Weird Facts

[neomattlac]

Buddha's real name is Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha, and isn't the big guy everyone thinks he is, but rather the skinnier figure with "beady" hair.

[Viridian]

I remember reading Siddhartha.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

[neomattlac]

So what?
The banana tree is actually a grass and typically only makes one bunch of bananas in it's lifetime.
The betel nut from India is typically called the "happy nut" because chewing it for 20-30 minutes gives you the feeling equivalent to drinking 30 milliliters of whiskey.

[Viridian]

XD so giving you random facts about me in the random fact thread.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

[neomattlac]

That makes sense.
Also, Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

[littl3chocobo]

you jerk XD that was /my/ random fact

a fish's age can be measured by marks on it's scales like the rings on trees

[neomattlac]

The average that says that people forget 40% of what they learned in a week, is actually wrong because it varies from person to person so much. The truth is that it goes from 0% to 98%.

[Viridian]

Did you know a person can be right twenty times in a day if they are asked the same question, and that question is 'What time is it?'

[neomattlac]

What? How?
Did you know that people are social creatures, and may begin to hallucinate other people if separated from other people for a long enough time. Of course, this idea was never tested.

[Viridian]

I think its based on what happens when they put people in solitary confinement.

XD and if you ask what time is it, you will get correct answer. Unless that persons watch is fast.

And... Mameshiba!
did you know an ostriches brain is smaller then its eye, so it usually forgets what it just learned?

[neomattlac]

I think I have this fact right.
8 out of 10 people with internet access at work has accessed at least one porn site.
Also: 42 half-hour sessions (or 21 hour-long sessions) of sex can burn more than 3,570 total calories, which is enough to shed a full pound.

[killerkitty]

That's... kinda creepy. o_o

Pokémon was originally a video game, which then turned into the series. (Something I only recently found out.)

[neomattlac]

I've known that.
There have been 28 Godzilla movies made since 1954.

[Beri]

Honey is in fact Bee vomit. Tasty bee vomit!

[Viridian]

There are men standing outside of my window xD
but more importantly!

The word “dream” is most likely related to the West Germanic draugmus, (meaning deception, illusion, or phantom) or from the Old Norse draugr (ghost, apparition) or the Sanskrit druh (seek to harm or injure).