ITT: Crazy facts

[killsme]

The movie Titanic costs more then then the actual Titanic

thats because of inflation

[Chairman7w]

Are you Sirius?

Largest star recorded is VY Canis Majoris (largest by radius, not mass).

Diameter = 1,975,220,000 km (6,480,380,000,000 feet)
would take MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY YEARS to fly around just once. If this was our planet we would probably never meet the people on the other side. Weird feel man. So close but yet so far.

[Drhunglow]

The Nanking Massacre (or rape of Nanking) is one of the most widely unreported massacres of WW2. Between 1937-1938 Japanese forces [img]decimated[/img] the town,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)

Decimate actually just means to reduce by %10
"A cohort selected for punishment by decimation was divided into groups of ten; each group drew lots (Sortition), and the soldier on whom the lot fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning or clubbing. "

[Anthonyxavcx]

@ Mother is most dangerous person and father is safest person claim - I see the evidence for the claim about mothers, but is there something I'm missing about fathers being the safest person in a child's life? I realize mothers clocked in at 40% but still, the study says 17% of abuse cases were perpetrated by the father...

referencing earlier post, and this study: http://archive.acf.hhs.gov/programs/.../cm01/cm01.pdf

[Wantaripbod]

Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins


Camel’s have three eyelids.


On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.


John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.


Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.


Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.


Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.


55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

[Wantaripbod]

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.


There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.


There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.


Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.


Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.


The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.


The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.


The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.


The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.


If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.


Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.


The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.

[tekkenbruh]

The actual number of unique combinations is 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883 277824000000000000. This is a very big number indeed. If it was converted to seconds and a timer started to count down that length of time, this is how long it would take:

"Start by picking your favorite spot on the equator. You're going to walk around the world along the equator, but take a very leisurely pace of one step every billion years. The equatorial circumference of the Earth is 40,075,017 meters. Make sure to pack a deck of playing cards, so you can get in a few trillion hands of solitaire between steps. After you complete your round the world trip, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean. Now do the same thing again: walk around the world at one billion years per step, removing one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean each time you circle the globe. The Pacific Ocean contains 707.6 million cubic kilometers of water. Continue until the ocean is empty. When it is, take one sheet of paper and place it flat on the ground. Now, fill the ocean back up and start the entire process all over again, adding a sheet of paper to the stack each time you'e emptied the ocean.

Do this until the stack of paper reaches from the Earth to the Sun. Take a glance at the timer, you will see that the three left-most digits haven't even changed. You still have 8.063e67 more seconds to go. 1 Astronomical Unit, the distance from the Earth to the Sun, is defined as 149,597,870.691 kilometers. So, take the stack of papers down and do it all over again. One thousand times more. Unfortunately, that still won't do it. There are still more than 5.385e67 seconds remaining. You're just about a third of the way done.

To pass the remaining time, start shuffling your deck of cards. Every billion years deal yourself a 5-card poker hand. Each time you get a royal flush, buy yourself a lottery ticket. A royal flush occurs in one out of every 649,740 hands. If that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand into the Grand Canyon. Keep going and when you've filled up the canyon with sand, remove one ounce of rock from Mt. Everest. Now empty the canyon and start all over again. When you've levelled Mt. Everest, look at the timer, you still have 5.364e67 seconds remaining. Mt. Everest weighs about 357 trillion pounds. You barely made a dent. If you were to repeat this 255 times, you would still be looking at 3.024e64 seconds. The timer would finally reach zero sometime during your 256th attempt.

Honestly, I propably will never be able to even remotely wrap my head around this

[Wantaripbod]

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.


28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.


Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.


Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.


Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”


Humphrey Bogart NEVER said “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca


They NEVER said “Beam me up, Scotty” on Star Trek.

[kbrown225]

a billion seconds ago I was not alive.

[Wantaripbod]

About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.


A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a “palindrome”.


A snail can sleep for 3 years.


People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.


China has more English speakers than the United States.


One in every 9000 people is an albino.

[Wantaripbod]

There are about a million ants per person. Ants are very social animals and will live in colonies that can contain almost 500,000 ants.


The electric chair was invented by a dentist.


You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.


Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.


Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.


Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.

[DrHypertrophy]

In and in.

[Wantaripbod]

Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.


In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.


Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.


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


Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.


Many butterflies can taste with their feet to find out whether the leaf they sit on is good to lay eggs on to be their caterpillars' food or not.


There are more types of insects in one tropical rain forest tree than there are in the entire state of Vermont.


About 55% of all movies are rated R.


About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.


Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.

[Wantaripbod]

The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.


There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.


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


More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.


A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

[wletzz023]

There are 43 billion billion combinations on a rubiks cube

[Wantaripbod]

There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.


The word “maverick” came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle.


Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.


Termites have been known to eat food twice as fast when heavy metal music is playing.


