I don't know about most people, but I like looking at random facts. If you do to, or if you just know some, then post them here!

NOTE: Please do not use abbreviations or slang (ex. waznt, 2, blvd). Also, try not to repeat things. If you don't see a random fact on the current page, then you can post it. Otherwise, please don't. One last thing. Please number your facts in accordance to others, so if Fred has three facts, and Jane, who posted before him has two, Freds' last fact would be numbered 5.

Please do not post more than 15 facts at a time.

No profanity, please.

Copy-and-pasting is fine.

1. Childhood dreams are shorter than adult dreams and nearly 40% of them are nightmares, which may act as a coping mechanism.

2. Blueberry juice boosts memory.

3. The percentage of people dreaming in black and white started decreasing after the spread of color TV.

4. Laughter is a proven way to lose weight.

5. The shrimp's heart is in its head.

6. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

7. On average, a woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s heart.

8. There are 86,400 seconds in day.

9. 'Jedi' is an official religion in Australia with over 70,000 followers.

10. A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly.

11. The first number that has an 'A' in it is 'thousand'.

12. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

13. Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

14. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

15. Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky.

Hope you learned something! Please post!

16. no food is naturally blue (blueberries are purple).

17. "four" is the only digit with the same number of letters as its value.

18. porcupines can float on water

19. the first novel written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

20. pinnochio in italian means "pine eyes"

21. many hamsters only blink one eye at a time

22. The oldest piano still in existance was built in 1720

23. the pupil of an eye only looks black. its really a hole in the iris

24. the softest known mineral is talcum

25. We see the wavelengths of light that we do because those wavelengths are the ones our sun produces the most of. If the sun had a surface temperature 10x hotter then we would see X-rays.

25a. (in reference to King Coin's factoid) actually that isn't quite completely true - birds see into the ultraviolet range, which we can't.

That doesn't conflict with my fact really. The sun simply gives off enough UV that birds have adapted to take advantage of it. People and other animals have not.

Adding to my little factoid, people are most sensitive to the color yellow which is same color of the sun.

26. Some snakes (such as rattle snakes) can detect infrared light given off by other animals.

These facts are fascinating !!! Awesome thread !!!

27. This factoid is true on most people. Your foot is as long as your forearm from wrist to elbow. It looks way too long, but put your foot up there and check it out.

Guess I'm not most people!

Put me down as having overly long arms.

28. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

29. President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute

30. Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

31. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

32. In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

33. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

34. Rhode Island is the smallest state in the USA with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

35. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

36. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

37. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

38. The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

39. The "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

40. On every continent in the world there is a city called Rome. [Oh, they're just jealous.]

41. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of
London.

Hey so I got most of these of these Random Facts from this website, so you can check out more of them on there and post a few if you want, too!

42. In New Mexico, idiots may not vote. (Now I understand why we get so little voter turnover here!)

43. In New Mexico, state officials once ordered 400 words of “sexually explicit material” to be cut from Romeo and Juliet. ( )

44. American car horns beep in the tone of F.

45. Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.

46. In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

You are really great at this, Petra !!

Why thank you! And speaking of which, did you know that

47. Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate.



Nom nom nom.

And that is just me, think about all the others that eat it too !! Lol.

48. The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

49. Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.

50. In Colombia, an individual can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping.

51. The human brain is 80% water.

52. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

GAAAAH !!! Boy would I be broke, lol.




EW! That is gross to think about! ... URG!


These are great, I love this thread Petra !!!!

Lmao! I was thinking the same thing!

Thanks! I just like reading facts, so, why not, ya know?

53. Swallowed gum is not digested by the gastrointestinal system, it usually passes through within 24 hours.

54. There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.

55. Men get hiccups more often than women.

56. The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.

They fart and burp more too.






Maybe it isn't dollars, but pesadas or something - and 90,000 of them is really only $200.00 - but still, I'd be broke. My eyes light up like 100 watt bulbs at even a hint of a juicy secret. I have to wear these noise reducers in my ears when I work so I don't lose focus on the accounts - it looks like a headset so people have a tendency to think I can't hear a thing and will tell their most guarded secrets to their closest friend in the neighboring cubicles. I know who's zooming who in the office before they do.

