The Fun Fact Thread

Originally Posted by 8bit

Oh thanks, I forgot about that.

Voted for the Freeman.

Originally Posted by KillerKat55

This is so not true. I've seen some awful ass bathrooms in my times. And I've had to use woman's bathroom before. They are always cleaner. (Though I can't say I've used that many of them). They also have more soap in them. But in general public bathrooms are filthy anyway.

That theater's bathroom in that old mall in Casa Grande. Uh.... The floors were sti—the walls were ye—the ceiling was patchy—the toilets were nas—

"You can't kill yourself by holding your breath." I didn't believe it until I thought about it. Can't hold your breath after you pass out.

You can kill yourelf by holding your breath in the water, though.

I like turtles.

Fun fact: Evolution is an islamo-fascist funded myth and the gays caused Katrina.

Originally Posted by 8bit

Fun fact: Evolution is an islamo-fascist funded myth and the gays caused Katrina.

This.

Originally Posted by Valhelm

You can kill yourelf by holding your breath in the water, though.

Of course.

"A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!" Hot.

A plane flying at two hundred feet and mach 1.06+ has the potential to break a window in a house. (Mythbusters, anyone?)

Originally Posted by Astarael

...are you sure anyone's actually ever been killed by a champagne cork?

Maybe if the champagne cork was really agitated, and was shot at close-range...

Originally Posted by Hell Hawk

Dick Chaney wasn't the first Vice President to shoot somebody; Vice President Aaron Burr shot and mortally wounded former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804.

Baron Brrr?

Originally Posted by 8bit

Define 'briskly'.

Well, the true funfact is that the population of China could walk past you in a line 8 people wide, but I was unsure of the number, so I just reduced it to one person wide, and made them wlk a bit faster.

Originally Posted by Homosexual

It takes one week to make a jellybean. So I've heard.

They've made Jalapeno-flavoured jellybeans. I've had one. It was embarrassing.

Originally Posted by Double A

They've made Jalapeno-flavoured jellybeans. I've had one. It was embarrassing.

Oh my.

Oh my, those Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans were the ****ing greatest!

Originally Posted by 8bit

Fun fact: Evolution is an islamo-fascist funded myth and the gays caused Katrina.

Everyone knows it was the blacks that caused Katrina. Silly 8bit.

Funfact: Nuytsia floribunda is a parasitic plant found in Western Australia. The species is known locally as the Christmas Tree, displaying bright orange flowers during the Christmas season.

Nuytsia floribunda is well known in Southwest Australia, where it is named the Christmas tree, the common name outside of this region is Western Australian Christmas tree. The appearance of abundant flowers in summer is a spectacular display. Cultivation of the species is regarded as difficult, with little success outside of its native habitat.

The habit of the species is a tree up to 10 m high, or as a shrub. The rough bark is grey-brown. Flowers are a vivid yellow-orange, appearing between October and January. It is a root hemiparasite, is photosynthetic and mainly obtains water and mineral nutrients from its hosts. The haustoria arising from the roots of Nuytsia attach themselves to roots of many nearby plants and draw water and therefore nutrients from them. Almost all species are susceptible to attack, haustoria have even been found attached to underground cables. In natural settings Nuytsia withdraws relatively little from each individual host, but is attached to so many other plants that the benefit to this parasitic tree is likely to be considerable.

It appears on a variety of soil types throughout Southwest Australia, the distribution of the species extends to the east of the Esperance Plain and to the north on the Geraldton Sandplains.

A member of the Loranthaceae, a mistletoe family of Santalales, the genus Nuytsia is monotypic. The first description of Nuytsia floribunda was published by Jacques Labillardière in Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen, as a species of Loranthus, the specific epithet describing the profuse flowers he would have observed at Esperance. The botanist Robert Brown published a remark on the species in 1831, giving a new genus name without a formal description. The description was published by George Don using Brown's name Nuytsia, an epithet that commemorates the seventeenth-century Dutch explorer and colonial official Pieter Nuyts.

The Nyungar people made use of the species during Kambarang, occurring sometime between October and early December, obtaining bark for use as shields. The gum that exudes from the wound can be collected later, it is sweet and eaten raw.

Originally Posted by Homosexual

Oh my, those Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans were the ****ing greatest!

Yeah, but they were colored.

Originally Posted by Flames of Valor

Everyone knows it was the blacks that caused Katrina. Silly 8bit.

Them is some crazy African-Americans.

Originally Posted by 8bit

Yeah, but they were colored.