Random Knowledge / Facts

Ciphon · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:21

Well.. The idea is just to spout off some sort of Random Knowledge or Fact..

I'll start with a few I've found...

There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, gum).

There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.

Every northern state in the United States has a Springfield

dangerstat · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:23

The RAF's Red Devils fly from RAF Scampton

UKDTweak · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:24

you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And reolving at nine thousand miles an hour.
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

tisonlyme · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:25

Broccoli is toxic to dogs

Beren · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:25

An Ariel Atom accelerates from 0-60 in 3.5 seconds.

Ciphon · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:25

UKDTweak said:
you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And reolving at nine thousand miles an hour.
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

That's really cool... I'm also a little scared now lol.

eddiemcgarrigle · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:27

The speed of gravity is 9.81 metres per second.

UKDTweak · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:27

There's more...

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

tisonlyme · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:28

UKDTweak said:
There's more...

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

I feel so small

Beren · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:29

Aluminium is the most abundant metal in the earths crust making up 8.3% of the total by weight.

:edit: UKDTtweak wins hands down though

UKDTweak · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:31

tisonlyme said:
I feel so small

Remember,

When you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's * all down here on Earth!

Jokester · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:31

eddiemcgarrigle said:
The speed of gravity is 9.81 metres per second.

Gravity doesn't have a speed (other than it's effects are believed to propagate out at the speed of light). The acceleration due to Earth's gravity though is approximately 9.81m/s2 though this varies with where you are on the surface.

Andr3w · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:32

If you are in the RAF age 18-25 and male you are 4times more likely to have a car accident than anybody else :eek:

(Seriously)

Fothsn · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:35

By 1922, the British Empire held sway over a population of about 458 million people, one-quarter of the world's population,[1] and covered more than 14,000,000 square miles (36,260,000 km²): approximately a quarter of Earth's total land area.[2] As a result, its political, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire" because its span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous territories.

See where I got my sig from!

Davy644 · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:35

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot

Sink into quicksand. (GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER?? )

gumbald · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:36

eddiemcgarrigle said:
The speed of gravity is 9.81 metres per second.

Acceleration due to gravity is 9.81m/s/s.

Bah, beaten.

Greenlizard0 · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:39

Some facts but probably well known by now :

A decimal error was made such that spinach was deemed far healthier than it really is (cue Popeye)..

Santa Claus and his red coat etc., wasn't created for a marketing campaign by Coca Cola.

There are six states of matter : solid, liquid, gas, bose einstein condensates and filament and plasma.

Baz · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:48

A cat with butter on it's back will NOT spin indefinately when dropped.....

An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.

Westie · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:50

there is only one of me on this planet!

K.C. Leblanc · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:52

The Christmas Tree was introduced to England by Prince Albert.

Maine is the only single syllable State in the USA.

Volvo patented the three point seat belt, but permitted it's use without licence due the number of lives it would save.

R2D2 is the only part played by the same person in all 6 Star Wars films.

Leonard Nimoy is the only member of the regular original Star Trek cast who appeared in the Pilot Episode.