December 2009
2 posts
Fact: 0039
Fact:
Months that start with a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th.
…FACT!!
(I wonder if Jason knows this..)
Fact: 0038
Fact:
People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don’t.
…FACT!!
(I suppose, a cup a day keeps the blues away…)
November 2009
5 posts
Fact: 0037
Fact:
In Columbia, one can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping.
…FACT!
-Kaysea Boston
(I like this fact.)
Fact: 0036
Fact:
Jeff Olsen would rather have feces smeared upon his body than have milk poured upon him.
…FACT!!
-Kaysea Boston
Fact: 0035
Fact:
Food can only be tasted with saliva.
…FACT!
-Kaysea Boston
Fact: 0034
Fact:
I am disappointed that I am the only one contributing any facts.
….(sigh) FACT!
-Kaysea Boston
Fact: 0033
Fact:
Horses and rabbits can not vomit.
….FACT!!
-Kaysea Boston
September 2009
11 posts
Fact: 0032
Fact:
A fear of long words is, ironically, called “Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia”
…FACT!
-Kaysea Boston
Fact: 0031
Fact:
The name Vanilla comes from the Spanish word “vainilla”, diminutive form of “vaina” (meaning “sheath”), which is in turn derived from Latin “vagina”.
…FACT!
-Kaysea Boston
Fact: 0030
Fact:
Van Halen’s standard concert contract called for them to be provided with a bowl of M&Ms backstage, but with provision that all the brown candies must be removed. The presence of even a single brown M&M in that bowl, was sufficient legal cause for Van Halen to peremptorily cancel a scheduled appearance without advance notice. The legendary “no brown M&Ms”...
Fact: 0029
Fact:
In the first two Star Wars movies (Episodes IV and V), there were only two lightsaber colors. The Jedi used blue lightsabers, while Darth Vader used a red lightsaber. The last movie in the original trilogy, “Return of the Jedi”, introduced the green lightsaber. The green lightsaber was used in this movie because a blue lightsaber didn’t contrast enough against the blue sky...
Fact: 0028
Fact:
Between 50 billion and 70 billion cells die each day due to apoptosis(a genetically determined process of cell self-destruction) in the average human adult. In a year, this amounts to the proliferation and subsequent destruction of a mass of cells equal to an individual’s body weight. …FACT!
-Kaysea Boston
Fact: 0027
Fact:
The first cause of cancer was identified by British surgeon Percivall Pott, who discovered in 1775 that cancer of the scrotum was a common disease among chimney sweeps.
…FACT!
-Kaysea Boston
Fact: 0026
Fact:
Fact:
With very few exceptions (a few copper hatchets and spear heads in the Great Lakes region), the peoples of the Americas and the Pacific remained at the Neolithic level of technology, with no metal making ability, up until the time of European contact.
…FACT!!!
-Kaysea Boston
FACT: 0025
Fact:
Eating a chili omelet at 4:00am, while drunk at Mels, and trying to state a fact is a little difficult. Fact 24 explained a little deeper: The brown note is an infrasound frequency whose resonance causes humans to lose control of their bowels.
…FACT!
- Yana
Fact: 0024
FACT:
the brown note, when played, makes humans lose their bowel control.
….FACT!
-Yana
Fact: 0023
Fact:
When a Japanese person and a Jamaican person mate, their off spring is known as Jamaicanese.
….FACT!
-Corey Nickols
Fact: 0022
FACT:
Because Steven Spielberg was unable to find an actual airport that would let him film for the length of the production the set for the movie The Terminal was built in a massive hangar at the LA/ Palmdale Regional Airport, which was once used to build the Rockwell International B-1B bomber.
…FACT!
-Jesse
Fact: 0021
Fact:
A polar bear cannot be seen by an infrared camera, due to its transparent fur.
…FACT!
- Yana
August 2009
21 posts
Fact: 0020
FACT:
The recorded history of kombucha, a popular fermented tea beverage, began in the Himalayas in 221 BC and became very popular in Russia and the Ukraine in the 19th century.
…FACT!
Jesse
Fact: 0019
FACT:
Though it’s widely believed that he who smelled it surely dealt it, the fact is that he who denied it most certainly must have supplied it.
… FACT!
Jesse
Fact: 0018
Fact:
Although the 19th Amendment gave American women the right to vote, women in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Brunei and the Vatican State are still unable to vote.
… FACT!
- Yana
Fact: 0017
FACT:
On this day, August 26, in 1920 The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote went into effect.
… FACT!
Jesse
Fact: 0016
FACT:
On this day, August 26, in 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game was broadcast. The doubleheader game was between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. The game was a doubleheader and the Reds won the first 5-2 while the Dodgers won the second, 6-1.
… FACT!
Jesse
Fact: 0015
Fact:
VANILLA: Translations for the spanish word vainilla range anywhere from “little pod” to “little vagina,” which goes a long way toward explaining the superstition in Elizabethan England that the spice- the long fruit of a tropical orchid- held bewitching aphrodisiac powers.
…FACT!
- Yana
Fact: 0014
Fact:
The first known appearance of the word NERD in print is in Dr. Seuss’s 1950 children’s book, If I Ran the Zoo:
The whole town will gasp, “Why, this boy never sleeps!
No keeper before ever kept what he keeps!
There’s no telling WHAT that young fellow will do!”
And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo
And bring back an IT-KUTCH a PREEP and a...
Fact: 0013
FACT:
There is no word in the English language that rhymes with the word “month”.
… FACT!
- Jesse
Fact: 0012
Fact:
The fact below this is ‘Fact: 0011’
… FACT!
- Yana
Fact 0010
Fact:
I once urinated a standing distance of 20 feet (seriously…). It was slightly painful and involves pinching and releasing while using one’s kegels.
…FACT!
-Corey Nickols
Fact 0009
Fact:
The Wisconson handshake is by far the most entertaining handshake to date.
…FACT!!
Kaysea Boston
Fact: 0008
FACT:
The Los Angeles Bicycle Film Festival will be taking place this coming weekend.
You’d be wise to get into it.
…FACT!
-Jesse
Fact: 0007
FACT:
Writing in haikus
is both addicting and fun…
it’s the way to go!
…FACT!
-Jesse
Fact 0006
Fact:
Starfish don’t have brains.
…FACT!
-Kaysea Boston
Fact 0005
Fact:
Men do not like to complete a carrying task in 2 trips. Ladies….do not get mad when we go all He-Man on you.
….FACT!
-Corey Nickols!
Fact 0004
Fact:
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
…FACT!
-Corey Nickols
Fact: 0003
FACT:
Gift wrapping by Jesse Clayton Carmody is supreme wrapping.
…FACT!
- Yana
Fact 0002
FACT:
The “Rule of Halfs” invented by me (Corey Nickols) implies that food on it’s own does not taste nearly as good as food that has been dissected into two equal parts. Continue this process of food mitosis until reaching complete satisfaction.
…FACT!
—Corey Nickols
Fact: 0001
FACT:
Chad’s gargoyle statue is the most interesting fixture I’ve seen of any loft, in downtown, as of yet.
…FACT!
-Jesse