post something interesting or an unusual fact.

[poochiecollins]

Square root of 69 = 8 something

Cute

[poochiecollins]

When you look into the night sky, the stars you see are actually the past. As in, it is the light given off by the star at time X, and it took Y amount of time to get here to be seen by you. So if you were to somehow get a few million light years away from earth and look back to earth with a telescope, you would most likely see dinosaurs... or whatever else is on the planet

I knew the first part, but don't think I've thought of the second. Your post made me think of looking at the earth's surface with super-magnified scoping of sorts; even if I couldn't see life, I imagine seeing land masses in different locations and shapes would be quite weird in a cool way.

[poochiecollins]

Less than 1% of obese people are actually obese because of genetics.

Genetics always play some roll in one's weight.

[poochiecollins]

Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts Approximately 10 people are killed each year by sharks

I first thought, "No way, I know it's low, but there must be more annual shark deaths than -that-"; I do some quick Googling and found that, while the shark attack count is much greater, shark deaths average even less than 10 a year worldwide, heh.

[poochiecollins]

The jellyfish is the only thing on Earth that is not programmed to die. If it has food and no predators it will be immortal.

Just researched on this one too. Allegedly, there are just two jellyfish species that don't die of old age, which they accomplish by changing back to a youthful form. It'd be cool if scientists could find something in this useful to humans in the future, but I'm guessing that's unlikely...

[mrmarket]

If I had to be an academic and I wasn't interested in frosh stroking I would definitely become an entomologist.

More interesting insects

The Bombardier Beetle

"When threatened, bombardier beetles spray the suspected attacker with a boiling hot mixture of caustic chemicals. The predator hears a loud pop, then finds itself bathed in a cloud of toxins reaching 212° F (100° C). Even more impressive, the bombardier beetle can aim the poisonous eruption in the direction of the harasser."

http://insects.about.com/od/coolandu...mbdefenses.htm

[Elevated]

Try drinking a half gallon of milk within an hour,... you'll be glad you did

[Full Time Hobo]

Camouflaging octopus... the cuttlefish

[OneLossParlayGuy]

it is impossible to chew/swallow more than 7 saltine crackers in 1 minute

[koz-man]

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

[koz-man]

The jellyfish is the only thing on Earth that is not programmed to die. If it has food and no predators it will be immortal.

I did not know this. Excellent info in this thread

[stogies]

dukeman, garretman, jarretman and goldman40 is the same poster.

[Bill Dozer]

Back in 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb, creating what might be the greatest fireworks spectacular ever. People in Hawaii gathered on rooftops, sipping drinks, as they watched a radioactive rainbow display in the night sky.

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/13018475?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portra it=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/13018475">A Very Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/npr">NPR</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

[bozeman]

dukeman, garretman, jarretman and goldman40 is the same poster.

this should go into joke in the world thread

[DwightShrute]

Camouflaging octopus... the cuttlefish

awesome

[JuicedUp]

The human ear can be ripped off with 7 pounds of pressure.

[hhsilver]

In the 20s, 6 Nesser brothers played in the NFL.

( sorry to use sports - this thread has a lot of good stuff unrelated to sports and gambling)

[ThaWoj]

I first thought, "No way, I know it's low, but there must be more annual shark deaths than -that-"; I do some quick Googling and found that, while the shark attack count is much greater, shark deaths average even less than 10 a year worldwide, heh.

it is a reported fact that there is a significant amount of more than 10 shark attacks in the world, they just dont get reported. most of these occur outside of north america.

btw gimme some of that purple-urple to the guy that said nothing rhymes with purple lol

[Eleven]

This thread is good readin'

[GettingScrilla]

I like this type of stuff...I want to know how someone found out how much wine it takes to get drunk at church

[Wiggums5]

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

[mrmarket]

The Wrath of The Killdozer



Marvin Heemeyer of Granby, Colorado was a profoundly frustrated muffler repair man. In the late 1990s–after years of protests, petitions, and town meetings–it became obvious to the 52-year-old that he was entwined in a gross miscarriage of justice. His business was ruined by some shady zoning changes, and Heemeyer contended that mayor and city council were corrupt. Even as he was forced to give up his legal fight and sell his land, he hatched one last plan to secretly retool his muffler shop to serve a single malevolent purpose: to construct a machine that would allow him to exact his revenge upon those who had wronged him.

Heemeyer first became ....

[SBRMAN23]

Snapple fact #92 fish can drown

Snapple fact #2 Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons

[face]

Global military spending in 2010 was 1.6 trillion dollars. U.s. Military spending accounts for 43% of this. This is a normal trend, America usually spends slightly less than half of the world's total defense expenditure.

[GTS925]

Snapple fact #92 fish can drown

Snapple fact #2 Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zealousmind/4575924105/lightbox/

[Kemalettin]

love this thread

[Swinging Johnson]

First off, this is my favorite thread although Dad's college girl thread comes very close.

Secondly, thank you for disabusing me of the notion that it is impossible to lick your own elbow. I have witnessed proof and stand corrected.

Thirdly, my contribution is: Cheetahs were raced at Romford greyhound stadium in 1937!

[macoeric]

Camouflaging octopus... the cuttlefish

that has got to be one of the coolest thing I have ever watched

[Full Time Hobo]

Glad you guys enjoyed that.
Thanks for the points.
This thread is definitely one of the better reads on this forum

[Dutch]

Found these, pretty interesting.....



The creature with the largest brain in relation to it's body is the ant.

Ants don't sleep.

85% of all life on earth is plankton.

The water we drink is 3 billion years old.

Schizophrenics hardly ever yawn.

Stephen Speilberg directed the first ever episode of Columbo.

[Wiggums5]

There are more chickens than people in the world.

[itriedsohard]

Amazing science fact: raining animals is a relatively common meteorological phenomenon, with occurrences reported from many countries throughout history. The animals most likely to drop from the sky in a rainfall are fish and frogs, with birds coming third. Sometimes the animals survive the fall, especially fish, suggesting a small time gap between the extraction and the actual drop. Several witnesses of raining frogs describe the animals as startled, though healthy, and exhibiting relatively normal behavior shortly after the event. In some incidents, however, the animals are frozen to death or even completely enclosed in blocks of ice. These occurrences may be evidence for the transport of the victims to high altitudes, where the temperature is below zero, and they show how powerful meteorological forces can be. Most recent occurrences include the rain of frogs and toads in Serbia (2005) and London (1998), and rains of fish in India (2006) and Wales (2004).

[dabomguy11]

Snapple fact #92 fish can drown

Snapple fact #2 Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons

Well, considering that a belly button is from the umbilical cord, that would make sense.

[warriorfan707]

Extraterrestrial Biological Entities have been collaborating with the US Government for decades

[warriorfan707]

The world is not what it appears, your thoughts have ways of manipulating reality that we havent even begin to understand