Random Facts Galore!!

[Gizmokid2005]

Alright. I am going to try to post up ~5 random facts per day. At least 5 per post. I'll see how many I post up per day. Enjoy them all!

NOTE: Feel free to respond/reply in here, but please keep the pointless banter to a minimum. I will delete posts that fall under this category. Thanks
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M&M's were developed so that soldiers could eat chocolate without getting their fingers sticky.

The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires in redwood forests take place inside the trees.

50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

Amethyst was once thought to prevent drunkenness.

Half of the world's population has seen at least one James Bond movie.

Benjamin Franklin was the first person to suggest daylight savings time.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on U.S. primetime TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

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post your sources

[Gizmokid2005]

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's Gum.

Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by rubbing their feet.

From fertilization to birth a baby's weight increases 5 billion times.

Clark Gable was listed on his birth certificate as a girl.

Mel Gibson broke the school record for the most whippings in a week -- 27.

The drinking straw was invented in 1886.

[Gizmokid2005]

post your sources

"This Book of more Perfectly Useless Information" - Mitchell Symons

[TurcoLoco]

Mel Gibson broke the school record for the most whippings in a week -- 27.

I read somewhere that he was born in the States and used to live in NJ or NY then his family moved to Australia when he was very young. He was a troublemaker when he was young, he was very good-looking and kind of a rebel but it all changed when he was beaten up really bad and his face got all jacked up then he received financial help from their church for cosmetic surgery that made him handsome again...after that incident he became a devoted Catholic/Christian to pay back their kindness (I guess he went a bit far with the anti-Jew statements he made while drunk a while back?).