Just the Facts, please

[SA]

We'll dedicate this thread to knowledge. Sometimes useless, but knowledge nevertheless. Please use this opportunity to add to, dispute and debate the already added.

Und so...



- Dolphins sleep with only one eye closed
- The eye of an ostrich is larger than its brain
- There has never been a sex change operation in Ireland
- The flag of Alaska was created by a 13-year old
- Canada, in total area, is larger than China, which is larger than the United States
- There are no clocks in Vegas casinos
- Snails have roughly 25,000 teeth
- Household dust consists of shed skin
- Each human body houses more live organisms than there are people on Earth
- Each second, 1% of the world population is deadly drunk

 

[chicpoena]

I once read somewhere that 95% of all drug convictions are based on self-incrimination. Know your rights! The only things you should ever say to a cop are "Am I under arrest" and if no, then "Am I free to leave?" It's a trick question because if you're not under arrest then you are absolutely free to leave. And if you are under arrest, you should not say a fucking word.

 

[vibr8tor]

ostriches only have two toes
and they don't bury their heads in the sand

 

[thunderinacircle]

Russia is larger than Canada, which is larger than China, which is larger than the United States, which is larger than Brazil, which is larger than Australia, which is double the size of India

 

[jam uh weezy]

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

 

[fizzle]

^I didnt even know that was a real word... I thought it was "dreamed"

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

 

[Karaboudjan]

If you add up all the coin and note denominations of pound sterling they add up to £88.88

£50 + £20 + £10 + £5 + £2 + £1 + 50p + 20p + 10p + 5p + 2p + 1p = £88.88

1/3 of all food used annually in the UK is thrown away and this is equal to the entire continent of Africa's yearly imports.

TheSpade is ginger.

 

[delta_9]

^I didnt even know that was a real word... I thought it was "dreamed"

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dreamt
I think this thread is a neat idea.

 

[jam uh weezy]

I believe both dreamed and dreamt can be used.

-Gum does not stay in your system for two years if you swallow it. It passes, like everything else.

 

[Dave]

'Active oxygen' is no more than 1 part hydrogen peroxide to 2 parts sodium carbonate. In a pinch, you can get the same effect with peroxide and bicarb, it just might take a bit longer.

Biggest bloody scam ever.

 

[DamagedLemon]

People who freeze to death are often found naked. When you're overtly cold you start to feel a burning sensation in your body.

Apples and pears are negative calorie foods- the energy you take to consume them > the amount of calories in them.

Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed an entrance exam at an architectural school.

 

[fizzle]

Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed an entrance exam at an architectural school.

I've always heard it was artist ?

 

[DamagedLemon]

Really? :S I read somewhere that it was architecture.

 

[fizzle]

Maybe, who knows, I havent really looked into it much

 

[Dead_Flowers]

Euler's formula: e^ix= cos(x) +isin(x)

it's so incredibly elegant, precise, beautiful... I do believe it is one of the most beautiful formulas in mathematics.

 

[VerbalTruist]

Nothing rhymes with the word "orange"

My girlfriend is a petite blonde and sexy as sin

 

[DamagedLemon]

^ What about "deranged"?

 

[Pander Bear]

The authors of (arguably) the best novel, and the best play to ever come out of western civilization both died on the same day: Cervantes and Shakespeare... April 23, 1616

more interesting, to me anyway, is that JFK, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died on the same day as well: November 23, 1963

 

[Shambles]

^ What about "deranged"?

"Deranged" is only ever going to rhyme with "orange" if you have a mightily odd accent.

"Purple" and "silver" are also quite difficult colours to find proper rhymes for.

 

[Khadijah]

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Apples and pears are negative calorie foods- the energy you take to consume them > the amount of calories in them..

not true.

if it was it would be impossible to survive eatin only apples and you would lose weight by eating apples. food is food. apples got about 100 calories in them. you definately dont burn 100 calories from eatin a apple. You wouldnt even burn 100 calories from walking around for the amount of time it takes to eat your apple, instead of eatin it, so you definately dont burn that from just sittin eatin it alone. thas a common myth. ive heard it about celery too which is more likely to be true but IIRC that is also false.

anways, i dont got no facts right now.plz try again later.