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cheatsman99

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Random facts I came across.

I found some random and interesting facts while surfing the internet randomly. Here they are: I will add more later on.

Snails breathe through their feet. Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day. The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms. The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees Fº. Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter. All species of beetles are edible. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt" The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts. Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'

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JadElClemens

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Re: Random facts I came across.

Snails breathe through their feet.

Their entire body is practically a foot.

Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.

Source?

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

Believable.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

Believable.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Believable.

The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms.

"And sometimes 'y'"
Is a stupid rule (it should be "always"), but it has a vowel regardless.

The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees Fº.

Believable.

Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter.

Source?

All species of beetles are edible.

Every species of anything is edible, but it's probably not advisable most of the time.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

Believable.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven

That was on purpose, I'm sure.

Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

Believable. Not so much because of the 'coconuts' part, but because of the 'sharks' part.

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

Believable.

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cheatsman99

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Re: Random facts I came across.

http://www.funfunnyfacts.com/

Last edited by cheatsman99 (Feb 9 2012 9:02:20 pm)

Maikel

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Re: Random facts I came across.

I bet people will google how to turn peanut butter into diamonds in hopes of making millions.

Which won't happen.

To turn peanut butter into diamonds requires a TON of pressure.

SIRHANDLE

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Re: Random facts I came across.

ooooh 1bigsmile1 these are wierd facts. I never knew snails breathed out of there feet XD .

Last edited by SIRHANDLE (Feb 9 2012 10:28:23 pm)

Ratburntro44

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Re: Random facts I came across.

It would also be theoretically possible to turn anything into anything if we had the right machines. But we don't. Too bad.

a3person

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Re: Random facts I came across.

If everyone turned peanut butter into diamonds the value of diamonds becomes the value of peanut butter and no one becomes rich.

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Ratburntro44

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Re: Random facts I came across.

I would already rather have peanut butter than diamonds anyways.

cheatsman99

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Re: Random facts I came across.

Now I could go for a PB and J sammich. >.<

a3person

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Re: Random facts I came across.

I would already rather have peanut butter than diamonds anyways.

Me 2. Anymore random facts? We want an update.

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SHINee

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Re: Random facts I came across.

A beam of light would take about 100,000 years to cross the Milky Way from one side to the other.

All of the stars comprising the Milky Way galaxy revolve around the centre of the galaxy once every 200 million years or so.

If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

The centre of the Milky Way is about 25,000 light years away from us.

The Milky Way is sometimes described as looking like two fried eggs back to back.

The Milky Way slowly spins as it moves through space like a giant cartwheel.

There are over 100 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.

We cannot see the centre of the Milky Way.

xputnameherex

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Re: Random facts I came across.

These are either terribly uninteresting or obviously false.

Kaslai

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Re: Random facts I came across.

From a purely technical viewpoint, you can make a diamond from any carbon compound, such as peanut butter. The problem lies in the strange nature of the diamond lattice and the structure of the carbon atom. You can only get carbon close enough to bond into a diamond lattice at extreme temperatures and pressures. If I had the machinery, I could turn my next door neighbor in to a huge diamond, too.

Deetz

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Re: Random facts I came across.

Fact: a sextal-billillion is a number with 63 0's (or something like that)

Fact: if you took a tour through space placing a 0 every inch, you would cross the milky way before you placed enough 0's to equal a googoplex.

Fact: The smallest country is only 0.7 square miles big and it's Vatican City.

Source: A book of facts, duh.