Random facts

[sigols]

In Norway its legal to take drugs, but its ilegal to have, buy or sell it.

[AlmarRaccoon]

Hippophobia is the fear of horses

[Oedipus Rex]

Hippophobia is the fear of horses

Verified. I expected it to be the fear of Hippos.
 
Scorpions and Dust Mites are in the same family as spiders.
 
 
 
 

[AlmarRaccoon]

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an odd number of whiskers

[Armalite_]

If it's below freezing outside during the winter and you blow bubbles, they freeze into ice spheres and drop.  O__O

[AlmarRaccoon]

Nothing rhymes with the words month, silver, orange, and purple.

[anoni]

 - Ground hogs are a form of squirrel
 - Koala bears are not bears (and shame on anyone who thought so)
 - Everything in the universe is 99.9999% empty space
 - Ideally converting 1 kg of matter into energy would be the equivalent of over 1,400 Nagasaki nuclear bombs worth of energy
 - Negative kelvin (below absolute zero) exists and it is hotter than infinite kelvin (Look up negative temperature)
 - Centrifugal force is not a force that exists, the real force is centripetal force, centrifugal force is just an expression.
 - In you right now are countless, extremely small electric charges speeding around your body at an excess of 1,000,000m/s.
 - RoboCup estimate that by 2050 they will of created Robots that beat any FIFA world champion in soccer

  I'll probably have about a hundred more when I can think of them

[AlmarRaccoon]

You can tell from the statue of a mounted horseman how the rider died. All 4 feet on the ground means they died of natural cause, 1 foot up means they died of wounds sustained in battle, 2 legs raised means they died in action.

[Luggz]

If the piper was killed back in the days when Scottish soldiers were piped into battle, the soldiers had been trained to fight more aggressively once the bagpipes fell silent.

In WW1 the Germans called the Scots "Ladies From Hell" because they fought ferociously and wearing kilts.

[MrRazot]

Talking of amazing Scots

some Scottish inventions/discoveries include:
adhesive postage stamps
anaesthetics
antisepsis
artificial diamonds
reaping machine,
Bank of England
latent heat
Brownian movement
Buicks
chemical bonds
penicillin
the decimal point
documentary films
Encyclopedia Britannica
engineering sciences
fax machines
first cloned mammal
flailing machines
geosciences
golf
historical novels
hypodermic syringes
Kelvin scale
percussion powder
logarithms
Maxwell's equations
marmalade
mackintosh raincoats
macadamized roads
microwave ovens
colloid chemistry
breech-loading rifle
tubular steel
quinine
Sociology
pneumatic tyres
pink bathtubs
hollow pipe
drainage
Peter Pan
radar
paleobiology
polarization
cure for scurvy
King Arthur
Halloween
refrigerators
Neptune
bakelite
iron bridges
solitons
the steam engine
telephones
thermos flasks/dewars
the telegraph
television
the stereotype
sulphuric acid
the steam-hammer
cure for insomnia
paraffin
Sherlock Holmes
Toad of Toad Hall
Long John Silver
Jekyll and Hyde
Auld Lang Syne
Whisky
US Navy
Chilean Navy
Economics
The Cloud Chamber

[sigols]

 This thing was invented in Norway...

[Nobi]

How about some random facts about cockroaches?

The praying mantis is a very close relative of the cockroach.

A cockroach can survive for a week without its head.

A cockroach can also survive the fallout from a nuclear explosion (just not the explosion itself, of course).

Cockroaches have been made into the world's first commercially available cyborgs.

[HyenaKing]

Space facts!

The first russian spacewlk, the pressure difcerence ended up for him impossible to get back in the capsuoe. He vented his suit slowly withoout telling anyone, and got back in. He suffered from the bends,but he recovered. The extra time it took to do this ended him over 100 miles from the landing site, in a forest.

[Alistair]

The maned wolf isn't a wolf or a fox at all.


It is in an entirely separate genus called Chrysocyon.


It may be the only survivor of the Pleistocene extinction.

[HyenaKing]

Woah, coool stuf


Mojang does not translate to any thing, or Haagen-Daas