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Furry Chat => General => Forum Games => Topic started by: Rilin on April 24, 2010, 03:24:55 PM
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Saw a thread like this on another forum. Just post some random facts that some people might not know. :P
- "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
- Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
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There are palm trees in alaska. Not all of it is ice and snow
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Wow that makes me not be wanting to cut down Oak trees x-x
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A guy got hacked for cutting down the Saxon's sacred oak of Oden when he tried to convert them to Catholicism. :3
Don't cut down oak trees White! x3
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every single bag of chips in the world has a different number of chips. some of them are lucky and have the same number as another bag.
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90% of one dollar bills in the US have been in strippers G strings. x3
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90% of one dollar bills in the US have been in strippers G strings. x3
Also 90% of bills in the US have traces of cocaine on them o.o
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^^
Someone's having a party! xD
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Strawberries are not actually berries
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- The scientific name of the Arctic Fox is Alopex lagopus, however, it should be Vulpes lagopus.
- The redfox is actually orange, rather than red.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
- The area code of Antarctica is 672.
- If you toss a penny 10,000 times, you would get less heads than tails since the heads picture weigh slightly more.
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Awesome facts everyone! :P
- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
- The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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The person to discover how light works did so while under house arrest for insanity.
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The person to discover how light works did so while under house arrest for insanity.
Hahaha, that made me laugh
errm...
Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels
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People have known that the world is flat for thousands of years
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# The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees
# Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell
# Cats can hear ultrasound
# Kissing is healthier than shaking hands
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Emotions are a requirement for artificial intelligence to continue improving.
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healthy people live longer.
Most music these days is done electronicly
It is possible to have all types of weather in one day.
Eating a simple rubber ball can clog you up for a long time. It can also kill you.
They are making machines that would make you think of star wars. They made an evil machine that is like a walker on hoth that cuts down trees :'(
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This is the longest word ever that has 1909 letters in it.
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Skynet watches over us... seriously, there is a piece of technology, orbiting earth and it is called Skynet.
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In Canada there is a law that protects Big Foot as an endangered species. Its seriously illegal to kill a Big Foot there.
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In Canada there is a law that protects Big Foot as an endangered species. Its seriously illegal to kill a Big Foot there.
I never knew that they were real? O.o
That machine that cuts down trees should have been developed to do something more helpful, instead of helping our planet to die faster due to greed :'(
- Thomas Edison made the first romance movie called 'The Kiss'. It was like 30 seconds long or something and filmed a couple kissing. :P
- The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
- Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex
- In 2009 one of eight newly married couples in the US met online
- Everyday, 15 billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide
- Hugo Boss designed some of the Nazi SS uniforms
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In Yellowstone Park, at a certain time, around winter, the tiniest slivers of ice fall from the sky. The light shining of them, makes it look like glitter in the air.
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That machine that cuts down trees should have been developed to do something more helpful, instead of helping our planet to die faster due to greed :'(
Sigged. Just because that's so me.
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That machine that cuts down trees should have been developed to do something more helpful, instead of helping our planet to die faster due to greed :'(
Sigged. Just because that's so me.
Aww I feel special now. :)
- A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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Sometimes hitting an electrical device really does make it work.
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A person who doesn't take a shower or bathe every day is actually cleaner than someone who does :o
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There's a sea creature that has the head of "Alien."
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Is it Cthulhu? If not could you please specify "Alien", maybe show a picture? I wanna know what the hell an aliens head looks like.
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Alien as in, THE Alien
(http://web.tiscalinet.it/silviodr/alien.jpg)
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Oh, okay. So its not Cthulhu. My dreams feel crushed. Oh well, at least I have the knowledge that that freaking abomination to nature exists. :D
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All polar bears are left-handed (or pawed).
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President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute. :D
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"In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language."
o.o Never knew that
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William the Conqueror defeated Harold ll at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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The Battle of Hastings was not fought at Hastings, but was in fact fought at Battle.
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The bobcat is in the same genus as the lynx.
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vertical stripes do not make you look thinner.
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Whilst dieting, you should not drink sugary carbonated beverages.
Thats kinda obvious.
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A guy got hacked for cutting down the Saxon's sacred oak of Oden when he tried to convert them to Catholicism. :3
Don't cut down oak trees White! x3
I'd to update this random fact:
That poor sucker that got hacked, his name was St. Boniface.
He was preaching Catholicism to Germanic tribes (the Saxons) and he threatened them and told them to give up their Pagan practices. Well... They gave up their beliefs until him and his party left. Then they went right back to Paganism. He returned and cut down the sacred oak of Odin. Then they happily cut his head off in return. :3
See kids? History is fun! :D
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Chuck Norris can slam revolving doors.
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It's a proven fact that Garrus Vakarion can win Connect 4 in three moves.
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Mr. T pities fools because even fools deserves their daily dose of vitamin T
ok, a proper fact?
Chocolate is poisonous.
Update: oooooh I just found an awesome one, and I wanna post it before I forget or lose it. The largest living organism weighs 6,000 tonnes and is 80,000 years old. It's called Pando, but is also known as The Trembling Giant, and is basically a colony of genetically identical trees all connected by the root system. It spreads of 43 hectares and has 47,000 stems (that look like individual trees). To put the age in perspective, humans expanded out of Africa 40,000 years ago.
There is debate on larger organisms that could even be 1 MILLION years old, but it isn't fact just yet.
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Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
O.o
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There's a fungus that infects insects, controls their brains and then bursts out of their head.
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If there was a virus or disease of apocalyptic proportions unleashed on the world, It's a well known fact that Madagascar will immediately recognize it from simple sneezing and be safe while the virus evolves and destroys the rest of the world.
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There's a fungus that infects insects, controls their brains and then bursts out of their head.
Alien much? O_o That is really scary XD
Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
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There's a fungus that infects insects, controls their brains and then bursts out of their head.
Alien much? O_o That is really scary XD
They make the insect climb to the highest point it can, then a stalk bursts from the insects head and grows even higher. The tip of the stalk is covered in spore that explode from the newly grown fungus and spread over as wide an area as possible, landing on new insects to infect.
Scientists have devised a plan to stop a zombie apocalypse.
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What is this plan that you speak of?
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What is this plan that you speak of?
The plan of keeping this thread on topic!
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- Hence the expression "to get fired"
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
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Ninjas cant touch you if your on fire.
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Ninjas cant touch you if your on fire.
HAHA, i wonder why XD
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
The three best-known western names in China are: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
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It's not easy being Green.
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Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
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According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point. *This makes the current oil spill worse*
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
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Gabag is in your fridge, stealing your noms
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What is this plan that you speak of?
Kill it quick or we're all doomed.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed
I am not surprised. I've met like 20 so far. I mean seriously people, there are other muslim names!
The three best-known western names in China are: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
Isn't Jesus a middle eastern name? though to be fair the arab version is Isa
There is a US government organisation set up to plan and prepare for a nuclear apocalypse. There are nuclear shelters ready and the largest businesses have been encouraged to build small branches in out of the way areas, so that if the major cities are destroyed, the big businesses can still maintain some form of supply and service for the survivors.
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James is the most common name among the 44 presidents of the United States.
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Scientists understand about 5% of the nature of the human brain.
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There is no such thing as innocence
just different degrees of guilt.
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The slovak government have inadvertantly sent plastic explosives to ireland.