There are more beetles than any other animal. In fact, one out of every four animals is a beetle.


The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.


On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.

[Chairman7w]

Reps for my man Wataripbod, he's killin' it!!

There are about a million ants per person. Ants are very social animals and will live in colonies that can contain almost 500,000 ants.


The electric chair was invented by a dentist.


You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.


Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.


Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.


Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.

[Wantaripbod]

An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.


No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.


Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”.


$283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.


Almonds are members of the peach family.

[wletzz023]

Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins




On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

Wot.? Last part

[Wantaripbod]

Who is the oldest man to win the Mr. Olympia title?

Chris Dickerson. Dickerson was 43 years old when he won the Sandow in 1982. To this day, he maintains an incredible physique and is an accomplished opera singer.


Fact 1:
Bodybuilding gained popularity in the 1890s with the arrival of Mr. Eugene Sandown.

Fact 2:
The Weider brothers run the IFBB (International Federation of Body Builders).

Fact 3:
The Mr. Olympia statuette represents a model of Mr Eugene Sandown.

Fact 4:
Albert Beckles was the oldest man to compete in the Mr. Olympia at the age of 53.

Fact 5:
Arnold Poole is the youngest competitor to win Mr. Olympia at the age of 21.

Fact 6:
Eugene Sandown developed the first body building show called “The Great Show” in 1891.

Fact 7:
Weight training was practiced in ancient Egypt and Greek using stones.

Fact 8:
Eugene Sandown published one of the first bodybuilding magazines “physical cultures”.

Fact 9:
William L Murray is the winner of the world’s first big body building contest.

Fact 10:
Steve Reeves was referred as the greatest body builder of all time.

[Wantaripbod]

The word “woman” is believed to have derived from the Middle English term wyfman, broken down simply as the wife (wyf) of man. In Old English, women were described simply as wyf, while the term man was used to describe a human person, regardless of gender

The English word “girl” was initially used to describe a young person of either sex. It was not until the beginning of the sixteenth century that the term was used specifically to describe a female child

The biological sign for the female sex, a circle placed on top of a small cross, is also the symbol for the planet Venus. The symbol is believed to be a stylized representation of the Roman goddess Venus’ hand mirror

[Wantaripbod]

While many stars and moons are christened with female names, Venus is the only planet in our solar system given the name of a female goddess

Human women have proportionately larger breasts than any other female mammal

The breasts of human women are much larger in proportion than those of other female mammals. The prominent size, while not necessary for milk production, is most likely a result of sexual selection

The English language originally delineated between women in different stages of life with the terms “maiden,” “mother,” and “crone.” A maiden referred to a young girl who was unmarried, a mother referred to a woman in her child-bearing years, and a crone described a post-menopausal woman

[Wantaripbod]

Rats and horses can’t vomit.


The penguin is the only bird that can’t fly but can swim.


There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day. FEELSBATMAN.JPG


Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.


Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.


Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.


Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.


Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.


Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.


You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. <--- I lol'd


Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.

[Baby_Hulk]

False. New findings by Prof Lawrence Krauss show that almost all the mass of the proton and neutron comes from the empty space between the quarks. Empty space weighs something now apparently, crazy right?

Fact: If you removed every single atom from a region of space, every piece of radiation, EVERYTHING... That space would still weigh something. It's common for particles to spontaneously come "into existence" within this empty region of space (so much for "god"). And if you wait long enough, they become numerous enough to be visible, and if you wait even longer, a whole universe would form. (talking in the 10^10^10 years)

How is this scientifically possible? Does it not violate the laws of conservation?

Also, if the universe goes out with a "big freeze" like most believe (i.e. so that everything ceases to exist and becomes "nothing")... wouldn't the fact you quoted beget the creation of entirely new universes from "nothing"?

[wletzz023]

If you were travelling at the speed of light, you would never get older

[OfficerRodFarva]

On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.

the flag is the Canadian Red Ensign



and it is on the $5, $10 and $50, not the $2.

$2



$10

[mojo85]

thats because of inflation

No, inflation was taken into account, the movie still cost more

[Wantaripbod]

the flag is the Canadian Red Ensign



and it is on the $5, $10 and $50, not the $2.

$2



$10

"The American flag has never been placed on any Canadian banknote." SOURCE: Bank of Canada




Let me know if u ever catch anything else brahs. Urban legend ^

[bluebeltATT]

You cant smell your own breath despite your breath being right under your nose...















But you can smell your own angus




Wut

[ripthahype]

Probably better to neg him.
Both of these are cool as hell. The nuclear force one I have a harder time grasping. The stars/sand one I can completely understand. The universe is infinite. If the universe is infinite I would say the number of stars would be close to infinite.

If the universe is infinite doesn't that mean God is real
But that would mean all Gods and religions would be real which would cancel each other
wtf **** you