The Official Facts Thread :D

Venus is the second closest planet to the sun between Earth and Mercury. Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty
Natural gas use has increased by 35 percent over the past ten years, and is projected to grow 45 percent by 2015.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
It is impossible for it to hail when ground temperature is below freezing.
Alaxender Graham Bell would not have a phone in his study because the ringing drove him nuts.
The diamond is the only gem composed of a single element.
Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars during his lifetime.
Rod Stewart was once a grave digger.
The game Simon Says was originally called Do This, Do That.
Plants run fevers when they are sick.
The bark of the giant sequioa can be up to 2 feet thick.
There was never a portrant painted of Christopher Columbus.
Vince Lombardi coined the term "game plan."
The founder of Kodak, George Eastman, hated having his picture taken.
Sweet N' Low was the one millionth trademark issued by the U.S. Patent office.
More snow falls in February than in any other month on the United States.
The Liberty Bell was made in England.
Lemon Pledge has more lemons than Country Time Lemonade.
More people die playing golf than any other sport
The leading cause of death is heart attacks and strokes.
Each mile of a four lane freeway takes up more than 17 acres of land.
Johnny Carson, Michael Douglas, and Clint Eastwood were all once gas station attendants.
The kilt originated in France.
El Paso, Texas is the largest city without a major sports team.
In a 1936 ping pong tournament, the players volleyed for more than two hours on the opening serve.
Alaska by itself has as much coastline as the rest of the U.S.
If you work nights, you are almost twice as likely to have an accident than if you work days.
A cubic foot of gold weighs more than half a ton.
Monaco and Vatican City are both smaller than New York's Central Park.
The geodesic dome is the only structure that becomes stronger as it increases in size.
A plane uses less fuel the higher it flies.
It was noted in King George III of England's diary on July 4, 1776 that "Nothing of importance happened today."
Disney world is twice the size of Manhattan.
A typical supermarket displays more than 25,000 items.
A third of the Earth's land surface can be classified as desert.
The seed cones of the cycad tree can weigh up to 90 pounds.
Deion Sanders is the only man to play in the World Series and the Super Bowl.
Floods cause more death and destruction in the U.S. than any other natural disaster.
Las Vegas, Nevada is the brightest city when seen from space.
Lightning bolts are only about two inches wide.
The most popular reason for not voting in elections, according to the U.S. Census, was "Too busy."
 
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They have camels in Arizona?
I guess so :rotfl:
Venus is the second closest planet to the sun between Earth and Mercury. Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty
Natural gas use has increased by 35 percent over the past ten years, and is projected to grow 45 percent by 2015.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
It is impossible for it to hail when ground temperature is below freezing.
Alaxender Graham Bell would not have a phone in his study because the ringing drove him nuts.
The diamond is the only gem composed of a single element.
Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars during his lifetime.
Rod Stewart was once a grave digger.
The game Simon Says was originally called Do This, Do That.
Plants run fevers when they are sick.
The bark of the giant sequioa can be up to 2 feet thick.
There was never a portrant painted of Christopher Columbus.
Vince Lombardi coined the term "game plan."
The founder of Kodak, George Eastman, hated having his picture taken.
Sweet N' Low was the one millionth trademark issued by the U.S. Patent office.
More snow falls in February than in any other month on the United States.
The Liberty Bell was made in England.
Lemon Pledge has more lemons than Country Time Lemonade.
More people die playing golf than any other sport
The leading cause of death is heart attacks and strokes.
Each mile of a four lane freeway takes up more than 17 acres of land.
Johnny Carson, Michael Douglas, and Clint Eastwood were all once gas station attendants.
The kilt originated in France.
El Paso, Texas is the largest city without a major sports team.
In a 1936 ping pong tournament, the players volleyed for more than two hours on the opening serve.
Alaska by itself has as much coastline as the rest of the U.S.
If you work nights, you are almost twice as likely to have an accident than if you work days.
A cubic foot of gold weighs more than half a ton.
Monaco and Vatican City are both smaller than New York's Central Park.
The geodesic dome is the only structure that becomes stronger as it increases in size.
A plane uses less fuel the higher it flies.
It was noted in King George III of England's diary on July 4, 1776 that "Nothing of importance happened today."
Disney world is twice the size of Manhattan.
A typical supermarket displays more than 25,000 items.
A third of the Earth's land surface can be classified as desert.
The seed cones of the cycad tree can weigh up to 90 pounds.
Deion Sanders is the only man to play in the World Series and the Super Bowl.
Floods cause more death and destruction in the U.S. than any other natural disaster.
Las Vegas, Nevada is the brightest city when seen from space.
Lightning bolts are only about two inches wide.
The most popular reason for not voting in elections, according to the U.S. Census, was "Too busy."

Soo..Many..Lol don't put so many on a post, and seperate them so we can read 'em easier.


The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year.
 
In the Battle of Waterloo, only a 1/3 of the British Army was actually British.
 
I guess so :rotfl:


Soo..Many..Lol don't put so many on a post, and seperate them so we can read 'em easier.


The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year.

OkeyDokey!

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
 

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
 
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

Coca-cola was originally green.
 
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. (:lmao: )

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (:scared1: )

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. (:lmao: )

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
 
In hot weather, the Effiel Tower exands by up to 18cm.
 
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. (:lmao: )

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (:scared1: )

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. (:lmao: )

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
:lmao:
 
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow the film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

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. :eek:


By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
 
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-alike contest.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
 
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
 
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

(getting tired... ahaha!)
 
Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
 
Up until 1666, it was believe that a rainbow only had 5 colours, until Issac Newton added in Orange and Indigo.

There are about 250 million bubbles in the bottle of champagne.
 
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents! a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2,but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
 
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super bowl.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed Firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".
 
Go sleep on an Ancient Egyptian pillow ;)

200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Ahaha!

Whoah... What a name for Barbie xD
 
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
 


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