war and all that but since when do polar bears have hands?

 

[iNickStuff]

Cats can hear ultrasound.

 

[Kylo]

What's the driest place on Earth?

A place called Arica, in Chile, gets just 0.03 inches (0.76 millimeters) of rain per year. At that rate, it would take a century to fill a coffee cup.

 

[iNickStuff]

[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used. [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]Children grow faster in the springtime. [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun. [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin. [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth. [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired" [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were. [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood. [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. [/FONT]
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain. [/FONT]

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What's the driest place on Earth?

A place called Arica, in Chile, gets just 0.03 inches (0.76 millimeters) of rain per year. At that rate, it would take a century to fill a coffee cup.

Arica would be a nightmare for people who suffer from Xerophobia - fear of dryness. XD

 

[Nick.]

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do apparently.... Result (H)

**** you

I'm known as sinister because I'm left handed

In the olden days, people had to write right handed as if you wrote left handed it was considered a bad omen oO)

Lefties ftw

 

[Cam!]

Its against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland My friend went to Iceland and he told me.

 

[iNickStuff]

**** you

I'm known as sinister because I'm left handed

In the olden days, people had to write right handed as if you wrote left handed it was considered a bad omen oO)

Lefties ftw

I knew about the left-handed thing from American Dad

 

[JP Woody]

The planet Mars would have water and an atmosphere like Earth but its molten core became solid causing the planet to lose its magnetic field,causing all its water and atmosphere to be stripped away by deadly solar winds.


Peanuts are pea's not nuts.

 

[Cam!]

This is a gooden: The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

 

[iNickStuff]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Vampire legends may have been based on Vlad of Walachia, also known as Vlad the Impaler (c. 1431-1476). He had a habit of nailing hats to people’s heads, skinning them alive, and impaling them on upright stakes. He also liked to dip bread into the blood of his enemies and eat it. His name, Vlad, means son of the dragon or Dracula, who has been identified as the historical Dracula. Though Vlad the Impaler was murdered in 1476, his tomb is reported empty. [/FONT]

 

[Panther]

Left handed children in Russia in the middle ages would have all the bones in the left hand broken and destroyed. The wrist would then be snapped so that you could bend the hand backwards so the fingers rest against the inside of your hand. A rope was then tied around the hand and arm to prevent the bones from regrowing properly. The child was then taken to a special school where they would learn to be right handed. The left hand would never grow back the same and would be effectively useless. Vodka was the only anaesthetic available and was only given in small doses. Joseph Stalin was left handed by necessity! :O

 

[iNickStuff]

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight."

 

[Nick.]

This is a gooden: The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

i've heard that somewhere before


ah yes, i think if must have been in a cross-curricular Latin lesson

 

[Panther]

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight."

I knew this one lol.
In his will all Shakespeare left to his wife was his SECOND BEST bed.
A Cockroach can live for 9 days without its head. It will only eventually die of starvation. Butterflies taste with their feet.

 

[iNickStuff]

I knew this one lol.
In his will all Shakespeare left to his wife was his SECOND BEST bed.
A Cockroach can live for 9 days without its head. It will only eventually die of starvation. Butterflies taste with their feet.

Lol.9 days without its head.

Yeah the butterfly thing makes sense.

 

[Cam!]

I swear all these are from the same website

 

[Panther]

A statue of a soldier on a horse is symbolic. If the horse has two hoofs in the air then the soldier died in combat. If the horse has one hoof in the air then the soldier later died of injuries sustained in combat. If the horse has all hoofs on the ground then it died of natural causes.

 

[CorvetteC3]

The player that has the most pointless threads about him on this site is probably Hulk. Just signed him for the first time and decided to take a look what other people have done with him and the live search gave me loads of threads named Hulk asking the same question: How to play him.

 

[Panther]

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
When English settlers arrived in Australia they asked the aboriginal people the name of a creature they had seen that could jump far and the aborigines responded " Kan Ghu Ru." This is where the name Kangaroo came from. However, it was later discovered that "Kan Ghu Ru" was a native phrase meaning "We don't understand you."

 

[iNickStuff]

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

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