Random, Yet Entirely Useless, Facts

Did you know that the plastic covers on the ends of your shoelaces are called Aglets?

YOU'RE WELCOME!

ALSO if you travel across Russia, you travel across SEVEN different time zones.

7!

Beat that.

A shrimp's heart is in it's head.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

The cookies that Cookie Monster eats are really just rice cakes with brown dots on them.

Apparently table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.

How interesting.

NEW RESEARCH POSSIBILITY: A duck’s quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said computers in the future may weigh no more than 5 tons.

Wow!

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

I ACTUALLY AM AMAZED BY THIS ONE (like seriously?!)

xD

Did you know that most Brazil nuts come from Bolivia?

NO! I did not know that, Nate! Mind = blown.

Darn you all beat my aglets fact.

WELL HOW ABOUT THIS ONE:

The longest place name is Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai-whenu a kitanatahu in New Zealand!

Mwahahaha..pronounce that.

A hydrodaktulpsychicharmonica is a variety of musical glasses....

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. <- I laughed for about 10 minutes about this one.

OliveDreams wrote:Did you know that the plastic covers on the ends of your shoelaces are called Aglets?

YOU'RE WELCOME!

ALSO if you travel across Russia, you travel across SEVEN different time zones.

7!

Beat that.

*beats*

Russia actually spans across 9 timezones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Russia
http://www.timetemperature.com/europe/r ... ones.shtml

:O No way! Pesky @carbonCore!

Did you know that carbon has the highest melting point of all the elements?

You are hardcore, carbonCore!

Do you know your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end?

Remember this?
It was clicked by a American photographer Charles O’Rear.

NEW RESEARCH POSSIBILITY: A duck’s quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

That's actually a very obvious lie. The real thing nobody is sure about is why everyone believes it so easily.


DId you know that bikes actually break our understand of motion. We have absolutely no idea what keeps them stable, get them fast enough and you would expect it would be impossible to keep them stable or make them turn, but they work just fine, you don't even need a rider for a bike to stay stable as long as the push on it is stable.

Nobody is sure where Solitaire came from, more then that, it's one of the only card games that does not have a method of winning 100% of the time (through cheating or otherwise). A good card counter can win almost any game, even goldfish. But not solitaire.

Did you know we still have no idea why we spend 1/3rd of our lives asleep?

Did you know we have no idea why ice is slippery, there is a popular claim that when walking on it, your pressure compounds it back into water, but that idea was spread before it was properly tested, and in the end after testing, turned out to be wrong. We humans are too light.

Your science books are lying to you if they claimed we understand how gravity works. Since it was first discovered we have been arguing about how it works, why it's so inconsistent, and how it can cover everything in the universe but still be possibly one of the weakest forces in the universe.

One of these is a lie, I challenge you to guess which one is just a myth people have been pushing around.

manisha wrote:
Remember this?
It was clicked by a American photographer Charles O’Rear.

I believe this is also the most-viewed photo in the world.

Cole wrote:

manisha wrote:
Remember this?
It was clicked by a American photographer Charles O’Rear.

I believe this is also the most-viewed photo in the world.

Here's what it looks like today

Spoiler

Was that a windows desktop at some point? I recognise it from my dial up internet days.

Talking of photos - Today we snap as many photos every two minutes as humanity as a whole did in the 1800s!

I hope they took at least one selfie...

@Zolen - oooo I LOVE a challenge. I vote that the ice one isn't true.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. Whoever came up with that is an evil genius.