Fact-ory Game

[SkyMunki]

For those random facts that you wanna blurt out.

(Or wanna find out, because you're either bored or weird. Or both.)

SO basically, if you've heard a fun, random fact from somewhere, just post it in here so people can read!

I'm gonna kick this off with one of my many strange facts...

Giraffe can't cough =(

[Star1228]

manatee's have toe-nails!!!!

[Sulvuss]

Silent hill is an actual town in america.

[SkyMunki]

Ooh, ohh, I got one.

A duck's quack doesn't echo and nobody knows why...

[hinata2000100]

Sarcasm enhances problem solving abilities.

[Duchess]

Only unmarked mute swans belong to the Queen in England, not 'all swans'.

'Auriga' is both the name for a constellation, a type of carriage, and a chauffeur in the Roman Empire.

Magdalen College in Oxford is pronounced 'Maudlin' and has a deer park as a (much treasured) part of the college.

[Star1228]

Hell is an actual town in Ohio

[HarringtonSleuth]

Hell is an actual town in Ohio

And Wyoming. Therefore, Hell freezes over annually.

Nintendo was actually formed in 1889 as a card-making company. They made Japanese playing cards called "hanafuda" and are used in a game popular in Japan where the goal is to score the most points by forming sets throughout the rounds of the game.

[Star1228]

The crime rate in America has gone down since around ten years ago, and we have a lower crime rate then 1963... back in 2009.

[TemplarFrost]

One-forth of the entire population of Mississippi is overweight.

[ustinodj]

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

[SkyMunki]

Hippopottomonstrosisquippedaliophobia is a fear of long words. No, I didn't copy paste that. It was in my spelling test the other day 0.o

[Star1228]

The word sinister comes from the latin meaning " Left-handed" So i guess they think i was possessed by the devil, since I happen to be lefty

[HarringtonSleuth]

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest possible amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

Ancient clans who wanted to rid themselves of unwanted people without killing them set their houses on fire instead. Hence the phrase "to get fired" and all tense variations and the connotation of the word "fired" when used to refer to business.

[TemplarFrost]

To be fully coordinated in both hands is called being ambidextrous. And to be lacking in coordination in both hands is a rare condition, called being ambisinister.

Pinkie Pie's family, are the names of the hostile ghosts in the game, Pac-Man. And Sue is the name of the Orange ghost in the Miss Pac-Man games, instead of Clyde.

Speaking of Pac-Man, the name was originally meant to be Puck-Man, but in fear that people would shave of the part of the "P" to make a swear, so they changed the name to Pac-Man

While on the topic of name changing, you know the famous pen company, Bic? It was originally spelled Bich, but when the company exported the product from Europe, to America, they changed the name, in fear that people would mispronounce the word, to another common swear-word.

Speaking of Words, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word located in a dictionary. The longest word in the english launguage is 189,819 letters long. It is the chemical name for Titin.

BTW, SkyMunki, the saying that a quack's quack cannot echo is a myth.

http://urbanlegends....-Quack-Echo.htm

[MyLittlePonyTales]

Horses can't throw up!