Let's Talk About Interesting Facts!!

[D.]

I'll start!

- Only about 93.5% of humans have died. (Of the 108 billion people estimated to have lived since the emergence of anatomically modern human beings, 7 billion are still alive.)

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Arti...edonEarth.aspx

[MyOneAndOnly]

Wherever you go, there you are.

[vixnix]

The median household income in the U.S. is $51,939 but the median household income in New Jersey is $71,637.

[Shallowed]

The only member of ZZ Top that doesn't have a beard is named Frank Beard

[Eulogy]

If 7 billion are alive that would mean 101 billion have died..?

Am I missing something

[Eulogy]

Lord it wasn't the math that I had wrong but the words

Rough week already. Disregard!

[FoolofaTook]

their are 300 million ppl in the usa

[Dogfighter28]

so u think ur all that cuz you know how many ppl are in the usa

[Elijah Moon]

Originally Posted by Shallowed

The only member of ZZ Top that doesn't have a beard is named Frank Beard

That's a fairly amusing fact, but apparently he does normally sport a beard, just not one of the trademark huge beards like the others.

[ohnoitsbonnie]

Most fresh water is inaccessible to us. I don't know how much but it's a lot. It's frozen or something

[ohnoitsbonnie]

All energy comes from the sun. Don't ask me how I don't know

[LaBelle]

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

[ohnoitsbonnie]

The Amazon river carries silt from the Andes down to the ocean. Maybe a lb or two of silt, I'm not sure

[D.]

Stars visible to us are already dead.

Mind was BLOWN when I found that out. Gave that little nugget of info to my daughter the other day. Watching her digest that was cute.

[The exploding boy]

thats not factual actually. Just one of those things you see passed around as fact. A tiny amount of them might be but even the farthest stars we see as they were a couple of ten thousands of years ago at most. That's not a long time in a star's lifetime.

[D.]

[duovamp]

So you ended her childhood with a lie. Good work, DAD.

[D.]

#tooblessedtobestressed

[FoolofaTook]

goddamnit dogufcker made me laugh

i feel dirty, violated.

[ohnoitsbonnie]

The Earth is 4.5 billion years old

[ohnoitsbonnie]

Humans began cultivating plants for food (agriculture) ~12,000-10,000 years ago

[vixnix]

Tamil is one of the most ancient human languages. Poems written in Tamil date back to 300 years BCE. It is still recognised as the official language of a handful of Indian states, and Sri Lanka.

[vixnix]

Sorry I should have said ancient written human languages

[Tchocky]

Possums have pouches like kangaroos.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/...20121211065941

[buzzard]

In some parts of Australia, up to 90% of koalas are infected with chlamydia. Chlamydophila pneumoniae, one of the two strains commonly found in these creatures, can be transmitted to humans.

[Dogfighter28]

9/11 was perpetrated by your own government

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by ohnoitsbonnie

Most fresh water is inaccessible to us. I don't know how much but it's a lot. It's frozen or something

90% of fresh water is right outside my front door

#greatlakesmotherfucker

[Sonic Johnny]

Eagle Eye Cherry's birth name is Eagle Eye Cherry

[ohnoitsbonnie]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

90% of fresh water is right outside my front door

#greatlakesmotherfucker

https://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html

[myosis]

The technique of diagnosing illness by taking the pulse of an individual was developed in China tens of centuries ago. Fifty-one different types of pulse beats were said to be identified at eleven different locations on the body. Each pulse was linked with a different heatlh problem.