500 things I bet you didn't know

[Jubal]

Post a fact you bet we all didn't know, attempting to get as many as possible!

1. You can have a working typewriter with only 4 keys (slider to select 1 of 26 places, button for the alphabet option in each place, button for a second number/punctuation charset, button for space).

Continue!

[Silver Wolf]

2. The blue whale has the largest tongue in the animal kingdom ... It is the size of an elephant !

[comrade_general]

Ummm, some of you might know a bit of this:
3. Neanderthal man lived along side modern man up to as late as 20,000BC when the Sahara wasn't yet a desert (and it's speculated that the Nile flowed east across it). It's also speculated that early 'homo erectus' humans were still around in the orient, but not as late, which means there were possibly 3 species of humans on the planet at the same time. (I find this stuff fascinating)  B)

[Silver Wolf]

4. Everybody knows what "Soul Kiss" is.  We also call it the French kiss, but surprisingly, the French call this "The English Kiss".

[Jubal]

5. The French term for the English in the 100 Years' War was "Godams", because "God Damn" was all they ever seemed to say.

(Comrade, look up Homo Floresiensis - can't remember when they think it evolved, but it could bring your total to four)

[comrade_general]

Ah yes, the "hobbit" people. I've heard of them, but they haven't been confirmed as a separate species.

6. Blue eyes are thought to have arisen from a single individual in the Near East or around the Black Sea region 6,000 - 10,000 years ago.

One fact I'd like to denounce is that you can't sneeze with your eyes open. Bull! Done it myself multiple times (and not holding them open like on Mythbusters).

[comrade_general]

7. We use more than the mythical 10% of our brains; upwards of 35% or more and around 15% even when we're not trying to use it. (from Mythbusters last night)

[DeepComet5581]

8. There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess

9. The human body can survive without the stomach or large intestine

10. I have the same birthday as the first Sainsbury's Supermarket (July 31st)

11. Negative matter will get you past the light speed barrier

12. McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys

13. Disney has the world's 4th largest flotilla

14. Mercury is the only known metal to be a liquid at room temperature

15. In solid form, Hydrogen has metallic properties

16. Mercury's day is longer than it's year

17. Plutonium didn't exist on Earth until humans came along.

18. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

19. Jimmy Carter was the first US president to be born in a hospital

20. if you lined up the population of china in a eight person wide line and had them march by you, the line would never end

I have hundreds of these.

[comrade_general]

Did you just copy them from a google search

[DeepComet5581]

Did you just copy them from a google search

An autistic brother, actually

[Silver Wolf]

21. It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.

[Jubal]

It does concern me how much of the world's resources we're using without even knowing it...

[comrade_general]

22. We can do whatever we want to the planet; in the long term it doesn't care.  :ninja:

[Jubal]

Can we keep the debatable/political points out of here?

Since that needs a reply though;
23. We can do whatever we want to ANYTHING without it "caring" in the long run, it just doesn't mean we or our society will survive the consequences.

Now back to fact, gentlemen! Solid, reliable, non-debatable fact!

[Marcus]

24. I was once TW Admin.