The Official Facts Thread :D

[SeanXbaybeh]

The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.

The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.

If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

 

[AmandaSparks730]

The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.

The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.

If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

Ants get drunk?!

 

[Kairi-Angel]

Ants get drunk?!

 

[Captain Brain]

I have three books of this stuff.

The practice of giving presents on Christmas started with the Romans.

The youngest pope was eleven years old.

 

[marypops!]

The Queen sent her first email in 1976.

Horse racing is the most dangerous sport.

 

[Captain Brain]

Ben Franklin wasn't asked to write the Declaration of Independence because the others feared that he may conceal a joke in it.

 

[xx-bethh]

idn if this is true,
i just heard it from my friend matt

you burn as many calories walking the same distance as you would running the same distance
the only difference is it gets yuo there faster

 

[xx-bethh]

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood

Most lipstick contains fish scales

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half ( i tried, didnt work, lol )

Porcupines float in water

Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off

you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206
WTH ?!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark

 

[Captain Brain]

Leonardo Da Vinci spent 20 years painting the Mona Lisa.

 

[cra_z_dude_17]

your ods of living to 116?
2 in 1.5 billion

 

[Mustang101]

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.

THat is just weird!!

 

[cra_z_dude_17]

your odds of being struck by a meteorite?
1 in 7 trilion

 

[Captain Brain]

More people are killed by crocodiles than by plane crashes each year.

 

[cra_z_dude_17]

a sneeze can travel faster than 100 mph.

 

[Kairi-Angel]

If you sneeze with your eyes forced open, you could possibly go blind.

Everytime you sneeze, you stop breathing.

 

[Captain Brain]

Whenever you sneeze, all of your body functions stop, including your heart.

 

[metsluva57]

The attention span of a gold fish is 3 seconds.

Slugs have 4 noses

Camels have three eyelids

Beavers have orange teeth

Panda bears eat up 16 hours a day

A lump of gold the size of your thumbnail can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

The continent of Antarctica is the only one with no trees

Apocolocynposis is the fear of turning into a pumpkin

Chameleons can see 2 different directions at the same time

A somnambulist is a sleep-walker.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

A tortoise can live up to 140 years old.

Most elephants weigh less than the tounge of a blue whale.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Ducks will only lay eggs in the early morning

Gorillas do not know how 2 swim.

The fourtune cookie was invented in 1916.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

Lawn darts are illegal in Canada.

The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.

The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

 

[Mustang101]

In San Franciso you can't pick up used confettiand throw it again!!

It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that's on fire!

In Rumford Maine it's against the law to bite your landlord!

Anyone found underneath a sidewalk in FL is guilty of disorderly conduct.

In TN it's illegal to drive a car when you're asleep.

A TX law states that when two trains meet at a railroad crossing each must come to a full stop and neither shall proceed until the other has gone

It's illegal in Hartford, CN to kiss your wife on Sunday.

 

[3mtn-kate]

Giving someone the middle finger came about when, in a war between the English and the French the English were very good at using their middle finger to shoot arrows.

So whenever the French would capture an Englishman they would cut off their middle finger. Then whenever the English would win a battle they would wave their middle fingers at the French, kind of like they were mocking them.

 

[xx-bethh]

In Walnut, California, No person shall wear a mask or disguise on a public street without a permit from the sheriff

In Zion, Illinois, It is illegal for anyone to give cats, dogs, or other domesticated animals a lighted cigar.

In Nebraska, It is not legal for a tavern owner to serve beer unless a nice kettle of soup is also brewing.

In Oshawa, Ontario it's illegal to climb trees

Canadian law states that every 5th song on the radio must be by a Canadian born citizen

It is illegal anywhere in Canada to pay for a 26 cent item in all pennies. The limit is 25 cents. If you are paying for your item in nickels, then its illegal to pay for it in nickels if its over $5. Its also illegal to pay for something over $10 dollars in all dimes