What is your interesting fact?

Question

Someone posted a question referring to the 'piltdown man' - which I promptly googled and was intrigued to learn something new.

Anyone else got some little gems? Always good to learn new things.... Perhaps we can all learn something new today.

My interesting fact is, that in nearly every species of mammal, the female outlives the male... Rock on sistas!

Have a great day!

Answer 1

Compliments to some of the others:
1) If you eat a Polar Bear's liver you can get Vitamin A poisoning.
2) I was born on Memorial Day, and it too now changes around, but I get a 3 day holiday every year.
3) Fact is the Bible is the most burned book as well.
4) Alaska is the only state where fleas don't live.
5) Chris is derived from the greek meaning Christ- like or Cross Bearer.
6) My first puppet as a child was a Koala Bear.
7) In America there are Tortoise Shells and Calicos, different. And on a rare occaision, there are male Calicos
8) Tiger's eat their young.
9) I don't like spiders.
10) I'm Cherokee Indian. The American Indians never invented the wheel.

For my answer: I have 6 wisdom teeth.

Answer 2

1.the fear of veggies is called "lachanophobia"
2.Giraffes sleep for 20 minutes a day.
3.We're born with 300 bones, but only have 206 when we reach adulthood.
4.Almonds are members of the peach family.
5.A jiffy is an actual unit of time-1/100th of a second.
6.A group of frogs is called an "army"
7.It would take 31.7 years to count off one billion seconds
8.Ben Franklin invented swim fins.
9.There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
10.Forgetting the word you want to say is called "lethogica"
11.A rafflesia flower smells like rotton meat.
12.The ability to use both your right and left hand equally well is called "ambidexterity"
13.A toothbrush within six feet of a toilet can catch airborne bacteria.
14.Apple seeds are poisonous.
15.A turkey's neck turns bright red when the bird is stressed.
16.The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
17.The cooties are real! They're a type of body lice.
18.The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J"
19.Some frogs can survive being frozen.
20.Hexadectylism:Having 6 fingers/toes on one or both hands or feet.
21.A newborn kangaroo is about one inch in length.
22.Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: The fear of long words.
23.A cricket's ears are located just below it's knees.
24.By age 65, the average person will have seen two million commercials.
25.Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
26.In your lifetime, you'll shed about forty pounds of skin.
27.It is impossiple to sneeze with your eyes open.

Answer 3

here are a few of mine

Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)

You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes

Rap artist Sean "Puffy" Combs had his first job at age two when he modeled in an ad for Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shops.

A judge in Louisville decided a jury went "a little bit too far" in recommending a sentence of 5,005 years for a man who was convicted of five robberies and a kidnapping. The judge reduced the sentence to 1,001 years.

Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM.

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.

Four wheel roller skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863. Can you guess where?

Most toilets flush in E flat.

Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there been for about a thousand years.

The leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes over six feet in diameter.

Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

Christmas was once illegal in England.

About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.

The writers of The Simpsons have never revealed what state Springfield is in.

The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.

France had the first supermarket in the world. It was started by relatives of the people who started the Texas Big Bear supermarket chain.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

