Post your random weird facts!

Deleted • 13 July 2013 at 3:41 PM

So, the title says all. I have a book with 300 crazy facts so I'll post five in each of my posts.

Soo... Here we go.

1. Octopuses have three hearts.
2. The universe is about 13.7 billion years old.
3. Kangaroos can jump more then thirty feet in one hop. That's the length of twelve skateboards!
4. Studies show that when evenly matched teams compete, the team wearing red has a better chance of winning.
5. One of the shortest wars ever lasted 30 minutes.

nightwolf2982 • 13 July 2013 at 7:44 PM

@dramatic :

1. Dimples are deformities of the face.
2. If yuo siwcth the ltrtes of a wrod but keep the frsit and lsat ltrtes the smae, yuo wlil slitl be albe to raed it.
3. The above fact also means your brain moves 50% faster than average.
4. The worlds deadliest spider can kill you in less than three minutes. Luckily, it is about a centimeter big and does not have 'pincers' strong enough to pierce human skin.
5. People with 'dwarfism' (scientific term) have a less likely chance of getting Alzheimer's disease.
My five facts. XD
And it's octopi, not octopus. XD and you could also actually use octopuses.

cirrus • 13 July 2013 at 8:00 PM

@dramatic
1. A cow produces up to a liter of methane every day.
2. The average dream lasts 1-2 seconds.
3.If you go to Wendy's and say, "I'm not from this area. I'm lost and don't have any money!" They will give you free food according to their policy.
4. Turtles can breathe through their bottoms.
5. When you are hurt, swearing helps reduce pain.

nightwolf2982 • 13 July 2013 at 8:08 PM

1. Dark matter, which makes up over 70% of the universe, is able to counteract gravity.
2. There is a species of carnivorous ants in Africa; the bigger ones tear open skin, the smaller ones scoop up flesh. Disgusting. DX
3. If you throw down a paper tube(like toilet paper roll centers) horizontally, it will have a higher chance of landing vertically than one actually being dropped vertically.
4. Your body creates and kills more than 15 million blood cells per second
5. A violin has 70 different pieces of wood.

Oh, it is ON... XD

Deleted • 13 July 2013 at 9:25 PM

@skittlejg
@nightwolf2982 Beat this!

1. There was a hotel made of garbage in Rome, Italy.
2. Lemons can have more sugar than strawberries.
3. The Earth spins so fast, that someone standing at the equator is travelling at about 1,000 MPH (miles per hour.)
4. It would take a stack of more then 100,000 giraffes to reach the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere.
5. The earth ways about 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 Metric tonnes.

nightwolf2982 • 14 July 2013 at 11:16 AM

@dramatic
OH NO YOU DON'T!!!
1. When glass breaks, it's speed is faster than 3000 miles per hour.
2. A bolt of lightning is 4 times hotter than the surface of the sun
3. No regular paper can be folded more than seven times
4. Porcupines float in water(hollow barbs)
5. Slugs have four noses.

Deleted • 14 July 2013 at 12:04 PM

@nightwolf2982 Oh yes I did! And Here I come again! XD

1. Legend says that Aztec ruler Moctezuma drank 50 cups of hot chocolate a day.
2. Elephants can run faster than humans.
3. You lose up to 100 hairs a day (Not just head hairs).
4. A warm frog makes faster croaking noises than a cold frog.
5. The first airplane journey across the united states took 49 days.

nightwolf2982 • 14 July 2013 at 12:21 PM

@dramatic I SHALL RULE! XD
1.A poisonous plant makes people smile before they die... Of poisoning. (Duh)
2.False teeth are slightly radioactive.
3. Most lipstick have fish scales in them. DX
4. If a cockroach did not need to eat, it could live a normal lifespan with it's head cut off. Otherwise, it would only be able to live several weeks and finally die of starvation.
5. Snails can sleep for more than two years.

Deleted • 14 July 2013 at 1:01 PM

@nightwolf2982 no I shall rule!!!!

1. Seeing the colour red can make your heart beat faster.
2. Some diamonds are more than a billion years old.
3. It's possible to produce electricity from Elephant dung.
4. If humans came in as many sizes as dogs, we'd range from three to eighteen feet tall (as adults).
5. Some astronauts living on the Mir space station ate Jell-O every Sunday to keep track of the days.

univea • 14 July 2013 at 1:15 PM

1. President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
2.The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
3.American car horns beep in the tone of F.
4.You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
5.The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
#UniveaWuzHere

nightwolf2982 • 14 July 2013 at 2:38 PM

@dramatic -nuuuuuuuuuu
@univea I only knew two of those, XD

1. Thereare more plastic flamingoes in the U.S. Than actual flamingoes. XD
2. Bees have hair on their eyes.
3.Monopoly money is printed more frequently than real money in the entire world.
4.Fortune cookies were actually invented in the US.
5. A giraffe has a 21 inch long tongue; what do they do with it? Clean their ears with their tongue, of course.

univea • 14 July 2013 at 2:55 PM

@nightwolf2982
1. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
2. Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.
3. 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.
4. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
5. If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

Deleted • 14 July 2013 at 10:02 PM

@univea Hello! You shall become my minion once I take control of the world of facts! Muahahahhahahahahhaha!!!!!

1. A man once ate 49 glazed donuts in 8 minutes.
2. More then a thousand earths could fit inside Jupiter
3. If you traveled as fast as a car on a highway, it would take nearly three days and nights to reach the Earth's core.
4. Days were only 18 hours long a billion years ago.
5. There are 100 foot tall sand dunes in Alaska.

nitromegamer • 14 July 2013 at 10:06 PM

I'm gong to post one fact...


