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I just had a really cool idea. Why don't we make a random list of facts? Here are the rules.
~DO NOT post numbered facts. Use a ~ sign.
~Make sure they are true.
~Don't post inappropriate facts.
~Be nice!
~MAKE THIS LAST FOREVER!!
I'll start.
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.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and
use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that
someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
submitted by CaykeTheCook
(May 1, 2015 - 11:57 am)
(May 1, 2015 - 11:57 am)
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
(May 12, 2015 - 11:18 am)
Cool!!
(May 12, 2015 - 3:39 pm)
It works! I know exactly what it says!
Did you know there is a law in some country that forbids owners to get only one guinea pig; they have to get two or else the one will get lonley.
There is also a law somewhere in the northern hemisphere :) that states you must flush your toilet or you get arrested.
(May 31, 2015 - 6:05 pm)
~ The Mall of America in Minnesota is so big it has its own zip code: 55425
~The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
~11 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other equal the Gulf of Mexico's deepest point.
~The international telephone code for Antarctica is 672.
~Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal.
(May 12, 2015 - 4:03 pm)
~This thread is really funny.
~I don't really know many random facts.
(May 12, 2015 - 6:53 pm)
~Cats can make over 100 vocal sounds. Dogs can make only about... 10.
~A group of minnows is called a shoal.
~Coffee beans are a kind of cherry.
(May 12, 2015 - 9:40 pm)
~ There were 7 dwarves that were rejected from Snow White; Shifty, Nifty, Soulful, Woeful, Flabby, Crabby, and Awful.
~ Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer but Walt Disney's wife, Lily, didn't like it.
~ Yes, I'm doing a report on Walt Disney.
(May 13, 2015 - 7:06 am)
~Walt Disney didn't like kids.
~Neither did Dr. Seuss.
~Nor does Tim Burton, but having a kid will probably cure it.
(May 13, 2015 - 10:33 am)
WHAT? DR SEUSS DIDN"T LIKE KIDS? DISNEY DIDN"T LIKE KIDS? THAT. IS. CRAZY.
Admins, I'm sorry about the excessive caps, but it had to ba that way.
I'm shocked.
(May 25, 2015 - 6:38 am)
-May is National Hamburger Month
-Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot
-A house fly lives for 14 days
- In Denmark there are 2x the amount of pigs than people
- A blue whale's tongue is as long as an elephant
Warning: These are from the internet, so they might not be true.
One last one: A group of geese is called a gaggle, but when they are in the air a group of geese is called a skein.
(May 13, 2015 - 10:11 am)
Ellie- I found most of mine online, you probably can too.
(May 13, 2015 - 8:34 pm)
~ White Chocolate isn't technically Chocolate, as it contains no cocoa solids or cocoa liquor.
~The inventor of theChocolate Chip Cookie sold the idea to Nestle Toll House in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate
(May 17, 2015 - 6:39 pm)
~ Taylor Swift's first job was picking bugs out of Christmas trees.
~ Sneezing with your eyes open is impossible.
~ Butterflies taste food by standing on top of it.
~ Humans get a little taller in space because there is no gravity pulling down on them.
(May 17, 2015 - 6:51 pm)
Not to be picky, or anything, but humans actualy get taller (and probably other vertabrates) in space because there is no gravity pulling down on them, and so there spine relaxes, therefore getting longer, therefore making a person (and possibly other vertabrate) taller.
Also, 10 percent of people are left handed, but only five of them do things on the other side of the brain. Cool, right?
(May 25, 2015 - 6:42 am)
Sorry if my facts are wrong I got all but the Walt Disney ones and the Taylor Swift one from online so not my fault.
(May 30, 2015 - 9:58 am)