OT - Name your Unusual Fact

[VeloClone]

Pluto has only completed 8 orbits of the sun since Christ was born.

A day on Venus (243 earth days) is longer than a year on Venus (225 earth days).

 

[Clone83]

. . . if you thoroughly shuffle a deck of 52 cards, chances are practically 100 percent that the resulting arrangement of cards has never before existed.

http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/boudreaux/s_507822.html

 

[MeanDean]

For an hour each year it is the same time in a portion of an Atlantic Coast state as a Pacific Coast state.

A small part of Oregon is on Mountain time, and the Florida panhandle is on Central time, just one hour off.

In the Fall, when we switch back an hour, away from daylight savings time, the switch happens at 2 am local time. So when it's 2 am on switch day in the Central zone, the time switches back to 1 am. And it's still 1 am in the Mountain zone (since the zone won't fall back until 2 am in Mountain).

For precisely that period, it can be the same time in both Oregon and Florida.

 

[GTO]

The average Hawkeye fan can flip 8 burgers an hour or take 10 drive-thru orders..

 

[MeanDean]

Magellan did not circumnavigate the globe. He was killed in the Philippines.

Of his original crew of approx 260 on 5 ships only 18 survived the trip on a single ship.

It was 58 years before the globe was again circumnavigated, by Sir Francis Drake.

 

[isufrEEk]

Chip Davis of Manheim Steamroller fame also co-wrote Convoy the 1975 country music hit.

 

[Clone83]

The average Hawkeye fan can flip 8 burgers an hour or take 10 drive-thru orders..

I'm calling BS here. Seems high . . . .

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...donald-fight-des-moines-iowa-video/369636001/

 

[NetflixAndClone]

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.

 

[MeanDean]

Male students enrolled at Brigham Young University need a doctor’s note to grow a beard.

So female BYU students don't need the note?!? I call sexism.

 

[NetflixAndClone]

-Hitler's mother was talked out of (topic we can't discuss on here) by a Jewish doctor....

-William Henry Harrison in effort to prove he was young and energetic, didn't wear a coat to his inauguration address and spoke for nearly 2 hours which ironically gave him pneumonia and killed him in 30 days.

-Teddy Roosevelt gave a campaign speech for nearly an hour moments after being shot point blank in the mid section. His aides finally persuaded him to go to the doctor. (Side note, the election of 1912 is the most fascinating election I've ever read about)

-If you threw electricity around the world, you wouldn't be able to turn your hand to catch it fast enough before it returned.

-The star Betelgeuse is so huge, if it's center were that of our sun's, earth would be engulfed in it.

-It is impossible (at least from my own experimenting) to fold in half an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper more than 7 times.

-The edge of Nebraska to the edge of Florida is only 758 miles as the crow flies.

how does one throw electricity? This sounds like something I would love to learn.

 

[GTO]

how does one throw electricity? This sounds like something I would love to learn.

This guy could probably teach you:

 

[CTTB78]

The only Major Leaguer born on a train-- HOFer Rod Carew. Named after the doctor who was johnny on the spot- Rodney Cline.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Pluto has only completed 8 orbits of the sun since Christ was born.

A day on Venus (243 earth days) is longer than a year on Venus (225 earth days).

Something looks off on that last one. Is it supposed to be Pluto?

Also, is the offseason timed in Venus days?

 

[Mr Janny]

Something looks off on that last one. Is it supposed to be Pluto?

Also, is the offseason timed in Venus days?

No, he's right on the Venus fact. Venus rotates very slowly.

 

[CloneGuy8]

Reno is further west than Los Angeles

 

[Cyched]

The ole' classic:

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both were shot in the head.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners.

Both successors were named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

Both John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald are comprised of fifteen letters.

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald shot from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Both assassins were killed before their trials.

A month before Lincoln was assassinated he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A month before Kennedy was assassinated he was in Marilyn Monroe.

My only takeaway is that I feel bad for the poor bastard who gets elected in 2060

 

[Bryce7]

Jupiter and Saturn each have 53 moons.

 

[Bryce7]

41 per cent of moon's surface is not seen from earth.

 

[urb1]

This one really hit me when I heard it and my kids are grown. At some point, a parent picks up their kid for the last time.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

No, he's right on the Venus fact. Venus rotates very slowly.

Ah, I wasn't thinking of it in terms of a single rotation versus a single orbit, but that makes sense now.