Random facts - Because they are awesome

[nomemory]

Since I am a big fan of random facts, I have decided to star the random facts thread. Anything that is remotely related to the topic is welcome here. I am not good with words but I hope you will understand what I mean.

Well now for the first random fact:
Next to Swedens most high security prison lies a school for the ages 12-15, as well as the local swimming pool and gym

And there is a bonus fact as well:
Peanuts are technically beans


And by the way, discussions are always welcome

[Tanner-kun]

I posted in this thread. (a fact and extremely random)

[Conia]

I got a lot of these! but in Spanish
Let's see...

More of the 50% of people in the World has never made or received a phone call.

[nomemory]

@xcommando: that is true =)
@conia: that is interesting and you say you have more, you are one lucky person


random fact: pigs are more intelligent than both dogs and horses, and the most intelligent mammal is dolphins or was it humans?

[meidei]

Fact:
In Korea, email is only for old people.

[Conia]

I don't feel like translating ALL fo them But I'll post when I can
For example:

16% of women are born blond. 33% of the women ARE blond.

[PokerFace312]

I have a fair amount of animal facts, but I'll just post a couple for now:

Cheetahs are the only cat that can't retract their claws.

Mountain lions are the only cats that can both purr and roar.

New born kangaroos are the size of a jelly bean.

[nomemory]

random fact: J.R.R. Tolkien is the one that introduced C.S. Lewis to the church, before he meet Tolkien Lewis was an atheist

[Beastly]

Do you know if you give a dog a chocolate even a small portion they could die?

[nomemory]

Do you know if you give a dog a chocolate even a small portion they could die?

onions are also dangerous

random fact: even though chocolate is poisonous for dogs it exists dog candy with chocolate flavour, of course they've taken away the part that's dangerous for dogs but I say it's weird

[Beastly]

More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world

[Sakina]

Ooooh, I have many random facts!  Most of them are biology related, though.

Fact: Humans are the only animal that drink milk as adults.  Actually, humans are the only animals that can drink milk as adults.  We retain our ability to use lactase while all other mammals lose that ability as they mature.

[Umandsf]

I wish I was more awake to fully go into the recesses of my mind to pull something, but I can't. Instead, I'll provide this.

In osu!, the Dominican Republic (my parents' motherland) has the second-highest average score per person in the world (106,572,703 among 125 users*), only beaten by Senegal (294,110,584 among 4 users*).

* As of 8:37AM EDT on April 29, 2010

[Holmes]

Kallen is just awesome.

[Conia]

Istambul (located in Turkey) is the only city that has it's territory divided in 2 continents: Europe and Asia.