Alright, so I love learning just random intersting facts.. about anything. So if you know any funny, intereseting, weird random facts post here. Ill start..
In Kentucky, US, every citizen is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
They keep track? o.O lol
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Rats can swim for 3 days straight without stopping
the worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 in china 1910
The longest flight of a chicken: 13 seconds...
Bees communicate the location of pollen to the rest of the hive by doing a dance. The orientation of their movements tells the other bees the direction and distance of flowering plants.
http://srhpost.blogspot.com/2010/09/criminal-mastermind-planed-whale-hunt.html (http://srhpost.blogspot.com/2010/09/criminal-mastermind-planed-whale-hunt.html)
A STUDENT is planning to carry out a crime spree by travelling across the United States and breaking weird local laws along the way.
Richard Smith, 23, will risk being arrested for falling asleep in a cheese factory in South Dakota and going whale-hunting in landlocked Utah. He intends to break about 40 strange state and town laws as he crosses America, starting from the notorious former prison island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
His 18,000-mile journey across the continent will end in Hartford, Connecticut, where it is illegal to cross the road while walking on your hands.
I don't know how 'factual' this article is but it is interesting to think of trying.
Quote from: LordKAT on February 27, 2011, 05:28:20 AMit is illegal to cross the road while walking on your hands.
You know what's sad about that? Nobody would have thought about putting such a law in the books unless some idiot had actually tried crossing the road on his hands....
Cows that are given a name.. produce more milk
Being able to curl your tongue longitudinally is genetic. Why?
Cindy
Hippo milk is pink.
Quote from: VeryGnawty on February 27, 2011, 06:39:23 AM
You know what's sad about that? Nobody would have thought about putting such a law in the books unless some idiot had actually tried crossing the road on his hands....
wonder how that theory works for shooting whales from your car in a landlocked state
The average woman cannot go three days without shopping
Koala Bears have been known to leap from trees tear the skull off an unsuspecting tourist suck on the brains, usually leave a bit, and then look innocent. Then the tourist goes to a wild life park. Oh see the crocodile lets pat it. They work together, be warned.
Australia is a dangerous place,
Cindy; wearing a protective corset. Does it have to be so tight? Of course ,if you can breath you will attracting mosquitoes
Cindy
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An actual poster ad for Pony Express riders
"Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred."
Pony express riders could weigh no more than 125 lbs.
Titan is the only moon with an atmosphere.
Maybe there is intelligent life there, I am becoming doubtful of it's being widespread on Earth.
As most trekkies know, the most powerful reaction, the one that powers starships such as the Enterprise, is the matter-antimatter reaction. It converts all the mass of the matter and anti-matter into energy.
It is used by the LHC and the soon to be shut down Tevatron in the search for the higgs boson.
All of the anti-matter produced by man to date would not be enough to heat a cup of tea.
-Sandy
So... yelling for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days produces antimatter? ;)
Quote from: ~RoadToTrista~ on March 06, 2011, 03:02:51 AM
Hippo milk is pink.
Quote from: yoxi on March 07, 2011, 03:54:33 AM
Hippo sweat is also pink!
mammary glands are modified sweat glands, so that makes sense
and most lipstick contains fish scales (or so i was told) :D
United States currency has become so inflated that you can sell the copper in pennies for more than the pennies are worth.
It is illegal to melt down federal coins.
Quote from: VeryGnawty on March 21, 2011, 11:20:16 PM
United States currency has become so inflated that you can sell the copper in pennies for more than the pennies are worth.
It is illegal to melt down federal coins.
Actually there is only about 2.5% copper in pennies these days:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin))
But you are right, if a penny was pure copper, it would be worth more than a penny. And it is illegal to deface or destroy US currency.
-Sandy
I heard somewhere that it costs more than a dollar to print a dollar bill. Zatso?
Did you know that if you took all the cutlery from the Queen Mary and laid it end-to-end across the bed of the Atlantic... the passengers would have to eat with their fingers.
In the UK it is legal for a pregnant woman to relieve herself anywhere, even in a policeman's helmet. :P
You can't hum while holding your nose. :)
Zebra Fish can heal their own hearts - And scientist hope to be able to learn from this to apply the same to humans!
Quote from: jussie on April 07, 2011, 03:09:18 PM
Zebra Fish can heal their own hearts - And scientist hope to be able to learn from this to apply the same to humans!
Interesting. You learn something everyday (no that wasn't a fact) :P
Quote from: yoxi on March 07, 2011, 03:54:33 AM
Hippo sweat is also pink!
Ewww!
In Chemistry class a few weeks ago we learned that if you trap water in a closed container and heat it up to a high enough temperature, it will explode ;D
Telling your girlfriend that she has some hair on her lip can result in sleeping on the floor for the night T_T
A law permitting the killing of Scottish archers in York has not been explicitly repealed:
www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/nov/07/uk.queensspeech20072
However, the article points out that
""In most cases, the implied repeal argument would probably work," said Mr Coad. "Whatever people in York may think about Scotsmen with bows and arrows, they would have a hard time avoiding several centuries of homicide acts."
Presumably the laws permitting the killing of Welshmen in Chester and Hereford should also not be put to the test.