Random fact of the Day

[armbarchris]

you can be fined for not flushing a public toilet in Singapor.

We should have that law here.

[Kingale]

In NZ you are fined if you are drugged up and driving. The thing with this law is that its only been introduced this year lol.

[King Dylan]

Woops, almost forgot:

November 30

If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.

December 1

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

December 2

If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A".

December 3

Cats can hear ultrasound.

[Pieman]

•The average American eats six slices of pie per year.

•The term "as American as apple pie" traces back to 14th century England. The Pilgrims brought their pie-making skills, along with the apple seeds to America. As the popularity of apple pie spread throughout the nation, the phrase grew to symbolize American prosperity.

•Before pie was America's favorite dessert, fruit pies were commonly eaten as part of breakfast in the 19th century.

•Other names for a pie are: pastie, oggie, piraski, piragie, patty and pierogi. More common names include: streusel, tart, turnover and crumble.

•The term "upper crust" refers to early America when the economy was difficult and supplies were hard to come by. Only affluent households could afford ingredients for both the upper and lower crusts of a pie; thus, the term "upper crust" was born.

•Shoo-fly pie is a molasses pie that was originally used to sit on windowsills to attract flies away from the kitchen.

•The American Pie Council is the an organization committed to preserving America's pie heritage and promoting Americans' love of pie.

● If you lined up the number of pies sold at U.S. grocery stores in one year, they would more than circle the globe.

● The wealthy English were known for their "Surprise Pies" from which live creatures would pop out when the pie was cut open.

● Pumpkin pie was first introduced to the holiday table at the Pilgrims' second Thanksgiving, in 1623.

● One out of four Americans prefers apple pie, followed by pumpkin or sweet potato (17 percent), anything chocolate (14 percent), lemon meringue (11 percent) and cherry (10 percent).

● Three out of four Americans prefer homemade pie.

[my13hands13]

[/B][/B]the math symbol pie has been acurately calculated to 1,241,100,000,000 decimal places.

every person sheds about 4 pounds of skin in a lifetime on average

111,111,111x111,111,111=12,345,678,987,654,321

besides humans, elephants are the only other land creatures that can cry

more types of fish swim in the brazilian river than in the entire atlantic ocean

in a group of 23 people, there is a very high probility that at least two people have the same birthday

a tight rope walker is called a funambilist

a shrimps heart is in its head

in ancient egypt, people shaved their eyebrows when their cats died

the earliest toilet paper was used by chinese emperors~each sheet was 2 x 3 feet

forty is the only number with letters in alphabetical numbers while one is the only letter that goes in the opposite direction

the dot above the "i" is called a tittle

ancient egyptians used rocks as pillows

if you tried to count once every second~it would take 31688 years to count to one trillion

no word in the english language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple

some ancient rome statues' heads could be replaced with other statues' heads

the opposite sides of a die add up to 7

the shortest word with all five vowels in order is aerious

your ears never stop growing

googol has 100 zeros

camels were imported into canada during a mid-19th century gold rush

[Ruyuk]

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

Ants never sleep.

No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".

The human brain is 80% water.

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

There are 86,400 seconds in day.

A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.

Singapore has only one train station.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.

Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.

Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.

Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.

Canada is an Indian word meaning ''Big Village''.

Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

Common pesticides such as roach, termite, and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans.

Crayola is a French word that means ''Oily chalk.''

[Pieman]

Random Fact:

It's my birthday!
I turned 107!!!

*Dies*

[Diamondragan]

The soft drink Coke is green until they add caramel coloring.

[devis666]

here is a fact I B awesome

[killerson]

in idaho it used to be illegal to fish from the back of a girafe.
it used to be a law in alabama that a woman wasnt allowed to drive a car unless a man was walking in front of her waving two red flags.

killerson is such a big nerd he has memorised pie
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