Random facts

[SudAntares]

On 4/3/2021 at 5:06 PM, Lewie said:

Isn’t that what Mick Mars has?

Yes, he has SPA

Edited May 10, 2021 by SudAntares

[Lewie]

4 Star General George Patton had to repeat his first year at West Point

[Stormpilot]

Dead wales, if not treated properly, can explode.

[JB182]

1. plastics in the sea could kill fishes (I think you're already know).

2. there is a bird fly on another bird then take off from that bird.

[OrdinaryKerman]

Whales and Wales are generally pronounced the same way.

Flying cars have existed since the mid-20th century, but were never mass-produced.

Goodyear once made an experimental series of inflatable planes, and they actually flew ok.

Blue Origin patented the concept of booster landing on ASDS before SpaceX did it for real. BO hasn't done it yet.

The USAF once fitted an anti-missile laser to the nose of a 747.

[Max von Kerman]

Did you know that in the apollo soyuz test program the soviet cosmonauts gave the us astroauts caviar?

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[AlamoVampire]

it has been since April 30 2021 since the Do Not Click thread has been unlocked.

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[JB182]

1. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends with "mt"

2. If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you'll see is called "eigengrau"

3. Cats can't taste sweet things because of a genetic defect

4. It's possible to turn peanut butter into diamonds

5. A group of hippos is called a "bloat"

6. Pogonophobia is the fear of beards

7. Alaska is the only state whose name is on one row on a keyboard

8. The average adult spends more time on the toilet than they do exercising

9. A "jiffy" is about one trillionth of a second

10. Dragonflies have six legs but can't walk

11. Montpelier, Vermont, is the only U.S. capital without a McDonald's

12. Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character

13. A cubic inch of human bone can bear the weight of five standard pickup trucks

14. A frigate bird can sleep while it flies

15. Your body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels

16. The chicken and the ostrich are the closest living relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex

17. If you plug your nose, you can't tell the difference between an apple, a potato, and an onion. if you want, try it out!

[JB182]

18. Taco Bell was named after its owner, Glen Bell

19. The inventor of Pringles is buried in a Pringles can

20. Octopuses and squid have three hearts

21. The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971

22. People used to answer the phone by saying "ahoy" instead of "hello"

23. You would likely "mutate" in space without a spacesuit

[kerbiloid]

1 hour ago, JB182 said:

19. The inventor of Pringles is buried in a Pringles can

Happily, not Colgate's.

[Ben J. Kerman]

Some popular glider manufacturers are , DG Flugzeugbau GmbH, Schempp-Hirth Flugzeugbau GmbH, Alexander Schleicher Segelflugzeugbau, Gomolzig Flugzeug- und Maschinenbau GmbH, Lange Aviation GmbH, and Scheibe Flugzeugbau. All of these are German companies

Flugzeug is aircraft in German, Bau is construction in German, and GmbH is basically the German version of LLC.

[JB182]

Some fungi create zombies, then control their minds (don't worry, it only infect ants)

2. There’s only one letter that doesn’t appear in any U.S. state name (Q)

3. A cow-bison hybrid is called a “beefalo”

4. Scotland has 421 words for “snow”

5. Samsung tests phone durability with a butt-shaped robot

6. Armadillo shells are bulletproof

7. The longest English word is 189,819 letters long

8. Thanks to 3D printing, NASA can basically “email” tools to astronauts

[kerbiloid]

1 hour ago, JB182 said:

4. Scotland has 421 words for “snow”

1 is "snow" (like in "Jon Snow")
420 are obscene

1 hour ago, JB182 said:

5. Samsung tests phone durability with a butt-shaped robot

Not just durability. Sound functions are tested, too.

1 hour ago, JB182 said:

8. Thanks to 3D printing, NASA can basically “email” tools to astronauts

And food. Just plastic one.

Edited May 24, 2021 by kerbiloid

[JB182]

8 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

And food. Just plastic one.

can a human eat plastic?

[kerbiloid]

2 minutes ago, JB182 said:

can a human eat plastic?

There is a whole market for it

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Plastic+Food

[JB182]

2 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

There is a whole market for it

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Plastic+Food

what!?!?!?

[kerbiloid]

1 hour ago, JB182 said:

what!?!?!?

Idk, amazon sells plastic fruits and vegetables.

[JB182]

The first commercial passenger flight lasted only 23 minutes

A woman called the police when her ice cream didn’t have enough sprinkles

Uncle Ben’s rice was airdropped to World War II troops

South American river turtles talk in their eggs

The first stroller was pulled by a goat

170-year-old bottles of champagne were found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

Neil Armstrong’s hair was sold in 2004 for $3,000

Nikola Tesla hated pearls

Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are in New York City

A one-armed player scored the winning goal in the first World Cup
The world’s oldest toy is a stick

 

[OrdinaryKerman]

On 5/20/2021 at 10:15 PM, JB182 said:

Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character

I thought it was whoever operated Starkiller Base's multiplanetary destruction beam?

[AlamoVampire]

Dont Click This is now still locked and on page 3. Im starting to think that after 26 days (27 starting in a few min) @Gargamel wont unlock it. I think this is a sad random fact!

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[kerbiloid]

5 hours ago, JB182 said:

Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are in New York City

They should put one in London, for relativity,

[JB182]

the early ATM machine was called 'bankograph' or somethin'

[Admiral Fluffy]

4/5 cows prefer herber valley

[Ben J. Kerman]

The crane in my PFP is a Liebherr LTM 1070-4.2

[kerbiloid]

The surname of my profile picture Kerbal is Kerman.