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

[SilkySkyKitten]

-LSD is one of the most chemically harmless substances known to man. In fact, orange juice and aspirin are more harmful to the human body than LSD.

-Australia is home to the longest stretch of dead-straight railroad track in the world (297 miles, to be exact).

-"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence in the English language.

 

[Krion_Vark]

There will be a ratio of at most 7 posts to one link to snopes.com in this thread alone.

How about I shoot that ratio down and not put a link to snopes but a completely different site all together.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/

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.

 

[Skorpyo]

(Not sure if I spelled it right, but whatever)

Flaucinaucinahillapillafication is the longest single word known in the english language.

Definition: The act of appraising something as worthless.

 

[Kittenmauler]

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

Wha...finish the sentence!

 

[Captain Pancake]

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

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

And what shitty ass school did you go to? When you leave those are the most important things you should have learned, regardless of subject matter.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

Drew Carey got laser vision correction, and does not actually need his glasses. They are, however, his most recognizable feature.

 

[tombman888]

apparantly, humans and armadillos are the only creatures that can contract leprosy.

i don't know if this is correct because it came from one of my bullshitting friends.

 

[PurpleSky]

The human eye doesn't change it's size from birth.

 

[Kurokami]

the male seahorse carries the baby. now you know.

This always made me wonder, what makes it male then? and is that what defines a male? (or does it just do all the work?)

 

[Aerodyamic]

When an Armadillo gives birth to a litter they are either all male, or all female.

Early Spanish settlers in North America once sent a petition to the Vatican to clarify the animal type of armadillos, which were established to be fish by dogmatic decree. This means that if you eat taco del armadillos on a Friday, you aren't breaking the Christian prohibition against red meat.

 

[Mordreich]

Oak Bay, BC, Canada has more by-laws than any other town in the world.

 

[Video Gone]

A Dolphins penis is s Shaped

I hope you enjoy your time on the Escapist.

[small]you massively odd person[/small]

 

[devbot2]

The electric chair was created by a dentist. I guess metalocalypse was right about dentists having the highest suicide rate of all professions.

 

[MadeinHell]

24% of the population is actually able to lick their elbows.

Really you didn't have to try...


PS. Also on the wall of nasty sexual facts:
- Pig orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. 30 MINUTES
- Lion can cum over 100 times a day in order to impregnate all his maidens.

 

[f0re1gn]

Sulfur-agents is what makes you and your socks smell SO bad.

 

[Quaxar]

There is a scientific paper written by a supposedly not-insane man documenting, and I quote the title, The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhyncho.

The whole pdf, including photos, can be downloaded here: http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/pages/showPage.do?instanceid=16&itemid=1930&style=default
I read it. WTF? But I guess fetishes vary from person to person.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Pig sperm has two tails.

Now if only they were spiralled...

 

[thenumberthirteen]

The Playpus has 10 chromosomes to determine its sex. They are the same X and Y ones, but they have 5 times the amount of humans.