Amazing Random Facts

I love hearing new random facts so I thought I'd start a new thread on it. I'll start it with a few.



Starfish and sea urchins dont age. They cant die of old age.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald’s.

The 52 cards and 4 suits in a standard deck of playing cards represent the 52 weeks and 4 seasons in a year.

A blue whale's tongue is as heavy as an elephant.

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult

n Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood

Most lipstick contains fish scales

It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis

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

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet

In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession

In Oklahoma, no baseball team can hit the ball over the fence or out of a ballpark

In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year

In North Carolina, it is against the law for dogs and cats to fight

-DON'T USE THIS WORD AGAIN- came from early England when you had to have permission by the King to have a baby. When having sex you had to put a sign on your door that said F.U.C.K. Fornuicating Under Concent of the King. Now you know where -DON'T USE THIS WORD AGAIN- came from

that should be Fornucating Under Consent of the King..... not concent

HA HA! Thats the best fact of all.

FACT: -DON'T USE THIS WORD AGAIN- <---- happens when you say F. U. C. K.

You like that huh.

The only time sloths come down the tree is to deficate.

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The fastest two-legged creature on Earth is the ostrich, which can reach 45 mph over short distances.

The U.S. national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, actually has four verses. Americans traditionally only sing the first verse

Despite your mother’s dire warnings, chewing gum doesn’t stay in your stomach for years if you swallow it. It gets digested and disposed of just as quickly as anything else you consume

Television lost about 20 percent of its advertising revenue immediately after tobacco ads were banned in 1971.


Matt Majikas holds a Guinness Book record for playing miniature golf for 24 hours straight. During that time, he traversed more than 35 miles of faux grass and completed 3,035 holes.

The English Sparrow can carry up to 75 ectoparasites.

To start, there is one fact that I have read that is completely false. It is..... It is impossible to lick your elbow. Wrong, my sister can indeed lick her elbow. Only person I have ever seen do it, but she really can.



Anyways, here's some more

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa (not sure if I believe that, but I've read it in a few places)

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

For every person on Earth, there are one billion insects.

Plants run fevers when they are sick.

A 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his foot in 1977.

The longest recorded bout of hiccups lasted for 65 years.

The longest recorded sneezing fit lasted 978 days.

That's pretty cool Lsquared. Talented sister indeed.