A standard Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions.

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein

These were some of the interesting thinks I found on http://www.amusingfacts.com/

The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.

The wheelbarrow was invented by the Chinese.

Hitler was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.

The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.

Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow.

The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.

Anarchemitis:
Post your random pieces of trivia no one else would know because you somehow managed to find it.

The shortest peice of music known is by Walking Concert titled Run to Be Born. The track is 8 seconds long.

That's not the shortest. Napalm Death have a song that is a second long

The Peninsula Yucatan in Mexico was named Yucatan because the Spanish Explorers who first got there asked the inhabitants how this land was called and got this answer. In the language of those Inhabitants, Yucatan means: "I don't understand you"

It is impossible for a normal human to lick his/her own elbows.

A googol (10^100) is larger than the estimated number of elementary particles in the know universe (10^80) (counts both quarks, gluons, electrons and all others).

There is an old english law, wich has never been declared outdated, that sounds "Every man in the millitary must train achery at least two time a week."

Due to the expansion of the univers it is impossible to measure electromagnetic waves from objects further than (10^10)^29 meters (a hubble volume) away from any observation point.

The first car driving/gunfighting sandbox game in 3d was not GTA3 but Body Harvest for Nintendo 64.

The gamer term w00t is no acronym, and infact it's origin is a very debated matter.

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is the first Zelda game ever to have been released in the start lineup of any nintendo console.

Originally Mario was intended to be a carpenter.

Lua is the fastest computing programming language in the world (the fastest of the most used).

Nokia was originally a manufacturer of rubber boots.

joethekoeller:
The Peninsula Yucatan in Mexico was named Yucatan because the Spanish Explorers who first got there asked the inhabitants how this land was called and got this answer. In the language of those Inhabitants, Yucatan means: "I don't understand you"

Smae story counts for kangaroo.

Blue Sonnet:
Glass is a liquid, not a solid - you can see this when you see windows on centuries old houses, the glass is thicker on the bottom of the pane.

Every glass of water from your tap has been drunk by at least nine other people before you.

I thought glass was sand

If you ever meet an Eskimo, do not call them an Eskimo. Call him/her an Inuit. Eskimo means "Stupid person that eats raw meat."

All polar bears are left-handed
You burn more calories chewing celery, than actually eating it

Khell_Sennet:
PWND! There are zero rats in my province. Now if only I could get the number of people that low... But how? But Hhhhooooowwwwww?

wrong, there are pet rats that ppl have, not counting the ones parliment :)

The latin name of the tailbone is Os Coccygis.

Helmet:
If you ever meet an Eskimo, do not call them an Eskimo. Call him/her an Inuit. Eskimo means "Stupid person that eats raw meat."

but not all Eskimos are Inuit. Inuits are only like one tribe of people and the rest would find that insulting.

Until recently Poland had brothers as prime minister and president. Not only brothers, actually, they were IDENTICAL TWINS. Actually one had a small beauty spot whereas the other did not, so they weren`t technically identical, but it still caused a lot of hilarity and embarassment and the same time.

Unknown_Exile:

Hitler was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.

I'm amazed that people find this weird. He started a fucking war. Of course he was going to be the most newsworthy man of the year. Thats why Osama Bin Laden was Man Of The Year for 2001. Wait, you didn't realise it was based on their newsworthiness, not on character traits? Where'd you get that Idea.

Ooo, random bits of trivia!

The Celsius and Fahrenheit scales meet at -40.

A marine in Machigan once killed a bear with an 8lb log, to save his two sons.

The Swedish army is the only one to conquer Moscow for more then a day.
Kiruna, a Swedish city with a population of 23,235 was the largest city (landwise) in the world during the 80ies.
The concept of owning things is not protected by Swedish constitutional law.
90% of all theps grown in Ahfganistan is opium.

MagnetoHydroDynamics:
It is impossible for a normal human to lick his/her own elbows.

25% of people who read that try.

the original pirates only attacked ships flying the flag of france and the church

there is a carving a templar knight in boston and was there before the columbus arrived in north america

Anarchemitis:
Post your random pieces of trivia no one else would know because you somehow managed to find it.

The shortest peice of music known is by Walking Concert titled Run to Be Born. The track is 8 seconds long.

Napalm Death would like to talk to you about that...

MagnetoHydroDynamics:

Lua is the fastest computing programming language in the world (the fastest of the most used).

no it's not, there's a few more that are faster

Blue Sonnet:
Glass is a liquid, not a solid - you can see this when you see windows on centuries old houses, the glass is thicker on the bottom of the pane.

this is wrong, it's not a liquid, it is a solid and they aren't thicker it's just poorly made glass

TheNecroswanson:
In Washington State, it wasn't illegal to commit beastiality until, somwhere around, 2004, this change came about when a man died. He blead to death from the horse literally ripping him a new one.

Haha I knew that actually, my friend lives in Washington and just just mentioned it the other day. Was it on the news or something?

on topic, If you spelled out all the numbers and tried to find the letter 'A' you wouldn't come across it until you reached a thousand.

cleverlymadeup:

Blue Sonnet:
Glass is a liquid, not a solid - you can see this when you see windows on centuries old houses, the glass is thicker on the bottom of the pane.

this is wrong, it's not a liquid, it is a solid and they aren't thicker it's just poorly made glass

No he's right. Glass is accepted as a liquid because it has none of the properties that define it as a solid. A solid has a complete structured base, glass does not. They are just random, like water or mercury. To prove it even further, if you heat up glass you aren't melting it, just making it thinner. You can't melt a liquid. Just because it doesn't flow like water doesn't mean you should to count it out. Don't judge a book by its cover. :P

^_^

a duck can't walk without bobbing it's head

(just read that on the underside of the cap of a bottle of Snapple)

cleverlymadeup:

MagnetoHydroDynamics:

Lua is the fastest computing programming language in the world (the fastest of the most used).

no it's not, there's a few more that are faster

Blue Sonnet:
Glass is a liquid, not a solid - you can see this when you see windows on centuries old houses, the glass is thicker on the bottom of the pane.

this is wrong, it's not a liquid, it is a solid and they aren't thicker it's just poorly made glass

Actually, there isn't any good answer as to whether or not it's a liquid or solid since it displays properties of both and is atypical in the way it changes phases, so you could argue that both ways.

