The Weird, Wild and Strange Facts Thread.

[HAVOC]

What alive with no head?
Cockroaches are infamous for their tenacity, and are often cited as the most likely survivors of a nuclear war. Some even claim that they can live without their heads. It turns out that these armchair exterminators (and their professional brethren) are right. Headless roaches are capable of living for weeks.
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[carnageX]

Can't remember where I saw it...but:

The dot of the letter i is called a tittle.

 

[Luke]

Interesting fact (don't take it offensively towards your beliefs, believe what you want)

My religion teacher said today that god is outside the universe but he is in everyone of us....... ......... ..... O_0?

 

[Trotter]

I could expound on that one, Luke... enough to make your head spin. but I won't.

Tennessee state law: It is illegal to drive barefooted. I live here so I know about it.

Until recently auto insurance was not mandatory... unless you were pulled over for some violation or were in an accident. If you could not produce proof, then you could have your license revoked. Auto insurance is now mandatory, though.

Strange fact: Hot water will freeze faster than cold water.

Water is one of the very few substances that expands when it is cold; most stuff shrinks.

Water is a very strange substance. think about it... what holds up huge ships? Part of it is bouyancy, and part of it is surface tension.

Water has no solid form (outside of ice), but the surface tension can crumple steel if said steel is moving fast enough when it hits the water. Even did a belly flop? Surface tension is what makes it hurt so bad. Cliff divers time their dives so they dive into waves so the surface tension is broken up, otherwise it would be like diving into a brick wall.

 

[Jorsoft]

It's illegal to walk across the Minnesota-Canadian border while carrying a duck on your head. I'm not sure how this law came about but it must have had something to do with Baez...

 

[Kharn]

It is legal to shoot a Welshman with a long bow without warning or fear of prosecution if they are within the city walls of the City of Chester after dark and are unaccompanied by a official escort.

 

[Nagasama]

in texas, it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer while standing. it is also illegal for you to sell your eye...O.0

 

[Kharn]

It never ceases to amaze me that stupid laws make it onto the books, the welsh one I can understand (after all it's the welsh) but the texas beer one is just bizarre.

 

[Nagasama]

dude. its illegal for one to sell one's EYE. lolwut. oh and you cant shoot buffalo from the second floor of a hotel. im not kidding.

 

[Kharn]

So if I was on the 1st or 3rd floor I would be fine but the 2nd floor I would be prity much screwed?

Is that why Lee Harvey Oswald was on the 6th floor an not the 2nd?