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[Petra Arkanian]

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!

[King Of Beasts]

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

[McBadgere]

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

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

[King Of Beasts]

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

113. The human brain stops growing at age 18

[McBadgere]

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...

[McBadgere]

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...

[Elisabeth Hollow]

Who cares? GOLD! XD

[King Of Beasts]

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

117. Simba means lion in Swahili.

118. Muhammad is the most common name

Who cares? GOLD! XD

That's not he case if you have:


Aurophobia- Fear of gold.

This post has been edited by King Of Beasts: Jan 16 2013, 04:30 AM

[McBadgere]

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...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: Jan 16 2013, 05:40 AM

[McBadgere]

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!!... ...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: Jan 18 2013, 07:58 PM

[McBadgere]

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.