57. But Australia has the highest concentrations of toxic species in the world, from snakes to scorpions and spiders and -- you get the picture!

58. Horses can not vomit. That's why digestive upset (colic) is so critical in these animals. It makes ingestion of toxic plants very serious, since you can't eliminate it by inducing vomiting (the first step in most toxic ingestions).

59. Commercial Helium is produced as a by-product of radioactive alpha-decay. The greatest commercial use of Helium is as a coolant.

60. The oldest food quality law still active, the Reinheitsgebot, governs German beer production.

61. The potato was domesticated in Peru, at least 7,000 years ago, and introduced to Europe via Spanish colonialism.

62. Nickel-62 is the most stable nuclear isotope yet discovered, more-so than Iron-56.

63. The chemical formula of carbonic acid is H2CO3

64. My husband would LOVE this thread topic. Random facts are his forte. (Seriously, his favorite book series is the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader books of random facts...)

65. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

66. This confirms that Shakespeare is in fact god.

67. When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

68. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

69. 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.

70. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

71. 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.

72. Which basically means SHE IS MOTHER RUSSIA. (I like what I did at that one. hehe)

73. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth. Not the baseball star.

75. 7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

76. Some of the Utban Myths are actually true. Find out for yourself.

77. There is no number 74 above.

78. On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun. Yum yum yum.

79. Consumption of TNT turns urine amber or deep red, which people often mistake for blood. Ha.

80. C-4 is a very stable product, well known for its durability and reliability. It will not explode even if hit by a bullet, punched, cut, or thrown into a fire (in Vietnam, soldiers actually burned C-4 as an improvised cooking fire). The only reliable method for detonation is via a detonator or blasting cap. So if you see C-4 exploding by a stray bullet in a movie, sue the makers of the film for deceiving the watchers.

81. On July 28th 1945, a United States B-25 bomber, flying in heavy fog, crashed into the 79th and 80th floor of the north side of the Empire State Building. 11 people in the building, and all 3 crew men on the bomber were killed.

Technically that's not true.

Your hair stops growing (along with everything else) at the moment of death.

What actually happens is that the hair in the follicles are exposed due to tissue dessication that follows death. In other words, your moisture-laden skin (where the follicles dwell and incubate your luxurious hair) loses water during the decay/dessication process. Follicles shrink with the thinning, drying skin, but hair doesn't. So eventually only the root bulb of your hair remains within a shrunken follicle. That's why your hair appears so much longer a couple of months after you die. Oh, and your head overall shrinks a little too.

This process can take up to a couple of months, depending on the environmental conditions. If you die in the desert, for example, this will take but a week or so. But if you die in the Amazon Basin, then it will take a couple of months or even longer. Likely your skin/hair/body will mold and succumb to fungal infestation before it "grows" that long.

The same process happens with fingernails.

Mmm, yummy.... I was eating while i read that... Yeah, that just killed my appetite....

a quick little note on fact 69 - jumpman was not a plumber in donkey kong, but a carpenter. (probably demoted to plumber after he was found guilty of animal abuse and vandalism)

Ooh. I love random facts, here are a few more.

82. There are 182 official currencies in the world. Compared to 192 members of the United Nations.

82.b. Zimbabwe is the country with the most legal tender. They are the Botswana Pula, the British Pound Sterling, the European Euro, the United States Dollar, the South African Rand and the Zimbabwean Dollar.

82.c The partially recognised Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is the runner up with four currencies accepted as legal tender. The Algerian Dinar, Mauritainian Ouguiya, Moroccan Dirham and the Sahrawi Peseta.

83. The tin can opener was invented several decades after the tin can itself.

84. Traffic lights were invented before the first automobile.

85. When men went to the moon in Apollo, the journey took two and a half days. When the New Horizons probe destined for Pluto was launched it took NINE HOURS.

86. Did you know that Dreamt is the only english word that ends in "mt"?

87...Though the planet Saturn is some considerable times more massive than the Earth, its density is less than that of water...Meaning that if you had an ocean big enough, it would float...

