a wooden baseball bat will break if you dont hit the ball with the sweet spot. i broke mine !@#%@%&$#&. isuck

you cannot fold an ORDINARY piece of paper more than 8 times. at 8 folds, it is already 256 thicknesses.


however on mythbusters they folded a giant piece of tissue paper 13 times.

woodpulp was never so interesting ~!

you can indeed sneeze with your eyes open, but it hurts - tim

doughnuts determine the size of the small of your back - edrea


im white - everyone. so enough with that already !

The Internet Is A Series Of Tubes

i need not say more, just listen to this stupid white man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE

This isnt really a random fact. but it is random. and godamn it, its really cute.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jcMqBqkrBMw

i promise this blog will not degenerate into a link dump !

and 10Q all for the comments

FACTS BY JEM:

IM WHITE (wtf we knew that)


#2 : a grasshopper is more nootrishus than a piece of steak

but jem, a sirloin just tastes better!

thanks for all the comments folks !


now for todays random fact:
baseballs(and softballs for that matter) FLOAT!

they are pretty hard, and fairly dense, but they have a specific density of less than 1. they are made of a cork core, wrapped tightly with yarn, then with a nice leather shell stitched together. now there has been contention that the manufacturers of major league baseballs have made the ball more lively by wrapping the yarn tighter, and this may be the case. however more significant than that is the moisture of the ball. dry balls fly further than damp balls when whacked. as such, major league baseball teams are putting the balls that they give to pitchers into a humidifier before play.(i got that from mythbusters)

GTYFSRM

new function

my blog has a new function. if your looking for a random fact, you can press Ctrl+F and type in any word and the internets will search my blog for that word. this is a new cutting edge technology that i just found out from microsoft, so go ahead and search for some random facts !

semen

It is Imposible to sneeze with your eyes open. if you try your eyes will pop out. Dont try it, just take my word for it ok ?
- courtesy of woonjeck

Oxytocin, a hormone released from our bodies during sex. While this happens in both sexes, women are affected more profoundly than men from the hormone.It can make women up to ten times more emotionally attached after sex than men.

a chameleon's Tongue is twice as long as its body.

- courtesy of Wanting

If you Tell me a Random Fact, i will post it up !


remember, this isnt about paraphrasing wikipedia, its about shit that is obscure, random and preferably not on wikipedia.

and remember, if you read it on the internet, you know its gotta be true !

GTYFSRF!

High tea is known as high tea because it is served at a high table. that is to say, a dinner table height table, with proper straight backed chairs. thus, the food consumed is usually more elaborate and hearty, as opposed to normal tea, which would be served at a low table in a living room while plopped on a couch.


GTYFSRF!

sneezes can cause wind speeds of up to 60 miles an hour. they also can fling snot all over the place.


JOLLY GOOD FUN !


oh btw southpark rocks, the DVD of season 2 has these intro bits where the two guys who created southpark talk about the episode thats coming up next while doing stupid things. in this particular disc, the random thing is feeding bacon to a pig. epic.

farting is funny.



fart!



dont you feel like laughing?


if you do, your my kinda person!

first of all, thanks for the comments, those of you who did care nuff to do so.


on sunday me and andre and alex went bowling, and the lanes were AMF brand. so i told them the random fact that AMF stands for Always Means Fun.

well i was about to post this random factoid here, but decided to double check my infurmation. lo, AMF does not actually stand for Always Means Fun. it usually is fun but thats not what it stands for.

so my random facts may not be 100% reliable! be warned folks.


they are random.

oh come on you people! leave a comment if you read ! dont be shy !!!!

how do you spell "NATIONAL SERVICE"?

"C-O-N-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N"

every time i clear the dishes after dinner at home, i am momentarily seized by an instinct to scrape all the food onto one plate and bang the leftovers into a large green bin propped open with a broom, then dunk the plates, cutlery, cups and bowls into separate tubs filled with sudsy water.

i have been in the SAF for 5.5 months now.

every moment is slavery !

tortoises are land borne shell clad reptiles.

tulles are amphibious things that need water.


tortoises have feet, while turtles have fins




courtesy of jez and james !

alliteration, i love thee

the wright brothers' first powered flight was shorter than the wingspan of a 747. that was in 1903

in under 110 years, we have gone from first flight to hypersonic and intrastellar travel.

flight never ceases to amaze me

Tandem bikes are bicycles built for two. they handle really badly, but the upshot is some form of togetherness and the guy in the back doesnt need to know how to ride a bike.