The fear if long words is one of the longest words.

Heh, the irony.

Deleted • 14 July 2013 at 10:12 PM

@nitromegamer I know so hilarious xP And its first almost full word is hippo or something xP

1. A queen bee can lay 2,000 eggs a day in the spring.
2. Scorpions glow under black light.
3. A woman's heart usually beats fatser than a man's heart.
4. It's impossible to see a full rainbow in the sky at noon.
5. Some frogs survive the Winter by freezing almost solid.

fluffamun • 14 July 2013 at 10:29 PM

@dramatic

Hippomonstrosisquippedaliophoba.

Yeah. Oh, and I'm going to win.

1. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is
2.On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
3.Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
4. It snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes in 1987.
5. People with brown eyes' eyes are actually blue underneath.

Deleted • 14 July 2013 at 10:32 PM

@fluffamun no I am xP

1. Four thousand year old popcorn was found in a cave in New Mexico, U.S.A.
2. A lizard sticks out it's toungue to smell.
3. In Italy, you can buy fresh pizza from a vending machine.
4. Saturn's rings are made of ice and rocks.
5. A gold plated bicycle sold for 80,000 American dollars in the U.K.

featherstar_stormclan • 14 July 2013 at 11:01 PM

@dramatic @fluffamun meh I can get even more. But for now I post a few
1. You see yourself 20 times more beautiful than you really are in the mirror
2. There was a ruler who waged war on Posiden and had his army stab at the ocean to defeat him
3. Cats, giraffes and some other animal are the only one to walk by moving their legs at the same time. (front left with back left.)

Deleted • 15 July 2013 at 5:20 PM

@featherstar_stormclan I'm using a book of 300 weird facts ^>^ WElcome to the topic!

1. Sperm whales have the heaviest brains on the planet.
2. A cat has about 20 muscles in each ear.
3. Certain sharks walk on their fins under water.
4. Some moths drink the tears of elephants.
5. In the summer, the amount of water pouring over Niagra Falls could fill 13,000 bathtubs.

featherstar_stormclan • 16 July 2013 at 12:13 AM

@dramatic thanks.
Celery has negative calories
Diet soda is actually worse for you as the diet sugar doesn't break down like normal sugar thus making you fatter.
There is a language in Mexico spoken by two individuals who don't like to talk to each other.

That's all for now

Deleted • 16 July 2013 at 10:27 AM

@featherstar_stormclan No problem ^.^

1. Your brain is about three quaters water.
2. Frog bones grow new rings as they they age, just like trees.
3. Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow.
4. humans can face 10,000 different facial expressions.
5. The oldest rocks in the Grand Canyon are almost two billion years old.

univea • 16 July 2013 at 12:48 PM

@dramatic this is fun. ^-^ I'm writing six.
1. A shark is the only fish that can blink both eyes.
2. Butterflies use their hind feet to taste.
3. The words month, orange, purple and silver have no rhyming words in the English language.
4. 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.
5. Refrigerated rubber bands last longer than at room temperature.
6. On this page at the point in time when I posted this, the letter r appears 555 times. That's including this post, but not counting the links at the top. 😊

bluebelle • 16 July 2013 at 1:11 PM

@dramatic
1.A goat lifts the hair up on his or her back as a sign of a aggression.
2.Chickens can lay a max of 365- 370 egg per yers.
3.A billy goat will pee on himself to attract attention from female goats.
4.Evolution is not a proven fact and has no scientific evidence to support it.
5.Van Gogh cut off his ear and mailed it to his girlfriend.

Deleted • 16 July 2013 at 7:09 PM

@bluebelle Welcome to the topic! ^>^ @univea Welcome ^.^

1. Cheetah ancestors roamed North America about four million years ago.
2. Every zebra's stripe pattern is different.
3. The corpse flower grows up to 12 feet tall and smells like rottinh meat.
4. One of teh wirld's fastest snakes- (the black mamba) slithers up to 7 milles an hour.
5. A male african cicada can make a sound as loud as a power mower.

univea • 24 July 2013 at 10:29 PM

@dramatic 😊
1. There are no skyscrapers in LA with spires or antennas on top.
2. Lions only live in grasslands and plains, despite the phrase "king of the jungle".
3. The first item sold on Ebay was a broken laser pointer, bought by a person who collects broken laser pointers.
4. The capital of Alaska us only accessible by air and sea.
5. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene

frogtoad • 24 July 2013 at 10:43 PM

I feel dumb while listening to you guys. 😋

univea • 24 July 2013 at 11:09 PM

@frogtoad there's no reason for that! 😋 None of us know these facts until we read them. No one knows anything until someone tells them 😊
1. More people are killed from donkeys in a year than planes.
2. There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. A leap year has 31,622,400 seconds.
3. Almonds are members of the rose flower family or rosaceae family. The peach is also a member of the rose family.
4. Cold weather makes fingernails grow faster.
5. Squirrels forget where about 50% of the nuts they’ve hidden are.

purrclan • 25 July 2013 at 12:12 AM

@nightwolf2982
Yes, well fortune cookies were actually invented (in the US) by Japanese, not Chinese, immigrants.

indigochan • 27 July 2013 at 5:07 AM

@univea
"3. 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."
Apparently, Donkey Kong was originally going to be a Popeye game. Or something.

univea • 27 July 2013 at 10:37 PM

@indigochan
Well, I'm glad they went with Donkey Kong. I don't like Popeye 😋