Weird-Ass Facts

[pelopelopelo]

Napoleon hated tall people so much that he sent anyone taller than himself to the front lines.

While I'm not gonna call bullshit, are you sure on this one? I thought Napoleon was of average height, the stories about him being tiny were a product of British propaganda?

In fact, I just wiki'd it to find out, and it says of the matter:

The British Tory press sometimes depicted Napoleon as much smaller than average height and this image persists. Confusion about his height also results from the difference between the French pouce and British inch - 2.71 and 2.54 cm respectively; he was 1.7 metres (5 ft 7 in) tall, average height for the period, sometimes quoted as 1.68 metres (5 ft 6 in)

Sauce [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon#Image]

 

[oppp7]

Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.

Then why is almost every legendary soccer player right footed?

There are more cells in your body that aren't yours than the ones that are.

Since they're in your body (i.e. part of you), doesn't that make them yours? If not, then whose are they?

I suppose technically they could be considered yours, but I meant the bacteria and such, like Ecoli in your digestive track.

 

[zauxz]

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is the fear of the number six hundred sixty-six, wich actually isn't the real number of the beast. It's 616.

There is a sunken Russian submarine somewhere in Bermuda. It holds 16 live nuclear warheads.

 

[Lukeje]

Congratulations Luke, You've watched Qi. Go and give yourself a medal. Also, if we MUST be correct about Grammar, Octopuses is also a correct plural form of Octopus.

Actually, I just searched the OED. [/in joke]

 

[Catchy Slogan]

No, I dont.
Prepare for NamlessGuy to welcome you though.

We shall see.

Naa, not really.

There are only 3 types of snakes in the English wild, and only one of them is poisonous....

Not really weird though...

Well that's good to know. I'm hard pressed to think of any dangerous predetors that could threaten us in Britain. It's not like we have wolves or bears.

OT: Sharks are immune to all known diseases.

Giraffes are the only animals born with horns.

 

[waterhazard]

When a whale ejaculates it pushes 50 gallons of semen into the oceian also a dork is a whale penis.

And thats why the ocean is so salty.

Coincidentally is also the reason I can't go back to seaworld

 

[deus-ex-machina]

Okay, these are taken from 'The Best Book of Useless Information Ever' by Noel Botham. I would be happy to know if they're true or not, but as it is published, I'm taking them to be true:

Bagpipes, although identified with Scotland, are actually a very ancient instrument, introduced into the British Isles by the Romans.

A law of Oblong, Illinois, makes it a crime to make love while fishing or hunting on your wedding day.

Shakespeare invented the word assassination.

The 'F' word is used 246 times in the movie Goodfellas.

A small child could crawl through a blue whale's major arteries.

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

The sound made by a jet engine is around 113 decibels. A pig can scream at 115 decibels.
A pig can run a seven minute mile(1.6 km in 7 minutes.)
Within a few weeks of being born, a pig will recognize its own name.

Someone visits The Oatmeal...

 

[waterhazard]

The real equation is E[sup]2[/sup]=m[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]4[/sup]+p[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]2[/sup].

Actually, it's E[sup]2[/sup]=+/-m[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]4[/sup]+p[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]2[/sup]. You have to account for antimatter.

Yeah the antimatter DUH!

 

[Aggressor and Usurper]

I AM THE MESSIAH AND THE QUEEN IS A BISCUIT

No, but, rly. Flamingos can drink boiling water.

 

[Daffy F]

Congratulations Luke, You've watched Qi. Go and give yourself a medal. Also, if we MUST be correct about Grammar, Octopuses is also a correct plural form of Octopus.

Actually, I just searched the OED. [/in joke]

Seriously though, did you see that on Qi? Because that's where I saw that one... I know for SURE that it's not Octopi though.

 

[hittite]

There is no antidote for a scorpion's sting.

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

During the "Gilded Age," a device called the Electric Belt was popular. What it did was administer an electric shock whenever the wearer got an erection.

Domestic turkeys must be taught to eat, tricked into drinking and brought inside when it rains or else they will drown.

Most of the events in the movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats" are true.

Taser stands for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle. Thomas A. Swift was a fictional character.

99% of all matter is actually empty space.

 

[Eat Uranium]

The real equation is E[sup]2[/sup]=m[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]4[/sup]+p[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]2[/sup].

Actually, it's E[sup]2[/sup]=+/-m[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]4[/sup]+p[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]2[/sup]. You have to account for antimatter.

Yeah the antimatter DUH!

Antimatter still has positive mass though afaik.

And anyway, the +/- is implied by the square root.

 

[waterhazard]

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

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

 

[brucelee13245]

In Ohio, it is illegal to fish for WHALES in lake erie on Sundays..(i live on the coats of lake Erie in ohio but i have yet to try this

 

[NuclearPenguin]

If you use 50 digits of Pi, you can calculate the universes length down to the atom.

EDIT: Oh, and and koala mating is weird.
What happens is that the male feels the scent of the female, and chases her around.
Eventually she runs up a tree, at which point the male chases her to the top.
There, she can choose from being raped or suicide by jumping.

Half of the time they jump

Just like all of my relationships..

 

[maninahat]

Penguins originate from the North Pole, despite what everyone says. This is because the first species bird to be referred to as a "penguin" was the Great Auk, a black and white, flightless, fish eating bird from the North Pole. They were called "penguin" from their latin genus name "Pinguinus", which described their large beak. All the Auks died out through hunting ages ago. When polar birds were finally discovered in the south, people noted the similarity to the Great Auk, and named them after the deceased.