Hey everybody. Everybody loves random facts, right? So I've created this topic to discuss about them.
They must be interesting and real (no need to cite sources, but they must be real) and (according to the AG rules) they must have 7 or more words.
Let me begin.
In England a woman named Ceejay Epton (age 22) decided to change her name after her son was born. The reason: she wanted to help the baby to learn the alphabet faster. Then she changed her name to
"Ceejay A Apple B Boat C Cat D Dog E Elephant F Flower G Goat H House I Igloo J Jellyfish K Kite L Lion M Monkey N Nurse O Octopus P Penguin Q Queen R Robot S Sun T Tree U Umbrella V Violin W Whale X X-Ray Y Yo-yo Z Zebra Terryn Feuji-Sharemi"
She got the idea from a friend that wanted to be named "Pink" and decided to change her name too.
The good news is that on England, the name changing process is easy and costs £10
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There's a parasite called Toxoplasma Gondii which breeds in cats' stomaches. In order to get there, they infect rats, and does some kinda brainwashing stuff to them, to make them drawn to cats, rather than afraid of them. MIND CONTROL IN REAL LIFE! OH NOES!
To avoid the locking of this thread, I request: DON'T SPAM. IF you have a Random fact that matches the requirements on the first post, so go on. If you're looking for Free Armor Points, go look somewhere else.
An american woman named Ella Orko (age 61) is the most arrested criminal in the world: she was arrested 61 times.
The longest show that ever happened was one of the band Samuel Harfst: it lasted 24 hours.
You say don't spam, but where you are getting these "random facts" from? If you're copy/pasting them from another site, then it's considered spam.
No, I'm not copy/paste-ing from another site. I got lots of magazines that have a whole page just for "hard-to-believe" facts. Those that look interesting, I submit here.
In Sweden, a 45-year-old man named Fredrik Hjelmqvist turned his belly into a boombox: he swallowed a small radio and used a stethoscope to amplify the sound. He managed to keep music playing for 3 hours. He hopes to sell that tecnology for, at least, 15.000 dollars.
The world's oldest dog is 24-years-old, what equals about 168 on human years.
In a school in McSherrytown, USA, students gathered over 3.500 dollars to help to reconstruct the town after the hurricane Katrina. How? They made the school play the song "MMMBop" (by Hanson) through it's speakers to "encourage" the students to donate at least 5 dollars.
she has turned getting arrested into an annual tradition.
Assuming she got arrested when she was a baby. But hey, who knows?
Mosquitoes have the ability to sense which blood type you have. If the mosquitoes tend to bite you and ignore your friend, you might be the only one with type O blood.
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
