Educate me

beduffbrickie

tell me something you dont think I would know.... random facts welcomed

_Stampede_

A douche /ˈduːʃ/ is a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself.

Douche usually refers to vaginal irrigation, the rinsing of the vagina, but it can also refer to the rinsing of any body cavity. A douche bag is a piece of equipment for douching—a bag for holding the fluid used in douching. To avoid transferring intestinal bacteria into the vagina, the same bag must not be used for an enema and a vaginal douche.

Il_DaniD_lI

There are 10 times more stars in the visible Universe than all the grains of sand in the world.

gaiareeves

Gender is a spectrum, not a binary. 'Man' and 'woman' are not the only genders, and are in fact simply opposite ends of the spectrum.

'Genderqueer' is a catch-all term used to describe anybody who does not identify as a binary gender.

ArroganceInStep

The Statue of Liberty is forever mooning New Jersey

k8blujay2

The Statue of Liberty is forever mooning New Jersey

And on that note, the Texas Tech horse statue is forever mooning Texas A&M.

FollowThatUnicorn

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Although you may have already known that.

GeneveSparkles

People have about 3 pounds of bacterial organisms living in their bodies

misskerouac

The saying that you eat 8 spiders in your lifetime while sleeping is false.

Spiders enjoy warm damp areas....you eat WAY more than 8 in your lifetime.

JPod279

32% of all people know that 43% of all facts are made up.

cabaray

Seahorse males, not females, get pregnant and have babies.

FollowThatUnicorn

The saying that you eat 8 spiders in your lifetime while sleeping is false.

Spiders enjoy warm damp areas....you eat WAY more than 8 in your lifetime.

Arrggggg!!! Nooooo!!!!

LindaCWy

Canadians don't live in igloos

vim_n_vigor

When a pilot in a fighter jet flies at night over water, flying right side up or up side down looks the same. They have to watch their monitors to know how they are flying.

JPod279

The 697th digit of Pi is 9.
The 698th digit of Pi is 2.

The band Pearl Jam was originally called Mookie Blaylock, as they were fans of the basketball player by the same name. Mookie Blaylock played college ball at OU and for three teams in the NBA. Pearl Jam's first album, 10, is also the number Mookie wore in college and as a pro.

CoryIda

It takes 832 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.

I have the certificate from the company attesting to that fact.

HauteP1nk

Canadians don't live in igloos

What?!?! Next you're going to try and tell me that they don't have Moose as pets.

skinnyinnotime

Your foot will fit exactly between your elbow and wrist.

skinnyinnotime

It takes 832 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.

I have the certificate from the company attesting to that fact.

Surely that would depend on the tongue size.

GeneveSparkles

There are more occurences of the numbers 1, 2, and 3 than 7, 8, 9 in the world.

Twilightsunflower

if you rub your hands on stainless steal after cutting an onion it helps remove the scent of the onion from your skin

JPod279

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

LindaCWy

Canadians don't live in igloos

What?!?! Next you're going to try and tell me that they don't have Moose as pets.

This will BLOW your mind then. I have never even seen a moose, except for in the zoo and I've lived here my whole life nodoubtaboutit eh.

still_crafty

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months

DarthCeltic

the average male thinks of sex 6 times a minute.. this is males smile six times a minute as well..

standbycuego

The male angler fish spends it's life looking for a mate, and only one. Once he finds his female, the female attaches the male angler fish to her body, and then she slowly consumes the males body and absorbs his gonads by osmosis so that she can impregnate herself. One female angler fish can do this to as many males as she desires.

EmilyTwist1

Sodium fluoride (NaF), which is often used to add fluoride to drinking water, inhibits cellular respiration. Basically, it prevents cells from converting glucose into a usable form of energy (ATP), which causes further problems for cell functioning.

_Stampede_

Sodium fluoride (NaF), which is often used to add fluoride to drinking water, inhibits cellular respiration. Basically, it prevents cells from converting glucose into a usable form of energy (ATP), which causes further problems for cell functioning.

+1 for you

rllewell

There are more islands around the state of Alaska than the rest of the United States.

There is more coast line in Alaska than the rest of the United States.

The Arctic and Antarctic circle are the determining lines on the longest and shortest days of the year whether you get 24 hours of daylight or darkness. As an example if you lived on the Arctic Circle, on June 21st you'd have 24 hours of daylight and on December 21st you'd have 24 hours of darkness.

I lived in Anchorage, Alaska which was slightly below the arctic circle so on June 21st we got around 20 hours of daylight and 4 hours on December 21st. At peak times you could be gaining or losing 5-6 minutes of daylight each day!

Pollywog39

It’s impossible to sneeze in your sleep.

snoopytwins

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a sentence that contains every letter in the English alphabet (called an English-language pangram).