Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new.

There is only one McDonalds in the world (Sedona, Arizona) with turquoise arches!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/6241

The current shoreline of Florida is only 4-6000 years old. About 20000 years ago, the entire continental shelf was exposed, with sea levels several hundred feet lower than today.

125 000 years ago, during the last interglacial, the sea levels were actually about 25 feet higher than now, and everything south of Orlando was under water and a coral reef, as well as all of the east and west coasts.

Here's a diagram:

http://dept.sfcollege.edu/NatSci/PhysSci/jean.klein/Cave/flaphys.gif

Every movie on the International Movie Database (IMDB) website is ranked by users on a scale of 1 to 10, except the movie "This Is Spinal Tap" which goes to 11.

Noorderhanks is the most westerly island of the West Frisian Islands and Mellum is the most easternly island of the East Frisian Islands.

woodstock45 wrote:

No two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war with each other

This is pretty much true. However, Russia and Georgia both have McDonald's and Russia invaded Georgia a few years back. But it doesn't change the interesting trend of world dominance (probably not the right word there) being in the form of soft power rather than military power. And I'd say there's a more than decent chance of two nations with McDonald's getting into a major conflict within the next 30 years.

My fact: Every monarch butterfly comes from the same small patch of trees in Mexico. They're famous for migrating north, then returning to the same patch of trees at the end of the migration period. What's interesting about the migration period is it spans 3-4 generations. So the butterflies that leave Mexico never come back. Yet the butterflies from the north still return to the one small patch of trees in Mexico.

woodstock45 wrote:No two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war with each other

This is nonsense. There are McDonalds in Italy and Germany, both of which have been to war against most of the rest of Europe. There are McDonalds in Japan...

Care to clarify what you meant here? I'm not getting it...

another point of view wrote:

woodstock45 wrote:No two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war with each other

This is nonsense. There are McDonalds in Italy and Germany, both of which have been to war against most of the rest of Europe. There are McDonalds in Japan...

Care to clarify what you meant here? I'm not getting it...

assume he meant post-mcdonalds introduction wars.

ronald macD wrote:

another point of view wrote:

This is nonsense. There are McDonalds in Italy and Germany, both of which have been to war against most of the rest of Europe. There are McDonalds in Japan...

Care to clarify what you meant here? I'm not getting it...

assume he meant post-mcdonalds introduction wars.

Was that really that difficult to figure out? Seriously?

There are more than 230 languages spoken in Europe.

ronald macD wrote:...assume he meant post-mcdonalds introduction wars.

Ahhhh, OK, I didn't get that, my bad.

The various Balkan states of the former Yugoslavia were all "sort of" at war with each other (really this was more about conflit between the three major ethnic groups, not so much the individual states), and wiki says they had mickey D's from the mid-90s onward.

Your body uses 70 bones in the process of uttering the word "hello".

mebert wrote:

Every movie on the International Movie Database (IMDB) website is ranked by users on a scale of 1 to 10, except the movie "This Is Spinal Tap" which goes to 11.

I was surprised to find that this isn't BS

As far as facts: Using mouthwash raises your risk of cancer. Researchers in Australia found that people using alcohol-based mouthwash were significantly more likely to develop cancers of the mouth and throat. This is because you have to hold the mouthwash in your mouth for a while, which gives it time to damage the cells in your mouth. Mouthwash is actually pretty high proof.

Really? How many bones does it take to do other things like a squat or a push up?

nikki the great wrote:

Your body uses 70 bones in the process of uttering the word "hello".

Many years ago, during a 5th grade summer school enrichment class in suburban New York (Rockland County), somebody brought in a dying Polyphemus moth. It laid some eggs. I took them home. They hatched. Suddenly I was the possessor of about thirty tiny Polyphemus moth caterpillars. I raised them over the summer.

Here's the fact: when you shake a stick on which a half dozen big fat green mature Polyphemus moth caterpillars are hanging, they click their teeth loudly enough to be heard. They don't like that.

Blackberries are red when they are green.

woodstock45 wrote:

No two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war with each other

nikki the great wrote:

Your body uses 70 bones in the process of uttering the word "hello".

Maybe, but I only needed 1 bone to do your mom.

Sanitation workers are more likely to be killed or injured on the job than either police or firefighters.

kudzurunner wrote:

Here's the fact: when you shake a stick on which a half dozen big fat green mature Polyphemus moth caterpillars are hanging, they click their teeth loudly enough to be heard. They don't like that.

Decapitated heads of fetal rats and mice which are removed in utero will open and shut their mouths because the sucking reflex is hard wired.