Random Facts

If the bottom two rows of keys on your keyboard suddenly failed, the longest word you could still be able to type out is 'typewriter'.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Squids can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.

In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

Did you know that the plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets?

The male scorpion fly gets other males to bring him food by imitating a female fly. (haha, insect dragshow)

The only country whose name begins with an A but doesn't end in an A is Afghanastan.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Giraffes are unable to cough.

Brazil got it's name from the nut, not the other way around.

Goldfish can suffer motion sickness.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

And finally....

The mad Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random. (Hey, I'm a Classical Studies major. This type of random fact was to be expected.)