***THE OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD***

[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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[Lucky9teen]

[ShadowAce]

How is it still true?

[ShadowAce]

How? Sweden is between the USSR and Norway

[Lucky9teen]

Best costume ever

[dayglored]

Geez, TOP 50?!?

[Travis T. OJustice]

LMAO!!!!!!!

It was 24-36-2, btw.

[AppyPappy]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Russia

[Slyfox]

[ShadowAce]

OK—so Russia and Sweden are between NK and Norway. That’s two.

[Travis T. OJustice]

You have to pull out a globe, my friend. Or use the modern equivalent, google earth.

Norway makes a nice hat over Sweden.

[glock rocks]

AThin strip of Denmark is above Finland and Norway to the Rooskie border.

[fredhead]

Go over the Arctic.....NK thru Russia, across the water to Norway.

[ShadowAce]

OK--so it is possible to get from NK to Norway via only one country.

That's not how the point was phrased, though.

[glock rocks]

?..strip of Norway is above. MORE COFFEE!

[Yardstick]

#19. A banana IS a berry.

Why of course. That's why I've always called them bananaberries.

[ClearCase_guy]

Over the pole?

[AppyPappy]

Russia is connected to both Norway and North Korea.

[left that other site]

Top 100? :-)

[Travis T. OJustice]

Touche’!

[hoagy62]

Good Lord! Those two guys have to be drunk to even THINK about that!