Finally, Some Good Random Facts
I love random facts. One of my favorite things is when you and your friends end up all sitting around and sharing all the random facts that you’ve heard in your life; each fact leading to a goofy anecdote. But what I don’t like are the lame kids that always spew the same lame-ass facts that everyone knows. No one wants to be reminded of a fact they learned from their 3rd grade babysitter. Facts are supposed to be stirring and stimulating, which is why it’s retarded when kids try to impress you with these boring “revelations”:
-It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-Proportionally, the strongest muscle in your body is your tongue.
-There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
-The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
When you hear these facts, you’re not inspired, nor are you excited to hear another. All you can think is “wow, this person just became as smart as my 8-year-old cousin.”
I think what I love the most about “facts” is that you can really never tell which ones are made up and which ones are true. In fact (no pun intended), you could make up whatever “fact” you wanted, and no one would call you on it—provided it’s believable. For example, for the past 5 years, during every fact-exchange me and my peers have had, I’ve told everyone that all polar bears are left-handed. Are all polar bears left handed? Who knows! The best part is that nobody can call me on it because no one has seen a polar bear throw a baseball with their right hand. Even better, facts spread like wild-fire, especially the fake ones.
Before you I have put together some very interesting facts that—to my knowledge—are completely true. But there’s no real way to tell, all you can do is believe them and tell them to everyone you know.
-On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
-The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
-In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere… usually in Jerry’s living room.
-More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.
-Pain is measured in units of “dols”. The instrument used to measure pain is a “dolorimeter”.
-David Alan Grier, Ice Cube, Dave Chappelle and John Travolta all turned down the offer to play the role of Bubba from Forrest Gump. Chevy Chase also turned down the role of playing Forrest.
-The name Vanilla comes from the Spanish word “vainilla”, diminutive form of “vaina,” which is in turn derived from Latin word “vagina”.
-The modern bikini was invented by a French designer in 1946. It was named after Bikini Atoll, the site of US nuclear weapon tests a few days earlier in the Marshall Islands, on the reasoning that the burst of excitement it would cause would be like the nuclear device.
-’Fjord’ is the only word in the English language to start with the letters ‘fj’. A fjord is a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs.
-Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow the film down so you could see his moves
I would love to share more with you people, but I have to go play catch with a polar bear. Does anyone have a lefty glove?
