The "Random Information that only matters to a certain amount of people" thread

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One pound of honey = 2 million flowers, 55,000 miles, 300 bees.

Daniel Radcliffe, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Megan Fox and Justin Timberlake are all celebrities who have lived with OCD.

In 2007, Miz was drafted from SmackDown! to the ECW brand, where he formed a partnership with John Morrison, and as a team would go on to win both the WWE Tag Team Championship and World Tag Team Championship.

Pumping your fists and shouting, "Yeah!" when you first get woken up by the alarm will help you get out of bed faster.

The average person has roughly between 100,000 and 150,000 strands of hair on their head.

Taco Bell started off as a hot dog stand.

al blonde usually has more hair strands on their head then dark or red-haired people.

About 80% of the animals found in Madagascar do not exist anywhere else on Earth.

David Rice Atchison (August 11, 1807 – January 26, 1886) was a mid-19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years. Atchison served as a major general in the Missouri State Militia in 1838 during Missouri's Mormon War and as a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War under Major General Sterling Price in the Missouri Home Guard. He is best known for the questionable claim that for one day (March 4, 1849) he may have been Acting President of the United States. This belief, however, is dismissed by nearly all historians, scholars, and biographers.

Some mammals have hooves or claws; we have toenails. It's believed that way back when our feet were used for more than just mobility-related activities, our toenails would help us pick things up (the way our fingernails still do today).

Ted Bundy saved a child from drowning.
Jeffrey Dahmer pulled so many weird pranks in high school his classmates dubbed it "doing a Dahmer."
John Wayne Gacy shook hands with former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
Dennis Rader worked for ADT Security Services, installing home security alarms.

Scientists have found that the sparse bristles of hair covering the skin of the largest living animals to walk on land can dissipate heat. Unlike most mammals, where dense body hair insulates against the cold, elephant hairs can increase heat loss by up to 20 per cent.

A bunion (also referred to as hallux valgus) is often described as a bump on the side of the big toe. But a bunion is more than that. The visible bump actually reflects changes in the bony framework of the front part of the foot.

At its peak the US cornbelt produces 40% more oxygen than the Amazon rainforest.

Will & Grace is one of the few sitcoms in which all the four main actors won an Emmy (The only other two on record are All in the Family and The Golden Girls).

How many times have you circled the block to find a parking spot, and just when you think you have one, it turns out to be a hydrant? Well, if you notice the reflectors on the road, you'll see they change to blue to let you know where hydrants are. This is more useful for firefighters, but it's also a fact that regular motorists can benefit from.

A myth about wood baseball bats is that they are much more dangerous than aluminum bats because they can break.
This isn't true. More players are injured each year due the velocity of a ball off of an aluminum bat, than injuries due to a broken wood bat.

The toothpick is the oldest device for dental cleaning and it is known to come before the arrival of early modern people since it is shown by the skulls of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens that they have teeth which are picked with a tool.

Annually approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. More than one million bags are used every minute. It takes 500-1,000 years for plastic to degrade.