OT - Name your Unusual Fact

[Bryce7]

You have maybe heard the radio commercial about some wise parents tossing facts at each other until one said that most baby car seats are the wrong ones. I would like to start a thread tossing out a fact that you expect no one has heard. I will begin this.

New York City has 4,000 buildings 25 stories or higher while Shanghai has 40,000 buildings 25 stories or higher.
This is what a Harvard professor said today.

Your turn.

 

[JM4CY]

Almost all main characters in Disney movies have a single parent. Boom.

 

[Bryce7]

True magnetic north has been moving forty miles a year from near Alaska to Siberia.

 

[Mr Janny]

A male giraffe will headbutt a female in her bladder until she urinates. He tastes the pee, and it lets him know if she's ovulating, so they know when to get it on.

 

[Angie]

At the Tom Petty concert last night, the lovely middle-aged woman sitting next to @Mr Janny turned to him, exchanged niceties, and said, "Did you know that he's worth $95 million? And Joe Walsh is worth $76 million?"

Janny was a little surprised by this very specific exchange of information, so he just said, "Then you'd think the tickets would be cheaper!"

 

[Angie]

A male giraffe will headbutt a female in her bladder until she urinates. He tastes the pee, and it lets him know if she's ovulating, so they know when to get it on.

What the ****, man.

 

[cowgirl836]

What the ****, man.

you married that. I'm not going to ask if Janny went the giraffe route before deciding if he should propose.

 

[Angie]

you married that. I'm not going to ask if Janny went the giraffe route before deciding if he should propose.

I just had to IM him to see if he knew that before this thread, or did a quick google for shock value. Nope, OF COURSE he knew it before.

 

[FerShizzle]

“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all of its letters in alphabetical order.

All swans in England belong to the queen.

There is enough sperm in one single man to impregnate every woman on earth.

The “hashtag” key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.


*I cheated and used google

 

[cowgirl836]

male/female twins born to cows are often both infertile with the female usually missing portions of the reproductive tract.

 

[Mr Janny]

What the ****, man.

giraffes are bizarre. If you were an alien landing on the plant earth for the first time, cataloging everything that you saw, giraffes would be way up the list of "What the ****-ery"

 

[FerShizzle]

A male giraffe will headbutt a female in her bladder until she urinates. He tastes the pee, and it lets him know if she's ovulating, so they know when to get it on.

Not sure if this is sexual or just regular assault, but gross.

 

[Mr Janny]

Millionaire businessman, philanthropist, and eccentric, Howard Hughes once had a bodyguard by the name of Wilford Brimely. Yep, the "Diabeetus" guy

 

[FerShizzle]

At any one time about 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

 

[Mr Janny]

Cap'n Crunch is not a Captain at all. He has 3 sleeve stripes, indicating a rank of Commander.

Captains wear 4 sleeve stripes.

What else has this ****er been lying to us about? Perhaps he's been colluding with the Soggies?

 

[FerShizzle]

Cap'n Crunch is not a Captain at all. He has 3 sleeve stripes, indicating a rank of Commander.

Captains wear 4 sleeve stripes.

What else has this ****er been lying to us about? Perhaps he's been colluding with the Soggies?

Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch.

 

[cowgirl836]

At any one time about 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

along these lines, Scottish whisky casks will evaporate 25% of their volume over their aging process -the "angel's share". That equals about 150 million bottles of whisky a year in the Scottish air.

So pretty much the Scots are always drunk.

 

[DeftOne]

37% of the statistics you read on the internet are made-up.

 

[Mr Janny]

37% of the statistics you read on the internet are made-up.

DeftOne is actually 3 different people, none of which are particularly dexterous.

 

[FerShizzle]

along these lines, Scottish whisky casks will evaporate 25% of their volume over their aging process -the "angel's share". That equals about 150 million bottles of whisky a year in the Scottish air.

So pretty much the Scots are always drunk.

I bet it would smell great, if it weren't for all the sheep and Scotts and kilts.