Random facts!

I've found that I rather like spouting out random facts, so do so here! All you do is post the weirdest fact you know. I'll go first-
If you stare into a redhead's eyes for more than ten seconds, you will fall in love.

Fact: Bob is very bored right now

That's true

I am black

You people don't read much if these are the weirdest facts you've ever heard.

houseflies hum only in the key of f

there used to be a family of blue people in kentucky

After jumping up, gravity pulls you down but it also pulls the earth towards you a little bit

My cousin who I thought was a boy is a girl

according to the laws of aerodynamics, bumblebees should not be able to fly but they don't give a flying f*ck and do it anyway

That's because they're aliens and that's why millions of bees have been dissapearing from earth. The end of the world is coming!

The first man who survived going over the Niagra Falls later died by slipping on an orange peel.

im cooler than all of you

Mitochondria are the powerhouses of a cell.

The reason people say "Bless You" when you sneeze is because during the sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond.

After reading up on it, it appears that Milocross is correct about this situation. (CURSE YOU GOOGLE, YOU LIED TO ME) However there is another superstition that may have started this saying, as stated here: http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/sneeze.html . So you are right Milocross, and I am a stupid idiot that is wrong. That will teach me to trust google search.

The fact above me is wrong.

People say bless you when you sneeze because when the bubonic plague was spreading, people sneezed a lot before their death. They said 'bless you' in hopes that god would clear them of their disease.

of course it never worked, but its cool.

90% of your body mass is, in fact, stardust, because all the elements except for hydrogen and helium are created in stars.

Actually, I think the highest amount of stardust in one person is like 1 1/2 teaspoons. The average person has 1

in venezuela there s a phenomenon over the mouth of the Catatumbo river, where for half the year, for approximately ten hours lightning strikes. There's been counted up to 280 times per hour. It's called the Catatumbo Lightning.

The mimic octopus is the most intelligent sea creature in the world. Almost the most intelligent on land and in air, also. It can morph its physical form into more than 15 other sea creatures, practically anything around it. These include the moray eel, the lip fish and the horseshoe crab. I've watched it morphing, just go to youtube.

Iluminati is a gang not a cnpiacy group

The universe is infinite, so intelligent life is out there somewhere.

Sony made a volcano in Costa Rica spew out 8 million flowers for an ad

The biggest star known in the Universe, VY Canis Majoris, is about 1540 times bigger than the Sun, is approximately 4892 light years away from the Earth, is located in Constellation Canis Major, and is truly, very, very big.

In the center of our galaxy is a giant black hole that could swallow us up in half a millisecond. Some people say it's alive and it has free will. There are many cults following it. Once I invent time travel, I'll go back to the Mesozoic area and live there so I know it's safe from giant black holes in the middles of galaxies.