Random Facts

[Bacon_Strips]

...as I last checked...

 

3.73% of people in the US are illegal immigrants

 

95% of a jellyfish is water

 

And 65% of facts are made up

 

(78% of you now think I made the first two facts up)

 

(78% of you would be wrong)

[grimace]

Hot chocolate has more caffeine than coffee

Mario is one of the most famous Nintendo characters of all time

You share 50% of your DNA with a banana

You share about 99% DNA with a chimp

Dolphins are more intelligent than us

Henry VIII created the Church of England because the pope wouldn't let him divorce his wife

The sun is a star

Neko means cat in Japanese

Tadpoles are carnivores

Humans evolved because of a missing gene

Someone sued Subway because not all their 12-inch subs were 12 inches; some were 11 inches

In the game, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Toon Link has the same moves as Link, only Toon link is faster

25% of people over age 85 are affected by Alzheimer's Disease

There is currently no cure for Alzheimer's Disease

We are all descended from fish

Dark chocolate is healthier than milk chocolate

There are species of lizards that are composed of only one gender

There is much life under the ocean that we do not know about yet

There is no life everywhere on earth

Pluto is sometimes considered a planet

The longest manga ever had more than 1700 chapters

The author, Erin Hunter, is not one person, it is several people

Even though we already have the word flammable, we also have inflammable, which means the same thing

Every single continent has at least one McDonalds except for Antarctica

Europe is part of a land mass called Eurasia

The Tale of Genji was written by Lady Murasaki Shikibu

Platypus are the only mammals to lay eggs

Bats are the only mammals capable of flight

Whales have a bone that they don't need just floating around inside of them

Our species is called Homo Sapiens

DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic acid

Viruses are not considered living

Microsoft was created in a garage

Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa

Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime

 

Everything stated is true

But the following aren't true, or are blanket statements that are just half true.

 

"Dolphins are more intelligent than us

 

Tadpoles are carnivores

 

 

Platypus are the only mammals to lay eggs"

[Rachel72]

Dragon Cave can become addicting

[Daydreamer09]

In the Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoon, ACME stood for "A Company that Makes Everything"

 

Donald Duck has a sister named Dumbella.

 

In the Toy Story movies, Andy never had a father because it was too expensive to animate another human.

[padfoot]

Babies are not dishwasher safe

 

If you took all the elephants on earth and laid them out end to end into space, All the elephants will die

 

If you teleport from where you are right now to the bottom of the The Mariana Trench, you will die faster than someone who stepped out into space.

 

there is no scientific way to prove that anything that exists outside of your own mind, (everything you can see, touch, taste, ect) actually exists

 

you have more that five senses including wetness, time, gravity, balance, Kinesthetic sense, and acceleration

 

There is a species of lizard that has recently evolved from laying eggs to giving live birth.

[Total Reverse]

This topic = Holy

 

And a platypus isn't the only mammal who lay eggs. There is 1 other animal, and the category is called monatriems (I have no clue how to spell it and neither does my mobile device.

[Lamp]

Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

It is impossible to lick your elbow. (Unless you get someone else to lick it for you!)

[0023567467]

all polar bears are left handed

 

The youngest pope was 11

Edited June 6, 2013 by 0023567467

[padfoot]

It is impossible to lick your elbow. (Unless you get someone else to lick it for you!)

or unless your a person who can lick their elbow

 

 

SCIENCE!!!

[Odeen]

This topic = Holy

 

And a platypus isn't the only mammal who lay eggs. There is 1 other animal, and the category is called monatriems (I have no clue how to spell it and neither does my mobile device.

Monotremes. 83 They're the last remaining descendants of what used to be the norm for mammals. Monotreme means 'single hole', referring to the fact that these organisms have an all-purpose cloaca like reptiles rather than specialized openings for 'business' and 'pleasure'.

 

With the rare exception of tetrochromats, humans have 3 different kinds of photoreceptors - green, blue, and red - which allow us to see all of the colors that we see. By contrast, the mantis shrimp has 16 different kinds of photoreceptors - the three we have, plus 13 we can only guess at. Imagine what the world looks like to them!

[renlacarne]

rats do not have gallbladders

[Spottedleaf]

In English, Four is the only didgit that has the same number of letters as its value.

 

The phrase 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet

 

Snails can have up to 25,000 teeth

 

A crocidile's (or alligator cant remember which. maybe its both) tongue is attached to the roof of it's mouth.

 

Elephants can't jump.

[Evangeline]

Some scientists analyzed the communications between bats via a super computer. And the top three things that bats talk about are: 

 

1. Complaining and fighting over food. 

2. The female bats complaining about unwanted male advances. 

3. To complain and yell at other bats that invalid personal space.