Random facts!!!!!

[Azhiri]

Originally Posted by Jalen

- The only alphanumeric thing I've ever memorized is my wifi password (d57e4a543e9207d295d95a7376)

Wow, how did you ever memorize that?

The only interesting thing for me to contribute, is this really cool list of scary similarities between President Lincoln and President Kennedy.

-Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846
-Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946

-Lincoln was elected President in 1860
-Kennedy was elected President in 1960

-Lincoln's wife lost a child while living in the White House
-Kennedy's wife lost a child while living in the White House

-Lincoln was directly concerned with Civil Rights
-Kennedy was directly concerned with Civil Rights

-Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who told him not to go to the theater *1
-Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln who told him not to go to Dallas *2

-Lincoln was shot in the back of the head in the presence of his wife
-Kennedy was shot in the back of the head in the presence of his wife

-Lincoln shot in the Ford Theatre
-Kennedy shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford

-Lincoln was shot on a Friday
-Kennedy was shot on a Friday

-Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was known by three names, comprised of fifteen letters
-Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was known by three names, comprised of fifteen letters

-Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and fled to a warehouse *3
-Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theater

-Booth was killed before being brought to trial
-Oswald was killed before being brought to trial

-There were theories that Booth was part of a greater conspiracy
-There were theories that Oswald was part of a greater conspiracy

-Lincoln's successor was Andrew Johnson, born in 1808
-Kennedy's successor was Lyndon Johnson, born in 1908


wtf.

[Människöpesten]

Originally Posted by Fèvier

-Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.


GO GO GO!!!!!!!!!!

\m/ that's right. we get shit done.

[AceTone]

Here are some I gathered.

- Sneezing with your eyes open ... video.
- Water is densest at 4°C.
- Your forearm length should be ~identical to the length of your foot.
- If you take your small intestine and lay it out in a straight line, you'll probably die.
- You're 70% water. If you drown, only 30% of your body will die.

Originally Posted by Rictor

Wait so JFK wore glasses? Man I didn't know that.

Perhaps sunglasses?

[Fèvier]

YEAH! people are posting!
keep the facts coming!

Edit:

-Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!

-Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

-In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

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

[user472884]

Originally Posted by AceTone

Perhaps sunglasses?

Nope. All our presidents had vision problems, but most of them didn't wear their spectacles in public.

Edit:

here's some more off the top of my crazy head (maybe if I forgot all this crap, I might do better in AP Government)

- There are more people who speak English in China than there are in the US
- Correctly converting the following;
* 10 Cards
* 2000 mockingbird
you get
*1 decacards
*2 kilamockingbird
- Poprocks contain carbon dioxide... at about 700ppi
- The Catholic Church did not approve of (among other things...)... forks. DEVIL HANDS OF METAL!

[Rictor]

Originally Posted by Jalen

- The Catholic Church did not approve of (among other things...)... forks. DEVIL HANDS OF METAL!

Catholic Church...wait, is that the one where you can BUY your way out of the sins you've committed? I'm unfamiliar with religion so you'll have to excuse me. Teehee.

[user472884]

Originally Posted by Rictor

Catholic Church...wait, is that the one where you can BUY your way out of the sins you've committed? I'm unfamiliar with religion so you'll have to excuse me. Teehee.

yup. (me too)

where sinners burn in hell for all eternity but child molesters (I'm not saying they all are) get 'relocated'

Edit:

Originally Posted by Azhiri

wtf.

And people don't believe me when I say that the Knights Templar has been orchestrating history since the middle ages

[wasabi622]

While the rest of your body slows down and stops growing, your ears and nose never do. (Hair and nails not included)

[Människöpesten]

\m/
has no association whatsoever with World of Warcraft.

[The Gate Keeper]

The Offspring's singer Dexter was Valedictorian at his High School and was a Ph.D candidate in Molecular Biology.

Katy Perry before she was famous sung on the song "Goodbye For Now" by christian rock band P.O.D.

Katy Perry first album was a gospel rock album she released under her really name Katy Hudson.

The Sony PS1 was originally supposed to be an addon for the Nintendo 64.

John Lennon’s eyesight was so bad that he was legally blind.

Guinea Pigs are not actually rodents but are in a animal class all there own.

Of all animals, the blue whale has the largest babies. Baby blue whales are 21 feet (6 m) long and weigh 20,000 pounds (9,000 kg), as much as two adult African elephants.

Baby blue whales drink about 50 gallons (200 liters) of milk a day. The mother weans baby after about eight months when the baby is 50 feet (15 m) long and weighs 50,000 pounds (23,000 kg).

Vin Desel is a big DnD fan.

Finnish Lance Corporal Simo Häyhä, aka "Valkoinen Kuolema" (White Death) was a sniper during the Winter War is credited with killing up to 505 Soviet soldiers using a SAKO m/30-52 (Pystykorva) and iron sights.