Random Facts Thread

[Peter Parka]

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

 

[Codrus]

penguins scream louder than giraffes

 

[Peter Parka]

The US has used military force a number of times, but has only actually declared war 5 times (the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II).

 

[freakofnature]

I hate UPS. :nod:

 

[Darrell]

I hate UPS. :nod:

:shesaid

 

[Codrus]

Walrus's have the highest crime rate in the animal kingdom

 

[Peter Parka]

Abraham Lincoln was the only U.S. president to hold a patent. It was for an invention to buoy boats over shallow rivers.

 

[Alien Allen]

Hollywood’s first and arguably best canine superstar was Rin Tin Tin, a five-day-old German Shepherd found wounded in battle in WWI France and adopted by an American soldier, Lee Duncan. He would sign his own contracts with his paw print.

 

[Alien Allen]

Since the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937, more than 1,200 people have jumped to their deaths, making it the number one spot in the world for suicides.

 

[Peter Parka]

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.

 

[Abcinthia]

Both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn had hair long enough to sit on.