Random facts

[Alistair]

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

[HyenaKing]

Figures

The indians found out the earth was round 1000 years earlier than the euopeans.

[Alistair]

There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

[HyenaKing]

Skrillex use to do screamo, then severly damaged his vocal cords.

[Alistair]

Skrillex use to do screamo, then severly damaged his vocal cords.

One less guy screaming in our ears.


Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.

[HyenaKing]

Haha, say that to gargmurin.


Many peopledrove off cliffs nearby a persons house.

So he invented lines on the road.

[Alistair]

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Did you know that Rowan Adkinson (Mr. Bean), Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie went to the same school and were part of the same improv group that won the British Film Festival 3 times in a row and nailed them each their chances at their TV shows? (Black Adder) (A Bit of Fry & Laurie)

[Alistair]

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Did you know that Eddie Izzard never became famous until much later than Rowan, Stephen and Hugh because he was in the same film festivals, but in a competing group?

[Alistair]

The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosaurs; the tallest ones, anyway.

[HyenaKing]

HAHAHAHAHAHH!
My goodness.

[Alistair]

The two factories of the Jelly Belly Candy Company produces approximately 100,000 pounds of jelly beans a day. this amounts to about 1,250,000 jelly beans an hour.

[HyenaKing]

Discord Pup has a new picture, it looks like he's wearing pajamas.
Cool beans, bro.
The first 3 die-hard movies were not based off of a book, though the last one (the fourth one) was. 

[Alistair]

It was supposed to be shorts.

One out of 20 people have an extra rib.