Random Facts thread

The Lord of The Rings Movies are better then the Books (Sorry hipsters but they did a damn good job)

the male platypus has venom and clawed, webbed feet while all the female platypus does is lay eggs and look pretty.

also, to my great surprise, the plural for platypus is not platypi, like i initially thought, but platypuses. huh, who'd have thunk it.

You're more likely to get killed by an asteroid than you are to get killed by lightning. The chances of getting hit by lightning is 1 in 10million, while an asteroid's blast radius when it hits the earth is more than 2km wide and the shock of the impact is equivalent to 1million megatonnes of TNT. An asteroid hits earth every million years and we're overdue for one. The death toll from it could wind up into the billions.

Only 200 people were executed as a direct result of being accused of witchcraft in England between 1450 and 1750, and most of those were hangings and some of those were men. The rest were all acquitted of their "crimes". The popular perception is that 5million women were burned at the stake after being accused of witchcraft.


The true Number of the Beast is 616, not 666. The 2000 year-old belief that 666 was the real number of the devil was the result of a mistranslation in The Bible, which was discovered as such in 2005. Sorry Iron Maiden, you need to update your Number of the Beast song.

When you die, your hair will still grow for awhile.

Camel milk doesn't go sour.

Tigers have striped skin as well as striped fur.

Men and women weren't the only victims of the witch hunts, there are dogs that were executed.

Pencils never have, and never will, use lead.

The grey bit in the middle of the pencil is made of graphite.

When you get your head cut off, your brain dont die until a few seconds after the head cutting.

That Carlos Oliviera is in fact dead because all member of the U.B.C.S that were hospitalized was killed off by orders from Umbrella.

P.S. The live action Resident Evil, Apocalypse, Extinction, Afterlife, and Retribution (I know it is not out yet...)suck.

Red Bull is a copy of an already existing drink called Krating Daeng.

I have two hands.

and. let me guess. 2 feet.

It's like you have known me all my life.

66% of people kiss with their eyes closed.

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation

-The shape of a dog’s face suggests how long it will live. Dogs with sharp, pointed faces that look more like wolves typically live longer. Dogs with very flat faces, such as bulldogs, often have shorter lives
-The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100,000 times a day; 3,600,000 times a year; and 2.5 billion times during a lifetime.
-Every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 20 miles. In a lifetime, that is equivalent to driving to the moon and back.

In order to take radiography for your colon, they used to use a method that involved giving the patient an enema with a solution of barium, which was lucid to the X-Rays. In order for it to stick to the colon they also inserted air along with the enema. THANKFULLY new processes make this useless.

You can orgasm with a softy.

FACT : If you sneeze hard enough, you can fracture a rib. But try to suppress
a sneeze and you might rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and
drop dead.

FACT : Continuous farting for six years and nine months would create
energy equal to that of an atomic bomb.

Comedian/Actor Martin Lawrence was born in Germany.

I would've lost my head a thousand times already then.