The "Weird and Random Facts" Thread

bigwhite.steeze

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So basically just anything thats weird and random. anything works, heres a few of mine.

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

There are more chickens in the world than people

Pinocchio was made of pine.

Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.

The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.

More people in China speak English than in the United States.

An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

There are more chickens in the world than people.

A prune is a dried plumb.

Denver was chosen to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, but later refused.

Another name for the card game "Solitaire" is "Patience".

Saturday was named for the planet saturn.

 
and more,

The abbreviation a.m. stands for "ante meridiem". The abbreviation p.m. stands for "post meridiem".

The best beaches for surfing face west.

Wheat is the worlds most grown, and the world's most eaten food

Gibraltar is the only place in Europe were you can find wild monkeys.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The first American dictionary was writen by Noah Webster.

An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds

Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes

The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A,B,C,D,E, and F is: ‘Feedback’

If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.

After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.

Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.

A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.

45% of dollar bills you'll ever own have been in a stripper's g-string. After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.

The largest recorded kidney stone weighed 1.36 kg.

Kidney stones range in color.

The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

The average person laughs 13 times a day.

The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Australia is the only continent without an active volcanoe.

The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

Frogs do not drink water.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.

The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

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

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

It's impossible to lick your elbow.

It was so cold that in the winter of 1932, Niagra Falls froze completly solid!

The average American spends 6 years in the bathroom, and 6 months at a stoplight.

Babies have no kneecaps when they are born.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

In 10 minutes, a hurrican releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

A snail can sleep for three years.

Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

30% of people asked to participate in an opinion poll refuse.

Most productive day of the workweek: Tuesday.

The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.

Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.

thats all i know of
 


-rabbits tend to poop in the same place, and one little bastard has chosen the inrun to my backyard box

-skiing is the only thing i do that isnt a total waste of time

-exploding water bottles are fun

 
"After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.Stressed is Desserts Spelt backwards. "

Facts contributed by Harvey and Mattman
 
Good thread but if you use common sense or simple logic you can easily tell that quite a few of those are blatantly false.
 
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

the longest one-sylable word in the english language is screeched.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar

Rubber bands last longer when refridgerated.

An ostriches eye is bigger than its brain

tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10

its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

A polar bear actually has black skin and clear fur.

more people are killed by donkeys than in plane crashes each year.

Shakespear invented over 1700 words used in the English language.

No president of the united states was an only child

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

A ducks quack does not make an echo

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

a snail can sleep for 3 years.
 
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

According to suicide statisics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed

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

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in jelly

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

Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet

American car horns honk in the key of F

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV

The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Suess in "If I Ran the Zoo"

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both people are registered blood donors

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle

Winston Churchill was born in a womens' restroom

All of the clocks in "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

Horses and rabbits cannot vomit

Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.

Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode

The poison dart frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is an actual medical condition
 
chuck norris facts

chuck norris doesnt wear a watch he decides what time it is

chuck norris counted to infinity...twice

Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs

Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.

Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves

Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis

There are no steroids in baseball. Just players Chuck Norris has breathed on.

When Chuck Norris was denied an Egg McMuffin at McDonald's because it was 10:35, he roundhouse kicked the store so hard it became a Wendy's

When Chuck Norris falls in water, Chuck Norris doesn't get wet. Water gets Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris can divide by zero

Wilt Chamberlain claims to have slept with more than 20,000 women in his lifetime. Chuck Norris calls this "a slow Tuesday

Chuck Norris always knows the EXACT location of Carmen SanDiego

Chuck Norris ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one

Chuck Norris can drink an entire gallon of milk in thirty-seven seconds

Chuck Norris played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won

Chuck Norris is currently suing myspace for taking the name of what he calls everything around you

Chuck Norris once sued Burger King after they refused to put razor wire in his Whopper Jr, insisting that that actually is "his" way.

Chuck Norris can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass... At night.

Chuck Norris recently had the idea to sell his urine as a canned beverage. We know this beverage as Red Bull

 
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