Random Facts Game!

Try to post the randomest fact, that's not made up so we don't get closed down by a mod!

An average pair of feet will sweat a pint of perspiration a day

The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year

At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years

I love these random facts threads!!! Great way to garnner points too.

Cats hate to be painted the color green.

Sweet! Here's a random and amusing fact:

The music for the Malaysian national anthem was based on a Hawaiian folk song. Sad but true.

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.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

When you die, your hair still grows for a couple of months.

Armadillos have been voted by a panel of experts, the ugliest animal on the planet.

My favorite random fact...

A random fact thread will reoccur on BTS every 2 months.

[edit on 10-11-2007 by whaaa]

A random fact thread will reoccur on BTS every 2 months.

Haha, didn't know all I did was check the first page

1. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

2. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

3. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

4. The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

5.Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

6. Bananas aren't fruit! They are a type of herb.

7. Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple!

8. Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor.

You get very little food value from eating roofing tar!

99 out of a 100 times ChiKeyMonKey will reply with a tongue-placed-firmly-in-cheek response.

So bananas are definitely a fruit, even though the fruit is sterile and has no seeds.

I just googled this, cause it sounded too weird . Also another site says it's both.. =.=

Survivors (No 1: Water Bear) It can survive temperatures as low as -328°F, temperatures as high as 303 °F, 1000 times more radiation than any animal, 120 years without water, and can also survive in a vacuum like that found in space.

- en.wikipedia.org...

Antarctica's area code is 672

[edit on 10-11-2007 by Monsterenergy791]

You burn off more calories eating celery than the celery provides (negative calories).

Stressed is desserts spelled backwards.

If this was my "Ban the person above you" thread, I would've banned you for triple posting!

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an 'Honorary Harlem
Globetrotter.'

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

The average person eats eight spiders while they sleep.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. How bout that one?

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. Score!! (right handed)

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

Kept looking through my random facts website and found these. Though they were kinda interesting.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

2,500 left-handers die each year using products designed for right-handers. (righties win again!!)

A can of SPAM™ is opened every 4 seconds.

Originally posted by Hyzera
3. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Hahahaha! Dolphins. I wonder if that has any connection with intelligence as far as being able to think up new concepts beyond instinct?

Originally posted by Hyzera
7. Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple!

Too much information!


Ok, here's mine:

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley

Charlie Brown's father was a barber

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets

Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights

[edit on 11/11/07 by NovusOrdoMundi]

ive pretty much already made this thread but I'll let it slide.

ok, so,

a pigs orgasm lasts half an hour!
too bad only humans and dolphins feel pleasure!



Roswell.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Kilts are not native to Scotland, they originated in France.

U.S. Presidents Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe all died on the 4th of July.

The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy.

Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic then outdoor pollution.

Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

The strongest muscle in your body is your tongue.

Originally posted by Hyzera
8. Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor.

Originally posted by jtb2008
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. Score!! (right handed)

Question: what about ambidextrous people?





Dragon fruits (see picture) come from a vine-like cactus.