Random facts you know.

There's more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the observable universe.

 

There is a law in Alaska making it illegal to intentionally avoid the cracks in the sidewalk. The real question is, though: Why the heck is that a law?

 

I would just like to say beforehand that I wish I didn't know this, sometimes friends say things you don't want to hear like:
mice have bigger sperm than elephants
Random: Yes
Pointless: Yes

 

A duck's quack doesn't echo...no idea why I know that but what the heck

 

The first website went live on August 6, 1991. The first internet browser was the World Wide Web.

 

Mad World was originally recorded by Tears For Fears. Check it out, it puts the Gary Jules cover to shame.

 

52! is roughly 8.07 * 10^67.
The number of atoms in the observable universe is roughly 10^80.

 

Kangaroos have 3 vaginas.

 

Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
Ow. Ow. Ow. SCREW THIS! I'M USING A TREADMILL!

 

A 7x7 Rubik's cube has more individual combinations than the number of atoms in eight universes.

 

giraffes have blue tongues

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The deepest part of the ocean is around 10,900m deep or 10.9 km

deep sea animals tend to get a lot larger than the same kinds of animals in shallow water. It's called deep sea gigantism. An example of this is the giant squid that has been estimated to grow up to 12 - 14 meters.

(I watched a documentary on the ocean the other day)

 

When you starve yourself, your brain cells get hungry and eat themselves.

Octopi have three hearts, but one or two (I can't remember) stop working when they swim so that's why octopi crawl around a lot.

If you really wanted to, you could actually build a bridge from New York to London made out of legos and sealant.

John Watson was introduced to Sherlock Holmes by Mike Stamford.

 

Cockroaches can live up to a week without a head because they breathe through holes in their body. They only die because they can't eat or drink anything

 

There is actually a FDA specified acceptable percentage level of rat waste in hot dogs, and that level is NOT 0%.

 

If you fold paper 42 times, you'll reach the moon.
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Baltic people freed themselves from SSSR by singing (Singing Revolution) and by creating a human chain more than 600 km long.
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If you believe that you are really one in a million, then there are approximately 7,5 people who are just like you.

 

Belarusian is the closest relative to Ukrainian
Hungrys language relatives are siberian and finnish
russian has the most amount of swear words in any language of the world
tribes in south Africa communicate by clicking

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Belarusian is the closest relative to Ukrainian
Hungrys language relatives are siberian and finnish
russian has the most amount of swear words in any language of the world
tribes in south Africa communicate by clicking

 

If you drop an egg, pour salt on it to clean it up. The salt helps the egg coagulate and it will be easier to handle.

 

Most car horns in the US honk in the key of F

 

I think about this fact literally every time I hear a car horn. And I'm pretty sure mine is higher-pitched.

Space fact! You don't get to orbit by going straight up, but rather by flying sideways really fast.