Obscure facts ya know!

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Lynx (or tabby point) Siamese are classified as "Color point Shorthairs," but anyone who has heard a Lynx point meow his/her head off at 4 a.m. knows they are truly Siamese!

The right side door on a 1975-1980 AMC Pacer is actually about three inches longer than the left side door for ease of access for backseat passengers.

It was common to drink beer during breakfast in colonial America.

Newspaper as you receive it is called newspaper, but plain newspaper without any ink is called newsprint.

If you replace the W with a T in the questions Where?, What?, and When?, you’ve already answered them.

KEWL!! !! !! !! !

^^That's...huh. Neat.

The average human is a 28-year-old, right-handed, Han Chinese man who makes under $12k a year and owns a cell phone, but has no bank account.

Mind. Blown.

Easter had strong pagan origins. It was about fertility and welcoming new life in spring. This was a very old tradition before christianization was established in europe.

Billy Joel never sells tickets to the front rows of his concerts. Aside from wanting to beat the scalpers, he got tired of all the bored, rich people staring up at him- so now, he sends his road crew out to bring down the fans from the worst seats so there’ll be “people in the front row that are really happy to be there, real fans.”

^^^How did you work that one out?
It's almost like the galactic census report that stated that everyone in the galaxy has 3.5 arms and owns a hyena.

Female dragonflies often fake their own deaths to avoid having sex.

Nothing mysterious about it all.

The averages are simple to get from world census stats.

The Han Chinese are the biggest ethnic group on earth ( they were a quarter of the human race for a long time though that proportion is starting to slip recently). Ninety percent of humans are right handed. Cell phones are exploding in number even in remote corners of the third world. Landlines are not. Most of the peasant population of the planet is still "unbanked", and so on.

The "average American" has....one breast, and one testicle (think about it, mathematically that stat HAS to be true).

But how many one breasted/one testicled Americans have you ever meet? Or ever even heard about it? Lol!

That "average world citizen" of which he spoke even has a name!

The most common first name in the world is "Mohammed". The most common surname is "Wong".

So the average person on Earth is named "Mohammed Wong" . Or (if you go by east Asian convention, in which the surname comes first) "Wong Mohammed".

But I dare you to find a single person actually named Mohamed Wong/Wong Mohammed anywhere!

The idea of the barcode was conceived when the creator of them was on a beach lost in thought over how to make his current scanning system involving circles work on non-flat surfaces when he absentmindedly ran his fingers through the sand.

^^...Right...if you say so.

Kenichi Suzumura [a Japanese seiyuu known for voicing Zack Fair from Final Fantasy VII, Kouichi from Digimon Frontier, and many others] and Maaya Sakamoto [a Japanese seiyuu known for voicing Aeris from Final Fantasy VII, Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII, and many others], have been married for six or more years. Zack Fair and Aeris are actually a couple in FFVII.

Sloths are lifelong huggers. They start clinging to things from the moment they’re born and spend most of their lives suspended in the trees. It’s such a natural instinct that even dead sloths have been known to hold their grip and remain hanging from a branch.