Hey everybody. Everybody loves random facts, right? So I've created this topic to discuss about them.
They must be interesting and real (no need to cite sources, but they must be real) and (according to the AG rules) they must have 7 or more words.
Let me begin.
In England a woman named Ceejay Epton (age 22) decided to change her name after her son was born. The reason: she wanted to help the baby to learn the alphabet faster. Then she changed her name to
"Ceejay A Apple B Boat C Cat D Dog E Elephant F Flower G Goat H House I Igloo J Jellyfish K Kite L Lion M Monkey N Nurse O Octopus P Penguin Q Queen R Robot S Sun T Tree U Umbrella V Violin W Whale X X-Ray Y Yo-yo Z Zebra Terryn Feuji-Sharemi"
She got the idea from a friend that wanted to be named "Pink" and decided to change her name too.
The good news is that on England, the name changing process is easy and costs £10
An American man named Joel Dobrin (32) was trying to hide his drugs inside a sock. But things went downhill when his dog pulled the "ackage" and it flied out of the window, landing right in front of two police officers :P
A chinese acupuncturist named Wei Shengchu beat the world record of most needles on his own head: 2009 needles.
The most expensive coffee in the world is the Kopi Luwak. It is made with coffee grains eaten, diggested and, uh... defecated by a wild cat. In the UK, a cup may cost up to 50.000 pounds!
If a nickel fall off a 160M tall building (minimal height to the coin to reach the terminal speed, this being 94.3 km/h for the coin) will NOT kill a person. But if a garlic fall off a 350M building or an apple fall of a 420m building or a billiards ball fall off a 400M, all will kill a person if hit one.
Piquancy is produced by certain substances that activate heat receptors, which is why we also qualify piquant food as 'hot' even if it's actualy cold. Since the pain is caused by substances and not heat, water doesn't help so much; much better against piquancy is milk.
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
Dalmatians are born without spots.
When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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 cause.
A chinese man once tried to commit suicide by sitting on a cucumber... he lived.
A family from Ohio (US) moved out to another house and left the garage over-the-top with thrash! The reason was that people must pay for getting rid of thrash on that state.
A holandese company made a research and learned that cars with colours like pink, yellow, red or purple have less possibility of being stolen. Thiefs prefer to steal cars that are black, silver or blue.
[quote]Some people flush marijuana seeds down the toilet I guess to avoid getting caught by cops.
Cops: "POLICE! We have you surrounded!" Suspect: "Oh dang!!!" *Tries to flush pot* *Toilet backs up* *Facepalm*[/quote]
