Fun Facts

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by -Alice_The_Morrigan-, Jul 20, 2015.

  1. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that
    the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms
    46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
    Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people
    without killing them used to burn their houses down --
    hence the expression "to get fired"


    A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
    -23% of all photocopier faults world-wide are caused
    by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
    Most lipstick contains fish scales
    Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is
    different.


    If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you
    try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel
    in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open
    by force they can pop out.
    In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80
    years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich
    buried its head in the sand.
    It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into
    the sky.
    A shrimp's heart is in its head.
    Horses can't vomit.


    Thank you for reading, feel free to post more fun facts, knowledge is never too much :)
     
  2. Here's a fun fact

    The Illuminati is real
     
  3. was a nice read
     
  4. Thank you
     
  5. Wow, these are really fun !
     
  6. John Locke is awesome.

    An Emperor of Ethiopia ordered three electric chairs, but since his empire did not have electricity, he used them as chairs.
     
  7. So...basically when I eat shrimp I'm eating the heart too?
     
  8. Wow cool.
     
  9. If you eat the head, yeah, that's basically it.