what is the guy in the back called?

he is called a STOKER !

in a tandem bike, the guy in the front is called the "captain" and the guy in the back is known as the "stoker" some tandem bikes have two brakes in the rear tire, a rim brake and a drum brake. the rim brakes front and rear are usually controlled by the captain, while the rear drum brake is controlled by the stoker, applied at the direction of the captain. the extra brakes may be needed due to the added weight of two riders on long descents.

ahoy! ahoy!

ahoy ahoy!

the telephone was invented by graham bell, or so most people think. one sap named Antonio Meucci probably came up with the idea first, but you know history is a muddy murky thing so anyway.

graham bell did come up with some procedures for the use of the telephone. when making a connection, he reckoned hollering ahoy ahoy would be a good way to holla out to the other side yo.

i prefer a "hola, como estas"

gloves and mitts

A glove has individual fingers, whereas a mitt has several fingers stuffed into a single compartment, usually with the thumb separate to facilitate grasping.

The rules of baseball state that only the first baseman and catcher may wear mitts. baseball mitts usually are constructed with a one-piece palm and finger, with some kind of strap arrangement inside for control. the thumb is separate.

the rules of baseball also state that no glove may be larger than 12".

however, most softball gloves are between 12 to 13 inches. softball gloves as large as 14 inches are seen, but generally only used by outfielders. baseball gloves tend to hover between 11.25 to the maximum 12 inches.


outside of the diamond, mitts are usually worn for warmth as having the fingers together keeps them all warm. however, some tasks like shooting may be impossible, so mitts with individual index fingers are available for hunting in fricking cold climates. but my granduncle joe decided that he didnt need ANY mitt or glove coverage and cut the index finger off his mitt.

now he has bad arthuritis in his finger from hours of leaving it out in the cold.

the reclining buddha

it can be acceptably spelt buddha budda bhudda and probably a whole bunch more, but we know who/what we are talking about.

the recling buddha is not about to go to sleep, he is about to die. he was really old and sick (80) and decided he would take a lie-down in this place called ananda. then he had a chat with his disciples, said something profound, and passed along.

cloud seeding is done by releasing colorless silver iodide into the atmosphere. this makes the moisture "clump" together and it rains !

however, in areas affected by droughts, seeding "someone elses" cloud may lead to jurisdictional battles over who has the rights to make this or that cloud precipitate over where.

whatever it is, you can just blame it on the weatherman

the internet is a series of tubes

when in heat, lions do it about 80 times a day.

so my little fancy lad friends came over. here is a retarded convo:


dad: so what do you do in the army?

SX: airforce technician

dad: and you ?

wenshu: clerk

tinho: clerk

dad: how about you ghanesh?

ghanesh: im a medic

dad: oh god



we are all dead.

as i trundle home on the train, im surrounded by people mashing buttons on their PSPs, listening to music i hate. i want to play and listen to songs that even the blokes selling guitars have never heard of, i play sports that people think are fake. why wasnt i born in a different time, in a different continent. why am i imprisoned for the rest of my life and for the next two years of my life. what did i do wrong. why cant i honestly enjoy what everyone else enjoys. am i subconsciously making my life difficult somehow? or is it just me

your the meaninging in mai laife

your the insparayshun


chicago is an incredibly enduring band, which reedy vocals and rabid fans. what was chicago known as before it was called "chicago" ??


go find out some random facts !

then leave comment k

Dawgz

dogx have a tendency to pace around in circles before lying down to sleep or rest. this is an instinct attributable to back then they roamed in grassy plains, and they didnt want grassy asses when lying down. so theyd pace in a circle and trample the grasses flat.

sorry for waiting so long to update, i needed some INSPARAYSHUN.


GTYFSRF !

Ribena is a tasty purple drink. its color can be described as deep purple. if sufficient ice or even dry ice or god forbid liquid nitrogen is placed into ribena, there may even be smoke on the water, by deep purple.

ribena berry men have little green dickleaves to cover their privates.

why, for the love of humanity do they have to give totally asexual advertising creatures a dickleaf???? if i were to draw them without the dickleaf it would not be obscene at all ! the addition of the dickleaf MAKES they purple bastards obscene.

go drink some ribena

GTYFSRF !

National Service is a propaganda term.

what it really is is conscription.

