Random Fact Thread

[lpstong]

I saw this elsewhere. But I thought this would be kinda of fun, since we have the longest thread here at NP. That we can have a random fact thread. Post something that is a random fact. You may know a fact or learn a fact. As well as get an idea for a domain name as well.

So I will start it off with a random fact. And just post a random fact that you know of.

Fact:
Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was present for the assassinations of three U.S. presidents: Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley.


Fact:
50% of your toes will usually appear on your left foot. :lol:

Fact:
"8 people die from vending machines every year" :o
- hookedonfacts.com

Now lets see some fun and interesting random facts here.....

 

[{insert name here}]

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

Chuck Norris is Luke Skywalker's real father.

 

[James]

#1
The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones and compline.
#2
If you come from Manchester your a Mancunian
#3
The cobble stones in New York streets were weighting stones used in Belgian ships to keep an even keel.
#4
A goldfish is the only animal that ca see infra-red and ultra-violent light.
#5
A standard slinky out flat measures more then 26metres.
#6
Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey
#7
The three largests land owners in England are the Queen, The church of england and Trinity College, Cambridge.

My phone sends me this crap everyday.
good old vodafone

 

[RDrapster]

The order or ordinals goes primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, denary. Words also exist for `twelfth order' (duodenary) and `twentieth order' (vigenary).

I love AskOxford.

 

[ChrisChris]

The rooster featured on CornFlakes is known as Cornelius.

 

[Broker]

Fact:

Termite farts are believed to be a major contributor towards global warming.

 

[James]

"Cats purr the same frequency as an idling diesel engine"

 

[Barrucadu]

Diet Coke was invented in 1982.

There are more women then men in the world.

 

[Eric]

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

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I always knew women were crazy :p

"Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are."

 

[Barrucadu]

47.28% of statistics are made up on the spot

 

[Peter]

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

If i remember correctly that is not correct, It does look like hair still grows but that is caused by your body dehydrating and decomposing.

http://www.snopes.com/science/nailgrow.asp

 

[-Raja-]

1) The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. It was first erected as " HollywoodLand".

2) The Worlds most consumed fruit is Mango.

3) India's movie industry, Bollywood is the largest in the world producing over eight hundred movies a year.

4) Ramses ll, a pharaoh, at the time of his death, had fathered 96 sons and 60 daughters

5) Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of israel in 1952, but he declined.

6) A.Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother bcos they were both deaf.

 

[mis_chiff]

Random Fact 1 :
The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is the only McDonald’s™ location that sells hot dogs.

Random Fact 2 :
The average speed of Heinz™ ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.

Random Fact 3 :
The skin on your elbow is called your weenis. :hehe:

 

[Sakura]

142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

 

[Achaias]

The Bible is the most stolen and bought book in the world.

The streets and squares in washington dc make up a pentagram...dum dum dum.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/washdcpentagram.gif

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

The average spider eats 27 unicorns every year.

 

[scooby47]

Wow! awesome Facts!!! If these are TRUE .. I definately need to research more :td:

Intersting reading ... jeeze I definately need to get out more

By the way especially scared by the spiders one !!! ERRRuugh! How Many ?
Being a girlie I am totally scared and will run a mile if see one that is any where near !!!

Now I have to worrry about sleeping? and those spiders ! URGGGhhh !

Gaffa tape anyone ??

Fun thread thanks to the starter and contibutors ...

My random fact .. Yorkshire People are called TYKES ... Mmmm thats as good as it gets folks !

Keep em rolling in !

 

[Achaias]

My wife also hates spiders...and will literally shed her skin from squeeling if she sees one.

Another fact:
Anyone from the Upper Pennisula of Michigan are called Uppers(pronounced youpers) and anyone from the glove part are called trolls. This comes from the fact that the Mackinaw Bridge(trolls live under bridges :hehe: ) connects the two parts of the state. They both call the other these names with apparent disdain at times.

I married a troll. (read above)

 

[lpstong]

Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).

 

[angisson]

I'm a troll too the damn Uppers are always making life hard for us


Tom Arnold, Sandra Bullock, Chevy Chase, Bill Cosby, Kris Kristofferson and Bruce Willis are all former bartenders.

6 is the smallest perfect number. A perfect number is an integer such that the sum of its proper divisors is equal to the integer itself: 6 = 1 + 2 + 3.

According to statistics, Australian women are most likely to have sex on the first date.

The word “pornography” comes from the Greek meaning the “writings of prostitutes.”

Garfield was the second president to die by assassination. Two months after being sworn into office, Garfield was shot in a Washington railroad station. Doctors repeatedly probed for the bullet with non-sterile instruments and unwashed fingers, the president died 80 days later.

 

[BoutiqueMusic]

Baby beavers are called kittens.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.