Random Facts.

[thegoatgod]

I enjoy random facts. Feel free to share your random facts here. Feel free to call out random facts that you have proof of being wrong.

1st random fact.

More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day-most are no bigger than a speck of dust.

[thegoatgod]

The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.

[thegoatgod]

You are more likely to be struck by lightning than you are to be eaten by a shark.

[CoronaShark]

01 At the beginning of his career, Sherlock Holmes used cocaine

02 After the Mayflower was no longer needed, it was dismantled, and rebuilt as a barn.

03 The Eiffel Tower has 2.5 million rivets and 1792 steps

04 Little more than half of the people living in the U.S. would rather fold, than wad their toilet paper.

05 Life Savers™ candy was produced by a chocolate maker, to make up for the low chocolate sales in the summer.

06 The brain becomes inflamed with the condition encephalitis.

07 The first railroad bridge over the Mississippi River ran between Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa.

08 The earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

09 In a matter of seconds Zerah Colburn once correctly calculated the amound of seconds which had gone by since the birth of Christ.

10 An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger.

11 Elvis Presley was named a 'Special Federal Narcotics Agent' by Richard Nixon.

12 A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 2,000 years.

13 Shells were once used as currency in Africa

14 George Washington was the only president never to live in the District of Columbia.

15 Rome is also known as The Eternal City.

16 Two cups of butter is equal to one pound.

17 Beethoven's 9th Symphony was his interpretation of Schiller's Ode to Joy.

18 Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe was appointed chief of the Balloon Corps for the Union troops. (american civil war)

19 The letters of the alphabet in order of frequency of use are: ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ

20 The six most deadly battles all occured between October 1914, and March 1918.

21 The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object that can be seen without a telescope.

22 Steve Martin wrote a book called Cruel Shoes.

23 In chess, the white king starts on a black square.

24 A stretched out slinky is 87 feet long.

25 Shakespeare's longest play was Hamlet, followed by Richard III with only 15 fewer lines.



Sister sent these by email to me just two days ago....good timing

[tdparrothead]

I feel so edumacated now!!!

[Island_Lullaby]

40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.

Ants don’t sleep.

[ToplessRideFL]

40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
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[Wino you know]

The only active pitchers in Major League Baseball to have a victory over ALL 30 M.L. teams are Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling.

The co-M.V.P.s of the 2001 World Series were.................RANDY JOHNSON AND CURT SCHILLING.

The only players to be named World Series M.V.P. twice were Sandy Koufax (1963 & 1965), Bob Gibson (1964 & 1967), and Reggie Jackson (1973 & 1977). Jackson is the only one to win it with two different teams.

The only player on a losing team to be named World Series M.V.P. is Bobby Richardson (1960, Yankees vs. Pirates)

The 1960 World Series went 7 game. In those 7 games the Yankees scored a total of 55 runs. The Pirates scored 27 times.
The Pirates won the World Series.

The thing women lie about the most is their age.
The thing men lie about the most is their height.

The only U.S. Presidents to wear glasses are...........................
ALL of them.

[ragtopW]

The only active pitchers in Major League Baseball to have a victory over ALL 30 M.L. teams are Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling.

The co-M.V.P.s of the 2001 World Series were.................RANDY JOHNSON AND CURT SCHILLING.

The only players to be named World Series M.V.P. twice were Sandy Koufax (1963 & 1965), Bob Gibson (1964 & 1967), and Reggie Jackson (1973 & 1977). Jackson is the only one to win it with two different teams.

The only player on a losing team to be named World Series M.V.P. is Bobby Richardson (1960, Yankees vs. Pirates)

The 1960 World Series went 7 game. In those 7 games the Yankees scored a total of 55 runs. The Pirates scored 27 times.
The Pirates won the World Series.

The thing women lie about the most is their age.
The thing men lie about the most is their height.

The only U.S. Presidents to wear glasses are...........................
ALL of them.

you forgot the Cy Young one..

Gaylord Perry was the first to win the cy Young in both leagues.

[pbans]

40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

::Guilty::

[pbans]

Over 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their a$$es

[Wino you know]

40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

::Guilty::

And at least one likes to throw a pot of boiling milk when the guy she's doing the horizontal happy dance with calls her by the wrong name.
sorry about that, Betty.
OOPS! I mean KAREN.

[ragtopW]

40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

::Guilty::

And at least one likes to throw a pot of boiling milk when the guy she's doing the horizontal happy dance with calls her by the wrong name.

I learned early Honey Baby works fine..

Baby doll also works.

[bravedave]

A) Glass is a fluid that will, over long periods of time, show the effect of gravity by "dripping."

B) Your elbow tastes different than any other part of your body.

C) Butterflies taste with their feet.

D) The longest English word that contains only one vowel is "strengths."

[buffettbride]

i don't like tomatoes

[bravedave]

Who just tried to taste their elbow?



















Who just tried to get someone else to taste their elbow?















Who just checked their glass?

[live2ski]

Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd.

[live2ski]

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

[rsgeist]

40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

40% of men have hurled after a woman removed her shoes.

[El mojito]

Coca Cola was originally Green