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fungirl123 wrote:

TheGameMaster1231 wrote:

The best I know is that 17% of Americans eat fast food 3 times a day... ridiculous.

EWW!
That's gross.
I never eat fast food.

!!you are missing out on 30% of life 
haha jk I LOVE fast food, but I`m not really into forcing people to eat things

fungirl123 wrote:

Found one!
You can measure the speed of light using a bunch of marshmallows and a microwave.

There is NO WAY that is true.

Search on a more reliable site. 

TheGameMaster1231 wrote:

fungirl123 wrote:

Found one!
You can measure the speed of light using a bunch of marshmallows and a microwave.

There is NO WAY that is true.

Search on a more reliable site. 

Honestly, I just looked on the first website that came up 
But I don't feel like wasting my time searching for random facts that don't benefit me at all, so I give up, thank you. XD

fungirl123 wrote:

TheGameMaster1231 wrote:

fungirl123 wrote:

Found one!
You can measure the speed of light using a bunch of marshmallows and a microwave.

There is NO WAY that is true.

Search on a more reliable site. 

Honestly, I just looked on the first website that came up 
But I don't feel like wasting my time searching for random facts that don't benefit me at all, so I give up, thank you. XD

Yeah, ok.

Im also trying to figure out what % of all foil is used for Dorito bags... I doubt I'll figure that out, though.

Last edited by TheGameMaster1231 (2012-01-13 20:41:40)

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. 

In the latter part of the 18th century, Prussian surgeons treated stutterers by snipping off portions of their tongues.

Wal-Mart Stores bought $18 billion of goods from China in 2004 making it China's eighth-largest trading partner (ahead of Australia, Canada and Russia).

Last edited by rabbit1131 (2012-01-13 20:42:19)

soupoftomato wrote:

Medic wrote:

The human body can go for around 1 or 2 weeks without food. .3.

Meaningless without some water.

I, as I've been told, am heartless. Which seems an incredibly unexpected and random thing to say as I wouldn't be alive without mine. So I would consider that a pretty random fact.

It depends.

If you don't have a literal cardiac heart, you could still live, but you'd have to roll around to get the blood moving.

Else they're just saying you're mean. 

Earthboundjeff wrote:

56 percent of magic is not magic, technically it is sorcery.
Also, cell phones cannot give you cancer. Only hepatitis.

I smell Fact Core

Fact: For some reason, I would like to drink something that is not water 

Attila the Hun would sentence his victims to be pulled apart limb from limb
he was also very facinated with magic

I hate all animals

And I thought this was a very surprising fact, I certainly didn't expect such a morbid outcome both ways but: Every marriage that doesn't end in divorce ends in death.

soupoftomato wrote:

And I thought this was a very surprising fact, I certainly didn't expect such a morbid outcome both ways but: Every marriage that doesn't end in divorce ends in death.

Or annulment

I was reading this cool book by NewScientist and it has a ton of awesome facts in it
Here's one question and part of one of the answers going with it:

SACRED DNA
Animals and plants share a common genetic ancestry, so perhaps vegetarians refuse to eat meat on ethical grounds should avoid eating anything that has DNA at all. Is this feasible? Could anyone suggest a menu?
Richard Ward
I'm not aware of any living organisms that don't have DNA, so you'd have a hard time eating any tissues or cell cultures. You could try eating RNA viruses, but you'd need to produce them in a cell culture, which generally requires animal serum to keep the cells alive. Your food wouldn't contain DNA, but you would have used dead animals to produce it.
One cheat that springs to mind is red blood cells. In many species, including humans, the nucleus and mitochondria are removed from these cells during the maturation process. This is to make room for more hemoglobin, the iron-bound protein that carries oxygen. Because the nucleus and mitochondria contain all the cell's DNA, you could argue that provided you don't kill the animals, drinking their blood is the ultimate vegetarian diet. You'd need to filter out the white blood cells, which still have plenty of DNA, but the rest of the blood components would be fine. They'd provide you with protein, some sugars, and vitamins, but probably more iron than is healthy.