Things you did not know

[Anarchemitis]

Post your random pieces of trivia no one else would know because you somehow managed to find it.

The shortest peice of music known is by Walking Concert titled Run to Be Born. The track is 8 seconds long.
Woot! thousandth post!
Excellent. My thread is working! (Malevolence)

Glass has properties of both solids and liquids, and is thus essentially undefined.

Shut up already.

Seriously, shut up about Glass' state of matter. If I see another argument, people are going to get reported.

And before anyone gets any ideas, No Chuck Norris Facts, because frankly, no one cares [http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssdd50UfOc], and Girlysprite buried the hatchet with her little fact, so no more sex-related facts. We all have imaginations and I think that suffices. Also, less than 25% of the internet is verifiable porn, so stop claiming otherwise.

 

[Mstrswrd]

I got a lot of useless info... I'll only post one or two (for now).

Here's one. Canes that cast a Shadow Outline of Napolean's Features were carried by his supporters after the Bourbons outlawed all portraits of him.

That's enough for now (go Ripley's!)

 

[LOOY]

It was physically posible for Dodo's to have flown, but they seemed to not realise this...

 

[TomNook]

Hmmmmmm so many....Superbad was a terrible movie.

 

[Papaya Melancholy]

After the allies liberated the Nazi concentration camps, all the homosexuals were sent straight to jail.
Kind of Ironic.

 

[Lizard Queen]

If you get an ant drunk it will always fall over on it's left side.

(Man I love being a scientist.)

 

[Sparkly Weasel]

A loincloth hides your fun bits right? Then why would you eat pork loin after thinking about this?

 

[Mstrswrd]

After the allies liberated the Nazi concentration camps, all the homosexuals were sent straight to jail.
Kind of Ironic.

...Wow... I never knew that...

Here's another one.

This is from a Ripley's Calender.

"Daniel M'Mburugu, a 73 year-old Kenyan farmer, was attacked by a Leopard. He fought back by tearing out the animals tongue and then killing it using only his bare hands."

My only response to that is "Holy crap."

 

[LV Solace]

I knew that ant thing. NOw I'm not sure about this one, but I'm almost positive it's true.

It is impossible for a person to draw a Perfect circle.

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

The ratio of rats to humans in any city is approximately 1:1.

 

[AndiGravity]

After the allies liberated the Nazi concentration camps, all the homosexuals were sent straight to jail.
Kind of Ironic.

Well, they don't tend to teach children (at least in America) the Nazis rounded up homosexuals and sent them to the concentration camps right along with the Jews in the first place. Most of the people I know are very shocked to learn where the pink triangle came from.

I'll add a bit to this, though. The man who cracked the Nazi's Enigma code, the breaking of which ultimately allowed the Allies to win World War II, was himself arrested and convicted for being homosexual.

There's irony for you.

Keeping with that theme in a very loose-linked logic chain sort of way, I'll throw this in the pot for obscure facts:

The last words of Socrates were "Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Do pay it. Don't forget."

 

[Ciarog]

The last words of Socrates were "Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Do pay it. Don't forget."

lol homonym

The Principality of Andorra never took part in the Versailles Peace Treaty, signing a seperate peace with the Kaiser's government in 1957.

The city-states of Athens and Sparta didn't sign a peace treaty until 1994.

 

[Ciarog]

After the allies liberated the Nazi concentration camps, all the homosexuals were sent straight to jail.
Kind of Ironic.

Eh, lot of freed Russian and Polish soldiers quickly found themselves in gulags.

 

[guyy]

The shortest peice of music known is by Walking Concert titled Run to Be Born. The track is 8 seconds long.

Not quite. And anyway, it's not exactly hard to make one even shorter; someone probably did.

 

[x434343]

If Half-Life became a movie, Hugh Laurie would be a perfect Gordon Freeman.