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Post-A-Random-Fact Thread
- Thread starter AmazingGracePlayer
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The weight of an object is different on different parts of the Earth. If the object is on the side of the Earth that's facing the moon, it weighs less than if it's on the opposite side.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
[Begin the Chuck Norris facts...]
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
[Begin the Chuck Norris facts...]
Those are VERY interesting, I have to start memorizing to impress the ladies.
Just kidding.
I guess North America and South America are the same continent then
""The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night." - the average American; the average Australian eats less spiders and more flies and cockroaches."
Despite a long running misconception, people in the middle ages never believed the earth to be flat. In fact, by the first century A.D. almost every culture with a written history believed in a spherical earth.
Everything that is lost is always found in the last place you look. Because after that you stop looking.
Ten per cent of the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the roads of the United States.
I guess North America and South America are the same continent then
I'll admit it. I copied it without fact checking. You caught me.
