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***THE OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD***

Posted on 10/09/2015 6:27:44 AM PDT by Lucky9teen

Come at me...

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Mike Portnoy "Name That Tune" on Hello Kitty Drum Kit

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These 25 facts you’re about to read sound totally false, but go ahead and check for yourself.

#1. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.

#2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

#3. France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars: A New Hope hit theatres.

#4. Nintendo was originally a trading card company.

#5. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States.

#6. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.

#7. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.

#8. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans.

#9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.

#10. Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months.

#11. Shakespeare made up the name “Jessica” for his play Merchant of Venice.

#12. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark.

#13. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.

#14. Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets.

#15. Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn.

#16. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.

#17. John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today.

#18. A strawberry is NOT a berry.

#19. A banana IS a berry.

#20. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid.

#21. An octopus has three hearts.

#22. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.

#23. There is only one country between North Korea and Norway.

#24. New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy

#25. Maine is the closest US state to Africa.

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: ofst; silliness; tencodes
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To: Lucky9teen

Oh, good grief! You owe me a new keyboard. That there is
downright funny! I really like Grumpy Cat, too.


101 posted on 10/09/2015 2:25:02 PM PDT by TheOldLady (I miss the Gipper. Wish we still had someone like him.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; bryan999; Army Air Corps
Thanks.

102 posted on 10/09/2015 2:46:45 PM PDT by upchuck (Academics think capitalism is corrupt because that's how academia is. h/t Glen Reynolds)
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To: Lucky9teen

and “Bob”


103 posted on 10/09/2015 5:05:42 PM PDT by llevrok (To liberals, Treason Is the New Patriotism)
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To: Lucky9teen

I tried the Halloween Whopper the other day, with high hopes after reading good reviews.

My recommendation: save your money.


104 posted on 10/09/2015 5:44:54 PM PDT by Yardstick
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