inspired by this
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/co...you/?limit=500
some of the most surprising to me
-When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.
-The 10th president of the U.S has two living grandsons
-If you shrunk the Earth down to the size of a billiard ball, the Earth would actually be smoother than a billiard ball.
-The CEO of Food for the Poor, the largest international relief and development organization, is named Robin Mahfood.
-Less time separates the existence of humans and the tyrannosaurus rex than the t-rex and the stegosaurus.
-The brother of John Wilkes Booth saved Abraham Lincoln's son from being hit by a train without knowing who it was he saved.
-Australia once lost a prime minister. As in straight up couldn't find him. They have yet to find him.
-The Champawat Tiger was a female Bengal tiger responsible for an estimated 430 deaths in Nepal and India.
-France has more time zones than USA or Russia.
-China has one time zone
-Maine is the closest US state to Africa.
-If there're 23 people in a room, there's a 50% chance two of them share a birthday. edit: google "birthday paradox" for more information.
-There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards then there are atoms in our solar system.
-From the time it was discovered to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto hadn't made a full trip around the Sun.
-If every star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, each with a trillion people living on them, and each of these people has a trillion packs of cards and somehow they manage to make unique shuffles 1,000 times per second, and they'd been doing that since the Big Bang, they'd only just now be starting to repeat shuffles.
That was copied from this QI article.
The number of ways to shuffle a deck of cards is 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766, 975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000.
-If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times it would reach the moon.
-On March 1, 1950, the West Side Baptist Church exploded at 7:27 p.m., right when the scheduled choir practice was supposed to be occurring. The explosion was powerful and swift, taking a nearby radio station off the air. However, not a single choir member got hurt. all fifteen members were delayed from attending the practice. Two women had car troubles, one had trouble with a particularly difficult math problem, another was listening to their favorite radio station. The list goes on and on. If they had been at the church on time for the choir practice, they would have died.
-1 million seconds=11 days, 1 billion seconds=31 years
-There are people alive today who as a child, could have met somebody who as a child met a survivor of the Spanish Inquisition.
-The last living child of African American slaves died in 2010.
-Assume that the earth is a perfect sphere. Now you have a metal ring that circles the earth at the equator. It lays flat against the earths surface. Now assume that you want to raise that metal ring so that it is 1 ft off the earths surface all the way around. What length of metal will you have to add?
The answer is 6.3 ft
-A dolphin’s nipples are located in its anus- The calf sticks its bill into the hole and the mother
squirts milk into its mouth.
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-September 11th 2001 is closer to the fall of the Berlin wall than to the present date.
-Look your eyes in the mirror, tilt your head slightly (left or right), your eyes "counter-tilt" to stay horizontal
-Singer James Blunt may have prevented world war 3
-Turning it off and turning it back on actually solves a LOT of computer problems.
-Iguanas have two penises (penii?). When they mate, the male uses one penis and often masturbates the other when finished. Also, iguanas masturbate.
-If you gathered all the fossils that anyone has found of pre-homo sapien people, they would not fill a single pickup truck.
-If you act like you have a salt shaker in your hand and shake the salt into your mouth you can actually taste the salt!
-Half of people wipe sitting and half wipe standing up. And normally nobody knows some people do it different.
-The last surviving civil war widow died in 2003.
-Martin Luther King jr. and Anne Frank were both born in the same year but we associate them with different time periods
-The human brain named itself
