I need a random unusual fact?

Question

Something to make me say, "Oh, I didn't know that."

Hmmm...... I can only pick one best answer? Damn!

Answer 1

I love random facts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


In England the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

-All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

-Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.

-If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.

-The average family will spend $250,000 (thats a quarter million dollars) on each child from the time he/she is born until he/she turns 18.

-Christopher Columbus was the greatest explorer NEVER to discover America

-There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran.

-There is no ice covering Iceland.

-The swastika was origionaly a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.

-Bart Simpson's voice on the Simpsons is actually done by a woman, Nancy Cartwright.

-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

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

-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Old Ones

-In 1797 James Hetherington inventented the top hat and wore it in public. He was arrested for disturbing the peace.

-During the 1980's the average speed of traffic in New York was less than 10 mph. -There about 171 billion U.S. pennies in circulation.

-Marriage makes a woman more likely to become depressed and a man less likely.

-IBM holds the most U.S. patients.

-Thomas Henry Huxley invented the word agnostic in 1869 because he was tired of being called an athiest.

-John Wayne had the most leading roles in Hollywood with 141.

-The largest snowflakes were 15 inches in diameter and 8 inches thick.

-The word hitchhike was coined in 1926.

-The first e-mail was sent over the internet in 1972.

-Sunsets can be green in Antarctica.

-The two most dangerous jobs in the U.S. are commercial fishing and logging.

-Virus means poison in Latin.

-Playing cards are round in India. -The Statue of Liberty is patented.

-The most mentioned woman in the bible is Sarah at 56 times.

-The Mayan Empire lasted six times as long as the Roman Empire.

-Jerry Maguire was the highest grossing sports movie in history.

-At least 8,000 human made objects are orbiting the Earth.

-127 people ran the first New York City Marathon in 1970, 32,000 ran in 1998.

-The Cincinnati Redstockings was the first baseball team to pay its players.

-Rowing is the oldest American college sport still in existence.

-The most expensive movie poster in history was the poster from 1932's The Mummy which auctioned for $453,000 in 1977.

-The Tour de France bicycle race is 2,300 miles long.

-When badminton was invented in India, it was known as poona.

-Shakespeare's Hamlet has been adopted into film 49 times, Romeo and Juliet has been adopted into film 27 times.

-The referee tossed a jump ball after every basket in basketball until 1937.

-Mugging someone on the subay in Britain can get you life in prison.

-An Italian deck of cards has no queens.

-The common name for the animal anobium pertinax is Bookworm.

-There are 1000 different chemicals in a cup of coffee.

-Aztecs offered Tamales to the gods.... as well as humans.

-A redwood's roots are only about 5 or 6 feet deep and spread out over about an acre.

-Henry VIII was the eight English king to be called Henry and the first to be called "Your Majesty."

-20,900 gallons of water flow from the Amazon river into the sea each minute.

-The U.S. treasury mints about 37 million pennies a day.

-Sound travels a mile in five seconds in the air and a mile in one second under water.

-The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows, shaved eyebrows were a fad when she was painted.

-Every thousand years spring gets two thirds of a day shorter.

-Angel Falls in Venezuela is 15 times higher than Niagra Falls.

-Horse jockeys are the only U.S. athelets leagally allowed to bet on themselves.

-The first baseball player to be named rookie of the year was Jackie Robinson in 1947.

-If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.

-London police photographed the eyes of Jack the Ripper's victims because they thought his image might be recorded in them.

-The 1909 Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin to have a president on it.

-Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

-The combined population of North American colonies in 1610 was 350.

-When you use the breaks on your car, they generate enought heat to warm your house.

-In 1952 Einstein called income taxes the "most difficult thing to understand."

-Mickey Mantle is credited with the longest home run ever, 643 feet.

-The face value of a Titanic boarding pass auctioned in 1999 was $8, it sold for $100,000.

-Iron Age magazine once called Theodore Roosevelt a "drunk," he sued them and won 6 cents.

