Random Facts AMISMARTYET?

[Eury]

[spoiler=Random Facts]George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

 

In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.

 

In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people''s clothes.

 

Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.

 

Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.

 

Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.

 

Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

 

Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

 

Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.

 

Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world''s first billionaire.

 

Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.

 

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.

 

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

 

A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.

 

A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

 

About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

 

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

 

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

 

All babies are color blind when they are born.

 

An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.

 

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

 

Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ''Crash Course''.

 

 

Now discuss these random facts. inb4nicecopypasta

[Willieh]

Here's a fun fact:

 

When you're dreaming you're actually having a drug trip due to the release of a mixture of chemicals in your brain; one of which is DMT.

 

Also, Marijuana used to be the most used plant to create paper. If I remember correctly, the constitution rough draft for the constitution was written on a piece of Marijuana paper.

[Raelen]

 

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Finally! A way to tell them apart!

[Yasu]

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lolfake.

[Guest Chaos Pudding]

Let's keep the random facts in one thread, shall we?