Random facts

[Guest]

Just state a random fact:

I'll start

The total US production of cheese is 12.9 billion pounds a year

[AlamoVampire]

You have more bacteria in your body than your own cells with your own dna.

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[kerbiloid]

There are less than eight billion of people reading this post, and you are one of these chosen.

[Guest]

pigs in more cases than not tend to be smarter than dogs

[AlamoVampire]

High heels used to be worn by men.

Some cats are allergic to humans.

The majority of your brain is fat.

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[Spaceman.Spiff]

The scientific name for a fart is a flatus 

[AlamoVampire]

Competitive art used to be in the olympics.

A chefs toque (hat) has 100 pleats.

“OMG” can be traced back to 1917.

Oranges are not naturally occurring fruits.

Stop signs used to be yellow.

New York was briefly named “New Orange.”

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[kerbiloid]

7 hours ago, Spaceman.Spiff said:

The scientific name for a fart is a flatus 

That's why call the new space station modules "inflatable".

In space you can't open a window.
On another hand you anyway you first need to inflate it.

[JcoolTheShipbuilder]

Most nuclear submarines can’t withstand the surface pressure of Venus

Venus’ atmosphere at the surface is technically a supercritical fluid.

[kerbiloid]

Venusian atmosphere is just what the Earth ocean has at 1 km depth.

Black Sea has twice as great pressure at bottom.

[starcaptain]

Russian composer Pavel Karmanov made a piece of music called Sleep My Heart, Sleep in honor of the Perserverance rover landing, and released it yesterday.

 

Edited February 24, 2021 by starcaptain

[AlamoVampire]

Most wasabi we eat in the U.S. is not real wasabi.

Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once went on a joyride.

Green Eggs and Ham started as a bet.

Andy Warhol inspired Louboutins red souls.

There is a fruit that tastes like chocolate pudding.

The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 2 BILLION degrees kelvin.

The moon is (slowly) slowing Earths rotation.

You might be drinking water that is older than the solar system.

Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic.

Queen Elizabeth II also has an impressive car collection.

During prohibition moonshiners used “cow shoes” to disguise their foot prints.

It takes 364 licks to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop.

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[JcoolTheShipbuilder]

The highest temperature ever recorded in a particle accelerator was about 4 TRILLION kelvin

[Starhelperdude]

The german internet is worse than that of romania

there failed more soyuz rockets than my baby guppys got attacked by their own parents in my aquarium(s) (I try to save them)

7 hours ago, JcoolTheShipbuilder said:

The highest temperature ever recorded in a particle accelerator was about 4 TRILLION kelvin

what the tomahawk! that is high!

 

[AlamoVampire]

The highest/hottest manmade recorded temperature was at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It was about 5.5 Trillion Kelvin. This is the article citing my source.

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this post other than my original post in this thread contains fewer facts than my other posts.

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Edited February 25, 2021 by AlamoVampire

[Lo.M]

Random fact: there is a subspecies called gorilla gorilla gorilla. 

[kerbiloid]

If catch one and name it Gorilla, then it will be Gorilla gorilla gorilla Gorilla.

P.S.
If think a little, then we could probably say: "There is a Gorilla gorilla gorilla Gorilla gorilla."

Edited February 26, 2021 by kerbiloid

[cubinator]

An ant's brain is smaller than an ant.

[JIMMY_the_DOG]

Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes.

[Stormpilot]

Behind a ship and a bit to the right of the ship is called “fine on the starboard quarter.”

 

another fact. FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME, IN CANADA, WE DONT LIVE IN IGLOOS!!!

Edited March 1, 2021 by STORMPILOTkerbalkind

[kerbiloid]

4 hours ago, STORMPILOTkerbalkind said:

another fact. FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME, IN CANADA, WE DONT LIVE IN IGLOOS!!!

If Canada was in Texas, you would.

[Stormpilot]

Fact: a long time ago, it was illegal in Vancouver to sell ovens on wendsdays.

There is a town in the middle of the pacific ocean, on an island called Kiribati, called Banana.

Edited March 1, 2021 by STORMPILOTkerbalkind

[JIMMY_the_DOG]

58 minutes ago, STORMPILOTkerbalkind said:

on an island called Kiribati, called Banana.

There is a city in the Outer Banks called duck.

 

I've been in it.

[kerbiloid]

There is a town in Tver oblast, Russia, called Выдропужск / Vydropuzhsk /vydropuzhsk/

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Выдропужск

and I have no idea how to write it properly in English, but it doesn't matter because you anyway won't pronounce it correctly.

[JIMMY_the_DOG]

If you collected all the coronavirus in the world it could fit in a diet coke.

Spoiler

I wonder what color it would be    E==3  

 

Edited March 1, 2021 by JIMMY_the_DOG