Share a random fact you know

[Jane]

Our brains make us think we are 15% more attractive than we actually are.

[Bricket]

(that would mean I am -45% attractive  )

Belgium has 7 governments, 63 ministers and over 600 members of parliaments

[GilRiant83]

The idea of 1st and 3rd world countries was created during the Cold War. Countries aligned with the US were referred to as 1st world. Countries aligned with the USSR were referred to as 2nd world. Countries aligned with neither were referred to as 3rd world. There is also 4th world which is indigenous peoples, nations not yet established, and things of that nature.
source: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm

[Bricket]

I am currently not on fire

[Firefly Wolfy]

I am on fire

[Karric]

north Korea has its own pc operating system called red star os
its really bad from reports of people that have used it

[Ryouko]

The average adult dog has 42 teeth: 22 in the mandible or lower jaw, and 20 in the maxilla or upper jaw. In each jaw there are 6 incisors, 2 canines, and 8 premolars. There are 6 molars in the lower jaw and 4 in the upper jaw. In adult dogs, approximate age can be determined by checking the wear on the incisors.

[Firefly Wolfy]

The moon is made of Cheese 

[Bricket]

The oldest tram in service in Belgium is from 1960, but the oldest tramengines/chassis/controllers date back from the 1930s

[Dorian]

Bagels have holes in them because they started in a small jewish village in russia where the tsar demanded a tenth of every loaf of bread the peasants baked and demanded he took it from the middle so the bread was ruined. a jewish baker from the village came up with the idea of a middle-less bread so when the tsar's soldiers went to collect his tenth the jewish people simply pointed to the hole and said "there's your tenth!"

[Firefly Wolfy]

Maple syrup comes from maple trees

[Bricket]

Saudi Arabia has the biggest amount of Belgian Weapons

[Dorian]

in england, there's many different names for a bread roll (bun, barm, bap, breadcake to name a few) depending on where you're from....... and nobody can agree on the correct pronunciation of scone (it's pronounced either s-con or s-cone)

[Ryouko]

Books have pages in them.

[Firefly Wolfy]

The Sun is actually a Star