I shall start this off. Recently, a study was done that reading about and learning Random Facts actually helps stimulate your brain and sharpen your awareness. It also enhances the part of your brain where you store memorized facts (theorums, foreign languages, etc.). Let's start getting smarter! :w00t:

That was a random fact, but here is my offical first one to start this thread rolling! (ok, maybe two or three, but please no more than three at a time! :D )

1) Swans are the only birds with penises. (I learned this at percussion practice tonight...ain't it crazy!?)

2) Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

3) Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.

can whales actualy jump? :blink:

statisticaly spacecraft is the safest way of transportation (it has both the least acidents and injuries/casualties per year) while bycicle is the most efficient one (goes furthest on the same amount of fuel)

can whales actualy jump? :blink:
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well, whales can propel them selves out of the water, and they classify that as jumping...

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

http://www.computercamps.com/compute...cweb14/bat.jpg

Isn't that cute! That's full grown!

One more random fact: The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

You can't determine safest form of transport on how many have died per year. It has to be done by ratio's, other than per year.

One random fact: The Sun never sets on the McDonalds Golden Arch. :tai: I'm not surprised.

always remeber what M Twain said about this:
there are lies, bald faced lies, and the are also statistics :D

it's quite obvous you can't measure safety in crashes per year (and that is aminly because the result is so absurd), but if you think about it you cant measue efficiency in calories/km eaither. why that would mean that any truck in existance is very ineficent! while toy cars are super efficient. after I told you that you'll porbly agree with me, right? I leave you to derive the fun fact out of this by yourself (if you can).

Click my signature for a random fact! You gotta love Wikipedia :P

...a link for those with sigs diabled!

my dsl speed doubled today.

If you cut the head off a cockroach, it will take aro und 9 days for the poor bugger to starve to death

the longest word you can type with just the first line of your keyboard is :Typewriter.
the biggest double-lettered(?) word in the english language is: bookkeeper
get it---b ookkee per
...i didnt know how else to explain it... :whistle:

The kid spends more calories running around pushing the truck while the truck driver just sits there pushing pedals hyped on pep pills?