-None of the passengers on the Mayflower had middle names.

-The oldest tree on earth is a 4,500 year old bristlecone pine named Methuselah.

-The largest cast ever assembled for a film scene was 300,000 for the funeral scene in Gandhi.

-The battle of Waterloo was fought in Pancenoit, 4 miles away.

-Bagpipes were invented in Iran and brought to Scotland by the Romans.

-The cost of mailing a letter by the pony express was $5 for half an ounce.

-By the time he died in 1910, the king of Siam had fathered 370 children.

-There are more than 1,000 people named Jim Smith in the Society of Jim Smiths.

-Every lake in Ohio is manmade.

-Poison Oak and Poison Ivy are members of the cashew family.

-The fine for leaving a public toilet unflushed in Singapore is $150.

-Murders have claimed more American lives during the 20th century than wars have.

Answer 2

Cats cannot taste sweet, you cannot sneeze with your eyes open, the granddaddy long legs is the most poisonous spider but it's mouth is too tiny to wound, butterflies taste with their hide feet, only female mosquitoes bite, a housefly only lives 2 weeks, queen termites can live up to 50 years, a male spider's penis is located at the end of one of its legs,the mouth produces a quart of saliva per day,the liver is a gland and not an organ, a person breathes 7 quarts of air every minute, the right lung takes in more air than the left, a woman's heart beats faster than a man's, the human brain is 80% water, during menstration the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced, a person's noce and ears continue to grow throughout his or her lifetime. These are just a few of the useless facts I have.

Answer 3

A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
The silkworm has 11 brains but only uses 5 of them.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee; of these, only 26 have been tested, and half of those 26 caused cancer in rats.
Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories per hour.

Answer 4

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

In Minnesota, it is illegal for any man to have sexual intercourse with a live fish.

It is illegal for any member of the Nevada legislature to conduct official business wearing a penis costume while the legislature is in session.

In the state of Washington there is a law against having sex with a virgin under any circumstances (including the wedding night).

The use of chili sauce and similar hot spices on jail and prison food is outlawed in Peru. An edict was handed down by the Interior Minister because these items were claimed to "have aphrodisiac qualities" and would "arouse sexual desires."

Answer 5

I moved out of your basement a week after that guy moved out of your attic.LOL.. There is a animal named aardwolf. Its two and half feet long and its hyenalike and most people mistake it for a hyena...We make vitamin D when we stand out in the sun.... There is 176 signs and symbols used in a avg dictionary....and this isnt a joke but you can tell it as one and its true.. Why do they call it the funny bone??? Becuse its next to the Humous bone.... Or how ever you spell it...Did you know you can tell how long a persons foot is by looking at there forarm?? Your foot will fit in your forarm, Try it sometime... Did you know when you boil water in a glass bowel in a mircrowave and take it out a touch it with a fork it can explode...It can happen..Not often but it will. some words you can spell using only your right hand(phon,phono,phil,phylum,limp,lion,plunk,hoop,you,mom,poop)

???Did you know that most of our problems start with MEN??Menopause,Menstrual Cramps, Mental Illness...LOL
I am going to stop while I am ahead...

Answer 6

Random unusual fact: Snapple puts random unusual facts on the underside of their lemonade caps.

Answer 7

Any month that begins on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th.

Haha I like this question. Kudos for asking it! Too bad I don't have a more interesting answer. That was the only one I could think of that a lot of people didn't know.

Answer 8

scuba means:

Self
Contained
Underwater
Breathing
Apparatus

Answer 9

most every human eats at least 8 spiders in their lifetime.

there are 152 stitches on an official size baseball.

hank azaria does more than half of the voices on the simpsons.

call of duty: big red one takes about 6 hours to beat.

Answer 10

Sofinisba Anguissola
1559 --- 1st woman artist to gain prominence as a painter.

Answer 11

Every two years or so Sloths go on a mammoth journey, even at their slow pace. Even if food, shelter and basic living conditions are plentiful.