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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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here is a lot more. (I got bored):
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!
Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve", which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density
The University of Alaska spans four time zones
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun
The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
here are your random facts people!!
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
There are 1.6 million inventions under active patent in the United States.
In 2010, IKEA printed 198 million copies of its catalog.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
In 1976, the 10 billionth gallon of "Coca-Cola" syrup was produced.
If all the Coca-Cola vending machines in the U.S. were stacked one on top of each other, the pile would be over 450 miles high.
The life expectancy at birth in Swaziland is estimated to be only 33 years old (as of 2005)!
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
If you eat a bar of chocolate every day for 36,500 days, you'll live to be 100 years old.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
It is against the law to purchase or consume Jack Daniels Whiskey in the city where it is produced (Lynchburg, TN).
The most popular car color between 2000 and 2005 was silver.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was originally entitled Headcheese, but was changed at the last minute.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your skin completely renews itself every 28 days.
The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line in The Terminator 'I'll be back' was originally scripted as 'I'll come back'.
The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.
The richest countries in the World, measured by GDP per capita are Luxembourg ($58,900 per capita) and the United States ($40,100). The poorest countries are Malawi ($600) and East Timor ($400).
On average people fear spiders more than death.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
In 1940, more than three-fourths of those age 25 and older in the US had not graduated from high school. In 2004, only 15% of those 25 and older did not have a high-school degree.
A pipe organ was the loudest sound that could be made in the year 1600.
There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.
random laws
While it is legal to shoot bears, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited. (Alaska)
Owners of flamingos may not let their pet into barber shops. (Juneau Alaska)
It is considered an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane. (Alaska)
Animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship. (California)
Peacocks have the right of way to cross any street, including driveways. (Arcadia, California)
I didn't read all of UDude21's post because I found it to become a conversation rather than facts.
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