Share random interesting facts.

[Smoke]

This thread is for sharing random interesting facts.

I'll start: The human body contains about ten times as many bacteria cells as human cells.

 

[Mister_T]

If you took a piece of the center of the sun the size of a grain of sand, it would incinerate and kill everything within a 100 mile radius.

 

[Gentoo]

Most porcupines can have up to 30,000 quills.

 

[Buttons*]

It is NOT physically impossible to lick your elbow

 

[Buttercup]

A good crime working Bloodhound can smell a person who has passed by in a car.....on the freeway!

 

[Buttercup]

Did you know a tree has unique DNA just like humans?

Clearly I watch Forensic Detectives too much.

 

[Hema]

Coconut water taken from young coconuts is similar to the plasma in human blood and it has actually been substituted for plasma during blood transfusions.

 

[methylatedghosts]

It is NOT physically impossible to lick your elbow

Most people who read this will attempt to lick their elbow.

The majority of them will fail

Only the specially trained can do it.....right Buttons*?

 

[methylatedghosts]

There are 3 divider lines in a barcode that have no number beneath them.

The dividers are double thin lines.

A double thin line stands for "6"

So, the "missing numbers" are "666"

 

[methylatedghosts]

Oh, and one more.

People who won a Nobel Prize between 1901 and 1950 lived on average 2 years longer than the nominees who didn't win one.

 

[Buttercup]

Did you know that tapeworms common to cats come from the stomach of fleas they ingest?

 

[YmirGF]

Music Trivia factoid:

During the final chord of "A day in the life" by the Beatles (which was recorded on four track recorders) one can hear the air conditioning fans creaking in the backgound at Abbey Road Studio. This was true on the vinyl recording, but may well have been eliminated in the CD remastering of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

 

[Scuba Pete]

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

 

[Nanda]

I have a fun fact about how drag queens create a "smooth silohuette," but I'm afraid it might offend some people.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

The thing you strike matches against on a matchbook is called a "friction strip."

 

[blackout]

it is an interesting fact that I cannot think of a single interesting fact.

no. that was not interesting either.

 

[jamaesi]

A factoid is actually defined as "something which becomes accepted as fact, although it may not be true."

 

[Cynic]

Female brains are more integrated than male brains, given the fact that they have a bigger corpus collusum. As a consequence, women are more aware of their surroundings and better at multi-tasking, while men have more of a focused, tunnel vision. So if you're wondering why men "don't listen," well now you know...

 

[Cynic]

The amount of mucus you swallow each year is equivalent to the volume of a bathtub full of water.

 

[Buttercup]

Female brains are more integrated than male brains, given the fact that they have a bigger corpus collusum. As a consequence, women are more aware of their surroundings and better at multi-tasking, while men have more of a focused, tunnel vision. So if you're wondering why men "don't listen," well now you know...

*quickly copies and pastes Cynic's fact to email to husband*