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Joeyy | 18-09-2013 16:06

Rules:

1) One fact per post

2) No double posts regarding facts

3) One person can comment on a previously posted fact in their own factual post if they wish, but no back and forth conversations (take discussions to Randomness)

4) Keep it relatively brief (no long rants about mathematical equations ;p)

5) "Fact" in the case of this thread does not mean "I just went to the toilet". It means something about general worldly topics (e.g. history, geography, nature, etc.) that is true, but that is random and...doesn't really benefit anyone to know - it's just a bit of pointless knowledge

* offtopic :
I took this from elsewhere; I searched and couldn't find a similar thread.

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CarlJ | 19-09-2013 21:59

chiggers don't burrow under your skin.....but the poison they leave is what makes you itch forever. and using fingernail polish will help the itching

Saina1712 | 20-09-2013 17:19

Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace before computers and copying machines were invented. His wife had to copy his manuscript by hand seven times.

Captain_Keeta | 20-09-2013 22:44

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Saina1712 | 20-09-2013 23:50

The hippopotamus is one of the largest quadrupeds and, despite its stocky shape and short legs, it can easily outrun a human. Hippos have been clocked at 30 km/h (19 mph) over short distances.

Joeyy | 26-09-2013 17:33

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

I struggle to believe this. It disgusts me to no end.

Robert Louis Stevenson, author of such classics as 'Treasure Island' and 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', "legally" donated his November 13th birthday to a twelve-year-old girl after learning she was un-happy with her birth date: Christmas Day.

Saina1712 | 26-09-2013 20:17

* offtopic :
TG, you decided to post here. KEEP POSTING AND KEEP THIS THREAD ACTIVE!

The Renaissance masterpiece, The Pieta is the only work that Michelangelo Buonarroti ever signed. He later regretted what he considered an outburst of pride and vowed to never sign another work again.
(Damn! What a great guy!

)

Captain_Keeta | 26-09-2013 20:24

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Who's TG?

Saina1712 | 26-09-2013 21:10

Thank Goodness

PinkFloyd | 26-09-2013 23:36

Blobfish are typically shorter than 30 cm.

Captain_Keeta | 27-09-2013 00:57

Condoms fail 85% of the time.

FireWaterBurn6 | 27-09-2013 01:02

I think Jeff lies a lot.

Captain_Keeta | 27-09-2013 01:05

That's an opinion.

A woodchuck breathes only 10 times in hibernation.

FireWaterBurn6 | 27-09-2013 01:09

You said you type 200WPM and basically said condoms don't work. It's not opinion, those are lies lol.

Captain_Keeta | 27-09-2013 01:12

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

Saina1712 | 27-09-2013 19:44

Despite their common name, guinea pigs are not in the pig family, nor are they from Guinea.

Krunegard | 28-09-2013 15:50

When Lenin returned to Russia from his exile in Switzerland, he stopped in Stockholm to buy some new shoes. He was asked to buy a coat as well, but Lenin declined, saying that he wasn't planning on starting a clothing shop back in Moscow.

Saina1712 | 28-09-2013 16:33

Winston Churchill, the British leader, discovered at the age of 41, a talent for painting. Later, he authored a book titled Painting as a Pastime.

Captain_Keeta | 29-09-2013 16:08

Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.

Saina1712 | 29-09-2013 16:19

The title of Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom The Bell Tolls is taken from John Donne's Devotions.

Joeyy | 30-09-2013 19:49

Amazon originally said they'd never sell brooms. (They do.)

Captain_Keeta | 01-10-2013 01:32

Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden Retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound.

Saina1712 | 01-10-2013 18:12

Tomorrow, 2nd of October is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, commemorated as Gandhi Jayanti in India and also as International Day of Non-Violence.

Rachel567899999 | 03-10-2013 01:42

The Breakfast Club was originally going to star Jodie Foster as Claire, but she was too busy with other projects so they brought Molly Ringwald in for the part and she got it.

Captain_Keeta | 03-10-2013 01:45

70% of all runaway teens are female.

Rachel567899999 | 03-10-2013 16:58

Adele was influenced by the Spice Girls, Destiny's Child, and Mary J Blige

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