Random facts

You have more bacteria in and on your body that cells in your body.

FACT: @SadisticPeppers hasn't posted a "Random Fact" in almost 9 years! Just sayin...

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Science Fact: Water ice fulfills the primary requirements to be classified as a crystalline mineral. It has a known chemical structure, with a regular, repeating pattern in its solid form, and will return to its solid structure when cooled down from its liquid or gaseous states.

Religious fact: Under Vatican Law, after the pope's election, he can no longer be an organ donor.

Population fact: Approximately 90% of the world's population lives north of the Equator.

Presidential fact: Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.

Geography fact: The entire country of Monaco can fit inside Central Park, with room to spare

Fear Fact: Allodoxaphobia is the fear of others' opinions.

Animal fact: As they are considered some of the earliest evolved mammals still alive, the platypus never evolved distinct mammary glands to produce milk. Instead, it simply sweats milk for its young.

Sound Fact: An anechoic chamber is considered the most sound-proof place known. It is so quiet inside one that people have been known to literally hear their own heart beating, and some people have reported hallucinations while inside.

Medical fact: It is entirely possible for a woman to not even know she is pregnant until she goes into labor. Known as a cryptic pregnancies, in approximately 1in 500 cases, the woman will not even know until she's already in the 3rd trimester, and in 1 in 2500 cases, she won't know she is pregnant until she goes into labor.

Sleep fact: You are more likely to remember a dream if you are chronically sleep deprived

Physics fact: Physicists have estimated the minimum lifespan of an electron to be approximately 5 quintillion times the current age of the Universe

Alcohol fact: In order to be legally called tequila under Mexican law, it must be distilled from the heart (otherwise known as the pina) of the blue agave plant.

SadisticPeppers said:

Alcohol fact: In order to be legally called tequila under Mexican law, it must be distilled from the heart (otherwise known as the pina) of the blue agave plant.

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Grammar fact: the heart of the agave is called piña, with tilde, because pina is something else. It's the same for jalapeño, @ that tilde, because jalapeno sounds like jalapene - pull d1ck.

In the Christian religion a widow's husband cannot remarry.

Word fact: The word "oxymoron" is itself an oxymoron. It derives from the Greek words "Oxy" meaning sharp, and "moron" meaning stupid.

You just breathed in a few of the 25 sextillion oxygen molecules expelled by Julius Caesar in his last breath as he was stabbed by Brutus and co-conspirators.

City fact: Chicago received the nickname "The Windy City" not because it's windier than average compared to other cities. It received the nickname because of Chicago politicians' perception as windbags. The city is also called "The Second City" from the city's revitalization after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

SadisticPeppers said:

Word fact: The word "oxymoron" is itself an oxymoron. It derives from the Greek words "Oxy" meaning sharp, and "moron" meaning stupid.

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In the forces we used to call an intelligence officer an oxymoron

Animal fact: A Blue Whale's heart only beats once every 6-10 seconds, and the contraction is so intense, the sound can be heard for several kilometers underwater.