So I searched for a thread like this and came up empty so I thought maybe I'll start one. Hopefully everyone can post here his own peculiar "did you know?" fact. Let me start. Did you know that the probability that a thunderbolt hits a man is 6 times the one to hit a woman? Did you know that if you screamed nonstop for 8 years, 7 minutes and 6 days you would have created enough energy to heat up a cup of coffee? Did you know that I have nothing better to do than translate these things from my languege to english? Did you know that it's impossible to sneeze while your eyes are open? (I've tried it. It is true) Did you know that a goldfish memory lasts for 3 seconds? Did you know that you can't kill yourself by holding your breath? Did you know that there is a town in Norway called "Hell"? Did you know butterflys use their feet to smell? Did you know that when asked to say a color 2 out of 5 people say red? Did you know cat's pee glows in the dark? Did you know that 9,000,000 people have the same birthday as yours? Did you know that the oldest peice of gum is 9,000 years old? Did you?
Did you know that twice the circumference of the footprint of an Asian elephant is its height at the shoulder? That the official summer sport of Canada is lacrosse? That part of the reason Napoleon lost in Russia was that he was using an early canning system with lead, and the soldiers were poisoned? That there are two kinds of orcas-residents, which live in large groups and eat only fish, and transients, which live in small pods and eat exclusively mammals? That the wood of the red ironwood tree is too dense to float? That horses were likely first domesticated as crippled mares being bred for meat? That when a rabbit is giving birth, it's called kindling? I've been called the person of random facts and useless knowledge before...
With a population of 6,000,000,000 that would be nearer 16,000,000.... Did you know there are nine-million bicycles in Bejing Did you know that wherever I lay my hat that's my home Did you know that since 2004 Alanis Morrisette has changed the words in Ironic to be "It's meeting the man of my dreams /And then meeting his beautiful husband" Did you know that nothing in Ironic is Irony? Did you know that on 2nd June 1975 a cricket match was interrupted when 3cm of snow fell on the pitch in the afternoon while Lancashire were playing Derbyshire?
