I figured this would be a good idea for a thread. You know those useless but oh-so-interesting facts and tidbits like “If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you’d have produced enough sound energy to heat a cup of coffee”? Post them here for everyone’s enjoyment.
Here’s a few.
It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip a human ear off
The average speed of Heinz tomato ketchup coming out of the bottle is 25 miles per year.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
Go is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
In Paraguay, dueling is legal as long as both parties are registered blood donors (not so sure about this one)
The average chocolate bar contains 8 insect legs (eww…)
Actually, according to history or something, British barristers have to wear black because they’re all supposedly mourning the loss of (Queen?) Mary who died in the 1600’s. I think it’s true anyway.
-There are 5 seven-letter words in the english language that contain all five vowels once.
-FACETIOUS is the only word that contains all of the vowels only once, and in alphabetical order.
-There are 121 valid two-letter words for use in Scrabble, and each letter of the alphabet appears in at least one, apart from the V. There are over 1300 threes!
-ANAGRAM has no anagram. Nor does ANAGRAMS.
-NEBAGRAM has just one anagram. Kudos to anyone who can get it without cheating. Answer: BARGEMAN
If you look at the gundams fighting dark gundam during the last two episodes of G gundam you will notice that some of the gundams are from different series.
the other series gundams you see are wing gundam, gp-o2a, and gundam 0078.(I’m sure theres more but i can’t remeber off the top of my head)
during the first haloween movie when michael kills his sister even thoegh you can see her boobs you never see her nipples.
I got a copy of the cursed video prop from the ring.In other news I am going to die in seven days unless I make a copy of the tape and show it to someone else. :moogle:
All the “fun facts” found in fun fact lists are professed to be true. A large percentage of them are misleading, half-truths or flat-out lies, so people should take them with a grain of salt.
If you look at the gundams fighting dark gundam during the last two episodes of G gundam you will notice that some of the gundams are from different series.