Useless Facts

[oWinqs]

it's easier to pick up a human leg with two hands, because of the fact that it is weighted differently on both sides

no comment i know weird things

 

[rosalinda316]

California is home to the oldest individual tree on Earth, a Great Basin bristlecone pine. It is 5,065 years old.
(there are clonal trees that are older)

 

[oWinqs]

Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.

 

[rosalinda316]

The common strawberry is an octaploid (it has 8 sets of chromosomes) resulting in 56 total chromosomes per cell (except for the pollen and egg cells, obviously)

 

[oWinqs]

Jeff Bezos makes an average of 275 million dollars a day.

 

[rosalinda316]

Eels have a set of pharyngeal jaws (second jaw) used to grasp, hold, and even help swallow prey. Think the Alien from... well, the Alien series.

 

[oWinqs]

There are approximately 8.7 billion animals on this earth.

 

[rosalinda316]

(And ants make up 15 to 25% of all land animal biomass, so 1.3 to 2.3 billion ants)

 

[oWinqs]

Cyprus has a map on its flag.

 

[Nezuko_Chan__]

it's easier to pick up a human head with two hands, because of the fact that it is weighted differently on both sides

no comment i know weird things

you lose, the fact before you gave this one was about heads, you gotta edit that fact

 

[lolol]

Golf balls can reach speeds of up to 170 miles an hour

 

[oWinqs]

you lose, the fact before you gave this one was about heads, you gotta edit that fact

Fixed haha

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen

 

[Nezuko_Chan__]

the avarage person blinks 15 times a minute

 

[oWinqs]

Madden 17 is the last of it's series that is playable on the Xbox 360.

 

[rosalinda316]

We have concrete evidence that Majungasaurus (a dino) was a cannibal

 

[oWinqs]

There will be a point in the universe where nothing will exist; no physical things, no light, no black holes, nothing. It will stay that way for all of eternity.

 

[rosalinda316]

A Cadillac LeMans at the 1955 Motor Review in Los Angeles, California was not only gold plated but included a portable phone, tv, and minibar. (These bonuses probably didn't help it to race, but it certainly looked good!)

 

[oWinqs]

The Latin calendar started in March, which is why "December" has to root "dece", because it was their tenth month.

 

[rosalinda316]

Ancient ice samples from glaciers contain air from the time they were formed and that's one of the ways we can figure out what the Earth's climate was like millions of years ago.

 

[oWinqs]

There are approximately 35 grams in one gummy vitamin.