Random Facts Thread

[esuriospiritus]

Share random shit you learned today. Or yesterday. Or whenever.

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225 years ago today (Jan. 8th), George Washington gave the first State of the Union address.

There's a correlation between having a small hippocampus (part of the brain that has to do with memory) and having a clinically severe response to trauma (e.g., PTSD).

Delaware is totally a state, and not a region or a city. I knew this at some point, but the information was never relevant so I forgot until recently because who the fuck even lives in Delaware anyway wtf. Looked it up, and it turns out about as many people live in Jacksonville, FL as live in the entire fucking state of Delaware. No wonder.

[CooLDoG]

Kentucky isn't a state. It is a "commonwealth".

[Sudo_Nym]

According to U.S. law, George Washington is permanently senior to all American officers, past, present, or future. When Ulysses S. Grant became America's first five-star general, the rank of six-star general was invented so that Washington could be posthumously promoted.

[TroubledTownie]

Our universe is a form of nothing, with zero net energy.

[quadz08]

If you were to remove the physical HIV/AIDS virus from every human being on the planet and put it in the same space, it would fit in a spoon.

[BipolarChemist]

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

[lalaladucks]

the founder of match.com lost his girlfriend to a guy she met on match.com

[Psyche]

we all die alone :(

[shaft.ed]

not if you die in a plane crash

[Firebringer]

the founder of match.com lost his girlfriend to a guy she met on match.com

Did he find his next match on match.com?

[NotTheRealPaul]

Im pretty trash at mafia

[Annadog40]

Kid gloves get their name because they're made from the hides of young goats.

[lalaladucks]

i actually bumped this because i was considering making a thread about facts but i found this thread existed already!!! why don't people like facts/why aren't they posting facts

Did he find his next match on match.com?

idk i researched but didn't find the answer i sought

fact/s of the day:

the act of nose picking is termed "rhinotillexomania"
the act of hair plucking is termed "trichotillomania"
there was a recorded case of a 29 year old man presenting with a previously undocumented convergence of rhinotillexomania and trichotillomania, forcing his doctors to coin a new term: rhinotrichotillomania. he compulsively pulled out his nose hairs; when his hair pulling got too extreme, his nose would become inflamed. to treat this inflammation he began applying a solution which had the side effect of staining his nose purple. turns out that the purple stain concealed his visible nose hairs and he became much more relaxed about them so did not feel the need to pluck them out. he felt more comfortable leaving the house with a purple nose than visible nose hairs.

[Draynth]

Banging your head against a wall burns ~150 calories an hour.