The Best Kind of Facts: Random!

[Matt King]

Octopuses is the plural of octopus, not octotopi, also mercury solar day is longer than it's year

 

[LordLoudmouth]

Eating TNT turns your urine red

 

[MammothBlade]

An evil group of men has always wanted to rule the entire world. In the past conquest has failed to achieve this, due to the resulting outrage and awareness of the enemy. In our present time an evil group are trying a subtle but effective way to rule. This is to gradually infiltrate and delude the masses into accepting their ideas. Such subtle gradualism, along with distraction (such as unnecessary work, study, entertainment and sport) is being used effectively. Few people will therefore be aware of what is going on.

 

[Ed_Fox]

Octopuses is the plural of octopus, not octotopi

Actually, as it has a greek root it is octopodes....
Humans and guinea pigs are the only mammals incapable of synthesising their own vitamin C

 

[Captain Booyah]

The rain in Singing In The Rain wasn't actually water. It was a mixture of both water and milk, so that it looked like it reflected the moonlight. Now: a moment to pity Gene Kelly for having to dance in such a composition, if you please.

Also, the OP's fact has given me a sad.

 

[Dr.Panties]

66% of cigarettes smoked are smoked in China.

 

[Saltyk]

You can't lick your elbow.

Eating TNT turns your urine red

Who in their right mind tried that out?

Also, most people that read the first part have tried to lick their elbow.

 

[Tartarga]

All paper US currency has a small amount of cocaine on it. In a way, we are all drug dealers.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Here's a fact for you: the 6th Doctor, Colin Baker, wanted an outfit for the Doctor that was more like what the First Doctor wore, something dark and dignified.

...Instead, he ended up getting what he himself described as "an explosion in a rainbow factory."

Well, at least the Big Finish Productions gave him something more subdued...

 

[MammothBlade]

Octopie is tasty, but you're not allowed to eat it as that's speciesist against Octopi.

You can't lick your elbow.

Eating TNT turns your urine red

Who in their right mind tried that out?

Also, most people that read the first part have tried to lick their elbow.

It's more likely that simply exposure to it (handling, manufacture) turns your urine red.

Also I tried.

 

[Worgen]

Koalas explode when set on fire.

This is 100% true. Due to their diet of eucalyptus their guts are constantly full of the stuff. Eucalyptus oil, pure, has an ignition point of 50 degrees centigrade. Once they're on fire for long enough, or they open their mouth, the oil ignites.

Boom.

In a related fact, eucalyptus trees actively try and set themselves on fire so the fire will burn nearby plants, letting the eucalyptus trees take over more space, as you said the leaves are very flammable but the trees themselves are very fire resistant.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

A zombie apocalypse wouldn't really work due to the fact that most people (or Americans, at the very least) have access to guns, governments would be quick and precise in isolating and quarantining any outbreak, and the fact that zombies would freeze up entirely in the snow or decay rapidly and die in swampy or heated areas.

 

[Viral_Lola]

You can't lick your elbow.

Eating TNT turns your urine red

Who in their right mind tried that out?

Also, most people that read the first part have tried to lick their elbow.

I have four friends that can lick their elbows. It?s true and oddly strange to watch.

Uhm... bamboo is a grass. The dial tone on phones are in the key of F. If you tickle a spider?s tummy, it will spin a web.

 

[b3nn3tt]

You can't lick your elbow.

Not true, there are plenty of people who can lick there own elbow, just go to Youtube to see plenty of proof.

OT: I'm afraid I don't have any random facts that haven't already been stated dozens of times before in threads like these. But I will jump in and pre-emptively tell anyone who thinks glass is a liquid that they are wrong.

 

[R3VOLU7ION]

Octopuses is the plural of octopus, not octotopi

Actually, as it has a greek root it is octopodes....

Much the same as Platypodes is correct, not Platypi, Platypuses or Platypus.

 

[random980]

There is an average of 1 billion starving people in the world. Each year, the world makes enough food to feed 12 billion people.

Another one related to food.
All humans were originally lactose intolerant.

 

[Qitz]

Most people think glass is a liquid because of the bottom being bigger than the top. It's actually due to the firing process. Glass is a solid.

Also,

PHP is an infinite acronym. Meaning it stands for PHP Hypertext Processing.

PHP Hypertext Processing
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and so on.

 

[AlAaraaf74]

The average chocolate bar contains aproximatly 8 insect legs.

 

[Sram]

There is no word for beeing not thirsty in German and afaik in English like full as a counterpart to hungry.