The Random Fun Facts Thread

[Gelfling Girl]

The longest game of Monopoly played in a bathtub lasted 99 hours.

 

[unclematt]

Brando's Pizza delivered two free pizzas to the PD tonight because I tried to order last night and they were already closed. They felt bad.

 

[APRena]

The armadillo is the only animal besides humans that can contract leprosy.
(Do people still GET leprosy, or is it eradicated for the most part like the plague? It just seems so old. Like, biblically so.)

 

[Gelfling Girl]

Cleopatra was NOT Egyptian.

 

[unclematt]

Many people do not know that the song title is Baba O'Reily and not Teenage Wasteland

 

[Gelfling Girl]

The Jelly Belly jellybean flavor "Vomit" was based on a failed attempt at a pizza flavor.

 

[unclematt]

Random unclematt fact: There is nothing better than sitting at home on a day off and messing around on MC and listening to a Muppetcast.

 

[Gelfling Girl]

Some places actually sell paper made of panda droppings.

 

[APRena]

Geralld Ford wrote lefthanded while seated and right while standing.

 

[muppetsliveon]

Peanut butter can be made into diamonds;The oldest continuosly standing tree on earth is over 5,000 years old, about the same age as the pyramids of egypt; Cheetahs can change direction midair when chasing prey;The tallest known snowman was taller than a 12 story building;Some honey bee queens quack; NYC's Empire State Building was built with 10 million bricks.