Some Random Fun Facts

[Random berk]

During the Vietnam war, an American fighter jet somehow managed to shoot itself down.

LOL!
I do so hope it's true.


OT; Count Dracula did, as a matter of fact, exist. But he was no vampire, although he was a blood-thirsty monster. He was a warlord, who had a tendency of spiking the decapitated heads of his enemies on the sharp end of the fences around his castle perimeter.

On further examination, it seems the jet flew into a number of its own bullets shortly after it fired them. I don't know if the Vietnam jet actually crashed, but the same happened to a jet in 1956. Its own bullets penetrated the cockpit and engine, forcing the pilot to return to base. Before he got there the engine failed and he had to eject.

That was Vlad the Impaler, was it not? Or was there also a man who was actually named Count Dracula?

 

[similar.squirrel]

Certain fungi have two genetically-distinct nuclei, which makes them highly adaptable.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

And Finally, an ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex
while standing inside a store's walk-in meat freezer.

Thing is, you know someone had to have done it to get that law made in the first place...


OT: Harriet Tubman, who saved roughly 300 people from lives of slavery by sneaking them from the southern U.S. to the north, and later to Canada, was both narcoleptic and epileptic.

 

[zombieeater6000]

During the Vietnam war, an American fighter jet somehow managed to shoot itself down.

LOL!
I do so hope it's true.


OT; Count Dracula did, as a matter of fact, exist. But he was no vampire, although he was a blood-thirsty monster. He was a warlord, who had a tendency of spiking the decapitated heads of his enemies on the sharp end of the fences around his castle perimeter.

On further examination, it seems the jet flew into a number of its own bullets shortly after it fired them. I don't know if the Vietnam jet actually crashed, but the same happened to a jet in 1956. Its own bullets penetrated the cockpit and engine, forcing the pilot to return to base. Before he got there the engine failed and he had to eject.

That was Vlad the Impaler, was it not? Or was there also a man who was actually named Count Dracula?

count Dracula was based on Vlad the impaler

 

[Ulfrick]

post random fun facts that you know

Pigs Orgasm for 30mins and its impossible to lick your elbow

Yes it is possible to lick your elbow, just not many people can do it as it is a flexibility/bone structure issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mHSF0RKZEs

Edit for OT: Vancouver Canada is a nuclear weapons free zone, It is also illegal to sword fight downtown, apparently its fine in the rest of the city though

 

[Communist partisan]

Hitlers favorite movie was King Kong.

And Encyclopedia Dramatica is back.

Actually,

Hitler's favorite movie was Snow White. They have evidence of his fan art.

I read it in a biography about Hitler, he's favorite cake was also chocolate cake, he was very childish and liked playing Indian with his generals.

He also had his officer cap covering his eyes cos' they were sensitive against sunlight cos' of gas from WW1

He was also the only survivor in his company after WW1.

Don't ask me why I know so much about him or WW2 and 1, it's just a interest I had as a kid

 

[ashrossy]

Parts of MacOSX are open source.

Might be well known to some I suppose.

 

[FightThePower]

60% of Royal Couples end up divorced.

I just thought it was an appropriate fact for some reason. I can't imagine why.

 

[Super Six One]

Dogs cannot look up.

and
Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere, somehow a duck is watching you.

 

[oberkid4]

It takes the same amount of farce to bit through a baby carrot as a human pinky finger.
s

 

[FightThePower]

-The Space Core will never go to space. Space does not exist.

The Fact Sphere is not defective. It's facts are wholly accurate and very interesting.

 

[Shiftygiant]

Golf was invented by the Greeks and brought to Scotland by the romans

 

[evilstonermonkey]

During the Vietnam war, an American fighter jet somehow managed to shoot itself down.

LOL!
I do so hope it's true.


OT; Count Dracula did, as a matter of fact, exist. But he was no vampire, although he was a blood-thirsty monster. He was a warlord, who had a tendency of spiking the decapitated heads of his enemies on the sharp end of the fences around his castle perimeter.

On further examination, it seems the jet flew into a number of its own bullets shortly after it fired them. I don't know if the Vietnam jet actually crashed, but the same happened to a jet in 1956. Its own bullets penetrated the cockpit and engine, forcing the pilot to return to base. Before he got there the engine failed and he had to eject.

That was Vlad the Impaler, was it not? Or was there also a man who was actually named Count Dracula?

The fictional Count Dracula was based on Vlad Dracula (or Draculea, or Drakulya, or a few other alternate spellings depending on the source), who was the ruler of Wallachia (but not a count). Some people think his last name was Tepes, but this was a moniker given to him which literally means "impaler" (thus Vlad the Impaler). Historians are uncertain as to his vulnerability to garlic but are generally in agreement that excessive sunlight would have been lethal to him, melanoma treatment being fairly rudimentary in the 1400's. He was eventually killed in battle, though it is unfortunately unknown whether a blessed wooden stake was used or a pathetic mere mortal weapon made of heavy razor sharp steel.

 

[Tharwen]

Interesting fact: There are rats living in the ceiling of my room.

I can't think of anything else right now.

It takes the same amount of farce to bit through a baby carrot as a human pinky finger.
s

That's an epic typo.

 

[Nouw]

Snip

Doesn't doing that somehow cause throat cancer or something?
[sub]Well not cause but aid or speed up >.>[/sub]

I can't see how. That'd make a lot of pornstars with throat cancer, and that's not exactly something you hear about ever day.

If Wikipedia and schools are to be believed. I got the message that that's why there's flavoured condoms >.>

 

[Dango]

Graham Crackers were invented to stop kids from masturbating...

Coincidentally, I love graham crackers.

 

[MechanicalMusic]

Mushroom DNA is more human than plant.

 

[Neverhoodian]

Soldier termites often have such huge jaws that they can't feed themselves, requiring workers to feed them instead.

 

[Vausch]

Hitler supposedly never ate meat

When you sleep your body produces as much heat as a 100-watt light bulb

Scientists believe if dinosaurs hadn't become extinct they would have evolved to walk upright (hm, the Super Mario Bros. movie actually had some merit)

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle

Female ferrets will die if they go into heat and can't find a mate

A ?2 by 4″ is really 1 1/2" by 3 1/2"

Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903

55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offences.

John Wilkes Booth?s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln?s son

The red spot on 7-UP is a reference to the creator's eyes. He was Albino.

The "save" icon in Microsoft office shows a floppy with a backwards shutter

315 entries in Webster?s 1996 dictionary were misspelled


This has been useless facts.

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

In St-Johns, Newfoundland (if I remember correctly) ambulances always have to respect the speed limit.