Random facts

[Nachington]

Glass is not a solid, it's an over-chilled fluid.
If you put a sheet of glass vertically after some years it will be thicker at the bottom and thinner on the top, because the glass will slowly flow down.

Not true.
Glass has the molecular composure of a liquid but all the properties of a solid. The myth that glass flows comes from stained glass windows in churches. Glass used to be made by spinning it with a stick with increasing speed until it became relatively flat but the method wasn't perfect and left the glass slightly uneven. When the glass was broken and put into church windows it was preferred to have the thicker part at the bottom and thinner part at the top which is why 9 out of 10 pieces are placed that way. This can be proven by the fact that the other 1 out of 10 pieces appear to "flow" upwards which is physically impossible because of something I like to call gravity.

Also, you meant "Over-dense" not "Over-chilled"

Fun facts:
Drury lane was historically located in the red light district. Muffin man anybody?
A blue whale's testicles hold 7 litres of semen.
Bee's are attracted to the colour blue.

 

[ggamer2]

Glass is not a solid, it's an over-chilled fluid.
If you put a sheet of glass vertically after some years it will be thicker at the bottom and thinner on the top, because the glass will slowly flow down.

Not true.
Glass has the molecular composure of a liquid but all the properties of a solid. The myth that glass flows comes from stained glass windows in churches. Glass used to be made by spinning it with a stick with increasing speed until it became relatively flat but the method wasn't perfect and left the glass slightly uneven. When the glass was broken and put into church windows it was preferred to have the thicker part at the bottom and thinner part at the top which is why 9 out of 10 pieces are placed that way. This can be proven by the fact that the other 1 out of 10 pieces appear to "flow" upwards which is physically impossible because of something I like to call gravity.

Also, you meant "Over-dense" not "Over-chilled"

Fun facts:
Drury lane was historically located in the red light district. Muffin man anybody?
A blue whale's testicles hold 7 litres of semen.
Bee's are attracted to the colour blue.

Aw nuts! There goes my credibility. Oh well it was too awesome to be true.

 

[Yuno Gasai]

Neither are the australian ones, nor, technically are the american ones...

(unless you consider a 25% linen, 75% cotton combination, with red and blue synthetic fibres distributed throughout, as paper. Even then you'd have to change the definition of paper from ACTUAL paper to BANKNOTE paper)

incidentally, it costs the US government 6.4 cents to produce a bill, and 16,600,000 $1's are printed each day. A $1 bill typically lasts 21 months in circulation, and will almost always have some trace of cocaine on it

I didn't want to include notes from other countries because I wasn't 100% sure if they were the same. I learned about it on QI. =D

.. And now, I have learned more from you!

 

[Tipsy Giant]

You can fit the earth through one of the suns solar flares with 10,000km space on all sides

 

[Tipsy Giant]

The notes used in English currency aren't actually made of paper.

They are made of cotton!

 

[Lilani]

I believe it's in London: there is a law on the books that states a woman who is pregnant is allowed to pee anywhere, including in a police officer's hat.

Also, according to the 1993 US census results, Second Street is the most common street name in America. In second place is Third Street, and third is First street.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

Attention Deficit Disorder technically does not exist. (not listed in the DSM)

What most people are referring to when they mean ADHD kid who isn't actually hyper is "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Inattentive Type."

Oh, and humans have seven senses, not five. There are two different types of touch, and the vestibular sense, which is the sense of balance.