Random Fact!

DampCat · 24 Sep 2009 at 18:02

Pish said:
Did these stairs at the weekend and almost died, im so unfit

OT : If you put a pot of blood in a maze and release a leach, it will eventually find the blood. Liquidize that leach and feed it to other leaches, they can find the blood in the same maze almost instantly, due to chemical memory

Quoted from Ricky Gervais

Nice fact, but Ricky Gervais also said the Daddy Long Legs (Cranefly) has the most potent venom of any animal but no way to administer it, which i'm afraid to say is a load of twaddle

Nick1881 · 24 Sep 2009 at 18:07

Random fact: I'm a pervert

MonkeyNews · 24 Sep 2009 at 18:47

Ciphon said:
Just read the whole post since I posted my last comment quickly...

1. Is this by Human, or by other Howler Monkeys?

2. Any source on this?

3. Fact: I only just realized both posts I'm quoting are by Fishfingers

1. This is done by scientific equipment scanning all frequencies, the human ear wouldn't be reliable enough.

2. China has over 300m English speakers including learners, USA has over 250m,it was on QI so inscrutable in its factness

3. Yeah you bully

Django x2 · 24 Sep 2009 at 18:58

The seconds hand of a clock with low battery will always get stuck in the last 30 seconds of the minute usually around the 45 second mark due to gravity.

gillywibble · 24 Sep 2009 at 21:59

The Mariana Trench is 36,201 feet deep at it's deepest point, known as the 'Challenger Deep'.

The pressure at this depth is 1100 times that at the surface.

typk · 24 Sep 2009 at 22:01

DampCat said:
Random Facts please!

##Spiral Staircases in the UK always spiral upwards to the right (clockwise).

Originates from the days of defending castles from an attack. Attackers would be forced to use their left hand for their sword when ascending the stairs, whilst defenders would have full use of their right hand to swing downwards with.

Possibly true with all countries, however i'm not qualified to suggest it as a fact.

btw mine goes anti clockwise.

semi-pro waster · 24 Sep 2009 at 23:00

Fishfingers said:
The five interlocking Olympic rings are black, blue, red, white and yellow because at least one of these colors appears on every national flag.

Err, are you sure about that random fact? I reckon there is a green ring in there although you are correct if you include the white background.

Random fact: Poison arrow frogs as a grouping covers anywhere in the region of 170 separate species and they don't create the poisons for which they are named themselves but instead concoct them from chemicals in their prey.

SexyGreyFox · 25 Sep 2009 at 00:01

Disco Boy said:
the largest percentage killer of teenage girls is their boyfriends' driving.

Because the boy turns away from the collision and put's the passenger in line.

Haggisman · 25 Sep 2009 at 00:19

Ducks can't walk backwards.

You can use this fact to catch a duck by digging a downward sloping trench which is just wide enough for a duck to walk into, and leaving bread at the bottom. The duck walks down to eat the bread, and is then stuck at the bottom.

Cybermyk · 25 Sep 2009 at 00:27

Numerous studies on statistics have shown that accurate figures are no better than the ones that have been made up.

Bevysters · 25 Sep 2009 at 01:48

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.

silversurfer · 25 Sep 2009 at 02:39

Every day for the last two years USA government has overspent another 3.8bn dollars. Running total amount owed is 11.8 trillion dollars or $38,000 for every man, woman and child

Uk equivalent is £1000 per person owed apparently

http://brillig.com/debt_clock/

MonkeyNews · 25 Sep 2009 at 06:54

semi-pro waster said:
Err, are you sure about that random fact? I reckon there is a green ring in there although you are correct if you include the white background.

Yes you are absolutely correct, that should have been green not white, im Internet colourblind so sometimes I type the wrong colour.

Fact: The asteroid Cruithne's aphelion is 1.51 AU and its perihelion is 0.484 AU

SteveOBHave · 25 Sep 2009 at 07:11

gillywibble said:
The Mariana Trench is 36,201 feet deep at it's deepest point, known as the 'Challenger Deep'.

The pressure at this depth is 1100 times that at the surface.

The last time someone went to the bottom of it was in 1960 in the Bathyscaphe Trieste designed by the Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard . On January 23, 1960, Trieste reached the ocean floor in the Challenger Deep (the deepest southern part of the Mariana Trench), carrying Jacques Piccard (son of Auguste) and Lieutenant Don Walsh.

Cool fact for Trekkies - ever the explorer!

gillywibble · 25 Sep 2009 at 07:51

SteveOBHave said:
The last time someone went to the bottom of it was in 1960 in the Bathyscaphe Trieste designed by the Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard . On January 23, 1960, Trieste reached the ocean floor in the Challenger Deep (the deepest southern part of the Mariana Trench), carrying Jacques Piccard (son of Auguste) and Lieutenant Don Walsh.

Cool fact for Trekkies - ever the explorer!

No, they went back THIS YEAR!

Parmesan · 25 Sep 2009 at 07:58

The majority of toilets in the world flush to the tone of E Flat....

grudas · 25 Sep 2009 at 08:05

batman. accidentally a whole coca cola bottle

mac1st3 · 25 Sep 2009 at 08:18

Donald Duck was banned sin Sweden because he doesn't wear trousers

Rayman was banned in Japan because he wears purple (the colour of death in Japan) and has 3 fingers on his hands (A symbol of the Japanese Yakuza triad)

Tom0 · 25 Sep 2009 at 08:21

Most tortoise shell cats are female. Very rare to find one that is male.

DampCat · 25 Sep 2009 at 08:28

SteveOBHave said:
The last time someone went to the bottom of it was in 1960 in the Bathyscaphe Trieste designed by the Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard . On January 23, 1960, Trieste reached the ocean floor in the Challenger Deep (the deepest southern part of the Mariana Trench), carrying Jacques Piccard (son of Auguste) and Lieutenant Don Walsh.

Cool fact for Trekkies - ever the explorer!

Is that where they got the name from? I did always wonder!