If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
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.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
ArmorGamesCorp tutorial on YouTube? Yeah. That's fail. Major fail.
and I think you should not lock this thread because we learn a lot of things about random things (from stupid ones to the smartest) which we may learn at school but easily forget. I learned things i never knew before like the mohammed was the most common name in the world. i thought it would be jack or michael. See what you learn
True, but there need to be just a hint of conversation~ So try to actually get some talk going about the facts and such.
I am a human being made up of 100 trillion cells and 7 octillion atoms
So... what I would like to know ir how do they know that who/how was it worked out? I'm assuming no one sat down and counted. Though I don;t think if you knew the weight of an atom and the weight of the body it is in you could work out the number it seems to simple (of course you would have to take into accoutn diferent atmoic weights etc.)
[quote=Zophia]Last time a new mod was selected was December 16th, 2008[/quote]
Wazzat you?
[quote=zillacutz]The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had[/quote]
That no true...
At one time Heinz produced over 1140 varieties... Now Heinz owns Sun-Kist, Weight Watchers, Ore-Ida, and 9-Lives... with over 3 thousand total products...
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Back in 1896, Henry John Heinz was riding a train and saw an ad for a shoe company with "21 varieties" of shoes. Henry liked this and told his company to put it on their labels... The company had 60 varieties at that time and Henry John Heinz just thought it had a nice "ring" to it... They skipped right over "57 varieties", they released their varieties in pairs and groups...
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They should give out merits for awesome random facts...
Random facts: hamsters are almost blind, chocolate is tasty,the Egyptian language has 700 letters,people usualy write 2 instead of to while not saving much time,a grasshopper can hop 20x its body length,the great wall of china is visible from space,99.9% of good stick fights are made using flash, and random facts get very boring. )