What is The Teeming Million’s favorite random facts?
My personal favorites are;
On average it takes 720 peanuts to make a pound of peanut butter.
3 percent of pictures taken in the U.S. each year are taken in Disneyland and Disney World.
If a woodchuck could chuck would it would chuck approximately 9 chords or 700 pounds.
Mark Hughes, the former Manchester United footballer and current manager of Wales, is actually named Leslie.
If one takes all of the cable on the Golden Gate bridge and string it together, it will wrap around the world twice.
The longest flight of a chicken ever recorded is 13 feet.
It is more likely that a member of your family will be injured while in a bathtub in the next week than it is that you will be struck by lightning in your lifetime.
The accepted rate of crashes in Canadian RVSM airspace is 5 x 10^-9 fatal incidents per hour.
A duck’s quack DOES echo, and everybody knows why.
Charlemagne’s hight was equal to seven times the length of his foot.
A lizard can’t run and breath at the same time.
The male seahorse gives birth, not the female.
Richard Nixon once ran the only candy stand in the South Pacific. It was called “Nixon’s Snack Shack”.
A whale’s penis is called a dork.
There are more fractions between zero and 1 than there are positive integers (both sets are infinite, but one infinite is bigger than the other).
jsc–believe you mean real numbers between 0 and 1; the number of fractions, or rational numbers, is the same size infinity as the integers. There’s a neat little proof of it, if the cobwebs will shake off, which the margins of my computer are too small to contain.
The total weight of ants on Earth is roughly the same as the total weight of humans.
Al Capone became inflicted with syphilis at an early age, causing him to die of paresis, in his Floridian mansion, not long after he was released from prison.
IANAMathematician, but I’m pretty sure I meant rational numbers. Here’s a semi-proof: R = set of rational numbers; I = set of positive integers. For every element of I, there is exactly one element in R: its reciprocal (2, 1/2; 3, 1/3; 4, 1/4…). So R >= I. But there are rational numbers that do not map to integers: 2/3, 3/4, etc. Therefore, R > I. QED.
Two sets A and B are the same size, using the standard
criterion for comparing sizes, if and only if there is at
least one map from A to B that is one-to-one and onto.
By this criterion, the positive integers are the same size
as the rationals. The set of all real numbers, however,
can be shown to be larger than the set of rationals.
If you mix Twinkie filling and Vaseline, the resulting substance will flouresce under ultraviolet light.
Really.
California became a state on September 9, 1850. WOO-HOO!
If one properly mixes Vaseline and styrofoam, the result is napalm. Enjoy!
I’ve been using gasoline and styrofoam. Have I been doing it wrong all these years?
Peter Lorre’s real name was Laszlo Lowenstein.
Cats have lips.
Plantar warts have very deep roots.
All sterling silver jewelry bears the numbers “925”.
Some male rabbits can spray urine at will.
Cherry-flavored Robitussin and gingerale is a decent cocktail if you’re out of booze and don’t feel like going out.