Answer 4

Even though Reykjavik,Iceland is only 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, it has never recorded a temperature below 14 degrees fahrenheit.That's because the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic modifies the climate in Iceland. Antarctica is considered a desert! Even though it's brutally cold, it receives little precip. in a year. You can actually snow ski in Hawaii in the winter on top of Mt. Halekalala(spelling?) The world's hottest temp. ever recorded was 136 in LIbya, the second highest was 134 in Death Valley,CA. Both of those occurrerd about 80 years ago. Nina Hartley, a beautiful and famous adult film star, graduated top honors from UC Berkeley in 1984 before her film career. The Atacama Desert in South America is the world's driest place even though it's along the Pacific coast.It averages a few inches of rain every century! Marilyn Vos Savant, with an IQ of 228, is the world's smartest person. Despite his success and wealth, Bill Gates dropped out of college. The highest and lowest points in the continental US are only 80 miles apart-Mt.Whitnety at 14,000 feet and a point in Death Valley at -282 feet below sea level. The word sanction has two opposing meanings when used as a noun and verb.As a noun it means penalty.As a verb it means to approve. There are palm trees growing outside in southwestern British Columbia,Canada near Vancouver and Victoria. The sun is closer to the earth in winter than in summer believe it or not.Why is winter colder? Because the earth's tilt receives less sunlight in the winter. The Bristlecone pine trees in the Sierra Nevadas of CA are the world's oldest organism at 4600 years old. The Maybach 62S is the world's most expensive new car at $426,000 dollars.Even more than a Rolls Royce! Most Icelanders speak 5 or 6 languages fluently. Camarillo,CA, where I grew uo, was nominated by National Geographic in the 60's as having the world's best climate. A lot of people tend to think Hawaii, but Camarillo's weather can't be beat. In 1977, it snowed south of Miami. Bermuda has the world's northernmost coral reef. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from the moon. A couple of weeks ago, it snowed in Baghdad for the first time, a rare tornado struck near Portland,OR and an unheard of Jan. tornado hit near Milwaukee,WI. Las Vegas means the meadows in Spanish. Today it means lost wages-lol! English became the world's international language after England won The Battle of Trafalgar against Spain and FRance for control over trade routes.That's why English is the world language of business. The Koala Bear is not a bear.I think it's a marsupial. The internet was established in 1969, but it was only used by scientists and researchers.The world wide web was founded in 1991 by a Swiss scientist. Cancer is actually considered 100 different diseases and not a single disease.

Answer 5

there are many more than 3 states of matter (solid, liquid, gas) there are 15 mentioned in the book of general ignorance (published in 2006), although more are apparently discovered almost daily. my particular favourite is bose-einstein condensate which, at a tiny fraction of a degree above absoloute zero, if put into a beaker, will actually climb out and 'de-beaker' itself. fascinating.
other interesting facts in tht book include the fact that we are technically in an ice-age, that the ostrich lays the samllest egg for its size and that a chicken can live two years without a head.

Answer 6

Lipstick is made of goldfish scales

Skunks come in blonde and, in rare cases, lavender.

There are, right now, more people alive than have ever been recorded dead. In the whole history of ever.

There is a perfect correlation between the increase in global warming and the decrease of pirates since the 1800s. Seriously, there is a whole religion based on it; look up Pastafarianism on wiki.

Answer 7

A pointless, if interesting fact is that if you were to travel from London to Glasgow at the speed required to break away from the pull of gravity (as the Space Shuttle going to the International Space Station) .... it would take you all of 6 seconds to do the journey.

Answer 8

I was born on labor day, September 5, 1955. My mother was not amused by the way. Since then, Labor day has only fallen on September 5th, seven times. This could explain my arrested emotional development! Anybody know how long it will be before it happens an eighth time?

Answer 9

1.) I own one of the world largest privately held Swarovski Crystal collections, in my humble opinion.

2.) You can pretty much kill me, by shoving a raw squid in my face. I am DEATHLY allergic to squid, shrimp and all shellfish type critters and that includes snails......jellyfish, and other slimy things......but squid is off the charts. It can drop me in seconds.

3.) I have birthmark on my left leg, in the *exact* same spot my grandfather had one......and he died right before I was born.......so my grandmother eerily thought that he died, so I could be born......and he gave me his birthmark.

4.) In the Navy, I did something NO ONE had ever done before, and won a Navy Achievement Medal for my efforts.

5.) I often time travel here and go back into the past to answer 8 year old questions, that no one will ever see.....simply because I can, and it amuses me to no end.

Answer 10

2 out of 3 people are more likely to believe a lie, it if stastistics are used while explaining the 'fact'. Im serious try it out