A thread for exceptional facts

[More Spicey Than Coolwhip]

Zymurgy is the branch of chemistry associated with brewing.

 

[Reynard]

Honey Badgers are known to be able to take on multiple lions without any sort of a problem. In fact, when attacking male lions, they will run after it and rip off its testicles as to make it die from blood loss or to stop them from running.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Mountain Dew is known to kill sperm.

That's why I dip my dick in a glass of code red every time I have sex. Feels slightly better than condoms.

 

[vertexwindi]

every time I have sex

 

[Anchuent Christory]

The average number of legs per person worldwide is less than 2.

 

[BadaBadaBoom]

The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.

 

[A Skeleton]

Bees have 5 eyes

 

[AnOminous]

The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.

It is a fungus.

 

[Autistic-No-Yari]

Men's dress shirts typically button left to right, with the right side holding the buttons. Female dress shirts are reversed, right to left, buttons on the left.

So if you ever see a shirt and don't know if it's a lady's or not, there you go.

 

[Faint taste of butter]

the first description of the female orgasm came from a nun

 

[Positron]

Male elephants don't have a scrotum; their testes are internal.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

During the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 disaster, not only did the stranded rugby team eat their dead teammates, they also made waterproof socks out of their skin.

 

[Assorted Nuts]

It's apparently illegal to hunt whales in Oklahoma. Oklahoma is also landlocked. Figure that one out.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

In 19th century London, there was a feminist named Fanny Blood.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

In Roman times, eating a woman out was considered gayer than being sodomized.

 

[TiggerNits]

In 1957 the US developed a man portable nuclear launch device named the Davy Crockett and I am saddened I will never be able to get using one of those off my bucket list

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Jack Nicholson used to be a volunteer firefighter. During the filming of The Shining, he hacked through the bathroom door that Shelley Duvall was hiding behind so quickly that they had to specially reinforce it.

 

[AnOminous]

In 1957 the US developed a man portable nuclear launch device named the Davy Crockett and I am saddened I will never be able to get using one of those off my bucket list

That's sad. We should launch one of those every time Fat Boy Nork mouths off.

 

[RealtreeByGod]

In 1957 the US developed a man portable nuclear launch device named the Davy Crockett and I am saddened I will never be able to get using one of those off my bucket list

Davy Crockett wasn't even close to the craziest thing we came up with during the Cold War

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

The proposed use for nuclear-powered ramjets would be to power a cruise missile, called SLAM, for Supersonic Low Altitude Missile. In order to reach ramjet speed, it would be launched from the ground by a cluster of conventional rocket boosters. Once it reached cruising altitude and was far away from populated areas, the nuclear reactor would be made critical. Since nuclear power gave it almost unlimited range, the missile could cruise in circles over the ocean until ordered "down to the deck" for its supersonic dash to targets in the Soviet Union. The SLAM as proposed would carry a payload of many nuclear weapons to be dropped on multiple targets, making the cruise missile into an unmanned bomber. After delivering all its warheads, the missile could then spend weeks flying over populated areas at low altitudes, causing tremendous ground damage with its shock wave and radiation from its unshielded reactor. When it finally lost enough power to fly, and crash-landed, the engine would have a good chance of spewing deadly radiation for months to come.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

My favorite weird weapon of the Cold War was Blue Peacock. It was a 10 kiloton nuclear landmine that was to be buried in West Germany to slow down the attacking Soviet army.

One technical problem was that during winter buried objects can get very cold, and it was possible the mine's electronics would get too cold to work after some days underground. Various methods to get around this were studied, such as wrapping the bombs in insulating blankets. One particularly remarkable proposal suggested that live chickens be included in the mechanism. The chickens would be sealed inside the casing, with a supply of food and water; they would remain alive for a week or so. Their body heat would, it seems, have been sufficient to keep the mine's components at a working temperature. This proposal was sufficiently outlandish that it was taken as an April Fool's Day joke when the Blue Peacock file was declassified on 1 April 2004. Tom O'Leary, head of education and interpretation at the National Archives, replied to the media that, "It does seem like an April Fool but it most certainly is not. The Civil Service does not do jokes."[4]