Fun facts. 20 of them!!!

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By santy18

Out of boredom I decided to look up random facts and these are my favorite random facts, enjoy your new knowledge guys.


Of the five people that designed the Macintosh computer, four were left-handed.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

Obama was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball.

The most popular car color between 2000 and 2005 was silver.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

All porcupines float in water.

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

Your brain is more active sleeping than it is watching TV.

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

The bubbles in Guinness beer sink to the bottom - no one knows why.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney animated features in which both the parents are present and don't die throughout the movie.

The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow.

When you have a black eye, you have a bilateral periorbital hematoma.

Every three seconds, an area of the South American rain forest the size of a football field is cut down.

Some math: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.


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maven101 Level 5 Commenter 12 months ago

Interesting list...Obama is being called a bunch of names now, not all of them complimentary...

My favorite random bit of trivia is the fact that a duck's quack does not echo...Larry

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