The Official "interesting facts" thread.

[The Killer Yoshi]

a group of ravens is called a murder.
the largest living thing on earth is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is 3.5 miles across.

 

[Chief Mixalot727]

Doesn't qualify as interesting sorry.

Chocolate kills dogs.

actually, that is a very widely believed myth. my mom is a vet and she had many ppl bring in their dogs and freak out because it ate chocolate but all my mom would say is dont worry about it...it might throw up some but it wont die. also, my dog once ate all mt halloween candy including a ton of chocolate and he didnt even throw up.

 

[mark.]

alka seltzer (spelled it wrong i know) makes ducks explode if you feed it to them,
dissolves in thier stomachs and such, kinda cool!

man, a 30 minute orgasm seems wierd.

 

[Xsyven]

alka seltzer (spelled it wrong i know) makes ducks explode if you feed it to them,
dissolves in thier stomachs and such, kinda cool!

Works with seagulls too.

When I lived in Oregon, when my friends and I would go to the beach, we feed bread (with Alka Seltzer in it) to the seagulls and just laughed, and laughed.

 

[Zook]

If you were to yell continuously for 8 ears, 7 months, and 20 days, you'd produce enough energy to produce 1 cup of coffee.

Mosquitoes can get athlete's foot. Females are deaf.

EDIT: Whenever Tera says 'pie,' she means Zook.

 

[len1]

Works with seagulls too.

When I lived in Oregon, when my friends and I would go to the beach, we feed bread (with Alka Seltzer in it) to the seagulls and just laughed, and laughed.

sounds like fun

 

[Seed of Sorrow]

Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children


Also

Seed expects all of you to take his quiz

http://www.quizyourfriends.com/quizpage.php?quizname=070215205604-496350&

 

[Pustulio]

So does Pustulio! http://www03.quizyourfriends.com/quizpage.php?quizname=070217001138-918126

I got a D- on Seed's test.

 

[Kai_]

God, have a mod sticky this thread by now.

Tomato is a fruit.

 

[Mipzei]

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

That's wrong sir! I live in Finland! It's our neighbour country that banned Donald Duck, Sweden!

 

[agentli]

Whenever someone puts Official in front of a thread, someone else isn't allowed to post a thread with the same information or topic. Yet even if you don't put official in front of it, it's the same thing. So putting and "Official so and so topic" is useless.

 

[KaoS]

OH FUCK! WHY DID I CLICK THIS LINK!!! NOO~

 

[commonyoshi]

The army is considering giving its soldiers in the artic Viagra because it increases body temperature or something.

Now take my fail of a quiz. http://www03.quizyourfriends.com/quizpage.php?quizname=070218170818-541452

 

[Zook]

Witness the execution of a vet.

 

[chesterr01]

Female koalas have 2 ******s.

 

[Pustulio]

Snakes have 2 ****s!

 

[Eaode]

Take my Quiz that isn't about personal information!

http://www.quizyourfriends.com/quizpage.php?quizname=070219202013-367419&

 

[Xsyven]

Fact: Most people will follow fads, even if they have no idea how stupid they are.

(Quizzes)

Since, you know, quizzes aren't exactly 'Interesting Facts', maybe someone should make a new thread about quizzes?

 

[Pustulio]

The quizzes have questions that have a fact that not everyone knows so therefore it is acceptable!

 

[Eaode]

http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=2148270#post2148270

quiz thread.

 

[Kai_]

There has been only 1 documented person thats been killed by a centipede.

 

[chesterr01]

wtf lol, link

 

[petre]

Take my Quiz that isn't about personal information!

http://www.quizyourfriends.com/quizpage.php?quizname=070219202013-367419&

umm...there was no tier list in 1006. might wanna fix that.

 

[Dogosse Gier]

Monkeys deficate regularly and will sometimes proceed to toss their feces.

Pi = 3.14 is BS. The real term goes on forever.

Einstien wasn't just a high school drop-out but he was also from Germany and during WWII no less.

Hemmingway fought in several wars such as the Spanish Civil War and died via suicide.

Common knowledge. Pi is an irrational number, meaning it cannot be expressed as a fraction.

The average human uses 20% of their brain as opposed to 100%. Most of the 20% is used on involuntary functions and Einstien was estimated to use 13% of his brain on thinking.

This is straight-up BS. You use your whole brain. Just not all at the same time.

When people claim that monsters are standing on their chest or aliens visit them in the middle of the night it is usually a direct result of a sleeping problem where your brain believes you are still asleep but you have the ability to see real life. Since this is the case, you see in dual vision dreams/reality. You can't move because it is a fact that when you sleep all of your body functions move at half speed and since your brain thinks you are still sleeping you can't move at the reduced speed. This is my favorite phenomena.

Sleep paralysis. One of my friends has that occasionally. And usually you can't move at all.


[/QUOTE]I know how to spell quixotic and phenomena and I know their definitions. God help us all...[/QUOTE]
Then why don't you know the difference between 'phenomena,' the plural, and 'phenomenon,' the singular?


My absolute favorite piece of information:
The Trans-Siberian Railway has a large kink in it. The reason for this: When the Tsar at the time (I don't know which) decreed that it be constructed, he got a map of Russia and a ruler, and drew a line across the map with a pencil.

The ruler had a nick in it.

 

[Zook]

http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=112126

 

[Dogosse Gier]

Jesus. I found this in my old subscribed threads. Thought it was still active because of the 2-23 date of the last post.... only it was last year.