Fun Facts

[Elrathin]

Please list some fun fact you know. For instance:

The collecting of beer mats (coasters) is called tegestology.

[Elrathin]

The origin of the English word “orgasm” derives from the Greek, “orgaein,” meaning “to swell” or “be excited or lustful.”

[AlanC]

The term "paddy wagon" was from new York where they used horse drawn wagons to collect the drunks from the street at night. The perception being of course that the majority of them were Irish.

And while this term was still predominate in the 70s and 80s, I see it and hear it much less now.

[Elrathin]

Will Smith was approached to play the character Neo in the Matrix, but turned it down in order make Wild Wild West (1999).

[Buck Laser]

Armadillos always have four offspring, all of the same sex. And armadillos are prone to leprosy.

[Elrathin]

Months that start with a Sunday always has a Friday the 13th.

[micfranklin]

Leopards are one of the few animals that can catch and die from anthrax.

[Elrathin]

The word “pornography” comes from the Greek meaning the “writings of prostitutes.”

[Elrathin]

6 is the smallest perfect number. A perfect number is an integer such that the sum of its proper divisors is equal to the integer itself: 6 = 1 + 2 + 3.

[Rage]

Micheal Jackson's skin wasn't bleached, it was caused by vitiligo.

[Elrathin]

Father's day was first time celebrated was in June 19, 1910.

[Elrathin]

George Washington and two other members of a secret committee of the Continental Congress asked Betsy Ross to sew the first American flag in late May or early June 1776. Betsy was about 24-years old when she completed the first flag with thirteen stars arranged in a circle.

[Elrathin]

A moth has no stomach.

[micfranklin]

You can't see the Great Wall of China from the moon, in fact you can barely see it from space.

[Buck Laser]

You can't see the Great Wall of China from the moon, in fact you can barely see it from space.
I am SOOOooo disappointed about that, too. All the books I had around in the early days of the space age said that the Great Wall would be visible from the moon.

Do we have any NASA types among us who can give us an intelligent estimate of what human features on earth might bee seen from space?

[micfranklin]

I am SOOOooo disappointed about that, too. All the books I had around in the early days of the space age said that the Great Wall would be visible from the moon.

Do we have any NASA types among us who can give us an intelligent estimate of what human features on earth might bee seen from space?

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/gwall.html

Right there at the top is an image of the GWOC but you can barely make it out.

[Elrathin]

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

[micfranklin]

Crocodiles have strong jaw-closing muscles but weaker opening ones.