Too much nutmeg acts as a poison in your body. I just learned this about a week ago and was really surprised.

I am QUEEN of random, mostly useless facts. Here are some:

Most of the heavy Ele­ments (every­thing but Hydro­gen, Helium, and a bit of Lithium) come from stars that went super­nova.

Regular, everyday dairy cows belch anywhere from 3-17 cubic feet of methane gas a day, (the amount is debated by scientists, hence the range I provided), about as much pollution as a car per day. Another interesting tidbit, is that pilots & others with a good view, can tell the direction the wind is blowing just by looking at the cows. They belch so much, they like to face downwind!

The word ded­i­cated to describ­ing a per­fectly shaped beau­ti­ful butt is cal­lipy­gou s!

The sen­tence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” uses every let­ter in the alphabet.

Ants don’t have enough mass to die on impact, no mat­ter the height.

Helicopters rotor blade speed doesn't change whether hovering, accelerating or slowing, it's the angle of the blades that is changed to cause different effects.

Goats have slit-shaped, hor­i­zon
73;tal pupils which increases their periph­eral depth per­cep­tion which is very impor­tant when climb­ing cliffs.

This is debatable, but interesting: When asking someone a question & you want to know if they are lying pay attention to the direction they look,(if they do so). If they look up to their left they are access­ing mem­ory, and are prob­a­bly telling the truth, if they look up to their right they are being cre­ative and poten­tially lying.


I will remember of some others, I'm sure!

Some turtles can breathe through their bottoms. It's known as "cloacal breathing"

When humans are born we have around 300 individual bones in our bodies. By the time we reach adulthood certain bones have fused together, normally leaving us with 206 individual bones.

The Praying Mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.

The odds of being killed by a dog or 1 in 700,000.
These are the same odds for having quadruplets.
These odds are the same for being stuck by lightning in any given year.
However, the odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime are 1 in 300,000.

The combined weight of all the ants on earth is essentially equivalent to the combined weight of all human beings.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The human brain has the same consistency as Velveeta cheese.

There is a certain pressure point at the base of the spine that can cause a dead person to have an orgasm.

The technology to make a ballpoint pen existed in the 18th century.

Hemp seeds contain the perfect balance of amino acids and protein for the human body.

worms do not drown

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!

Blue-eyed people have a higher alcohol tolerance.

Human bodies are composed of more bacterial cells than human cells.

If there were no spiders in the world, the surface of the earth would be covered in flies in less than two weeks.

Blondie's real name is Debbie Harry

Marilyn Monroe's real name is Norma Jean Mortonson (may have spell the last name wrong).

Does anybody know if it is really true that turkeys raise their heads and watch into the sky during rain and might drown because of this?

About the only one I can remember off the top of my head is that, in theory at least, time travel (going forward in time, but only forward if I remember right) would be possible by carefully navigating the event horizon of a black hole until time's jumped ahead to your desired year.

I saw that on Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible (seriously awesome show, that. =3 ) a while back, but here's a page that explains it better.

Only one I can think of right now is you can theoretically get high from eating poppy seeds..it would take a lot though.