Random Facts

[ara87]

List a Random Fact(s) you don't think many people know.


* When Juliet asks "Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" she's not asking where he is, but why he is. As in why was he Romeo of the Montague, and not somebody else.

*The word "Orange" traces it's roots to sanskrit's "nāraṅga"

*Shaving does not make you have more hair

[jgk3]

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The Earth travels 30km per second

Europeans discovered the Americas 6000 years before the "Native Americans" ever stepped foot on it.

The smallest country in the world is Nauru

The oldest rocks on the Earth's surface are found in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

[MrHyeSev]

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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.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

[ara87]

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The Earth travels 30km per second

Europeans discovered the Americas 6000 years before the "Native Americans" ever stepped foot on it.
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well, while there were Europeans thousands of years ago, it was not only Europeans here. And while the accepted dates for human arrival is 13-15,000 years ago, there arguments stating that it was much earlier, as far as 30,000 years ago, and that some of them even sailed here.

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* The Bubble Gum flavor is a mixture of Wintergreen, Peppermint, Cinnamon, and Vanilla

*A cats average internal temprature is 102 F

[Siggie]

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The smallest building blocks of matter are not atoms, protons, neutrons, or electrons - they are quarks.

The oldest rocks on the Earth's surface are found in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

Maybe there's been a newer discovery... It's Western Australia.

[MrHyeSev]

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Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

[Sip]

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Shaving does not make you have more hair

I almost always have less hair after I shave.

[Siggie]

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Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

How about something not from this site?

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/

I almost always have less hair after I shave.

[One-Way]

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I know most of these because I would always Google "useless facts."

I've found that sharing these facts to a group of people hanging out on a Saturday night doesn't necessarily make you look cool, either.

[MrHyeSev]

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Heh One- Way