Weird-Ass Facts

[TheSentinel]

George Washington wasn't the first President of the U.S.A.; John Hanson was. Washington also grew pot on his plantation.

Snopes calls bullshit. [http://snopes.com/history/american/hanson.asp]

 

[reyttm4]

Necrophelia is not a federal offense

As of 2004, there was an Island in the UK where it was/is technically legal to shot Scottsmen with crossbows

It's currently still legal in England to stand on the England-Wales border and shoot the welsh with a bow, but only on a certain time on one day of the week.

 

[Kiba Bloodfang]

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.

 

[martin's a madman]

The closest animal relative to a Sea Manitee is an Elephant.

Termites make the most elaborate structures of the animal kingdom

The most dangerous wasp of all is the Japanese Hornet.

A Tardigrade can go into suspended animation for an undisclosed period making them possibly the oldest living creatures on earth, much longer than the Giant Tortoise.

Love the Sealand one! It just reminds me a little of the Republic of Dave from Fallout 3.

Oh, almost forgot one!

The oldest a part of a human body can possibly be is approximately 8 years old, so we never get older than 8 on a cellular level.

Haha go to the wiki page and reading it's history, it sounds EXACTLY like something out of Fallout.

 

[w1n5t0n]

If you were lost in the desert you could not survive by drinking water out of a cactus. The water that cacti store is stored in a green mushy substance that is highly acidic and if you tried to drink the water you can get severe diahrea and vomitting, which makes you more dehydrated.

 

[GrinningManiac]

79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Is that from a Dilbert comic?

YES! I knew SOMEONE out there would spot that as well! I was just looking for the comic to link to that guy, but I think it was one of the animations

 

[grimsprice]

1. Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight. This would be like an adult person lifting two heavy cars full of people.

Fun fact: If you scaled up an insect to the size of a house cat, it would not be able to lift its own weight off the ground, and it wouldn't be able to breathe enough oxygen into its system to live.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Guys, on average, think about sex or sex-related matters once every seven minutes.

Every day, there are more than 120 million acts of intercourse performed throughout the world.

About 500 people die each year from erotic asphyxiation.

That little??

 

[ExaltedK9]

Leonardo da Vinci has no last name. He's that cool.
A space shuttle has over one billion parts.
All of the statistics made up on the spot? All previous estimates are wrong, as 120% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Here's a weird law for you, in my town, it is illegal to cross Massachusetts street (the most important street) with a beehive under your bonnet.

I forget wich part of Asia it is, but somewhere there it is illegal to walk your donkey down a street in July if it isn't wearing a straw hat.

 

[KdS_22]

Guys, on average, think about sex or sex-related matters once every seven minutes.

Every day, there are more than 120 million acts of intercourse performed throughout the world.

About 500 people die each year from erotic asphyxiation.

That little??

Yeah I know I thought the numbers were a little low too. So I'm just assuming they were conservative estimates.

 

[GrinningManiac]

A rhino has a zig-zagged penis (in the shape of that scar Harry Potter has)

There have been 43 Presidents of the USA, not 44, as of Obama

The ancient South American Civilisation who built Machu Picchu were NOT called Incans, they were called Quechans and they spoke Quecha (Ket-chan and Ket-cha).

IN Quechan, "Inca" means "King", so they were ruled by the Incans. Think of it as if you called EVERY British person "The Queen"

 

[martin's a madman]

The original recipe for Coca-cola included cocaine (hence the name)

OBJECTION!
It actually contained Coca-leaves what cocaine is made of

Oh snap!

Here's one I learned when I moved to Finland

The Molotov Cocktail is Finnish and is named so because it was the only drink they would serve to Soviet foreign minister Molotov

I'm pretty sure the Molotov Cocktail was done in mockery of Mr. Molotov. He was part of the reason the Soviets Invaded and they Cocktail was FOR Molotov... unless that's what you meant of course.

 

[Asturiel]

FACT: Bears beat battlestar galactica

Edit: Fact: Whales have tiny feet just floating about in their body.

 

[KdS_22]

Every day, there are more than 120 million acts of intercourse performed throughout the world.

I just did some math and, assuming my arithmetic is correct and your numbers are correct, there are about 91 people having sex every minute. Right now, there are people somewhere in the world, having sex. As you read this and as I write this there are 91 people having sex and 91 people finishing, many of which likely displeased by the performance of the other.

...

Isn't Math fun!?

EDIT!!: I misread ... I thought you said every year. disregard what I said

Ok I just ran the numbers myself and I think this is correct. At any given second, there are approximately 1,389 people having sex across the globe.

 

[Hellz_Barz]

Cat piss glows under a black light.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas

That's all I've got =/

..People actually tested those things?!

Yeah...

Here's some more

Slugs have 4 noses.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

i think the gattling gun was invented by a dentist also, strange that.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

Did you know that all american cars flunk the horn in an F-note?

Did you also know that 40% of cars sold in the US is red?

Did you know that 12% of the people in the world remain on the toilet seat when they flush? (Don't ask me why, I just read it in a book we've got, got plenty of weird facts though.)

 

[oppp7]

Dimetrodon was actually a mammal-like reptile, and could have been our ancestor.

They also ate somewhere around 95% of a carcass; they'd eat the intestines and colon, but only after the poo had been removed, because they detested the smell of feces (due to their heightened olfactory senses).

Ya, Paleontology isn't the most precise science, so I'd take that information with a large grain of salt. Luckily, however, it isn't an important science.

 

[Eat Uranium]

US marines landing in France during the Great War had their reliable lewis guns confiscated and replaced with the extremely unreliable chauchat becuase the army General in charge of weapon development and supply didn't like Mr Lewis.

The average pheasant can get in about 8 seconds of flapping at take off before it has to glide.

The death rate for cats falling off buildings increases with hight up till about the seventh story, at which point it drops again. This is because cats have a non leathal terminal velocity, and above seven floors, they have enough time to orientate themselves for a safe landing.

If the Tsar Bomba blast had been conducted using TNT, 50 million tonnes or a cube with edges of 310 metres would have beed required.