Just thought I’d make a thread for random facts about random things. For instance:

Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends with ‘mt’

Cats urine glows under a blacklight

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.

and….

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies toilet during a dance.

Any more for any more?

Rhythm is the only word in the English language without any vowels in it…

Cockcroaches can (supposedly) survive a nuclear blast…

And in reference to thunderstruck’s signature - it isn’t possible to sink in quicksand!

what about myth?

Sorry, stuffed it…it should actually be:

Rhythms is the longest word in the English language without vowels.

(I’m trying to do this from memory when I haven’t actually read the trivia itself in about 10 years!)

thunderstruck - 18 August 2005 07:09 PM

Cats urine glows under a blacklight.

Not certain but I’m pretty sure that ALL urine, if not all bodily fluids, glow under a blacklight.

that COWS are 100 times MORE deadly than sharks???

Every year on Earth about 1,000 people are killed in cattle related incidents…

Whereas only about 10 people die worldwide from shark encounters yearly!!!

So don’t fall for the mass hysteria and hype… You should be more afraid of walking across a pasture then going for a dip in the ocean!!!

There are no legal rhymes for Orange, Purple and Silver.

Nutmeg is poisonous when taken intravenously…(now who’d go round injecting themselves with nutmeg?)

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. YUCK!
The dot over the letter

Every year the moon gets 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches) further away from Earth. It will eventually be lost into space and tides will be a thing of the past.

I’m 35 years old now…

The moon was 4.35 feet closer when I was born… when the moon was first born it was only about 14,000 miles away as compared to the 280,000 miles of today. Imagine how much of the night sky that would’ve have taken up!!!

Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends with

The squid is the only land mammal that is capable of swallowing a grown adult whole.