Friday, May 27, 2011

Fun and mostly useless facts - part 1

Here is some trivia i found:


- Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.

- The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.

- The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime

- You can start a fire with ice.

- The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South! 

- When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.

- When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.


- The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV becuase one if its stars was a pig.       

14 comments:

Radux said...

3000 mph glass?
that ehh fast :>

Reality Check said...

Nice post man! Keep them coming!

j. said...

You can start a fire with ice - what?? how?? its impossible

BojanCo said...

@ j.
You can. Ice has magnifing ability, so if you can focus sun beam using ice, you can set something on fire ;)

Acrylic Ingenuity said...

totally crazy

Tom said...

Whoa! Interesting stuff. Starting a fire with ice sounds like something i'll have to try for myself lol!

Jesse Crows said...

fire with ice? you dont say

Gaberabtic said...

Some info here is nice to know and some thing I didn't know I wanted to know

Mike said...

These really are pointless haha.

Jay said...

fire from ice?!?

baka1236 said...

i wanna learn how to start a fire with blocks of ice o.0

Lily@FaunMusic said...

I DEMAND you explain how to start a fire with ice mister ^.^

BojanCo said...

@ Lily@FaunMusic
Ice has magnifing ability, so if you can focus sun beam using ice, you can set something on fire ;)

Unknown said...

interesting and amusing!

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