The Random Fact Club

[TheEvilGingivitis]

- Frankenstein's monster was named "Adam" in the original work.
-Einstein did well in school. He started the rumour that he was a failure himself in order to prove that genius can come from anywhere.
-Most tropical marine fish and survive in a tank filled with human blood.
-Organized crime makes up about ten percent of the United States income.
-The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
-Charles Schultz originally wanted to call "Peanuts" "L'il Folks", but it was changed by the syndacite to something "more dignified". He always resented the name because it had no meaning.
-There is only one line of non-bootleg "Calvin and Hobbes" shirts in the world, produced by an art museum and resembling a pop art painting.
-The Simpsons were orginaly coloured yellow to catch the attention of channel surfers.
-Al Capone's business card said "Used Furniture Salesman".
-In the Pokémon games, Machop and Omanyte have identical cries.
-The only word in the English language that ends in "-mt" is 'Dreamt'.
-Time magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1938 was Adolph Hitler.
-The full title of Frankenstein is "Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus".
-The tradition of putting buttons on coat and jacket sleeves was started by Frederick the Great of Prussia, to stop his soldiers from the unseemly habit of wiping their noses on their sleeves.
-When first investigated, hyenas were thought to be hermaphrodites.
-Theologian and author G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) always carried a sword cane as a walking stick in case he came upon a lady in need of defending.


Thread rules:
1) Facts must be true
2)Facts must not personal things like "my birthday is in twenty days" or something.
3) No joke facts
4)No responding to this by breaking all of the above rules at once for humour value.

[tmbg12]

-Non-dairy creamer is flammable
-Eyes change color after death, usually a greenish-blue
-Elvis Presley shared a bed with his mom until puberty
-Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors
-A mirage can be photographed
-Mr. Rogers took a morning swim every day in the nude
-Hawaiians once used coconut husks for toilet paper
-Camels have 3 eyelids
-Pope John Paul I once wrote a letter to Pinocchio
-Snakes can continue to bite after they're dead
-A female lobster is called a chicken
-A musk ox is actually a sheep
-George Washington liked to tell dirty jokes
-The Chicago River flows backwards
-Einstein never learned to drive
-Bram Stoker also wrote children's stories
-Pope John XXIII installed a bowling alley in the Vatican
-Vivien Leigh used her Oscar as a toilet paper holder
-The contents of King Louis XIV's chamber pot were noted daily and entered in a log book
-Fidel Castro was once offered a chance to pitch for the Yankees
I am a wealth of useless knowledge. I'll add more later.

[Captain Hot Stuff]

- Napoleon's severed and preserved penis was bought by an American at an auction last year.
- According to the Human Development Index, Norway is the best country in the world to live in. The US ranks 8th.
- An entire person's DNA strand will fit onto a standard CD.

I don't buy that stuff about tropical fish surviving in human blood. Also, everyone knows Adolf Hitler was Man in the Year in 1938 - as well he should have been, since the "honour" goes to the person who has influenced the events of that year for better or worse. They chickened out in 2001 and gave it to Guliani when it should have gone to bin Laden.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

-Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors

yeah, no, he didn't. he may've made improvements but scissors in general have been around for centuries before, wikipedia is cool.

and i was gonna mention the man of the year thing too, but fuck beaten. stalin has won multiple times. and ayatollah khomeini. it's not like a father of the year award or nothin.

-genius mathemetician paul erdos died a virgin because he was too fucking awesome for sex

[Andy]

too bad he has never multiplied

[tmbg12]

-Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors

yeah, no, he didn't.

Well, fuck. On the plus side, however, that's only one proven wrong.

[Shamrock]

-Non-dairy creamer is flammable

I knew this one from experience.

[webber]

-The Chicago River flows backwards

What do you mean by this? It flows inland from the ocean?

[Mike]

From Lake Michigan. Artificially, not by some ungodly miracle of nature.

Explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River

[Andy]

On that note:

-Only two rivers in the world flow North, the St. Johns in Florida and the Nile in Egypt.

[Whittle]

how can you photograph a mirage?

[Alan]

Well mirages are basically bent light rays that create images that the human mind can perceive as something different than what it really is. So a camera can pick it up as well. Most people think mirages are things like oases in the desert that aren't actually there, but that's just a common interpretation usually used in cartoons.

[Dan P]

-More people visit Las Vegas every year than Mecca.
-Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band won the World Pipe Band Championships last year, for their 5th championship.
-David Bowie's son Zoe Bowie attended the College of Wooster in Ohio under the alias "Duncan Jones"
-Richard III of England did not have anything to do with the dissappearance/murder of his two nephews in the tower, contrary to popular belief. It has been discovered that he would have had nothing to gain from the boys' elimination, and was likely arranged by his successor Henry VII.
-Officer Koharski in Wayne's World was named after a current NHL referee Don Koharski who was told to "have another donut" by angry New Jersey Devils head coach Jim Schoenfeld in 1988.
-Kurt Cobain regularly carried around the novel "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind in his back pocket, and wrote the song Scentless Apprentice about it.

[James]

-David Bowie's son Zoe Bowie attended the College of Wooster in Ohio under the alias "Duncan Jones"

hahahah, jesus, wouldn't you?

[Neil]

On that note:

-Only two rivers in the world flow North, the St. Johns in Florida and the Nile in Egypt.

I don't think this is correct. The Monongahela River flows north, and so does one of its tributaries (Youghiogheny). I believe there are others.

[Kristen]

well David Bowie's real name is David Jones. I would also change my name if I had the same name as the guy from the Monkeys.

[Shamrock]

The 46th word from the begining of Psalms 46 from the King James version of the Bible is "shake" and the 46th word from the end of the psalm is "spear". The King James version of the Bible is believed to have come out when Shakespeare was 46 years old.

[Captain Hot Stuff]

On that note:

-Only two rivers in the world flow North, the St. Johns in Florida and the Nile in Egypt.

Yeah, that's not true.

http://www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/rivers.html

YOU ARE HEREBY EXPELLED FROM THE RANDOM FACT CLUB

[Andy]

Fucking Florida school system. They have had me believing that for years. Jackasses.

[More Like]

-The only word in the English language that ends in "-mt" is 'Dreamt'.

watch for those front-hooks, boi