New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
REAL DEALS HERE -- WIN BIG WITH THOUSANDS IN PRIZES + RackNerd's NEW YEAR OFFERS! (New Year 2024)
This discussion has been closed.
Comments
Black cats are good luck in Britain and Japan.
Black cats may have been universally seen as bad luck, but that isn’t the case for Great Britain and Japan. In fact, new brides are given black cats to bless their marriage in the English Midlands. In Japan, black cats are a symbol of good luck for single women.
Ben & Jerry learned how to make ice cream from a $5 course at Penn State.
The titular Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were childhood friends. Although Greenfield finished college, he was unable to pursue med school. Cohen, on the other hand, dropped out of school. In 1977, Cohen and Greenfield completed a course on ice cream making from Pennsylvania State University’s creamery. One of the fun facts no one knows about this famous product: Have you ever wondered why Ben & Jerry’s is so chunky? Ben Cohen actually a condition where he can’t smell or taste anything. Instead, he relied on food textures texture to provide variety in his diet. This led to the company’s trademark chunks in their ice cream.
The the official plural form of a Prius is Prii.
After an online poll in 2011, Toyota announced the official plural form of the Prius: it’s Prii. Add that to the fun facts you never even thought of, but know now. We hope you find peace.
Dogs can understand up to 250 words and gestures.
The average dog is as smart as a two-year-old child.
Goats have rectangular pupils.
Have you ever looked at a goat and thought, “Man, why do you look so weird?” Goats have been used for different religious imagery and have been associated with satanic or demonic themes. (Hello, Insidious demon.) One of the fun facts about goats is that their weird, rectangular pupils actually give them a wider range of vision to look out for predators.
Wasting food is illegal for supermarkets in France.
France is the first country in the world that legislated a Food Waste Law that bans supermarkets from wasting unsold food. It mandates that supermarkets must compost their leftover produce, or donate the goods to charity.
A baby can cost new parents 750 hours of sleep.
For first-time parents, having a baby can remove 750 hours from their usual total sleeping hours for an entire year.
A grumble is a group of pugs.
They’re called a “grumble” because of their tendency for snorting and grunting.
Garfield used to own G-Mail.
Before Google launched Gmail in 2004, “G-Mail” was a free email service on the Garfield website. Garfield Mail operated from 1998 to 2001.
Crayola is literally "oily chalk."
The name is a compound of the French craie (chalk) and ola (“oleaginous,” “oily”).
Abraham Lincoln was a wrestling champion.
Before he was president, Abraham Lincoln was the wrestling champion of his county. Abe fought in almost 300 matches, losing only once.
Queen Elizabeth II has had over 30 corgis in her lifetime.
Queen Elizabeth had Susan, her first Corgi, when she was 18. From Susan, she had 14 generations’ worth of Corgis throughout her life. However, the last one died in 2018. Currently, the Queen has stopped breeding new ones for fear of trampling over a puppy.
Relative to their bodies, Chihuahuas have the biggest brain in the dog world.
Chihuahuas are very tiny, so that’s not really saying a lot.
Elvis Presley's manager sold hate merch for profit.
One of the most iconic marketing fun facts: Elvis’ manager, Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, sold “I Hate Elvis” badges to make money from people who weren’t buying his merchandise.
Avocados never ripen on the tree.
Farmers can use the trees as storage units. As long as avocados are still attached to its parent tree, they can stay fresh for up to seven months.
At the Humane Society of Missouri, kid volunteers comfort anxious shelter dogs by reading to them.
Shelter dogs have usually lived through significant trauma. This makes it difficult for some dogs to be adopted due to their changed behavior. To solve this, the Humane Society of Missouri created the Shelter Buddies Reading Program. It pairs kids aged 6 to 15 with anxious, mistrustful dogs to socialize them for home life.
China owns all of the pandas in the world.
The pandas you see in zoos are actually loaned by China at US$1 million a year.
Penguins used to be 6 feet tall.
Whether a terrifying or adorable fun fact: bones found at Seymour Island showed that penguins stood at 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds 40 million years ago.
A scientific calculator is 6 times more powerful than the Apollo 11 computer.
A TI-83 calculator has 6 times more processing power than the computer that landed the Apollo 11 on the moon.
Humans shed 18 kg of skin in their lifetime.
At this rate, a person completely replaces their outer skin every month.
The "Like" button on Facebook was supposed to be the "Awesome" button.
However, the developers decided “Like” would be a more universal term.
Human fingers are really sensitive.
The nerve endings on fingers are so sensitive that if your fingers were the size of Earth, you could still feel the difference between a house and a car.
Humans are genetically related to bananas.
We share 50% of our genes with bananas, which is about 1% of our DNA.
Our sense of smell and taste decrease by 20%-50% during flights.
Because of the lack of humidity and pressure in high altitudes, our sense of taste and smell weakens.
There are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water you could fill with all the oceans of the Earth.
Since the first subatomic particles were identified by J. J. Thomson in 1897, scientists have studied the properties of matter and atoms. It was discovered that there are 1082 atoms in the universe, which is a 10 followed by 82 zeroes.
Bubble wrap was originally designed to be used as wallpaper.
Bubble wrap was born in 1957, when engineer Al Fielding and Swiss inventor Marc Chavannes tried creating a textured wallpaper. However, their product was rejected. They also tried marketing it as a greenhouse insulator, but the material still fell short. However, when IBM released a new computer, Fielding and Chavannes pitched their concept as a protective covering for computer shipments. From then on, bubble wrap was adopted as the go-to protective wrap. Third time’s the charm, I guess.
Your body replaces all its particles every seven years.
You are not the same person that you were 7 years ago.
The world's longest musical piece lasts 639 years.
Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage that has been playing since 2001 at the St. Burchardi church in Germany. As Slow As Possible is scheduled to have a duration of 639 years, set to end in 2640.
Neptune was the first planet that was discovered before being seen through a telescope.
Neptune stands out from the rest of the solar system because it was the first planet discovered by Urbain Le Verrier through mathematical prediction rather than an encounter.
You're more likely to become President than you are to win the lottery.
The odds of a person becoming the President of the United State are 10 million to 1. However, the odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are 292,201,338 to 1.