May 2012
16 posts
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is...
Utah now penalizes a texting driver who causes a...
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to...
Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold...
President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader
Venus's day is longer then its year
The time Venus takes to complete a rotation (243 Earth days) is longer than the time it takes to orbit the Sun (225 Earth days).
Testosterone in males decreases 10% every 10 years
More people have a phobia of vomiting than death
The fear of vomiting is called Emetophobia, the fear of death is called Thanatophobia, and the fear of dead things is called Necrophobia.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from...
Statistically you are more likely to be killed by...
The chances of you dying on the way to get your...
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The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as...
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321...
Of the 17k+ words Shakespeare used, over 1700 are...
Here is a list of some of the words that we use in our daily speech that were brought into usage by Shakespeare:
addiction
bloodstained
cold-blooded
disgraceful
eyeball
to gossip
lackluster
moonbeam
perplex
to swagger
zany
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men...
did you know...
today is OYF moderator Jdel’s birthday! Feliz Cumpleaños James!
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p.s. we’re gonna start posting again soon sorry about that
April 2012
1 post
Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he...
March 2012
4 posts
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Percy Shelley, husband of Mary Shelley, writer of...
10 things you (probably) didn't know about death
fuckyeahoddities:
1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go — the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch 2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated 3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider 4. Alexander’s funeral would have cost $600...
The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war...
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The ℞, sometimes transliterated as “Rx,” seen on...
Back in the days when most everyone in Europe used Latin, a doctor’s orders usually began with ℞ as an instruction to take specific ingredients and combine them to make a medicine for a patient. Pharmacists later put the symbol on medicine containers as part of their instructions to patients on when and how often to take the medicine.
February 2012
29 posts
A mans beard grows about an inch in 8 weeks
7 suicides are recorded in the bible
Ninety Seven percent of all people offered a new pen to try write their own name.
One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
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If you try to say the alphabet without moving your...
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Instant coffee was invented in 1901
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All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction"...
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Men dream more about other men while women dreams...
Men and women dream differently. Women tend to recall their dreams more often than men and women tend to report more frequent and more intense nightmares than men. Men dream more often about other men rather than women, whereas women dream equally often about men and women. For example 67% of characters in men’s dreams are other men whereas 48% of characters in women’s dreams are...
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In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector...
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According to a study by the nation's largest auto...
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The ancient Egyptians recommended mixing half an...
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Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size,...
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1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in...
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Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice...
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
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Simplistic passwords contribute to over 80% of all...
Women beg Chris Brown to beat them. Where to begin... →
billieisaguysname:
Ladies, a few statistics for you…
Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten.
Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime. Most often, the abuser is a member of her own family.
Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than car accidents, muggings, and...
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A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know...
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"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first...
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A shark is the only fish that can blink with...
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Coca Cola was originally green.
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An ant always falls over on its right side when...
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A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the...
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Forty is the only number in the english language...
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Starfish have eight eyes; one at the end of each...
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
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Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
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The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.