Did You Know That...

-dolphins sleep with one eye open

-ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830's

-Tuesday has the highest robbery rate of all days in the week
 
The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
 
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.

A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old (lol didnt make that up)

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue
 
~ Hitler, when angry, has been known to run into walls with his arms spread, looking rather ridiculous. Goebbels did a pretty good job of not letting the public find out about this weird behavior.

~ apparently he also liked to force his generals to prank call other generals, saying Hitler was not very pleased with him, while he was sitting there listening...

~ Hitler, like Stalin (and I think Mussolini as well), wore reading glasses, but never in public because this to them is a sign of imperfection.

Woot, actual Hitler facts! ...
 
Meh just doing my job bacon :p

On topic:


- nothing rhymes with orange or purple.
- hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is a fear of long words (and its in the medical and full edition oxford english dictionaries so don't challenge it :p)
- the average person swallows 8 spiders in their life time in their sleep.

See I can contribute when I feel like it :D

Bye for another week guys!
 
^I could've lived all my life without knowing the final fact. Anyways, as sonicyellow mentioned earlier, "hinge" rhymes with "orange".
 
Heavenly Spoon :F said:
~ Hitler, when angry, has been known to run into walls with his arms spread, looking rather ridiculous. Goebbels did a pretty good job of not letting the public find out about this weird behavior.
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Obviously not a good enough job...?
 
GODZILLA said:
Obviously not a good enough job...?
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The German public never found out until after Goebbels' (and Hitler's) death.

Also, ~ Turritopsis nutricula is a kind of jellyfish which can change into a polyp and back, and by doing so can theoretically live forever. Although they do tend to die through predation in real life. Immortal jellyfishes <3

And ~ there's quite a lot of animals which can reproduce asexually, hammerhead sharks and turkeys have been known to do this, as well as quite a few species of lizards (like the awesome Komodo Dragon).

Talking about Komodo dragons, ~ Douglas Adams is awesome and that you should watch this talk which contains quite a lot of fun facts, and is quite funny as well (which is why I probably shouldn't tell you he died not long after this was recorded...)
 
GODZILLA said:
I... Do not believe that. Where is your source?

~It took 175 tons of blue prints to draft the plans for the Iowa class battleship, all hand drawn.
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Killer whales are pretty intelligent. They have learnt that once a shark is flipped upside down it goes into a trance since the brain is overridden. I think it is called Tonic immobility. So the Orca just rams it and hold the shark whilst it is upside down.

Did you also know when a Shark is killed, It releases a scent that all sharks fear, making them flea the area. It even gets them out of this Tonic immobility.
 
There are no FULL rhymes for orange. Door hinge doesn't have the write amount of words for a start, but it shud be Dor hinge instead of door hinge for it to rhyme.
 
Fridge said:
There are no FULL rhymes for orange. Door hinge doesn't have the write amount of words for a start, but it shud be Dor hinge instead of door hinge for it to rhyme.
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Lets put it this way. There are NO PERFECT RHYMES for orange.

Door Hinge is 2 words so it can not count as a rhyme, now if it were Door-Hinge it would be. but it is not. Hence, there is not a SINGLE perfect rhyme with orange.
 
~ bacon is right, like, seriously ._.

~ there have been no Chuck Norris facts in this thread yet, which is quite surprising.

~ Belgians, after Americans, are the most avid collectors of discount coupons in the world

~, when God said "let there be light", Chuck Norris said "Say please".
... It had to be done :(
 
Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
 
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