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darth.pixie said:
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, 'Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.'

The plastic thingies on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
their true purpose...is sinister... (YAY the Question!)
 

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rancher of monsters said:
It's impossible to lick your elbow, more than 70% (I think, I might be wrong) of people who read this will attempt to do so. I know I did
Wrong. I know for sure this is wrong because on multiple occasions I've seen my friend do it. I think you have to be double-jointed.

Oh, and you probably will get this message about that fact a lot.
 

xdom125x

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We use 100% percent of our brain, just not at a single time. If we used it all at once, we would be having a siezure.
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15. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
36. The average person eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
41. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
48. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
52. China has more English-speaking people than the United States.
91. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

96. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

126. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attachedto its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. 142. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
143. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear & smell better.
152. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
161. The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the Black Plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the Rosey"), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("a pocket full of posies"). Furthermore, people who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").
176. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second.
190. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16,1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
202. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
Let me go at these all because they are wrong or at the least misleading:
15.)Obviously a sports superstar gets paid more than the people that get work outsourced to them.
36.) People don't eat spiders in their sleep. That is just ridiculous. Why would a spider crawl into the wet, windy mouth of something unless they are suicidal?
41.) Debunked by Snopes.
48.) Here are 2 continents whose names don't start and end with the same letter: North America and South America.
52.)Not that surprising due to their massive overpopulation.
91.)Insects aren't looking to die, much like spiders in 36.
96.)I really don't believe that, because it seems far too ridiculous. If there is 1 brand of playing cards with a mustache on the king of hearts, then you are wrong.
126.) I thought the female praying mantis bit the males head off after sex, not during.
143.) This is from back when we were hunter gatherers. Men needed to see further so devoloped better eyesight for distance. Women developed better perception of colors because they were in charge of checking which berries were poisonous to eat, same thing for smell.
152.) Debunked on Snopes. How many legs up has nothing to do with how or when that guy died.
161.) No, just no. That is not true at all.
176.) I am pretty sure they say 'Bless You' because you had a moment where you couldn't breathe.
190.) They want to have regulations just in case something as unlikely as aliens coming to Earth happens.
202.) I can swear that there are more. Just found these online: Aerious, Education, Automobile, Evacuation, Authorities, Authentication, Precaution, Multimillionaire, and a few more.
 

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-More people die from getting a coconut to the head than from shark attacks.

-The average erected penis is about 6 inches long.

-For every "normal" website, there are 5 porn sites.

-Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.

-Knocking your head against a wall for an hour burns more calories than having sex for the same amount of time.

-Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.

-The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were: Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
 

darth.pixie

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okok715 said:
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
There are only 26 (or 27, can't remember) states on the front of the memorial which could be listed. Also, only 48 states existed at the time the memorial was built.


203. There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
There was no Betty Rubble. It was added in 1995.

Direwolf750 said:
their true purpose...is sinister... (YAY the Question!)
Well...I just walked right into that one, didn't I?
 

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xdom125x said:
202.) I can swear that there are more. Just found these online: Aerious, Education, Automobile, Evacuation, Authorities, Authentication, Precaution, Multimillionaire, and a few more.
All five vowels in chronological order, not "all five vowels".
 

William Ossiss

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xdom125x said:
We use 100% percent of our brain, just not at a single time. If we used it all at once, we would be having a siezure.
okok715 said:
15. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
36. The average person eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
41. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
48. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
52. China has more English-speaking people than the United States.
91. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

96. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

126. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attachedto its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. 142. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
143. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear & smell better.
152. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
161. The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the Black Plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the Rosey"), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("a pocket full of posies"). Furthermore, people who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").
176. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second.
190. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16,1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
202. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
Let me go at these all because they are wrong or at the least misleading:
15.)Obviously a sports superstar gets paid more than the people that get work outsourced to them.
36.) People don't eat spiders in their sleep. That is just ridiculous. Why would a spider crawl into the wet, windy mouth of something unless they are suicidal?
41.) Debunked by Snopes.
48.) Here are 2 continents whose names don't start and end with the same letter: North America and South America.
52.)Not that surprising due to their massive overpopulation.
91.)Insects aren't looking to die, much like spiders in 36.
96.)I really don't believe that, because it seems far too ridiculous. If there is 1 brand of playing cards with a mustache on the king of hearts, then you are wrong.
126.) I thought the female praying mantis bit the males head off after sex, not during.
143.) This is from back when we were hunter gatherers. Men needed to see further so devoloped better eyesight for distance. Women developed better perception of colors because they were in charge of checking which berries were poisonous to eat, same thing for smell.
152.) Debunked on Snopes. How many legs up has nothing to do with how or when that guy died.
161.) No, just no. That is not true at all.
176.) I am pretty sure they say 'Bless You' because you had a moment where you couldn't breathe.
190.) They want to have regulations just in case something as unlikely as aliens coming to Earth happens.
202.) I can swear that there are more. Just found these online: Aerious, Education, Automobile, Evacuation, Authorities, Authentication, Precaution, Multimillionaire, and a few more.
161 is true. its just slightly off. they carried posies because of the belief that the plague was transmitted by smell.

contrary to television and popular belief, most people from Wisconsin do not have accents. people who are of AUKNEY heritage have the "dere" (or there) accent. (they happen to live in northern Wisconsin.)
 

xdom125x

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Stasisesque said:
xdom125x said:
202.) I can swear that there are more. Just found these online: Aerious, Education, Automobile, Evacuation, Authorities, Authentication, Precaution, Multimillionaire, and a few more.
All five vowels in chronological order, not "all five vowels".
My mistake,I must have been in my "pointing people out for being wrong without thinking it through" modes.
 

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Ice Car said:
All English Dubs for animes suck ass...

Oh, wait, that's already common knowledge, right? For a real one though...

ADHD = Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
In Hawaii, we don't live in Grass Shacks on the beach
We have electricity. I don't plug my laptop into a coconut when I need to charge it.
We have phones and cell phones.
Just because I or anyone else lives in Hawaii, it does NOT mean I am Hawaiian.
Cowboy Bebop, "fact" denied.


OT: More then 10 people a year are killed by vending machines.
 

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The Eurofighter Typhoon was designed to be aerodynamically UNSTABLE to make it more versatile in a dogfight.

It requires over twenty separate computer systems simply to remain airborne.
 

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DAMN. I'm having one of those moments where you can't say something because you were asked to say it. I usually know TONS of useless shit!

EDIT: Oooh Ooooh, I got a few!

1)The tallest Mountain in our solar system is Olympus Mons (very original btw) on Mars.

2)The sun Revolves around the galactic centre at a speed of roughly 2000 mile per second. It still takes us about 20,000 years (I may be getting these slightly off :S) to make one Revolution.

3)In Mass Effect, the Weapons that the Reapers have on their "tentacles" shoot jets of Molten metal at relativistic speeds. The one Garrus re-engineers for the Normandy is called the "Thanix" cannon.
 

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I can't remember or be bothered to look up any actual facts, so I'll just make a few lies that might be true;

1. The Van Allen radiation field makes it impossible for unpopped pop corn to pass through without popping.

2. Sea Urchins are actually unfertilized Starfish eggs. Starfish reproduce by detaching a leg inside a Sea Urchin to germinating it.

3. the sound made by cracking your knuckles is actually gas popping. if you can't crack your knuckles, try blowing into your finger tips.

4. Atheism is actually a registered religion

5. The Country with the highest ratio of Armed Forces to person per capita is the Holy See (vatican city)

6. In Germany it is illegal to drink Egg Nog out of the christmas season.

well, that's all I can be bothered to make up right now.
 

Bugerion

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Ancient Egyptians used to pressure their kids heads(with their hands no devices) so they would look pretty :p


I'm sure some people know it but Iron Maiden is a torture device

If you untangle all of nerves in human body you can use them to cover the whole world

I'm not sure about the last one I know there are a lot of nerves in human body but can someone confirm this fact?
 

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Elcarsh said:
Whitenail said:
According to an old legend, the kangaroo is so named because when white settlers tried to ask an Aboriginal what the animal is called he replied in his dialect with what roughly translates to "I don't understand" which sounded like kang-ar-oo.
Complete and utter bollocks, not even close to being true.

Kangaroo was what the animal was called by that particular group, it wasn't some kind of random expression, it was the name of the animal.


In that case (I did say it was an old legend) here's a compensatory fun fact:

In Psychonauts Raz was originally going to be an Ostrich (as if that game weren't bizarre enough).