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Post by Serenity on Mar 3, 2010 18:37:22 GMT -5
Wow, all very interesting facts. I don't have any to contribute at this moment. Sadly, I've become random fact lazy. D:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2010 23:56:03 GMT -5
It's alright. I'm not contributing a fact right now either.
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Post by Serenity on Mar 4, 2010 18:16:33 GMT -5
I shall contribute one now. If I've already posted it, I am quite sorry.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
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Post by AhkneeKitteen on Mar 5, 2010 1:33:46 GMT -5
... teeth are a little freaky when you think about it.
Charlie Chaplin once placed second in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
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Post by Serenity on Mar 5, 2010 16:44:50 GMT -5
^ Wow, that's an FML moment. xD
The word “nerd” was first coined by Dr. Seuss in “If I Ran the Zoo.”
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Post by AhkneeKitteen on Mar 5, 2010 19:55:33 GMT -5
And "assassination" was first used by Shakespeare.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2010 11:24:47 GMT -5
Glass takes about a million years to decompose.
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Post by Serenity on Mar 6, 2010 18:47:28 GMT -5
^ That one doesn't surprise me... but I wonder if plastic takes a longer or a shorter amount of time?
Mexico and Iceland have the highest per capita consumption of Coca-Cola.
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Post by AhkneeKitteen on Mar 7, 2010 0:46:45 GMT -5
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
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Post by Sovereign on Mar 7, 2010 0:55:06 GMT -5
The guy who founded Toyota's last name is actually spelled Toyoda.
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Post by AhkneeKitteen on Mar 7, 2010 2:45:56 GMT -5
... now that I did not know.
Subaru brand cars are named after the constellation - hence why there are six stars on the logo.
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Post by Serenity on Mar 7, 2010 12:44:23 GMT -5
Interesting. I had no idea there was a Subaru constellation. O.o
The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
^ It's scary to think the most dangerous animal in the world might be flying around your kitchen window right at this very moment. o.o
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Post by AhkneeKitteen on Mar 7, 2010 16:30:53 GMT -5
Yeah, I figured that. Imagine, fly chills and does it's feeding and stuff on some poo. Fly lands on your food and does some eating and cleaning and pooing. Ew.
Your hair grows faster on one side than the other.
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Post by Serenity on Mar 7, 2010 18:30:55 GMT -5
Right after I posted that fact, my dad starting fussing about a fly on the living room window.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
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Post by moon yagami on Mar 8, 2010 2:25:22 GMT -5
The hair one is interesting... it brings me back to a Naruto moment, when he's learning the Rasengan he's told about chakra flow and that his natural flow follows the spiral in his hair. The way that it grows was the opposite of how he was trying to learn to control the energy.
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