The Facts Thread

Simply just state an interesting fact.

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The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

James Garfield was the first left-handed President.

George W. Bush is the first right-handed President since Jimmy Carter.

I don't know if it is a fact or observation, but it seems you can have dozens of flies buzzing around you but the instant you bring out the fly swatter, boom, they all disappear. It's like they have a "sixth sense" or something...

Pirates used to wear an earring so that if they died on dry land, it could be used as payment for burial.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.

Although not named in the New Testament, tradition names the two
thieves crucified at the same time as Jesus as Dismas and Gestas.

Strict Puritan laws had their origins from practical reasons. Smoking
was banned - farmers would raise badly needed food crops instead
of tobacco. Cooking was banned on Sundays - to prevent house fires
during the long hours the family was at church. Young men were banned
from hunting - to prevent weapons from falling into Indian hands.

Ringo Starr is the oldest of the Beatles (His birthday is today by the way), then John Lennon, born the same year, 1940. Then Paul Mccartney (1942 I think) and then George Harrison 1943.

Beckie

I just googled "interesting facts" and these popped up.

Fact: All of the Peking ducks in the United States are descendents from three ducks and one drake imported to Long Island, New York in 1873.

Fact: All penguins live south of the equator.

Fact: All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on January 1st.

Fact: All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes.

Fact: Almonds are members of the peach family.

Fact: Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows.

Fact: Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.

Fact: Although white wine can be produced from both red and white grapes, red wine can only be created from red grapes.

Fact: Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959.

Fact: American actor Jack Nicholson, and American singer Bobby Darrin were raised believing their grandmothers were their mothers and their mothers were their older sisters.

Fact: Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

Fact: Alexander the Great made his troops eat onions as he believed it would prove their vitality.

Fact: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.

Fact: All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5.00 bill

Fact: All babies are color blind when they are born.

Fact: All dogs are the descendant of the wolf. These wolves lived in eastern Asia about 15,000 years ago.

Fact: All of Chrysler's PT Cruisers are built in Mexico.

Fact: All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

This is a proven fact, as of 12:40 am CST. When a deer and crotch rocket (motorcycle) meet, they both lose. Deer dies, motorcyle is smashed!!! Yep, my middle boy hit a deer early this morning with my youngest son's motorcycle. He T-boned it, the deer died, and he was actually able to stay up without being thrown over the bars. Everyone that saw the deer, then the motorcycle, couldn't believe he was able to ride it out......I told him his guardian angel was riding as his passenger.............

Another well known fact.......Rhonda and Clairol will fast become friends to hide the white hair that 3 boys on motorcycles will be givng her.................

Rhonda wrote:

This is a proven fact, as of 12:40 am CST. When a deer and crotch rocket (motorcycle) meet, they both lose. Deer dies, motorcyle is smashed!!! Yep, my middle boy hit a deer early this morning with my youngest son's motorcycle. He T-boned it, the deer died, and he was actually able to stay up without being thrown over the bars. Everyone that saw the deer, then the motorcycle, couldn't believe he was able to ride it out......I told him his guardian angel was riding as his passenger.............

Another well known fact.......Rhonda and Clairol will fast become friends to hide the white hair that 3 boys on motorcycles will be givng her.................

Ouch. Did he keep the deer?

Heh-heh. You said "crotch rocket." That was cool.

Rob wrote:

Heh-heh. You said "crotch rocket." That was cool.

Heh, yah, cool.

flatbroke wrote:

Rob wrote:

Heh-heh. You said "crotch rocket." That was cool.

Heh, yah, cool.

Well boys.....that is what they call them here, so I just comply.......

Useless piece of info:

It's impossible to lick your elbow!

How many of you are now trying to do the impossible! :haha: