User:GeneralIroh/Random Archive

This is archive, storing all of my random facts of the day, a tradition that I made so that users could each day come and receive a small token of tickling trivia. The idea was inspired by Sp3000's userbox and its trivia. This page was made so that these may always be remembered. This 'tradition' was created on 01:10, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

February 2007 edit

February 22 edit

The novel Gadsby has over 50,000 words...none with the letter 'e.' The writer had to literally tie down the key 'e' on his typewriter (yeah this was written a while back)!

February 23 edit

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of big words.

February 24 edit

The Scorpion King was a prequel to a sequel of a movie that was a remake of another movie that was made in the 1930s.

February 25 edit

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but can't pick your friend's nose.

Febraury 26 edit

Thomas Edison failed 1,000 times before making a stable incandescent light bulb but he always said that, "he had just found 1,000 ways to not make a light bulb."

Febraury 27 edit

All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.

Febraury 28 edit

Although it's believed that no two snowflakes are alike, the claim has not proven.

March 2007 edit

March 1 edit

March begins on the same day of the week as February, excepting leap years, and as November every year.

March 2 edit

"There is no war in Ba Sing Se." Yeah right!

March 3 edit

A Canadian blogger named Kyle MacDonald traded his way from one red paperclip to a house over the course of a year.

March 4 edit

Only 10% of the world population is left-handed.

March 5 edit

Strike can mean both a hit and miss.

March 6 edit

Some frogs can survive being frozen.

March 7 edit

Yankovic created his "pimped-out" MySpace page for the filming. "White & Nerdy"'s top eight MySpace friends are Bill Gates, Napoleon Dynamite, Mr. Peabody, Albert Einstein, Screech, Frodo, Pee Wee Herman and Tom.

March 8 edit

Before outsiders came to the land, Egypt was called Misr.

March 9 edit

The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

March 10 edit

A peice of paper can be folded in half more than seven times. The myth that it couldnt was disproved by mythbusters.

March 11 edit

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

March 12 edit

15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.

March 13 edit

A zebra is white with black stripes.

March 14 edit

Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

March 15 edit

"Beware the Ides of March."

March 16 edit

There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

March 17 edit

Although Saint Patrick's Day has the color green as their theme, one little known fact is that it was once orange and blue that were the colors of this day.

March 18 edit

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

March 19 edit

Chickens can live for up to 18 months without a head.

March 20 edit

Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.

March 21 edit

The word Cwm is famous for having no vowels.

March 22 edit

The 100 billionth crayola crayon ever made was Periwinkle Blue.

March 23 edit

Flying from London to New York by Concorde, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

March 24 edit

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.

March 25 edit

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

March 26 edit

The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

March 27 edit

The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.

March 28 edit

The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.

March 29 edit

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

March 30 edit

Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.

March 31 edit

An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.

April 2007 edit

April 1 edit

The Today's Featured Article on the Main Page (pictured) was George Washington (inventor), who was actually a real person. However, the fact that it was featured on the Main Page was obviously a spoof off of the famous George Washington, the President. In fact, the article was created, nominated for featured-article status, and put on the Main Page in a mere 5 days. Special:Recentchanges was briefly hacked to display a message from Jimbo Wales saying that, because of vandalism, he would start charging editors to edit Wikipedia unless they were members of the cabal.

April 2 edit

Today is now officially dubbed, according to my decree, Post Fools' Day!

April 3 edit

Ants do not sleep.

April 4 edit

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

April 5 edit

The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

April 6 edit

Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.

April 7 edit

Houseflies have a life span of two weeks.

April 8 edit

The name Easter was told to have been influenced by the Germanic god Eostre.

April 9 edit

Lobsters have blue blood.

April 10 edit

A man survived three hanging attempts.

April 11 edit

The copper in a penny is worth more than the penny itself.

April 12 edit

Today is Yuri's Night, an international celebration in commemoration of the first human in Outer space.

April 13 edit

Today is Caroline Rhea's, former host to The Biggest Loser and Aunt Hilda from Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, birthday.

April 14 edit

I went to the greatest wedding ever!

April 15 edit

Happy Birthday, Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest men in history.

April 16 edit

Shrimp's hearts are in their heads.

April 17 edit

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.

April 18 edit

Every minute, 30-40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body.

April 19 edit

Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.

April 20 edit

Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.

April 21 edit

Today is the kick-off of the Kentucky Derby Festival, Thunder Over Louisville.

April 22 edit

Today is Earth Day.

April 23 edit

Today is World Book and Copyright Day.

April 24 edit

Every Labrador Retriever dreams about bananas.

April 25 edit

In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with a Pepsi.

April 26 edit

In 1843 a Parisian mime got stuck in his imaginary box and died of starvation.

April 27 edit

Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

April 28 edit

The Great Balloon Race and Mini-Marathon went off today.

April 29 edit

King Henry VIII slept with a giant axe.

April 30 edit

Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

May 2007 edit

May 1 edit

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

May 2 edit

Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

May 3 edit

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

May 4 edit

Today is the Kentucky Oaks.

May 5 edit

Today is Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby, otherwise known as the greatest two minutes in sports.

May 6 edit

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

May 7 edit

I before e except after c or or when sounding like a as in neighbor or weigh.

May 8 edit

You are looking at the Random Fact of the Day for GeneralIroh!

May 9 edit

(ambn)p = ampbnp, is a law of exponents.

May 10 edit

Happy Constitution Day, Federated States of Micronesia!

May 11 edit

Today is May 11. This is where you gave up...

May 12 edit

Today is my birthday.

May 13 edit

The current US flag was designed by a high school student for a project... He got a B

May 14 edit

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

May 15 edit

The poem, "Jabberwocky" was written in gibberish.

May 16 edit

123 people in the United States are named Edward Cullen

May 17 edit

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm - look familar...if it still isn't look down(on the keyboard!)

May 18 edit

Mark your calendars, its International Museum Day!

May 19 edit

Facebooks oldest user is 103.

May 20 edit

Happy, Cameroon National Day!

May 21 edit

It's been a two whole monthes of Spring.

May 22 edit

A woman from Britian once called the cops to report her snowman stolen

May 23 edit

Happy World Turtle Day!

May 24 edit

0.7734! (It means hello.)