Random facts that you will probably never need to know in life

[Danpascooch]

The longest word you can type with your left hand is stewardessess, and the longest word for your right hand is lollipop.

You may all try this now.

That's not true, unless you specify that it only applies when using proper keyboarding fingering.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

The man who made the Gatling Gun and the man who made the electric chair were both dentists.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Gandalf, Sauron and the seven Balrogs are all of the same race: Maiar. Balrogs were once Maiar that were corrupted and took a demonic form.

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Balrog
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Maiar

Also, Yoda, the Cookie Monster and many other Sesame Street and Muppet Show characters were voiced by the same man, Frank Oz. This makes Frank infinitely more amazing than he already was and also the characters he portrayed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Oz#As_a_puppeteer

 

[Slenn]

I vaguely remember reading that there's a species of squid that has detachable male genitalia that it shoots into the female to mate.

 

[Gimelbub]

The proper term for chewing is mastication. That's all I have.

 

[luckycharms8282]

How are there seven balrogs? I read the trilogy and the Hobbit and they only ever mention the one

 

[creatiwe]

the average guy sitting infront of his computer blinks only 7 times a minute

there is a type of apple called winter banana

our mucus membrane (the thing we use to smell) is about the size of a postage stamp. a dogs is 50 times that

a jellyfish is the worlds wettest organism and consists of 95% water in contrast to us that consist at the most of 65%

there are 12 times as many rats in new york as there are people

 

[firedfns13]

The smell part you were on about is called pheremones.

it honestly sounds like you've had a sex ed lesson and had the unstoppable urge to tell someone but i'll play along.

did you know theres actually between 2-5 moons, "Luna" is the most known one whilst a second moon "Cruithne" which is caught at an awkward gravitational pull and follows the earths rotation so it circles the galaxy in a sort of bean shape. the next predicted close sighting of Cruithne will be 2292.

Gotta love QI

What? The galaxy? Do you mean "solar system'? In that case it'd be a planet(oid).

 

[Akalistos]

The sky isn't really blue. The atmosphere just reflect the color most dominant on the planet. Since the planet is largely made of water and that water is blue, the sky is blue. If we were to add colorant to the water, we could have a sky with the color we choose.

 

[Arehexes]

Binary is a goes up by *2s

1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 but would be read like, 256 128 64 32 16 4 8 2 1.

 

[micky]

the term block-buster was said when a movie has a line that goes out longer than the block, started in the early 20s.

 

[yoz13]

Apparently Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise... there you go

 

[sabbat]

Almost anything you learn in school besides the discipline and work ethic.

Discipline and work ethic? What fancy-arse school did you go to?

 

[Ibanez887]

Cats cannot taste sugar. They do not have sweet taste buds

 

[Alade]

Crocodiles are very slow when changing their running directions so if you ever had to outrun a crocodile it would be a piece of cake if you ran in a zig-zag line.

 

[Cyrax987]

Random Fact: I am awe inspiring!

Random Fact You May Care About: The brain is a no-contest transplant organ. It can go into any body without rejection, regardless of DNA, blood type, or any matching system. Once we have the technology to reconnect nerve endings in large numbers, brain swapping may actually be possible.

Hurray!

That brain fact is pretty crazy sounding, I didn't know that... Thats awesome!

 

[GrimTuesday]

The very first machine gun was the The Puckle gun. it was created by an English lawyer and inventor named James Puckle. The gun was able to fire two different types of bullets one is the normal round ball and the other was square bullets. the round ones were for kill Christians and the square bullets were for convincing Muslims of the "benefits of Christian civilization".

 

[Ciran]

A Dolphins penis is s Shaped

It's also prehensile.

On another note, most toilets flush in E-flat.