The Random Fact thread

[Keitsu]

July is National Ice Cream Month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ice_Cream_Month

I guess I better eat some ice cream then

[Eddy]

The exact origins of balloon twisting (otherwise known as balloon animal making) are unknown. Despite this, it is assumed that it started in 1939 when a magician performed it at a magic convention in Pennsylvania.

[Rocket T. Coyote]

The Bell P-63 King Cobra fighter was never used in combat by the USAAF in WW2. Most were exported to Russia.

I the 1970s, the Testors Corporation offered a gas-powered P-63 Kingcobra as a flying control-line plastic model. It was available chromed and as a camouflaged "Jungle Fighter" with spring-loaded firing missiles and ejecting pilot figure. The models also had features common to Operation Pinball Kingcobras.

[Rocket T. Coyote]

Paintball guns were originally designed for marking cattle.

[Furenzied]

The sentence: Police police police police police police police police. Is an actual sentence.

3 is prime
31 is too
So is 331, 3331, 33331, 333331, 3333331, and 33333331 is also prime but 333333331 is the first in this series isn't prime as it's divisible by 17.

It's theorised that there isn't an infinite amount of prime numbers, even though there's an infinite amount of numbers, because the larger the number, the more things could possibly factor into it.

[WhiteAkitaKeiko]

There are 10% of the population are left-handed people and they are often excluded from studies of how the brain works

[Rocket T. Coyote]

In 1946, Warner Brothers released the animated short subject Bacall To Arms, featuring the likenesses of Humphrey Bogart (Bogie Gokart) and Lauren Bacall (Laurie Becool).

[Furenzied]

The children of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but technically siblings.

[Rocket T. Coyote]

Hugo Junkers was removed from his aviation firm for voicing disagreement with the Nazis.

[Furenzied]

When the United States Postal Service was created, it was legal to ship childern as long as they weighed under 50 lbs.

There was one incident where a man dismantled his home brick by brick and mailed the material to a new location.

It is legal to mail bricks and pillows by writing on it's surface as long as it has the proper postage.

[Rocket T. Coyote]

The original ad campaign for Kobuk's favorite soft drink was Yahoo--Mountain Dew!

[Turgius]

168 years ago today in 1846: the first U.S patent for a sowing machine was awarded to Elias Howe.

[Furenzied]

The idea of engagement rings was popularised by the (forgive my spelling.) De Beirs diamond corperation by launching a massive advertisement campaign less than 200 years ago. Who control most of the diamond flow to artificially raise prices to make much more money.

[Keitsu]

The idea of engagement rings was popularised by the (forgive my spelling.) De Beirs diamond corperation by launching a massive advertisement campaign less than 200 years ago. Who control most of the diamond flow to artificially raise prices to make much more money.

Yep. And they are pretty common apparently. They just have a monopoly on them and had a ridiculously effective advertising campaign.

[Rocket T. Coyote]

There are generals, brigadier generals, lieutenant generals, and major generals in most armies, but East Germany's also had the rank of colonel general.