Random Facts Thread!

There are enough veins in the human body to go around the earth twice.
You can train a reflex by associating it with something good or bad (If you fed a dog and every time while you were feeding it you rang a bell, after a while, it will start drooling just because you ring a bell)
Most people know the 4 tastes that are detected on our taste buds (salty, sour, bitter and sweet) but there's a 5th taste called Umami that is only recently being known as the 5th taste.
 
...Umami? What the heck would that taste like...

Anyway, I think it is more like 4 times around the Earth, but whatever.

Facts:

A Brazillian Amazonian ant, the "bullet" ant, delivers a sting that compares in pain to being shot (hence its name). Strangely enough, its sting isn't all that potent. It can also bite you if it doesn't feel like stinging for some reason. Which may sound great at first, but not when you hear this: their bite is so powerful that if they cannot break what they bite, they are are flung back from the force of their own bite.
 
That the Great Wall is a single, continuous wall built all at once is a myth. In reality, the wall is a discontinuous network of wall segments built by various dynasties to protect China’s northern boundary.

You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
 
Here's mine:

The Earth's gravity prevents mountains from being taller than 49,213 feet above sea level.

The first day of the A.D. time period was a Monday.
 
@Veritas and SPM3

We have 60,000 miles of veins, arteries, and capillaries that would go around the equator about 2.4 times.

Umami is actually caused by monosodium glutamate (MSG; "bad cholesterol"). It is described as meaty, brothy, or savory. It was discovered by Japanese scientists in 2009.
 
I read on ChaCha that we have 100,000 miles of veins, which would be long enough to wrap about 4 times around the Earth. Of course, that was stated to be in a fully matured adult (so do we grow 40,000 miles of veins as we mature? Lol). I have no idea if the answerer had any medical education, however.

And so umami is basically how fat and gristle tastes?
 
The average human tongue can taste 1 teaspoon of sugar in 9 litres of water.

The printing press was made in the 1430s by Johann Gutenberg in Germany.

The safety pin was made in by Walter Hunt in 1849 in the US.
 
A man gets robbed in London every 2.4 minutes.
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
 
Your nose and ears never stop growing,They will all ways grow.Yay!!Jumbo ears FTW -W-
 
In order to say, "I am," in German, you say, "Ich bin."
The video game series Assassin's Creed has habitual releases every October, except for this year, with Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood being released in November.
Christmas was never truly the happy, joyous holiday portrayed in, "A Christmas Carol." In the time period the book is set in, the church of England was still in effect and diminished the celebrations of Catholics or other Christian religions.
 
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