The fun facts thread---share your useless trivia!

[kinggamecat]

Sea cucumbers excrete their internal organs to entangle their foes, and escape because they can re-grow them

Swans are the only bird with a penis

There's a kind of spider that breaks it's penis off inside the female spider after intercourse

Gandhi was an Anti-Semite (This is not my opinion but I've heard it from a few places/people)

Hitler was a vegetarian

Some people believe Nazis had help from aliens

A member (or former member) of the Nazi part was one of the most important people who worked on NASA's project to get a human on the moon

Samurai swords can cut a speeding bullet in half

(might have more later)

ducks also have penises and they are a bird

Ya don't say? ^^

 

[darkless]

2. Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, discovered a way to impale a man from bottom to mouth which would keep the victim alive for days. He also impaled an entire village to scare away the Ottoman Turks. It worked. ALSO when a noble complained about the stench of the dying villagers, Vlad stuck HIM on a pole and said "Let's see if the smell can reach you there". Also also, he is supposedly the inspiration of Dracula.

He's not suposedly anything he IS the inspiration for Dracula, his name is actuall Vlad Dracula.

 

[TimbukTurnip]

The sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface.

 

[darkless]

The sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface.

The filament in lightbulbs is also hotter than the surface of the sun.

 

[darkless]

Samurai swords can cut a speeding bullet in half

So can properly sharpened kitchen knives, Bullets are made of lead, lead is soft, you can cut it with damn near anything, hell you can tear lead with your hands.

 

[VegetaPrinceofSaiyans]

The Bible is the world's most shoplifted book.

The bible is also the world's most sold book.

well du I hate when someone tells me that and is expecting me to be surprised it is over 500th years old has to be bought by people who go to school and I the book of the largest world religion why the hell wouldn't it be the worlds most sold book?

OT: The escapist isn't the only website that is mostly made of smart, reasonable people.

It's far, far older than fivehundred years old, but thanks for your imput. Even as a book, it existed way before Gutenberg decided to put it into print.

I meant to say 5000 I think I some how did partially 5thousand and 5000 put yea it's old nearly as old as your mom

Fivethousand is about as hilarious as your "blah blah blah your mom" reply. Think about it; When did Christ die (or so we assume)?
The bible as we know it came to be a few centuries after that, at a church-summit which I CBA to find the date for right now.

I believe that you are referring to the Council of Nicea

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

One of the few things I learned in the little time that I wasn't sleeping in my High School Comparative Religions course @_@

 

[Wondermint13]

Did you know a squid got three hearts? A little red bean told me this
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Within the first 16 hours of a tiger shark's life it is allergic to straight alchohol.

 

[what.twitch]

Did you know that you can temporarily survive off of a transfusion of coconut milk instead of blood? Trufax. In World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the nurses ran out of blood while trying to patch up the troops, so instead, gave them coconut milk transfusions until more blood could be donated.

 

[kiwisushi]

When you curve your thumb upwards, there is a small gap at the base of it where the two tendons split, this is known as the Anatomical Snuffbox.

 

[C95J]

?TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard

"Typewriter" is the longest word you can type with one row of letters on a QWERTY keyboard.

What about PROTEROTYPE?

 

[Shiftysnowdog]

When chefs cook crabs they can leave the top of the pot off.

This is because, when one of the crabs gets to the top of the pile, the other crabs grab him and pull him back down into the boiling water with them.

Something similar happens every day to me at work

 

[Realitycrash]

The Bible is the world's most shoplifted book.

The bible is also the world's most sold book.

well du I hate when someone tells me that and is expecting me to be surprised it is over 500th years old has to be bought by people who go to school and I the book of the largest world religion why the hell wouldn't it be the worlds most sold book?

OT: The escapist isn't the only website that is mostly made of smart, reasonable people.

It's far, far older than fivehundred years old, but thanks for your imput. Even as a book, it existed way before Gutenberg decided to put it into print.

I meant to say 5000 I think I some how did partially 5thousand and 5000 put yea it's old nearly as old as your mom

Fivethousand is about as hilarious as your "blah blah blah your mom" reply. Think about it; When did Christ die (or so we assume)?
The bible as we know it came to be a few centuries after that, at a church-summit which I CBA to find the date for right now.

I believe that you are referring to the Council of Nicea

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

One of the few things I learned in the little time that I wasn't sleeping in my High School Comparative Religions course @_@

Yes, that would be the one. Basically a group of old people got together and decided which stories of Jesus the Savior's life would be remembered as "true", and which would be remembered as "bullshit".

No wonder Gospel of Judas got sacked.

Oh, there we go - Trivia; There was actually a Gospel of Judas.

 

[Realitycrash]

2. Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, discovered a way to impale a man from bottom to mouth which would keep the victim alive for days. He also impaled an entire village to scare away the Ottoman Turks. It worked. ALSO when a noble complained about the stench of the dying villagers, Vlad stuck HIM on a pole and said "Let's see if the smell can reach you there". Also also, he is supposedly the inspiration of Dracula.

He's not suposedly anything he IS the inspiration for Dracula, his name is actuall Vlad Dracula.

His name isn't Vlad Dracula, but Vlad II, Prince of Wallachia. Dracula was just a nickname the Turks gave him, meaning "Devil".

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Old Icelandic and Old English are virtually identical.

 

[darkless]

2. Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, discovered a way to impale a man from bottom to mouth which would keep the victim alive for days. He also impaled an entire village to scare away the Ottoman Turks. It worked. ALSO when a noble complained about the stench of the dying villagers, Vlad stuck HIM on a pole and said "Let's see if the smell can reach you there". Also also, he is supposedly the inspiration of Dracula.

He's not suposedly anything he IS the inspiration for Dracula, his name is actuall Vlad Dracula.

His name isn't Vlad Dracula, but Vlad II, Prince of Wallachia. Dracula was just a nickname the Turks gave him, meaning "Devil".

"His Romanian surname Drăculea (also spelled "Drakulya"), by which Vlad was referred to in several documents, means "son of the dragon", in reference to his father, Vlad Dracul"

Taken from wikipedia not the most reliable source I know but it was the quickest one to get.

 

[brodie21]

Dolphins have sex up to 5 times a day.....dont ask me why I know this

they also have prehensile penises, dont ask

 

[A Satanic Panda]

Did you know that the video format MPEG stood for Moving Picture Experts Group? And the video format MPEG-3 was made to accommodate HDTVs, but MPEG-2 could handle the high data so it was made in to a separate MPEG-2 profile.

 

[Headsprouter]

Bulbasaur's Japanese name means ''isn't it strange?''.

 

[brodie21]

Did you know dogs can't look up?

i have seen my dog look up

 

[thenoblitt]

Sea cucumbers excrete their internal organs to entangle their foes, and escape because they can re-grow them

Swans are the only bird with a penis

There's a kind of spider that breaks it's penis off inside the female spider after intercourse

Gandhi was an Anti-Semite (This is not my opinion but I've heard it from a few places/people)

Hitler was a vegetarian

Some people believe Nazis had help from aliens

A member (or former member) of the Nazi part was one of the most important people who worked on NASA's project to get a human on the moon

Samurai swords can cut a speeding bullet in half

(might have more later)

ducks also have penises and they are a bird

Ya don't say? ^^

sorry for the bad grammar in that sentence, i wasn't really paying attention when i wrote it, but yes most waterfowl have penises, unlike most birds who have a cloaca.