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Random (yet interesting) Facts!
Topic Started: Jul 12 2009, 09:44 PM (2,377 Views)
Ànraich
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Post some random facts that people may not know but are interesting nonetheless.

-Swearing is actually an instinctual response to pain. It causes the brain to enter a state of aggression and release adrenaline, making the pain less intense. So next time you hurt yourself, swear as loudly as you can.

-Although gray is often considered the rarest natural eye color the actual rarest natural eye color is violet. And if you doubt that, ask yourself, how many people do you know with violet eyes? Could you even do six degrees of separation? Probably not.

-Baseball is base off an old English game called stoolball, invented in the Victorian era. Only women could play and they had to hit the ball while sitting on a stool (because they played in those big Victorian dresses, seriously). The winners would receive cakes and sexual favors from spectating men. So next time you go to a baseball game, offer the winning team sexual favors. What? It isn't weird, is cultural pride.
Edited by Ànraich, Jul 12 2009, 09:44 PM.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

Each domestic cow emits about 105 pounds of methane a year.

Any 1 of a 1000 viruses can cause the common cold.

On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

At present even the most powerful PCs cannot process as many instructions as the .1gm of a goldfish brain.

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-Your jaws chew food depending which side you're handed. If you're right handed, you'll chew the right side and vice-versa. This is because that's the side your brain works more. Hey! and what about people that is right and left handed at the same time?

-The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate. That is trully confusing!

-The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting. Like ilegal street race cars!

-Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die. Concidering this, human race is doomed because of overpopulation in just some thousand years. Hey! There's a cause for you to have extinct humans in your future evolution projects!
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I already made a thread like this http://spec-evolution.sytes.net/topic/782623/

anyway

the plural of platypus is not platypi but platypodes
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Two very random facts:

-Falcons appearently are more closely related to passerines, seriemas and parrots than to other birds of prey. New World vultures are as of yet in a confusing position, with either most people considering them relatives to hawks and eagles or as weird falcons.

-Biblical angels weren't winged humanoids; descriptions of several winged abominations with eyes on the wings, many faces and features that are barely possible to describe are more commonly described. Ence why they say "fear me not" when they find a human in order to boss him/her around in name of God
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-The pigs orgasm lasts for half an hour

-the rarest skin color is blue

-the rarest eye color is red, appearing less then one percent of the time. It is caused by a very rare mutation and is recessive to every other eye color gene.

-Cat have good night vision, but it's always blurry. Even if their brain had the right parts, they could not tell the difference between the letters.

-What is the most commonly stolen book on the Earth? The Bible.

- King David, who is considered a great hero in the Bible, and Vlad Shepish, the inspiration for Dracula, did many similar acts while in war, both using crucifiction as a form of execution. The difference, David primarily fought for expansion. Dracula fought primarily for defense or revenge.

-One of Jesus's ancestors was a prostitute.
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I already made a thread like this http://spec-evolution.sytes.net/topic/782623/

anyway

the plural of platypus is not platypi but platypodes
The last post was made 6 December 2008. Do you expect us to remember a thread from several months ago?

HOLY SHIT! Platypodes? Really? That's crazy, so many books and movies are wrong then. Boy, I never thought that media could lie to me.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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-Cats can't taste sweetness.

-Rhode Island's official name is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantation" the longest name of a state.

-More people blow themselves up on Mondays than any other day of the week.

-The woman that gave birth to the most children in the world had 69 children. 16 twins, 7 triplets, 4 quadruplets.



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-About 13% of France is not in Europe.

-The Isle of Mann, Jersey and Guernsey are not part of the UK

-The only US state without at least part of it's border being a strait line is Hawaii.
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Yea all our borders are even and nice and it looks ridiculous. My state would be a perfect rectangle if the Missouri River were just a couple miles more to the north.

And here's another fact: An eloquent phrase meaning "to leave without permission" is "to take French leave." For instance if someone runs away during a fight he would be said to have taken French leave, meaning he left without permission to do so. Interestingly enough, the French have a similar saying; "filer à l'anglaise," which means "to take English leave." The phrase is believed to have developed sometime during the Hundred Years War, but a similar phrase in Spain suggests that it might have arisen during a later conflict.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Iceland is the largest banana producers in Europe has no military and was involved with several skirmishes with the UK over fishing rights after WW2 known as the Cod Wars.
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If it has no military how did it get involved in a skirmish? And I knew that Iceland wasn't cold but I didn't think it grew most of Europe's bananas.
Edited by Ànraich, Jul 18 2009, 08:47 PM.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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The Icelandic coast guard started cutting British trawler nets, and the Royal Navy tried to stop them.

And Iceland has lots of geothermal power so it can grow lots of bananas in greenhouses.
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1 out of 5 people on Earth think that the lunar landing is a Hoax.

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Don't be stupid, outside the USA the vast majority of people are not mental.

Even in the US, numbers that high are people who entertain doubts. People who believe that it was all a hoax are a very small, mental minority.
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