Things you did not know

[AndiGravity]

How about this one?

Up until the year 2005, it was illegal for Native Americans to enter the city of Boston.

(No, seriously. It's only been legal for three years.)

 

[Razzle Bathbone]

Whenever a country defaults on its national debt, the result is almost always a sustained period of prosperity. This began in ancient debt-crippled Athens, where a new mayor came into office on a platform of "shrugging off of the burdens" of debt. The resulting prosperity led to the rise of the city that is still considered the primariy inspiration for all western civilization.

 

[Rabid Toilet]

Some people may have heard this one before, but...

It's impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times.

 

[Anarchemitis]

...There are zero rats in my province...

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[Niniux]

PWND! There are zero rats in my province. Now if only I could get the number of people that low... But how? But Hhhhooooowwwwww?

There sure are a lot of mice though. When I'm working, I always seem the scurrying around the rails.

 

[Fire Daemon]

Some people may have heard this one before, but...

It's impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times.

Nope, Mythbusters where able to fold a piece of paper as big as a football field 11 times. Boy do I need to get out more.

 

[jim_doki]

the only way to detonate petrol with a mobile phone is to light the mobile phone on fire first

 

[Blue Sonnet]

Glass is a liquid, not a solid - you can see this when you see windows on centuries old houses, the glass is thicker on the bottom of the pane.

Every glass of water from your tap has been drunk by at least nine other people before you.

 

[JJDWilson]

In the states, no one has died of old age since 1974. That was when they eliminated it as a valid cause of death.

 

[Lukeje]

Glass is a liquid, not a solid - you can see this when you see windows on centuries old houses, the glass is thicker on the bottom of the pane.

Every glass of water from your tap has been drunk by at least nine other people before you.

Your first point is not exactly true; they used to line glass with lead (that is of course very dense), and there is also evidence that the glass makers, because it's very difficult to get a perfectly flat piece of glass, would put the thicker end at the bottom (because the pane is more structurally stable that way).

The second quote should technically be "It is very statistically probable that each glass of water you drink has passed through at least nine other people...

 

[Fangface74]

Sake is technically a beer.

 

[TheFreeGus]

the average person has approximately 10^13 cells in their body and
the average person has approximately 10^14 individual bacterial cells in/on their body.

 

[Piemaster]

A standard Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions.

 

[stompy]

The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

Blue whales can slow their heart rate to four or five beats per minute in order to conserve oxygen during deep dives.

In 1959, the USSR launched a craft called the Mechta towards the Moon. It missed, and instead became (inadvertently) the first man-made satellite to go into orbit around the Sun.

 

[Spacelord]

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein

 

[Unknown_Exile]

These were some of the interesting thinks I found on http://www.amusingfacts.com/

The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.

The wheelbarrow was invented by the Chinese.

Hitler was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.

The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.

Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow.

The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

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.

That's not the shortest. Napalm Death have a song that is a second long