Random facts

[Hansel.R]

Everybody could use random facts.

• You're slightly taller in the morning because your spine decompresses overnight.

 

[Scarselli.T]

Gelatin mixed with vitamin C (such as orange juice) heals your Achilles tendons. It's only that specific tendon and I have no idea why.
1 tablespoon of gelatin mixed with a glass of OJ a day... my PT wears by it.

 

[Hansel.R]

In the 1930's, a map-making company put a "phantom settlement" called Agloe on their map, a location that didn't really exist, but was included as a trap to catch anyone plagiarizing their work. Two decades later, Rand McNally put out a map that included Agloe as well, and the original company sought to sue them for plagiarism. However, to their astonishment, a tiny settlement had actually come together at that location and named themselves Agloe after seeing that name on the map.

 

[Hansel.R]

A group of owls is called a parliament.

 

[Dread.M]

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

 

[Mobius.T]

Lobsters have blue blood.

 

[Raptor.T]

While the plural of cactus is cacti, the plural of octopus is octopuses

 

[Dread.M]

The Eiffel Tower is taller in the summer than it is in the winter.

 

[LaCombe.M]

You've never seen a commercial for a microwave.

 

[Corbin.R]

You've never seen a commercial for a microwave.

Why would you put that out there in the universe? Now it's all I'm going to see!

 

[McKinley.S]

Human eyes dont grow, since you were born they have been the same size.

do with that what you will

 

[Hazen.D]

Cream of Wheat is flammable, and explosive when tightly packed. Reenactors pack cream of white on top of gunpoweder charges to get the boom that you would normally get from a gunpowder being packed behind a solid object being accelerated. No solid object, no boom from gunpowder. Instead, get boom from edible explosive.

 

[Marcum.J]

Cats in fact do meow

 

[Belmont.E]

Sapphires can come in practically any color, aside from red, because those are called rubies.

 

[Hansel.R]

Sea otters hold hands while sleeping to avoid drifting apart.

 

[Rush.J]

If the Sun disappeared we wouldn't know for 8 minutes because that's how long light takes to travel from the surface of the Sun to the surface of the Earth. And gravity moves at the speed of light. So nothing would change. For 8 minutes.

 

[Thumper.N]

No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter "a" in its word form, unless you write in the King's English....which to be fair is why we left Murica, but seriously you won't find "a" in there.

 

[Rush.J]

Cleopatra lived closer to the time of the iPhone than she did to the construction of the Pyramids

 

[Walker.TR]

The largest Sitka Spruce in the world is located in the Quinault Rainforest on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

 

[Hansel.R]

Discord has some of the worst customer service in existence.