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Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 6:51 am
by noreply66
The most abused drug in the world is caffeine.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:11 am
by noreply66
The longest distance ever traveled to buy a book is 3,950 miles. Emerson Spartz flew from Chicago to London to buy the 5th Harry Potter book.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 8:31 am
by noreply66
Wearing headphones for just one hour will increase the bacteria in your ear 700 times

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 6:25 am
by noreply66
Women apologize on average 5.2 times a day. Men 3.6 times.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 6:37 am
by noreply66
2003 was the year bootylicious and bitch-slap were added to the dictionary.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:39 am
by noreply66
Panama hats are actually made in Ecuador.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 6:56 am
by noreply66
More germs are transferred by shaking hands than by kissing.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 6:47 am
by noreply66
In 1885, the world's first skyscraper was built in Chicago.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:45 am
by noreply66
The chance that a dollar bill contains remnants of cocaine is 80%.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:27 am
by noreply66
It took 220 years after the pencil was invented for someone to invent the eraser.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:34 am
by noreply66
Studies have shown that when someone keeps a secret, they are physically burdened. Keeping a secret literally weighs you down.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 6:44 am
by noreply66
October the 12th is International Moment of Frustration Scream Day.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:06 am
by noreply66
hair and fingernails don't grow after death, but the illusion of skin tightening as the body dehydrated makes it appear so.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:39 am
by noreply66
Chocolate is proven to cause arousal similar to sexual foreplay.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 10:19 pm
by noreply66
Between 1848 and 1850, the population of San Francisco grew from 900 to 35,000 people thanks to the Gold Rush.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:10 am
by noreply66
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 7:06 am
by noreply66
If you wear a ring, the number of germs living beneath it could be as high as the entire population of Europe.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:24 am
by noreply66
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 6:44 am
by noreply66
Red hair is the rarest human hair color. Only one to two percent of the population are red-heads.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:06 am
by noreply66
The man who took the famous photo of the Wright Brothers' first flight had never seen a camera before that day.