Random Facts

[Firetooth]

    There are 670 types of cheeses in the world.

There are 543.2 varieties of Firetooth in the world, each one cooler then the last!

[Briar]

Queen Marie Antoinette never said " Let them eat cake", she said "Let them eat brioche( a more expensive bread)"

[Mr.Grimm]

    There are 670 types of cheeses in the world.

There are 543.2 varieties of Firetooth in the world, each one cooler then the last!

Go and ruin Briar's post!

Cinderella never wore glass slippers. She wore fur ones.

[Krowdon]

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction

[Krowdon]

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million

[Krowdon]

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is

[Krowdon]

Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are

[Krowdon]

The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo

[Krowdon]

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets

[Ungatt Trunn II]

The instructions on an American WWII era bazooka read: Aim at enemy.

[Krowdon]

Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter

[Briar]

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

That's right, pull out that 5 dollar bill and look  :wink:

[Saladin]

In My Life (the Beatles) is the greatest song ever as voted by the entire UK (and Saladin)

[Briar]

The (v) in the name of a court case does not stand for "versus," but for "and" (in civil proceedings) or "against" (in criminal proceedings)

[Gen. Volkov]

Throwing a cat off of a building from a height of 7 stories or higher will cause the cat to "float" down and not be injured.  Throwing a cat off a building at a lower height will cause injury.

Not exactly. There is something called the "high-rise syndrome" though. A cat that falls from height greater than 6 stories up will usually sustain less severe injuries than a cat falling from a lower height. Cat's have a natural righting reflex, that allows them to twist in midair and land on their feet. This happens fairly quickly, within about 90 centimeters, but the further they have to fall, the more relaxed they can make themselves after righting themselves. Additionally, cats reach terminal velocity after about 5 stories fall, so they can keep relaxing but the energy of the fall stops increasing, and cats have a terminal velocity that is not fatal to them when they impact the ground. This leads to the pattern of injuries seen in cats. However, they will sustain injuries if they fall further than 20 feet or so, they will just sustain fewer of them if they fall from a height above 6 stories up rather than a height below 6 stories up. So please, do not throw cats off the Empire State Building. Yes, 90% of them would survive, but they would be horribly injured.

Real random fact: A large percentage of "random factoids" that people print are in fact untrue.