Random Facts!

[Mitsuo]

Here are more from Mitsuo!.........

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

-There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.

- Every Day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500

- Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969.

- A jellyfish is 95 percent water

-The Starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.

- In Bangledesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals

- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

- In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs

- Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

-The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.

- Slugs have four noses

- Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 punds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open

A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe

Rice paper does not have any rice in it at all

Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter

In 32 years, there are about 1 billion seconds

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word

The average person laughs 13 times a day

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightening than women

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin

The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates beofre a person realizes it's there, though.

In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
(wouldn't it be anyway?)

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.


To Be Continued........

 

[Flashjeff]

Here's another fun fact I got off a Snapple cap:

The square dance is the official dance of Washington state.

 

[Davey]

1. A can of Coca-Cola costs more than one dollar US from a vending machine.
2. Japanese people, in general, can't drive very well.
3. Restaurants in Japan (including many fast-food places) give you moist towels or wipes before or with your meal.
4. At many businesses in Japan, they offer alcohol to the employees after six pm.
5. It is usually mandatory to give a landlord a gift of money of $1,000-$2000 when moving into his apartment building.
6. On Respect for the Aged Day, tobacco companies will hand out free cigarettes to the elderly outside of train stations and department stores.
7. The Japanese love corn, sesame seeds, and mayonnaise on their pizza.
8. There are no 24 hour ATMs in Japan (closed on holidays and many only open during normal bank hours).
9. Many Japanese teachers think that Japanese parents are lazy.
10. The green traffic light is called "blue".
11. Slurp your soup.
12. Newspaper editors make their headlines so as to not attract attention.
13. KFC is the place to be on Christmas Day.
14. Japan has about 1,500 earthquakes each year.
15. In the Japanese language, it is considered rude to say the word "no" directly.
16. It is nearly impossible to become a naturalized citizen of Japan.
17. You can smoke just about anywhere.
18. Japanese people take a hot bath every night, some do not have showers installed in their bathrooms.
19. There is no insulation in Japanese homes' walls.
20. Japan has roughly 200 volcanoes.
21. It is considered rude to show signs of affection toward a loved one in public.
22. When you go to a funeral or a wedding you must take a gift of money.
23. Three words: "heated toilet seats".
24. In Japan, flower arranging is an art.
25. The new generation of Japanese people are not as short as Westerners think.
26. You can buy batteries, beer, wine, condoms, cigarettes, comic books, hot dogs, light bulbs, and used women's underwear from vending machines.
27. Many Japanese people eat rice with or for their breakfast, lunch and dinner.
28. Never stick your chopsticks upright in your rice. This is an old Japanese custom and is what is done when food is offered to the dead. When it is not an offering it is considered to be a very ill omen.
29. In Japan you will find cars by the names of "It's", "Let's", "Sunny", "Perky", "Gloria", "Move", "Toppo", "Lepo" and "Dump".
30. McDonalds employees will run outside to give you your drive-thru order.
31. The Japanese visit shrines and give eachother money for New Year's.
32. It is impolite to tear the wrapping paper off of a gift.
33. Japanese junior high school students do not need to pass any of their classes to graduate. Education only through junior high school is compulsory.
34. Young women will hand you toilet paper outside of train stations.
35. There is almost no vandalism in Japan.
36. Gas station attendants will bow as the car pulls out of the station.
37. It is socially acceptable to pick your nose in public and urinate at the side of the road, but you cannot blow your nose in public.
38. Approximately 85% of Japanese people have never tasted turkey.
39. Japan is about the size of California and has half the population of the entire United States.
40. Snowmen in Japan are made of two large snowballs instead of three.
41. It will always take one to two hours for a pizza to be delivered.
42. There is at least one vending machine on every corner.
43. All you ever wanted to know about the world's largest phallus festival can be found here.
44. It is not uncommon to pay $2 for a single apple.
45. The sun is red in Japan and the country itself is referred to by Japanese people as "the land of the rising sun"

 

[Flashjeff]

1. A can of Coca-Cola costs more than one dollar US from a vending machine.

ONLY a dollar? Where I work, it's $1.25!

2. Japanese people, in general, can't drive very well.

Neither can I most of the time. So we have something in common! HA!

5. It is usually mandatory to give a landlord a gift of money of $1,000-$2000 when moving into his apartment building.

Here in the States, I'd call that extortion.

6. On Respect for the Aged Day, tobacco companies will hand out free cigarettes to the elderly outside of train stations and department stores.

Hmm! It's a wonder there ARE any elderly in Japan with that practice around!

9. Many Japanese teachers think that Japanese parents are lazy.

Many American teachers feel the same way!

11. Slurp your soup.

Yes sir!! Right away, sir!!

19. There is no insulation in Japanese homes' walls.

That must make eavesdropping on the neighbors a hell of a lot easier!!

