Random Facts.

[LadyRhian]

In Georgia, you can marry a woman of any age providing that she is pregnant and has a note from a physician attesting that she is pregnant.

In New Jersey, it is illegal to wear a bullet-proof vest during the commission of a murder.

In New York women may bathe topless at the beach or swimming pool. This is so they are not discriminated against. Men and women must wear bathing suit bottoms, though.

"Schadenfreude" is a german word with no exact translation in English. It generally means taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune.

It is not true that sinks and drains empty in the opposite direction depending on which hemisphere you live in (north/south).

Don't flick your earlobe at a man in Italy- it means you think he is effeminate.

Cat urine glows under a black light... see if your cat is really "Hitting the Box"! However, so does bleach!

Owls may be considered wise, but their large eyes don't leave space in their head for a big brain, so they are actually kind of dim, for birds.

Cats eyes are attracted to movement. The faster the motion, the better the cat sees it.

 

[crudus]

Bees kill more than anything at the beach... I think.

"at the beach" is slightly incorrect. SHARKS yes, but there's also jellyfish, morays, sea cones, sea wasps(most potent poison on earth belongs to this creature btw), marine cobras, stonefish, sea lions, poisonous coral. . . the list goes on and on. The sea's a pretty poisonous place.

Actually there are less than one hundred shark attacks per year worldwide. In fact, since 1580 there have been 2251 shark attacks and only about 20.6% of them were fatal. More people die from falling coconuts than shark attacks.

Shaving cream in fact does nothing to help the shaving process.

Shave without shaving cream. Lets see how it goes.

 

[The Arc of Eden]

Fact: Zombie brains are collectible and Demon souls are a valuable currency.

Perhaps this is why the economy is in the shitter.

 

[crudus]

- If you see something in the far corner of your eye (if you keep staring in front) you can't see the color of the object because the little somethingies on the outside of your retina only work for darker environments.

You have two things that sense light in your eye. Cones are in the middle of your eye(retina) and see color (Red, green, blue). Rods are more around your eye and are much more sensitive to light(or movement). However, these rods take time to warm up. Another interesting thing is if you go star gazing look in the corner of your eye. You can see more stars there.

 

[Kilaknux]

Bees kill more than anything at the beach... I think.

"at the beach" is slightly incorrect. SHARKS yes, but there's also jellyfish, morays, sea cones, sea wasps(most potent poison on earth belongs to this creature btw), marine cobras, stonefish, sea lions, poisonous coral. . . the list goes on and on. The sea's a pretty poisonous place.

Actually there are less than one hundred shark attacks per year worldwide. In fact, since 1580 there have been 2251 shark attacks and only about 20.6% of them were fatal. More people die from falling coconuts than shark attacks.

Shaving cream in fact does nothing to help the shaving process.

Shave without shaving cream. Lets see how it goes.

I did, have been for a while. This morning, in fact. No difference.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

There's a species of jellyfish which can revert to a polyp state at will, either to avoid life threatening injuries or simply to prevent aging. This makes it theoretically immortal.

See Wikipedia, that bastion of scientific integrity, for additional information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_jellyfish

 

[fletch_talon]

Did you know?....

You will swallow an average of 8 Spiders while you sleep during 1 year?

dude im just about to go to sleep and now im not tired I BLAME YOU

Don't stress.
It actually turns out that this fact was made up by some person in order to see how gullible people are.

Which I consider highly pretentious considering its not that far fetched. Spiders can be incredibly small and many people would sleep with their mouth open. The only odd thing about it would be how to measure it.

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

My desk is brown...

 

[MrPatience]

A day on Venus is shorter than a day on Earth, but a year on Earth is shorter than a year on Venus.

If you were to travel in a straight line through space, you would eventually return to the point you began.

2kgms of dark chocolate is usually lethal. 8kgms+ milk choc is lethal.

Glucose is one of the only substances brain cells can consume.

 

[crudus]

Sex on the beach can be dangerous at night.

That is dangerous anytime. The sand can get in uncomfortable places which can cause infection. I imagine it would dry places out which might cause tearing.

Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.

Per pound probably. I highly doubt something a fourth the size of an orange contains more vitamin C

A baby excretes it's own weight in feces every 60 hours.

An people wonder why I don't want kids.

The longest film in the world runs at 85 hours and is called 'The Cure For Insomnia'.

First of all The Cure For Insomnia is 87 hours and there are two films longer than it. Matrjoschka and Cinématon which run 95 and 152 hours, respectively.

Christopher Columbus DID NOT believe the world was round or flat, he believed it was 'Pear Shaped'.

You don't call a pear round? (not you specifically but wherever you got this quote)

I did, have been for a while. This morning, in fact. No difference.

Are you using some other type of lubrication? I imagined you meant "shaving cream or some substitute" rather than just shaving cream.

 

[careful]

theoretically, human brains can do one thing that AI will never be able to do, because of godels incompleteness theorems

 

[crudus]

A day on Venus is shorter than a day on Earth, but a year on Earth is shorter than a year on Venus.

Do you mean Venus has a slower orbit than Earth or do you mean you will experience more days on Venus than on Earth in a single orbit?

 

[captaincabbage]

From what I heard, in York, England, it's legal to shoot any scotsman caught out after dark with, wait for it, a bow and arrow! AWESOME!!

 

[Ren3004]

There is a protein called Sonic Hedgehog.

 

[breakyoudown]

When the allied forced bombed Berlin they killed the only elephant in the city

 

[butternut]

In England it is illegal to play any form of sport on christmas day, except for archery. This law has never been properly enforced however.

 

[Nickolai77]

Below are a few interesting words and expressions from foregin languages which English does not have:

Cavoli Riscaldati (Italian)

Literally means to "reheated cabbage", the result of such a culinary attempt it often distasteful and messy.

Drachenfutter (German)
Means Dragon Fodder, it refers to a gift brought home by husbands if they have been on a late, rowdy night out. So literally fodder for the dragon to pacify an angry wife- such gifts are tradionally brought in advance before the night out in question of course.

Sometimes also refers to presents brought out of guilt from having too much fun.


Zalatwic (Polish)

This means using friends and acquantences to do things unoffically, or indeed off the record. Probably originates from the Cold War, were corruption and obtaining black market items became part of everyday life within the soviet-bloc.

Katzenjammer (German- in fact, it is one of my favourite words that exist)

This means a monumentally severe hangover- comes from an old American comic called the "Katzenjammer Kids" who must have been known for their capers and wild antics.

Kyoikumama (Japanese)

A mother who pushes their children into academic achievement- literally means "education mama". I suppose however a rough English translation of the term could be "Helicopter parent"

 

[SonicWaffle]

Cornflakes were invented by accident, and an early use was stuffing them into mattresses so you could hear it when people tried to masturbate.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Pnemonoultramicroscopicsilivolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language, It is the practice of studying the cancer that can be contracted by breathing in silica dust from volcanoes.

In the dictionary, yes. In the language, no. The longest word is the chemical name of titin, the largest known protein in existence, which has over 180,000 letters (I forget the actual number)

Mercury's day (period of rotation about its own axis) is about twice as long as its year (period of rotation about the sun)

The axis of Uranus is tilted such that it lies almost on its side compared to other planets in the solar system.

The orbit of Pluto periodically takes it inside the orbit of Neptune, making Neptune the furthest away planet for periods of approximately 20 years. (Assuming you count Pluto as a planet).

I'm out of random solar system facts now.