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In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license

A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.

Phobophobia- Fear of phobias

Phallophobia- Fear of a p enis, esp erect.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.

  • 03.11.2008 2:32 PM PDT
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The topic is now a hot topic! Good job!

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  • 03.11.2008 2:37 PM PDT

Posted by: Snarlz
AMAZING facting guys, im looking the best ones up and are surpriseingly true. The topic now has a firey background w/ an ape for some reason so....yay? keep it up.

Lol, it means this thread has reached over 50 posts....hey, there's a random fact!

  • 03.11.2008 2:40 PM PDT
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Thanks talkiest winner, and with a fact mixed in! Epic.

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-What doesn't kill us makes us who we are.
-Jesus tap dancing christ I feel so in the dark!
-Emo! Because homos exuality just wasn't ga y enough!

sex burns 360 calories an hour

  • 03.11.2008 2:44 PM PDT

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do. (Sorry lefties)

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which
they start.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (I knew I'm not related to my "parents")

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple
and silver.

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Bears.Eat.Beets....Bears.Beats.Battlestar Galactica.

The little plastic sheath at the end of your shoelaces is called an aglet, and its inventor is sittin' pretty.

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-What doesn't kill us makes us who we are.
-Jesus tap dancing christ I feel so in the dark!
-Emo! Because homos exuality just wasn't ga y enough!

Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't

The average shelf life of a condom is two years

Rats may have sex up to 20 times a day

Males, on average, think about sex every seven seconds

The penalty for "pleasuring yourself" in Indonesia is decapitation

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There is nothing backing up the value of a dollar except the idea of it being worth itself.

If life can survive at the bottom of the ocean it can survive on another planet if provided enough food

The fat Chinese guy from a Chinese restaurant is not Buddha, Buddha was Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince from northern Indian, modern day Nepal.

If space lost all of it stars except the sun tonight, you wouldn't notice a change until at least 4 years later

  • 03.11.2008 2:53 PM PDT

On Waypoint I'm rocketFox;
http://halo.xbox.com/forums/members/rocketfox/default.aspx

Old GTs; RebelRobot, Flamedude

There are more possible moves in a game of chess than there are particles in the universe.

  • 03.11.2008 2:53 PM PDT
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Random fact: I dont care how your name is spelt, ill get close or right and then you atlest know who you are. : )

  • 03.11.2008 2:55 PM PDT

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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which
they start.

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North America N=/=A
South America S=/=A


America Is what they mean I believe.

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-What doesn't kill us makes us who we are.
-Jesus tap dancing christ I feel so in the dark!
-Emo! Because homos exuality just wasn't ga y enough!

Someone living in New York could eat out every night of their life and never dine at the same restaurant twice

Choking on food is the seventh leading cause of death in the US

Coffee is the worlds most recognizable smell

It takes four tons of grapes to produce one ton of raisins

Thirteen boxes of jello are sold every second

Every day over half the people on Earth will eat rice

  • 03.11.2008 2:58 PM PDT

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which
they start.


Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or
it will digest itself. (YUCK!)

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and

down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.(who leaves

champers in their glass long enough to find out?)

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple
and silver.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was
never a recorded Wendy before

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
(Who was the sadist who discovered this??)

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film down
so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.(WHAT???)

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot
Sink into quicksand. (GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER?? )

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

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from Public Libraries.


Give me first!

  • 03.11.2008 3:03 PM PDT