Post some random facts you know or have looked up.
I'll start:
You are more likely to be killed by a vending machine falling on top of you than to be killed by a shark
emperor scorpions glow bright blue under a blacklight
iguanas feel heat from the top of their bodies, but not the bottom (they tend to burn their bellies on heat rocks, etc, when kept as pets because of that...)
you can lead a cow upstairs but not down them
a pig can orgasm for up to 30 minutes
if a statue in the park of a person on a horse has:
both front legs in the air - the person died in battle
one front leg in the air - the person died as a result of wounds received in battle
all four legs on the ground - the person died of natural causes
in the 1940s, the fcc assigned tv channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs and stuff like that...) but didn't re-number the other channel assignments (that's why your tv has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1)
More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.
Penguins are not found in the North Pole
People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.
A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Star Trek.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
259200 people die every day.
Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.
Charlie Brown's dad was a barber.
I love random facts.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella."
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees).
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Strychnine was in Hitler's anti-gas pills which he took daily. It was suspected his doctor was trying to assassinate him slowly.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.
Denver was chosen to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, but later refused.
Another name for the card game "Solitaire" is "Patience".
Saturday was named for the planet saturn.
The abbreviation a.m. stands for "ante meridiem". The abbreviation p.m. stands for "post meridiem".
The best beaches for surfing face west.
Wheat is the worlds most grown, and the world's most eaten food
Gibraltar is the only place in Europe were you can find wild monkeys.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream. (possible progress in our experiment tribe 8) )
After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
45% of dollar bills you'll ever own have been in a stripper's g-string.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.
A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."