That would help this guy with his flying ship...

88. One pound if lemons contain more sugar than one pound of strawberries.

... ...Somehow, in all this time, he has completely passes me by... ...

89. The most populous and long lived star in the universe is the Red Dwarf...It can burn for Trillions of years...Meaning not only that none of those created in the early universe (13-ish billion years ago) are in danger of burning out yet, but it is said that they may outlast the universe itself (discuss )...

90. 35 billion e-mails are sent each day throughout the world

91. Voyager 1 is the most distant man-made object. It's soon to reach the outer limit of the sun's influence and will soon cross into interstellar space.

92. Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue

93. A duck's quack doesn't echo

94. A jellyfish is 95% water

95. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that dies not appear in the name of any if the United States

96. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

97. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head

98. There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower

99. In Saratoga, Florida it is illegal to sing while wearing a bathing suit

100. Alekthophilia is the love of chickens

101. Abe Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House

102. Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms, and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk

103. A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.

104. In America, the most common mental illness is anxiety disorders

105. A baby has 20 teeth which start to grow at about 6 months old

106. A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6

Making out burns 40-70 calories!

108. A light-year is the equivalent of around 6 trillion miles...

109. Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday.

110. Einstein's theory of General Relativity...Is wrong...

111. The humble cow...Has four stomachs...

112. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood up to 30 feet

113. The human brain stops growing at age 18

114. In 1978 the band, Electric Light Orchestra had three singles peak at number 6 in the UK chart...The following year, their first single also peaked at 6...

115. It is possible to turn lead into gold...

A team of Russian inspectorate types once found that part of the lead shielding around a nuclear reactor had transmuted into gold. The intense radiation causes elements to "lose numbers" and this had caused the element Lead (Pb 82) to shift numbers along the periodic table to Gold (Au 79)...

The interesting thing is that along the way, before finding the gold, the areas affected had become two other elements!!...

So, from this we can deduce that creating gold is relatively easy...The only problem is, you'll be dead from radiation poisoning before you can spend any of it...

Who cares? GOLD! XD

116. Lion King was based off of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

117. Simba means lion in Swahili.

118. Muhammad is the most common name





That's not he case if you have:


Aurophobia- Fear of gold.

119. In 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear reacor exploded with the loss of many lives and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of residents of the nearby purpose built city of Pripyat...

Three interesting facts about this, 1, it happened during a safety test, 2, just before it exploded, the instruments registered an output of 10 times its operating capacity and 3, the previous fact happened when someone inserted the rods designed to stop all nuclear reactions...There was - apparently - a flaw in the design... ...

Oh, and 4, the type of reactor at Chernobyl was an experimental one that only the Russians would have approved...Nowhere else has or had one like it btw...

120. The nearest Galaxy to ours (not counting the dwarf satellite large and small Magellenic clouds) is the Andromeda galaxy...Located - quite conveniently - in the constellation of Andromeda*...

Several things to digest...1, it is heading towards us at a speed of 400,000 Km/h...2, in 4(ish) billion years, Andromeda will collide with the Milky Way (our galaxy), creating a supergiant Galaxy with two cores...3, Andromeda, the Milky Way and at least one other galaxy form what is called the "Local Group" of galaxies, gravitationally interacting with each other, the local group is heading for a merger with another giant group of galaxies called the "Virgo Supercluster"...Any ideas of the direction that lies?...



*To find the constellation of Andromeda (which I think it only visble north of the equator), find the constellation which looks vaguely like a big W. One arm of the W looks wonky. This is called Cassiopiea btw...anyways, line up the two stars at the "bottom" of the W, look "Down" 90 degrees and closely thereabouts is the constellation of Andromeda...If it's dark enough, you may see something a bit more fuzzy-edged than the other stars...This is likely the Galaxy...Good look!!... ...

121. The voice of Garfield in the cartoon version is a man called Lorenzo Music. Yet in the live-action 2004 film, Garfield was voiced by Bill Murray.

In the 1984 film Ghostbusters, the character of Peter Venkman was played by Bill Murray, in the cartoon version, he was played by Lorenzo Music.