Random facts!!!!!

[AceTone]

Originally Posted by Jalen

What do you call baby turkeys? Turkettes? Turklets? Drum sticks?

Delicious.

[DrSmith]

Apparently they're called poults or goblets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_(bird)#Flight

[Srd93]

Apparently baby goats are called "kids".

[user472884]

You can turn the log cars of Splash Mountain (at every park) backwards, and everything will still work fine.

The "rolling backwards" part of Indiana Jones (at Anaheim Disney) is bullshit. That ride is designed so that if the cars were to even roll an inch backwards, it would execute an immediate emergency shutdown. The "rolling" is an effect, the entire "cave" is on casters (wheels to you and me) and the entire cave rolls away from the STOPPED car.

There are about 160,000 different ride experiences available in Indiana Jones (Anaheim Disney). Certain variables like the roughness, where the car breaks down, whether or not the bridge "snaps", where the snake strikes, how close it strikes, what Indy says (at any place), and a few other things all combine to give you a ride that's 1 in 160,000 (or so)

The best chicken I've ever had in my entire life was made by my Indian friend's mom (to the Indian Alizéeans out there, it was the drum of the chicken and literally bright red... don't remember the name)

I suck at pastry... badly

Everytime I go to a new restaurant, I always seem to pick the worst thing on the menu

If you accidentally step in a sticky mouse trap you forgot about, it's easier just to leave it on until you get in the shower with some oil.

[Fèvier]

Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

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In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year

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The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged 1,000 yards in length.

The deepest underwater penguin dive is 1,772 feet by an Emperor Penguin

Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.

Celtic warriors sometimes fought their battles naked, their bodies dyed blue from head to toe.

In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad.

[user472884]

- only Irish windmills rotate clockwise
- the jewelers oil that lubricates watches costs $3,000 per gallon
- lighters came before matches

[Fèvier]

Queen Victoria used marijuana, to help relieve menstrual cramp pain

Among teens 13-19 in the United States, girls account for over 50% of new HIV infections.

Humans are the only animals that use a smile as an emotional response.

[user472884]

Too tired to look any up.... just some from my own knowledge

- I fully believe that my blood tastes like the water in tuna cans

- The opening day of Disneyland (July 17th, the day for the press) was an absolute failure in every sense of the word.

- Temperatures used in kilns and firing clay items are measured in cones. A cone is the temperature needed to make a very tall cone of a certain clay go limp and fall over.

- I abhor any indoor lights that aren't can lights.

- There are more english speakers in China than there are in America

- You're more likely to die in a terrorist-related act than TSA is to catch one

- There is an underground tunnel which connects The Jungle Cruise and the Rivers of America at Disneyland, so scuba divers can swim from one attraction to another without making a big stink about walking above ground and suiting up and diving in.

- It's not gay if balls are touching if there is an odd number of balls.

[wasabi622]

A group of ferrets are called a "business".

[Fèvier]

-More than 100 years ago, the felt hat makers of England used mercury to stabilize wool. Most of them eventually were poisoned by the fumes, as demonstrated by the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Breathing mercury fumes over time will cause erethism, a disorder characterized by nervousness, irritability, and strange personality changes.

-The first outdoor miniature golf courses in the United States were built on rooftops in New York City in 1926.