Random Cool Facts

[Muct]

I thought it would be cool to have a topic with random interessting facts in it. So here's a bunch of interessting random facts for ya:
You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die!

A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.

The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.

The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.

10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.

A spider's silk is stronger than steel.

The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.


Go ahead and post some cool facts!

[hah]

1. America did NOT invent computers a british man did (although im not sure of his name, a british man did invent them)

2. Bill Gates deserves to be shot after what he did to other companies during the 1990's (he severly broke a number of laws)

3. The man that died on the set of The Exorcist (1973) died due to the London flu epidemic.

4. We don't actually see straight forward, we see upside down then our brain interprets this as we see now.

5. DVD and Blu Ray players don't actually project the movie as straight forward as you might think. Instead there are tiny microscopic ridges in the DVD unnoticable to the naked eye. When playing the disc back the player read the vibrations in these ridges projecting an image onto the screen.

6. The first so called "printer" was in earlier times when monks had to write out individual bibles, they would sit in rows and write bibles out all day. This is essentually the first printer.

7. The Internet was first called the Aparnet and was used by the military to send and recieve calls through secure lines when communicating.

8. Old people and technology really don't go together.

9. The human brian has 100,000 chemical reactions every second.

10. It is thought that every descision you make creates an alternative dimention with a different desision. This can even be as little as deciding what to have for dinner.

11. The human body can operate with only half the blood in our body (5 pints)

12. The worlds computers defences are attacked all the time by hacking and hijackers trying to break into the system.

13. Yawns ARE contagious

[AlexOC]

The smallest country in the world is a micronation called Molossia.

It consists of a house, front and back garden plus one other property and has a current population of 6.

[Becca]

It is impossible to lick your elbow.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
13% of Americans actually believe that some parts of the moon are made of cheese.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.

[Special]

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
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.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen
in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

[Apolva]

Shortest ever poem:-

Fleas
Adam
Had 'em.

[@K]

On average people will swallow eight spiders in their lifetime whilst asleep.
It is impossible to catch the same cold twice.
Drinking two pints a day can make you live upto five years longer then if you didn't (actually read this one).
On average a person will earn 1,000,000pounds in their lifetime.

[HotelUser]

On average people will swallow eight spiders in their lifetime whilst asleep.
It is impossible to catch the same cold twice.
Drinking two pints a day can make you live upto five years longer then if you didn't (actually read this one).
On average a person will earn 1,000,000pounds in their lifetime.

I believe you can catch a cold a second time, you just have antibodies to combat it already, so it's killed off fairly quickly

[Moh]

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

The earth is approximately 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

A lightening bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the surface of the sun!.

If a Barbie was life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would be 7ft 2in tall and have a neck twice as long as yours.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

The Great Pyramids used to be as white as snow because they were encased in a bright limestone that has worn off over the years.

Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.

It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivalent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.


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