“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body” - Edmund Burke Fan ArtAskSubmit Oh Yeah FactsTumblr (3.0; @ohyeahfacts)http://oyfacts.com/Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is differenthttp://oyfacts.com/post/23551254482http://oyfacts.com/post/23551254482Tue, 22 May 2012 13:27:43 -0400Utah now penalizes a texting driver who causes a fatality as harshly as a drunken driver who kills someonehttp://oyfacts.com/post/23487639542http://oyfacts.com/post/23487639542Mon, 21 May 2012 13:29:48 -0400Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hourshttp://oyfacts.com/post/23297478370http://oyfacts.com/post/23297478370Fri, 18 May 2012 13:31:01 -0400Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold waterhttp://oyfacts.com/post/23235797598http://oyfacts.com/post/23235797598Thu, 17 May 2012 13:28:00 -0400President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3m23qpvGV1qzyxnq.jpg"/></p>http://oyfacts.com/post/23172002637http://oyfacts.com/post/23172002637Wed, 16 May 2012 13:20:45 -0400Venus's day is longer then its year<p>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). </p>http://oyfacts.com/post/23110503115http://oyfacts.com/post/23110503115Tue, 15 May 2012 13:31:34 -0400Testosterone in males decreases 10% every 10 yearshttp://oyfacts.com/post/23045289136http://oyfacts.com/post/23045289136Mon, 14 May 2012 13:26:31 -0400More people have a phobia of vomiting than death<p>The fear of vomiting is called <em><span class="st"><span class="f"></span>Emetophobia</span></em><span class="st">, the fear of death is called </span><em>Thanatophobia</em>, and the fear of dead things is called <em><span class="st">Necrophobia</span></em>.</p>http://oyfacts.com/post/22980226668http://oyfacts.com/post/22980226668Sun, 13 May 2012 13:31:11 -0400In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelasheshttp://oyfacts.com/post/22912369815http://oyfacts.com/post/22912369815Sat, 12 May 2012 13:31:11 -0400Statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spiderhttp://oyfacts.com/post/22847742563http://oyfacts.com/post/22847742563Fri, 11 May 2012 13:28:23 -0400The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winninghttp://oyfacts.com/post/22786136452http://oyfacts.com/post/22786136452Thu, 10 May 2012 13:31:00 -0400The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whiteshttp://oyfacts.com/post/22722643171http://oyfacts.com/post/22722643171Wed, 09 May 2012 13:31:49 -0400you stay classy Virginia111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 http://oyfacts.com/post/22659018984http://oyfacts.com/post/22659018984Tue, 08 May 2012 13:32:24 -0400Of the 17k+ words Shakespeare used, over 1700 are recorded there for the first time<p>Here is a list of some of the words that we use in our daily speech that were brought into usage by Shakespeare:</p> <ul><li>addiction</li> <li>bloodstained</li> <li>cold-blooded</li> <li>disgraceful</li> <li>eyeball</li> <li>to gossip</li> <li>lackluster</li> <li>moonbeam</li> <li>perplex</li> <li>to swagger</li> <li>zany</li> </ul>http://oyfacts.com/post/22594328006http://oyfacts.com/post/22594328006Mon, 07 May 2012 13:30:43 -0400The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shouldershttp://oyfacts.com/post/22526626804http://oyfacts.com/post/22526626804Sun, 06 May 2012 13:31:12 -0400did you know...<p>today is OYF moderator <a href="http://jamesdel.com/" target="_blank">Jdel</a>&#8217;s birthday! <span class="st">Feliz Cumpleaños James!<br/></span></p> <p>-<a href="http://gayforjesus.tumblr.com" target="_blank">gayforjesus</a></p> <p>p.s. we&#8217;re gonna start posting again soon sorry about that</p>http://oyfacts.com/post/22524081233http://oyfacts.com/post/22524081233Sun, 06 May 2012 12:52:47 -0400Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.http://oyfacts.com/post/21654151120http://oyfacts.com/post/21654151120Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:33:14 -0400Percy Shelley, husband of Mary Shelley, writer of the novel Frankenstein, was thrown out of Oxford for defending atheismhttp://oyfacts.com/post/20014181873http://oyfacts.com/post/20014181873Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:30:06 -0400educationliterature10 things you (probably) didn't know about death<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fuckyeahoddities.tumblr.com/post/19786829666" target="_blank">fuckyeahoddities</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span class="bodyMaal" id="lblData"><br/> 1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go — the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch<br/><br/> 2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated<br/><br/> 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<br/><br/> 4. Alexander’s funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body<br/><br/> 5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle<br/><br/> 6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people<br/><br/> 7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days<br/><br/> 8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years<br/><br/> 9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and ‘buried’ in space<br/><br/> 10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.</span></p> </blockquote>http://oyfacts.com/post/19787845262http://oyfacts.com/post/19787845262Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:30:05 -0400The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at randomhttp://oyfacts.com/post/18613513109http://oyfacts.com/post/18613513109Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:30:06 -0500