23. Three words: "heated toilet seats".

I'm down with that! Big time! Where can I get one!

26. You can buy batteries, beer, wine, condoms, cigarettes, comic books, hot dogs, light bulbs, and used women's underwear from vending machines.

That must make one-night stands with your honey a hell of a lot easier!

29. In Japan you will find cars by the names of "It's", "Let's", "Sunny", "Perky", "Gloria", "Move", "Toppo", "Lepo" and "Dump".

I want a "Dump". I'm sure it's probably leaks a lot!

34. Young women will hand you toilet paper outside of train stations.

Hmm! There's a vulgar joke swirling around in my diseased brain, but I'll avoid telling it.

36. Gas station attendants will bow as the car pulls out of the station.

Here in the States, given the high prices for gas, attendants ask for you to fill out a loan request before you fill up.

41. It will always take one to two hours for a pizza to be delivered.

Well, when you're putting junk like corn, sesame seeds and mayo on pizzas, no wonder it takes so damn long to have 'em delivered. Domino's would clean house in Japan!

 

[MajideSaiaku]

Several Dwarf galaxies actually orbit close to our own Galaxy, one is even moving up through the disk of our galaxy this momment, but it will take thousands if not millions of years for it to fully pass through.
The magellenic cloufds, named after explorer Fernando de Magellan, are infact dwarf galaxies orbiting our own galaxy.


White dwarf stars do not actually produce any energy! their light and heat is merely the remains of the star before it ran out of feul, so it is merely radiating heat much like a rock that has been taken inside after a long time out in the sun!.

The red spot of jupiter is infact a giant hurricane that could swallow earth many times over.
It has also been raging for over 300 years!.

The centre of our galaxy is believed to be a super-massive black whole, infact this is considored the binding force of all galaxies!, some galaxies are host to binary (twin) central black holes!.

Blackholes were once considored forever, but they infact decay, giving off particles every so often, in a few billion billion years they evaporate!.

First communication between alien species will probably be math's!, mathematics is considored the only true universal language!.

Eta Carinae, a super-massive star, bigger then blue super-giants, is the only known source in the universe of natural LASER emissions!, the only other known source of laser light in the universe is man-made sources, such as that laser pointer you may own!.

Saturns asteroid moon, Telesto, is strangely smooth, with only a few gentle craters!.

The earth is 4 billion years old!, though nobody can assign the exact date of her birthday, mom is old but still going strong!.

 

[Tsuyoiko]

Wow, you guys really are a buch of nerds! Good for you!

One of my professors told me that a friend of his devised an error-correcting code that made it impossible to dial a wrong number. He offered it to BT but they declined - since they make money when you call a wrong number!

 

[DoctorP]

Here are more from Mitsuo!.........
- Every Day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500

makes me re-think robbing a bank if this is all I'm likely to get!

- Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours

If this is true, then I recycled enough this past week to last me a couple of months!

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark

sidenote....he didn't invent the light bulb, but rather he perfected it!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's

 

[DoctorP]

8. There are no 24 hour ATMs in Japan (closed on holidays and many only open during normal bank hours).

This is no longer true. There are 24 hour ATM's now!

*However they are few in number*

 

[Blututh]

Woodrow Wilson was a white supremacist.

Hitler was addicted to methamphetimines.

Leonardo da Vinci was most likely a homosexual.

You are more likely to be attacked by a shark than to win the lottery.

3 more planets have been discovered outside the orbit of Pluto, one has been directly observed. All are larger than Pluto, and the scientific community is debating if Pluto is even a planet!

 

[Mitsuo]

sidenote....he didn't invent the light bulb, but rather he perfected it!

Ahh, thanks for the correction!

 

[mad pierrot]

The closest living land-dwelling relative of whales are.......











Hippos!

 

[Mitsuo]

Also,

Dolphins are related to cows in some evolutionary way.....I heard it on Nova.

 

[mad pierrot]

Also,

Dolphins are related to cows in some evolutionary way.....I heard it on Nova.

Correct!

They are both in the family of Laurasiatheres, I think classed within cetartiodactyls. (That is, whales and dolphins share a common land dwelling ancestor with other hooved mammals.)


Although in a larger sense, we all share a common ancestor, haha.

 

[Mycernius]

4. At many businesses in Japan, they offer alcohol to the employees after six pm.

I'm there! Do you think they can afford to emply me?

Here in the States, given the high prices for gas, attendants ask for you to fill out a loan request before you fill up.

You have no idea what high gas prices are. Try here where is runs at almost 1GBP per litre.

George Washington was a plantation and slave owner

 

[Anchyyy]

If you are late for school/date/work the bus will be late too.

If you think everything bad has happened already, you are wrong.

Good people die first.