# Favorite random facts **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 26, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450 "2001-04-26T23:02:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![headchecked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/258eb7/32.png) [@headchecked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headchecked)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/1 "2001-04-26T23:02:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/2 "2001-04-26T23:10:37Z")
Mark Hughes, the former Manchester United footballer and current manager of Wales, is actually named Leslie. ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/3 "2001-04-26T23:20:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/4 "2001-04-27T01:42:33Z")
The accepted rate of crashes in Canadian RVSM airspace is 5 x 10^-9 fatal incidents per hour. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/5 "2001-04-27T01:58:30Z")
A duck’s quack _DOES_ echo, and everybody knows why. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/6 "2001-04-27T02:12:29Z")
Charlemagne’s hight was equal to seven times the length of his foot. A lizard can’t run and breath at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/7 "2001-04-27T02:23:25Z")
The male seahorse gives birth, not the female. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/8 "2001-04-27T03:59:37Z")
Richard Nixon once ran the only candy stand in the South Pacific. It was called “Nixon’s Snack Shack”. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/9 "2001-04-27T04:02:13Z")
A whale’s penis is called a dork. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/10 "2001-04-27T23:02:03Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![snac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@snac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snac)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/11 "2001-04-28T01:10:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/12 "2001-04-28T03:42:02Z")
The total weight of ants on Earth is roughly the same as the total weight of humans. ---
**Author:** ![sk8rixtx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sk8rixtx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sk8rixtx)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/13 "2001-04-28T03:54:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/14 "2001-04-28T04:29:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by snac \* > \*\*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. \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![curiousgeorgeordeadcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@curiousgeorgeordeadcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curiousgeorgeordeadcat)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/15 "2001-04-28T05:02:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/16 "2001-04-28T05:24:56Z")
If you mix Twinkie filling and Vaseline, the resulting substance will flouresce under ultraviolet light. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/17 "2001-04-28T05:28:01Z")
California became a state on September 9, 1850. WOO-HOO! ---
**Author:** ![Astroman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b782af/32.png) [@Astroman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroman)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/18 "2001-04-28T07:16:37Z")
If one properly mixes Vaseline and styrofoam, the result is napalm. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Pinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dr.Pinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Pinky)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/19 "2001-04-28T07:25:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Astroman \* > \*\*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? ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450/20 "2001-04-28T07:49:42Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-random-facts/63450.md?page=2)