FUN RANDOM FACTS
Ants never sleep.
No word in the English dictionary rhymes with “MONTH”.
The human brain is 80% water.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
Singapore has only one train station.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.cts » Page 2
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
Did You Know, Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green.
In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.
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Duck
How come no-one else was offended by that… also why does he wear a towel after getting out of the shower?
t0wel
d0n’t all people were a t0wel after getting 0ut 0f the sh0wer :P
Sum ch00se t0 talk 0n IRC 2 while wearing there t0wel :P
n0mad
towel / IRC
Remind me not to read your posts at work. I burst out laughing while the GM walks past.
more fakts
on average, a person walks around the equator 5 times in their life
males have 1 more bone than females……..dont be disgusting……….im talking about ribs! Females have 1 less so they can bend further……..again dont be disgusting:D
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sourced from “Issac Asimov’s Book of Facts”
Queen Victoria’s first act after coronation was to remove her bed from her mothers room
The amount of gold dissolved in the ocean is about 9 million tons, about 180 times (as of 1979 anyway) the gold dug up by humans in the history of humanity.
During WWII, the germans developed a process for making shale oil (oil out of shale coal). They also developed engines that ran purely off firewood, so if you ran out of fuel during a drive, you “chopped” up some more fuel… Funny that we got jet engines but not shale oil out of wwii, and shale oil still hasnt been exploited yet ;)
If I had been technically trained, I would have quit, said King Gillette after spending eight frustrating years striving to invent and introduce his safety razor.
When the french literary critic Sainte-Beuve (1804-69) was challenged to a duel by a jounalist a century ago, and thus, according to custom, was permitted the choice of weapons, he told his opponent, “I choose spelling – you’re dead”. lol
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