Odd Fact Time

[swifty11212]

yet some people only use 512kb

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maybe the smart ones cuz theres alot of 1d10ts who seem to use 128k, and thats including 64kb of L2 cache

[Guest Flashstar]

Woman's basketball was invented in 1896. At that time, they used different rules and the court was smaller as well. Now, the only difference between men's and women's basketball is the weight of the ball.

[Nerm]

Basketball was invented in the United States in 1891.

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I wouldn't really consider that an odd fact. Heck I thought any average person knew that. lol

 

 

More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.

 

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans.

 

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

[lucky13*]

The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was replaced with a hamburger stand

 

There was a person that paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot

 

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation

 

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year

[LoArmistead]

"Soldiers disease" is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

 

Spontaneous human combustion is the process of the body's temperature becoming heated to the point that the body simply bursts into flame and incinerates. No one knows the actual cause of why this happens. Some blame a chemical reaction within the body, others blame supernatural causes.

 

 

Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published a novel called "Futility". The story was about an ocean liner that struck an iceberg on an April night. The name of the ship in his novel - The Titan.

 

When the U.S. War Department was established in 1789, there were 840 soldiers in the regular army. Their job was to supervise public lands and guard the indian frontier.

 

Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.

 

The first time an enormous amount of clothing was needed all at once was during the Civil War, when the Union needed hundreds of thousands of uniforms for its troops. Out of this need came the ready-made clothing industry.

[Mr_Yuck]

Americans choke on toothpicks more that anything else.

I had a toothpick in my mouth at the time of reading that, forgot about it and noticed that it was INSIDE my mouth, not even sticking out. It's in the garbage now

 

The dark shape in the wave in this photograph IS NOT a shark, it is actually a dolphin.

http://www.surfshooter.com/DolphinInfo.html

[BabyBalrog]

The movie Some Like It Hot was orriginally filmed in colour, but after Jack Limon saw his caracter in drag, he forced the studio to convert hte movie to black and white.

 

The largest privately owned Super computer in the world is in the Hands of Peter Jackson and the Weta Workshop, the people who brought you "THE LORD OF THE RINGS"

 

Georgia Tech was the first college in America to have a Naval ROTC

Last years average SAT score for freshmen at Tech was 1337 and boys averaged 200 points better then girls

 

It is illegal to shoot indians from the second story window of a hotel in Dallas, TX

 

An Icicle of normal sharpness has to fall over a meter to gain enough velocity to break through human skin

 

The Oldest Mardi Gras in america is in Mobile, AL

 

The Largest Peanut in america is in Plains, GA home of Jimmy Carter

 

Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing

 

The average human head weights 16lbs, or approximatly that of a bowling ball, and rest on the Atlas Bone which is only one inch wide, and the most often dislocated and least diagnosed injury in the human body

 

a giraffe only sleeps 16 mins a day

a dolphin never sleeps, instead it rest half its brain at a time.

An elephant sleeps 3 hours a day

A bullfrog does not sleep. At all.

 

in Japanese, the words for "4" and "death" are the same (shi)

In Japanese, the words for "9" and "pain" are the same (ku)

 

The first Western Product imported into Russia after the fall of the iron cutain was Pepsi cola

 

The average Human ear can discern sounds from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz in range, or about 10 octaves A trained Human ear can cover the Range 10 Hz to 80,000 Hz or 17 octaves

 

Almost everyone is double Jointed, they just haven't discovered what joint of theirs is special.

 

The citrus soda 7-Up was created in 1929.

[Nagash]

Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans.

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Aha! That's why there are so many scorpions in the Fallout series!

[Kash]

The dark shape in the wave in this photograph IS NOT a shark, it is actually a dolphin.

http://www.surfshooter.com/DolphinInfo.html

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It actually IS a shark. Look at the pointy shape of its head and the tail fin, which is paralell to it's dorsal fin, unlike a dolphin, where the tail fin is perpendicular to the dorsal fin.

[Hushplz]

It actually IS a shark. Look at the pointy shape of its head and the tail fin, which is paralell to it's dorsal fin, unlike a dolphin, where the tail fin is perpendicular to the dorsal fin.

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oWned!!!

[Guest Silenc3]

Cheese Nips, actually have Cheese in them.

[Phil]

It actually IS a shark. Look at the pointy shape of its head and the tail fin, which is paralell to it's dorsal fin, unlike a dolphin, where the tail fin is perpendicular to the dorsal fin.

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I've always assumed that "shark in wave" was photochopped. No?