The Weird Knowledge Thread!

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
In England, the speaker of the house is not allowed to speak.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than by plane crashes.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
The Philadelphia Mint produces 26 million pennies per day.
In a standard deck of playing cards, the king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
 
The largest penis of the animal kingdom in relation to the size of the animal goes to geese. Nearly 4 times longer than the rest of their body. Click the link if you think your jaw can handle dropping at the speed of sound:
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The only thing invented by humans to never break and always work perfectly is math. 2+3 will always equal 5. You can probably think of more complicated examples that always work out the same.
 
-Author Honore de Balzac died of caffeine poisoning after drinking up to fifty cups of black coffee a day.

-Elvis Presley's last meal was four scoop of ice cream and six chocolate chip cookies.

-French poet Gerard de Nerval had a pet lobster which he took for walks around Paris on a length of ribbon. He said the lobster was quiet, knew the secrets of the sea and did not bark.
 
A newborn child grows and develops at such an incredible rate that if it were to continue growing at the same rate from until it's teens it would be about the size of the Sun.
 
Nostradamus was a French man who was born in 1503. He's known works include studying the stars for horoscopes and other occult activities involving astrology. He also wrote Revelations.
 
Nostradamus was a French man who was born in 1503. He's known works include studying the stars for horoscopes and other occult activities involving astrology. He also wrote Revelations.
Source on the Book of Revelations thing.
WWE Is Fake
To a degree. Some parts are played up, the hits aren't as hard as they look most of the time, etc etc. But that is wrestling, people do get hurt.
 
This is now officially my thread.

Napolean and Hitler both only had one testicle.

Squirrels are naturally immune to rabies.

6 people have died in Disneyland, but there's a rule stating that they cannot be "pronounced" dead until they are off of the park grounds.

Cherries are poisonous if you are dehydrated.

A man was once crushed to death at a bank in Monaco by his casino winnings..... $50,000.00 in quarters collapsed on top of him.

If you see the other side of a curve, you will see yourself from behind in a different time period.

Broccoli is a better source of Calcium than milk.

Horseradish mixed with Mustard lathered on pickled pigs knuckles is considered a delicacy in some cultures.


*Bows*
 
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