The Wacky Facts Game

[Tom Bone offline]

Got any cool things that, say only 2 people know about? Post em here! Check this one out.

On her way up to the guillitine, Marie Antoinette accidently stepped on the executioner's toe. Therefore, history recorded her last words as: "I'm sorry, Monsieur, it was not intentional." Put dat in your pipe and smoke it!

[Admiral Conqueror offline]

Coca-cola was originally green.

Top that!

[Tom Bone offline]

If you insist...

E.B. White was so traumatized by the death of his fictional spider, Charlotte, when he read the book on tape, it took 19 takes to read the part where she died without his voice breaking

[Carth]

I'VE BEEN WATING FOR THIS THREAD FOR AGES!

Y'know why?

The character design of "Ursula" from Disney's "The Little Mermaid" was inspired by an obese drag queen- Glen "Divine" Milstead.

I'm serious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_%28Glen_Milstead%29

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I own a forum. http://s10.invisionfree.com/The_Yes_Man_Closet/

[Rudger offline]

there used to be a black liquerish candy in the shape of children called N***ER babies

[Skipperdee offline]

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

And the ombu tree of Argentina has wood so moist it won't burn and so spongy it can't be cut down.

Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.

I posted three. Because... I just did.

[Overcaffeinated Sloth offline]

42.89% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

[lyokodragoness offline]

Coca-cola was originally green.

Top that!

Oh, I can. And I WILL.

Do you know why Coca-cola is named coca-cola?

You may find the words "cocaine"(an illegal drug) and "coca-cola" alike. That's because Coca-cola actually used to have cocaine in it, until they were forced to remove the drug from their product.

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Giraffes have no voice.
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A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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In Italy, a campaign for Schweppes Tonic Water translated the name into Schweppes Toilet Water.
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[codeTONY offline]

Kay. So, I'll contribute to this cuz I have a bunch of them.

An ostrige's eye is bigger than its brain.

[Jeremified offline]

The average eyelash lifespan is about 145 days. Oh, BURN!

[enemyxwithin offline]

In the Middle Ages, peacocks and swans were sometimes served at Christmas dinners. (Mmmm, yep, peacocks are definitely...uh, tastey!!)

In 1983 a Japanese artist Tadahiko Ogawa made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.

One chocolate chip can give you enough energy to make you walk 150 feet.

[Jeshibo offline]

Your funny bone is really a nerve, which is why your elbow goes numb when you hit it.

[Jeremified offline]

It took 55 years before the telephone, invented in 1820, was put to use in society.
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Sound travels over 14 times faster through steel than through air. If you need to signal someone quickly standing on a metal bridge, bang on a steel pipe!
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The Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, built about 2600 BC, was constructed with enough stone to make a brick wall that could go around the world 20 inches high.
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In comparison, the largest modern building, the Pentagon, in Washington DC would only make a brick wall that went around the world two inches high.
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If everyone in the world took a daily bath, our entire supply of fresh water would be get dirty in a single day.
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The number of bacteria in a quart of soil from your backyard garden is 30 times greater than the population of the world.
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When high sped trains past each other they must slow down or they will break their windows. The passing trains produce a low-pressure area between them that can actually pull the glass out of the frames.
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A hydroplane can go much faster than a normal boat because it lifts the hull out of the water. It uses supports that act like underwater wings to give it lift. It is really just flying through water.
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You can surf on only one or two inches of water. Jump on a wooden disc and you can ride 20 feet or more in the shallow water along the beach.
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Manhole covers, the lids that cover sewers, are always round. Why? The round cover rests on a lip that is smaller than the cover so it can't drop through the opening. A square or rectangular cover, no matter how it was made, could fall through.
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The fear of spiders is called arachnophobia. Some other phobias are hydrophobia (fear of water), triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13), ecclesiaphobia (fear of churches), pogonophobia (fear of beards), ergophobia (fear of work).

This time there's NO ESCAPING THE BURN!

[The BB of C offline]

In California, it is illigal to peel an orange in a hotel room.

[Jeremified offline]

Oh yeah, that reminds me! ^^
I think it was Kansas or somewhere that kangaroos were prohibited from roaming free. Now who would come up with THAT stupid law?!

[The BB of C offline]

Whale hunting is Illigal in Kentucky! Can you believe that?

[Jeremified offline]

Wow.
The world's fastest recorded sneeze was 102.7 MPH or something.

[The BB of C offline]

Holy crud!
An African bullfrog doesn't know when to stop eating. It will litterally eat until it explodes. Actually, more like until it's stomach rips. It will attempt to eat other African bullfrogs that are bigger than it, even if those frogs are in the process of eating another frog!

[Jeremified offline]

Woah, that's just weird...

The most blindfolded chess games ever simultaneously played with NO LOSSES was 39; 38 wins, 1 draw.

[Skipperdee offline]

In one city in Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time- 1/100th of a second

In Venice, Venetian blinds are known as "Persian Blinds."

French and African marigolds both come from North America.

A "big band" isn't a "big band" unless it has 14 different instruments.

If you refrigerate your rubber bands they last longer.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

[Jeremified offline]

Babe Ruth kept a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool.
Kohlrabi is a vegetable.

[lyokowarriorteen20010 offline]

100,000 people a year get hurt in accident in volving toilets

[Admiral Conqueror offline]

City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

I've got quite a lot more that nobody else has posted yet. Bring it on!

[Zaeryth offline]

It takes the average human about seven minutes to fall asleep
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Boeing, (if you fly on a plane, chances are Boeing made it) became a furniture manufacturing company for a short period.
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The pound sign ( # ) is called an anoctothorpe.
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Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
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The six most deadly battles all occured between October 1914, and March 1918.
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Isaac Asimovis is the only author to have a book in every major category of the Dewey-decimal system
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The first word spoken on the moon was ‘Okay’.
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If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
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More people are alive today, than have ever died.
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Sound travels faster in warm water than in cold water.
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There was once a town named ‘6’ in West Virginia.
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The Eiffel Tower has 2.5 million rivets.
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The first railroad bridge over the Mississippi River ran between Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa.

Mwahaha! Random facts pwn all!

[Jeremified offline]

It takes the average human about seven minutes to fall asleep

Then I'm not an average human. I stay awake for an hour or two before actually falling asleep