Random facts about our world.

Flyra's picture
'cause I am bored and should be sleeping actually.
Yeah. Sorry for spamming.

1. Herrings communicate through farting.

2. In Kenia, there are elephants which can imitate the sound of a van driving past.

3. Michael Jackson owns the rights of the hymn of South Carolina.

4. The fear of long words is called Hippopotamomonstrosesquidaliophobia.

5. The forbiddance of dying in the parliament was in 2007 elected to be the funniest law of Great Britain.

6. Before his actor career, Brad Pitt advertised in a chicken costume for a burger company.

7. Peanuts are fruits, strawberries are nuts and cukes are berries.

8. The cigarette lighter was invented before matches.

9. When it's cold, the Eiffeltower shrinks 15 centimetres.

10. The first cheerleaders in the USA were men.

11. The software Adobe is named after a a brook which is flowing next to the fonders' house.

12. Baby chicks are having a navel.

13. Smaller men are more jealous.

14. Kung-Fu means "Ability which is made with hard training".

15. Freshwater fish don't drink, saltwater fish do.

16. Cats with three colors are nearly always female.

17. When you blush, also your stomach walls do.

18. Termites recognize the size of a piece of wood through the noise of their chomping.

19. In the EU exist more mobile phones than humans.

20. Cate Blanchett gave a cast of gypsum of her ears to her man as a present.

21. Crocodiles eat stones so they can dive deeper.

22. Flashes of lightning move from below to above.

23. Pigeons can recognize the difference of pictures by Monet and Picasso from their painting style.

24. Octopuses have three hearts. And they have a favourite arm.

25. Yahoo stands for "Yet Another Hierarchial Officious Oracle".

26. The blind olm, a salamander with an invisible skin, can survive without food for 10 years.

27. Interesting thing about German & English: In German we say about being very happy "Auf Wolke Sieben", "On cloud seven". In english it's cloud nine.
And also, cats in Germany "have seven lifes", and in England they have nine.

28. In Australia there is a species of toads which grow as big as a small pig and which eat little calves.

29. No American president died in May yet.

30. 95 % of the oceans are unexplored.

31. Zebras have a white fur with black stripes.

32. In German, there is a (not very much used) word for "being not thirsty anymore": "sitt". "Full" means "satt".

33. A human eats at an average 4 spiders a year while asleep.

34. "Metsotso e mashome ameraro ka mora hora ya leshome le motso e mong" means in the South African language Sesotho "half past ten".

35. "Anatidaephobia" is the fear of being watched by a duck.

36. The eyes of an ostrich are bigger than its brain.

37. Joanne K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has more money than the Queen.

38. Every three seconds, a shark dies because of a human.

39. In the US-state Pennsylvania, it is forbidden to sleep on the fridge.

40. Eggs of the dogfish are quadrangular.

|D There will be more if you want.
Serynn's picture

You're bored enough to right

You're bored enough to right them, I'm bored enough to read them. Laughing out loud These are good! I'm learning stuff I'd never learn otherwise.

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Custard's picture

These are really

These are really interesting. First one made me laugh xD
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Fenqua's picture

LOL. I knew about the

LOL. I knew about the pigeons. But I heard about a movie called Wolke Neun (Cloud Nine) D:

In Dutch we say 'in de zevende hemel' which is, 'in seventh heaven'. X'D



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Density's picture

Bahahaha that pigeon one

Bahahaha that pigeon one killed me xD!

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ilu. <3 8D

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Her's picture

22. Flashes of lightning

22. Flashes of lightning move from below to above.
I KNEW THAT. And that's my favorite number! :'D I feel achieved! MORE PLEASE. I LOVEEE RANDOM FACTS<333

...FOR JUSTICE.
Flyra's picture

@Serynn: Good. c8 Yeah,

@Serynn: Good. c8 Yeah, that's a very funny thing with those facts.

@Custard: xD I am glad it did, and that you like them!

@Fenqua: Oh really? Well, I am absolutely sure that every German says "Wolke 7". O.o
Interesting! ;D

@Dense: ;D Yeah, it's cool.

@Dannii: C8 ilu 2 <3

@Her: Woah, now that's a funny incident. c8 I'm glad you enjoy them!

@everyone: I just added some more. =D

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Custard's picture

-is freaked out- o.o I don't

-is freaked out-
o.o

I don't like that spider one... <8[

And the shark one = O.O

And number 37 - BGFAJKBAJKSFTAFKUGKJA. HOLY MACARONI. NEVER KNEW THATT.
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Serynn's picture

I knew #33...-shivers- O_O

I knew #33...-shivers- O_O And I lol'd at #34. Thats the language (I think?) that I got Sambreel's name from. It means 'Umbrella'.

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