Random Facts.

[dragonslayer32]

Hello fellow Escapists. Do you guys/girls know any random facts? They can be about anything as long as they are true. I'll start - It is still legal to kill a scotsman with a bow and arrow in the city of York, England if he is wearing a kilt, has a beard and is in the city walls. (I think the day of the week and time of day is also taken into account, I think it has to be done around midnight).

 

[Mr_spamamam]

In Celtic Britain it was illegal to kill honey bees

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

The queen uses black blotting paper.

Yeah randomness!

 

[S.R.S.]

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

 

[AKissAndAGunshot]

In victorian England, you could be deported to austrailia for throwing orange peel out on the pavement.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

- 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.

- President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

- Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

- Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card

 

[comadorcrack]

Close one eye and shine a flash light in the open eye.
Then open up the closed eye with the light still shining...

You will now see the world in black and white.*

* You may have trouble seeing for a minute or so after wards, just keep your eyes closed.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Did you know?....

Edit:Turns out this is wrong...oh well.

So here is a new Random Fact.
There are more Plastic Flamingos in the U.S. than real ones.

 

[KindOfnElf]

Only female mosquitoes bite.

 

[zatzie zombie num666]

i have a lamp....ausstralin hip hop is calld skip hop

 

[zatzie zombie num666]

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

 

[AKissAndAGunshot]

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.

 

[RanD00M]

Crime rates in Japan are lower than in Iceland.And Shanghai has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.And because of that,is considered one of the safest cities in the world.

 

[crudus]

Are we all going to the same website for these facts? I found abut 8 posts word for word on one site.

Random fact: that site is http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/

Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced. Every seven years 100% of your atoms are replaced. Now there is some Ship of Theseus paradox.

 

[Gigaguy64]

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

My work here is done.
If you sleep wit your mouth closed it lowers that by quite a bit.
Besides, spiders are a good source of protean(or so iv been told, id never eat one on purpose myself)

 

[Kilaknux]

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

 

[Jack_Uzi]

- There is enough nicotine in a pack of cigarettes to kill you (if consentrated).

- penicilline was found by accident when Alexander Fleming came back to his lab after a while of absence and saw that, in stead of most of the petri dishes, the one with the penicilline didn't contain any fungus around it.

- 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.