Thread: Random Facts

Lets see if this works =/
You just need to post a random fact related to the one above you; for example:

User A:Odontophobia is the fear of teeth
User B:Sharks have at least 40 sets of teeth in their life time
User C:Sharks do not have a single bone in their bodies.
and so on, sounds interesting hah?

I'll start, following the ^example:

Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.

Chickens cannot burp

Dogs cannot cough.

Birds have only 1 layer of skin.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Racecar spelt backwards is racecar.

The highest speed limit in the United States is 80 MPH in rural west Texas.

Did any of you guys know that Capcom made its own video game system at one point in the mid-1990s?

There is anti matter in potassium 40 in bananas but to get enough anti matter to blow up a city you might as well crush the city with bananas.

In Uganda, bananas are such a big part of the diet that the same word, matooke, is used for both "food" and "banana."

The Spanish word esposas means both "wives" and "handcuffs."

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee.

Apparently, coffee was banned in Ottoman Turkey at some point during the 17th century.

Finnland has yet to have 100 year of being a country

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a fear of long words.

There is more english speakers in China than in the USA