Another word i prefer to use is indentured service.

indentured service is where people are forced to work against their will for pathetically little pay.

i feel that it is just half a rung above slavery


never believe any piece of propaganda that this socialist government feeds you unless you examine it for yourself and hold it to be true to your own understanding.


this isnt a fact, its an idea

you may choose to disagree

penguinz and polarbears. never the twain shall meet.

for polar bears live only in the north pole, and penguins, only in the south !


ketchup comes from the word "ke tzup" in cantonese, which means tomato sauce.

both courtesy of charm.

GTYFSRF !

pr0n

prawns are tasty underwater creatures.

pidgeons KROO
dogs BARK

prawns crackle. underwater, the sound they make is a crackling one. its often responsible for interference in sonar, and to the average person with his or her head underwater, the sound they make is a crackling. sharp popping kind of crackling. not a rustling. so there !


GO TELL YOUR FRIENDS SOME RANDOM FACTS !

audience participation !

my intelligence (har har har) indicates that people are acutally reading my blog ! kumtryah !


i now entreat you to give me suggestions for random facts, also, i have a random fact i want my friends to tell me!


how did ketchup get its name? catsup? ketchup? its got termaters in it! how?!


you tell me ! comment!

the aircraft carrier is the great satans' most fearsome naval vessel. infact, the ability to launch aircraft make the aircraft carrier the most fearsome vessel in the world period. however, the aircraft carrier used to be an extremely risky prospect, however two great BRITISH inventions make the aircraft carrier a viable prospect.

the first is the steam catapult. modern jet aircraft have a high stall speed, and the STEAM catapult is imperative to propel the aircraft at speeds fast enough to not flop into the davy jones locker.

the next british invention is extremely klevar. it is the INCLINED landing strip with arresting wires. having the landing strip inclined on the flightdeck allows aircraft that have failed to succcesfully snag a landing wire to fly away and make another pass. this ability to do a "bolter" eliminates dangerous runaway planes from crashing into other planes on the flightdeck

go tell your friends some random facts !

WD-40

WD-40, the magical solution to all mechanical problems. it stops squeaks, prevents rust, why it even quenches thirst!

WD-40 stands for WATER DISPLACEMENT-40. 40 refers to the "weight" or viscosity of the fluid.

while many people love WD-40 for its lubricating properties (think hinges) and its anti- rust properties, few realise that its actually a penetrating SOLVENT too.

this means it does things like remove chewing gum, clean up adhesive residue etc al. there are thousands of uses for WD-40 online. go find em

the problem is that WD 40 isnt that great a lubricant, it isnt very long lasting. so if you WD-40 your bike chain, please, use a proper heavyweight grease on it after that!

now go use some WD-40, and go tell your freinds some random facts!

band-aids

or what also might be knows as "PLASTER"

self sticking plaster is believed to be the innovation of one Earle Dickson. at or around 1920, he got really sick of his wife getting into minor domestic accidents. one would think that he would ditch the wife, but no, he invented band-aids instead.

in my own opinion, the best sticking plasters on the market today are hansaplast elastic cos they ACTUALLY STICK. unlike the DAMN DRESSING ON MY THUMB NOW. which doesnt stick. i have only myself to blame for for non-adherence, cos sweaty palms prevent sticking plaster from sticking! other things that may impede sticking plaster from sticking are hair and touching the sticky bit before sticking it down.

now go tell your friends some random facts !

sleep tight

the expression "sleep tight" has its origins in bed design.

modern frame style beds (like the one i am sleeping on) have a headboard, a footboard, and rails at the sides, with ledges that support some kind of lateral struts for the mattress to rest atop. previously however, beds had the headboard, footboard, horizontal "rails" but no slats. instead they had ropes that were held in place and tensioned. before sleeping one would tension up the ropes. hence "sleep tight"

go tell your friends some random facts !

sleep tight!

my old man just hit his funny bone, so:

its called a funny bone cos the bone near it is known as the "humerus".

however what hurts like fuck is the ulner nerve that is being whacked oh so painfully.

go tell your friends some random facts!

random things to tell your friends

beer is made of 4 ingredients : water, hopps, barley and yeast

yeast causes the fermentation, of which alcohol is a byproduct.

yeast acts by "eating" sugars and or carbohydrates

however, as the fermentation process produces alcohol, the alcohol kills off the yeast, stopping the fermentation, limiting the alcohol content of undistilled beverages to about 18% you wouldent want to let things get that alcolholic anyway cos they wind up tasting bad.

distilled alcohols get stronger than that by distillation, where the fermented mixture is heated and the pure alcohol evaporates away before the water does, and is then used to make a stronger drink.

yummy.


go tell your friends some random facts !