Random Facts Thread

[Guest bkelm18]

How do you know sperm is salty?

How did YOU know sperm is salty??

[Guest JHatmaker]

How do you know sperm is salty?

[strickj]

How did YOU know sperm is salty??

Punisher told me it was

[Guest bkelm18]

Punisher told me it was

[Guest AmericanWorkMule]

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

[analog_kidd]

Cockroaches taste through their feet

[Guest AmericanWorkMule]

Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrrison, and Jimi Hendrix all died one way or another at the age of 27.

[Guest bkelm18]

"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." -Mitch Hedberg

[Guest Gun Geek]

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

In a study conducted regarding toilet paper usage, Americans are said to use the most toilet paper per trip to the bathroom, which was seven sheets of toilet paper per trip.

[bubbiesdad]

Jimi Hendrix, John Bonham, and Bon Scott all died the mythical rock star death.

[Guest H0TSH0T]

the origin of the dollar sign ($)?

Many suggestions have been made about the origin of the dollar symbol $, one of the commonest being that it derives from the figure 8, representing the Spanish 'piece of eight'. However, it actually derives from a handwritten 'ps', an abbreviation for 'peso' in old Spanish-American books. The $ symbol first occurs in the 1770s, in manuscript documents of English-Americans who had business dealing with Spanish-Americans, and it starts to appear in print after 1800.

The name 'dollar', however, derives from the Dutch or Low German word daler (in German taler or thaler) - originally Joachimstaler, referring to a coin from the silver mines of Joachimstal, in Bohemia (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic), which opened in 1516.

[Guest Swamprunner]

In Huntington West Virginia, it's legal to beat your wife so long as it's done in public on a Sunday-and on the courthouse steps.

[Guest Swamprunner]

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

[analog_kidd]

A person would need to weigh around 1,450 pounds to have enough fat to stop a bullet. Although their body would be bullet-proof, they could still be killed by a shot to the head.

[Guest Swamprunner]

A person would need to weigh around 1,450 pounds to have enough fat to stop a bullet. Although their body would be bullet-proof, they could still be killed by a shot to the head.

That's good to know, the next time I sit down to eat a bowl of ice cream.

Did you know that it is legal to duel in Paraguay, if both parties are registered blood donors?

[Guest m&pc9]

A pig cannot stare up at the sky.

[Guest proudsuthrner]

there are 86,400 seconds in a day

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard

[Guest 3pugguy]

Cement never fully cures; that is why the first Biosphere failed - the curing cement used up the air. Not so hard to understand.

[Guest FroggyOne2]

For every 4 MOA of full value of wind, there is a direct smooth arc correlation of the vertical dispersion of the bullet.

[strickj]

Cement never fully cures; that is why the first Biosphere failed - the curing cement used up the air. Not so hard to understand.

Biodome failed because it had Pauly Shore and Steven Baldwin in it

[Guest FroggyOne2]

I once won a Solitaire game on the computer in 42 seconds.

[Guest H0TSH0T]

In Huntington West Virginia, it's legal to beat your wife so long as it's done in public on a Sunday-and on the courthouse steps.

Same in Charleston SC but it must be with a switch no bigger around than a broom handle.

[buck1032]

The Hooded Pitohui is the only bird in the world that cant be considered a food source for humans.

[Guest tnmale46]

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

[Guest tnmale46]

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!