Post little-known facts/trivia

[Katasaki]

Master Chief is actually a woman.

[shura]

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

[InsaneX]

velociraptors had feathers

[LordXavierBritish]

I met Diane Sawyer once.

She's a whore.

[funzop]

texas horned lizards can shoot blood from their eyes


frogs blink when they eat
this is so their eyeballs can be pushed back and help move the food down the esophagus


there are tribes in africa that wear that wear long and thick braces around their neck starting from when they are very young
these braces are for beauty
but as the body develops it eventually depends on the brace to support the neck, so if they brace were to be taken of, the person would suffocate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDS-L05KRK8

no one saw osmosis jones
this is a good thing

[Ashington]

Henry the VIII only technically had 2 wives, four if you're a catholic.

Kilts, bagpipes, haggis, porridge, whisky and tartan are not Scottish.

The most common material in the world is perovskite.

I have a copy of the "The Book of General Ignorance"

[texas]

i thought everyone knew about the blood shooting lizards and the neck braces for eauty and osmosis jones please post better facts nonezop!

[LordZeebmork]

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

azerbaijan

pwnt

[GeneralIvan]

You are bound to swallow a few bugs throughout your life while you sleep.

[shura]

In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.

[mexifry]

the number one selling album of all time is thriller by michael jackson

I jsut saw a thing on T.V. about it an found it was the 2nd.

The top was Greatest Hits by The Eagles.

[ansel]

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

azerbaijan

pwnt

my first impulse when I read wasim's post was to try and think of one, but I guess azerbaijan slipped my mind

fancy that

[redmongoose]

Lead singer of the band queen Freddie Mercury had four extra teeth and chose to not remove them with an operation because he feared it would harm his singing voice

[Daveb0t]

The Nick Berg execution was a hoax

[anonymousmonk]

If a tree falls in the woods and noone is around, does it make a sound?  No, because without ears to pick up and a brain to interpret the vibrations, thats all they are, rapid vibrations.