As for why the panes of glass are thicker on the bottom than the top in Medieval windows (and they are), it's because at the time, glass panes were made using the Crown method. Sparing most of the tedious details, the final step in the process is to spin a flattened blob of molten glass until it forms a thin disc, and then cut that disc into sheets.

Since centrifugal force consistently pulls material from the center outward, the final disc of glass ends up being thicker along the edges than in the center. When panes are cut, this translates into one side (the one cut from the edge) being thicker than the side opposite (the side cut from the center). For the sake of stability, panes of glass made this way are installed thicker side down. So, Medieval window panes are usually thicker on the bottom than on the top, but it isn't the result of glass flowing anywhere. They were that way the instant they were installed.

A Swedish city Malmö has more than 90 different nationalities.
The biggest black hole has 18 billions times the mass of the sun

Manhatton island is illegally owned by the US.
Elephants are most afraid of flaming pigs.
The sewers under Paris mirror it's streets perfectly. They even have street signs.
A child is more likely to survive a bullet wound to the chest than an adult.

I know everything useless in the world!

TheFreeGus:
the average person has approximately 10^13 cells in their body and
the average person has approximately 10^14 individual bacterial cells in/on their body.

I knew that one from a web comic. And people say those things aren't educational.

Anyways, it is impossible to actually add any statement to this thread (according to its title, not the OP) as you do not know it. The only acceptable things to add would technically be questions as you do not know the answer if you are seriously asking it.

Anarchemitis:

MagnetoHydroDynamics:
It is impossible for a normal human to lick his/her own elbows.

25% of people who read that try.

And 73% of statistics used in conversation are made up on the spot.

This factoid fails to account for the possibility of removing one's own arm in order to lick the elbow. It is impossible for the average human to lick his/her own normally attached elbow.

Per the Glass = Liquid/Solid thing, I've heard multiple versions. In school, I was taught "amorphous solid, just an incredibly slow-moving one." Then, a bit later, I read a PopSci article where some VERY bored scientist measured glass very, very accurately, over the course of 2 decades, and found that it moved not at all, so he extrapolated that it simply doesn't ever. It doesn't prove anything, but I thought I would add what I knew of the matter.

mshcherbatskaya:
The ratio of rats to humans in any city is approximately 1:1.

Snopes says no.

Anarchemitis:
AhHa HA! I know where you live!

Never made a secret of it, I'm an Edmontonian. We have what was the largest mall in the world (1981 until 2004), but there's nowhere to shop in it (Fucking owners are a bunch of cheapasses who crank the rent so high nothing but fashion can afford the rent). It also has the largest parking lot in the world, and I can never find a spot to park.

Though the crowning glory is this snippet from the Wikipedia article...
"Before 1998, the mall owned more submarines than the Canadian Navy. The mall had a submarine ride that went to depths of six metres."

Oh, and Go Oilers, Flames Suck, and Edmontonians drive like epileptic lemurs with no arms.

Khell_Sennet:
...Edmontonians drive like epileptic lemurs with no arms.

...Wow...Just wow...
You are officially my new hero. Have a cookie.

Geoffrey42:

mshcherbatskaya:
The ratio of rats to humans in any city is approximately 1:1.

Snopes says no.

(Mythbusters are even worse)

Lukeje:

Blue Sonnet:
Glass is a liquid, not a solid - you can see this when you see windows on centuries old houses, the glass is thicker on the bottom of the pane.

Every glass of water from your tap has been drunk by at least nine other people before you.

Your first point is not exactly true; they used to line glass with lead (that is of course very dense), and there is also evidence that the glass makers, because it's very difficult to get a perfectly flat piece of glass, would put the thicker end at the bottom (because the pane is more structurally stable that way).

The second quote should technically be "It is very statistically probable that each glass of water you drink has passed through at least nine other people...

Glass is in a liquid state though... thats why the old panes are wavy... thickness is due to the manufacturing. Most plastics are liquids too... thats why they don't work for structural supports as they eventually flow under stress and then the building falls over. (go polymer engineering grad school!)

Geoffrey42:

Per the Glass = Liquid/Solid thing, I've heard multiple versions. In school, I was taught "amorphous solid, just an incredibly slow-moving one." Then, a bit later, I read a PopSci article where some VERY bored scientist measured glass very, very accurately, over the course of 2 decades, and found that it moved not at all, so he extrapolated that it simply doesn't ever. It doesn't prove anything, but I thought I would add what I knew of the matter.

most of the "proof" that ppl use to say it's a REALLY slow moving liquid are really examples of different/poorly made glass, those being windows for the 17th-19th century because they are wavy (poorly made glass) or the medieval glass, which was explained previously

this is one of those issues that ppl hear one thing but don't listen to ppl with expertise in the field, ie chemists.

another one is hitler was rejected by the freemasons when he applied and they were the first group he went after before the jews