What is the most random fact you know?

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  1. TheWicklessCandle profile image58
    TheWicklessCandleposted 13 years ago

    I'll start:

    Elvis Presley was an avid collector of Joan of Arc and Venus de Milo Statues.

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      kimberlyslyricsposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      There is actually no such state of laziness or being lazy!

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    shazwellynposted 13 years ago

    a wickless candle

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    Home Girlposted 13 years ago

    Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.

  4. ediggity profile image60
    ediggityposted 13 years ago

    Jello is made from bone marrow.  There's always room for Jello.

    1. DzyMsLizzy profile image85
      DzyMsLizzyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      actually, its made from boiled-down hooves and horns.  Blood meal is made from bone marrow.  ;-)

      1. ediggity profile image60
        ediggityposted 13 years agoin reply to this

        It's made from gelatin, which is a by product of collagen, found in bone marrow, hooves, horns, skin, and many other parts of animals.

  5. 2uesday profile image65
    2uesdayposted 13 years ago

    Both  a poet and also an artist whose work I admire were men who had names that sounded as if the were women.

    1. DzyMsLizzy profile image85
      DzyMsLizzyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Hmm... George Sands comes to mind...but can't place the other...

  6. WaffleCheese profile image43
    WaffleCheeseposted 13 years ago

    In the 1800 if you had a failed suicide attempt, you were put to death.

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      DoorMattnomoreposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      wow! huh, that is weird.

    2. DzyMsLizzy profile image85
      DzyMsLizzyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Now that makes a lot of sense... NOT!  Sheesh!

  7. DaniellaWood profile image72
    DaniellaWoodposted 13 years ago

    Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest recorded word in English!
    (Nope, sadly it isn't superkalafragelisticexpialadocious. I know. Gutted.)

    1. DzyMsLizzy profile image85
      DzyMsLizzyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Oh--I thought it was "antidisestablishmentarianism."  I can see, however, that your word is longer.  ;-)  Learn something new every day.

      1. Victoria Stephens profile image75
        Victoria Stephensposted 13 years agoin reply to this

        my boyfriend always says it's 'antidisestablishmentarianism' with such a big head, I'll be so pleased to point out 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'.

        :-D

  8. habee profile image92
    habeeposted 13 years ago

    A pig takes five minutes to fully ejaculate, and their orgasms can last for over 30 minutes. Ugh. I'm having sausage for dinner tonight. Perhaps we'll go out to eat!

    1. camlo profile image84
      camloposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      OMG. I want to be a pig in my next life!

      Sorry, I haven't got a random fact ...

  9. b. Malin profile image66
    b. Malinposted 13 years ago

    That potential  COLLEGES  and BOSSES  Do check you out on FACEBOOK...so watch what you say,,,they can see it too!

  10. DzyMsLizzy profile image85
    DzyMsLizzyposted 13 years ago

    "Melcryptovestimentiphilia" is a word meaning a fondess for (or obsession with) women's black undergarments.

  11. timorous profile image82
    timorousposted 13 years ago

    I have a loose thread on my shirt big_smile

  12. Tusitala Tom profile image66
    Tusitala Tomposted 13 years ago

    It comes to the notice of our subcommittee of vacillating procrastinators that being oblivious and impervious to the machinations of Hubnobbers that tittilation of the humorous by inadvertently resting one’s elbow quite inncoculously and unintentionally by an ineptness engendered by sloth and inattention one could quite readily and inexplicable damage the meaning of a message by inserting a lot of gobbledegook  - Wadja think?

  13. svogt12002 profile image59
    svogt12002posted 13 years ago

    Within a litter of pups, each pup can be the off-spring of a different father.

    1. DzyMsLizzy profile image85
      DzyMsLizzyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Really?  I know that is true of cats....

  14. TheWicklessCandle profile image58
    TheWicklessCandleposted 13 years ago

    Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy

  15. WaffleCheese profile image43
    WaffleCheeseposted 13 years ago

    The life of an eyelash is about 5 months.

  16. Ultimate Hubber profile image70
    Ultimate Hubberposted 13 years ago

    The moon is moving away from the Earth!

  17. Ultimate Hubber profile image70
    Ultimate Hubberposted 13 years ago

    The largest lizards are Comodo dragons which reach about 10.3 FEET in length.

  18. Ultimate Hubber profile image70
    Ultimate Hubberposted 13 years ago

    The Platypus uses its tail for storage of fat reserves.

  19. Jaggedfrost profile image60
    Jaggedfrostposted 13 years ago

    Terrifying and terrific are for all intents and purposes the same word.  How they split in two is beyond me.

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    L a d y f a c eposted 13 years ago

    The fastest growing finger nail is the middle.

  21. bojanglesk8 profile image60
    bojanglesk8posted 13 years ago

    Whenever you sneeze some brain cells die.

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    sandra rinckposted 13 years ago

    Sperm whales hold 1 metric ton of sperm.

    1. DzyMsLizzy profile image85
      DzyMsLizzyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      LOL--and the Blue Whale has an err...umm.. "organ" that is 6 feet long!

  23. Arthur Fontes profile image73
    Arthur Fontesposted 13 years ago

    Margarine is closer to plastic then to any known food.

    1. timorous profile image82
      timorousposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Oh I don't know...Cheez Whiz comes pretty close. big_smile
      But then, I wouldn't exactly call it 'food'.

  24. Arthur Fontes profile image73
    Arthur Fontesposted 13 years ago

    Bubble gum contains rubber.

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    TechTrendyposted 13 years ago

    The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

  26. pilesnoway profile image59
    pilesnowayposted 13 years ago

    scorpions breathe through pores on their stomach...

 
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