Fun Facts We Didn't Need To Know

[Back in the fold]

Did you know Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote? Also the first state to have a female judge.

Montana Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin was the only no vote to declaring war in both world wars.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Montana Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin was the only no vote to declaring war in both world wars.

...because she was a committed pacifist, right?

 

[Slaphppy7]

If you speak French, German, Hebrew, or Farsi, to name a few languages, you use your uvula to form certain sounds — though you may not be thinking about it.

 

[Rocky998]

If you speak French, German, Hebrew, or Farsi, to name a few languages, you use your uvula to form certain sounds — though you may not be thinking about it.

That's cool!

 

[WhistlingBadger]

House sparrows are jerks. I guess that's more of an opinion than a fun fact, but there it is.

 

[DragonScales+Doubletails]

House sparrows are jerks. I guess that's more of an opinion than a fun fact, but there it is.

 

[DragonScales+Doubletails]

Humans are around 14 percent more likely to die on their birthday than any other day.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Humans are around 14 percent more likely to die on their birthday than any other day.

I suspect some combination of sugar, alcohol, and fireworks.

 

[Rocky998]

Humans are around 14 percent more likely to die on their birthday than any other day.

Yup. Cause people get stupid then

 

[DragonScales+Doubletails]

Found this fact in a magazine.


''beating a dead horse'' came from the 19th century when beating horses to make them go faster was normal. beating a dead horse is pointless because it wouldn't be able to move faster, let alone move at all.

 

[Fishmanic]

Found this fact in a magazine.


''beating a dead horse'' came from the 19th century when beating horses to make them go faster was normal. beating a dead horse is pointless because it wouldn't be able to move faster, let alone move all.

I have an emoticon for that

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Found this fact in a magazine.


''beating a dead horse'' came from the 19th century when beating horses to make them go faster was normal. beating a dead horse is pointless because it wouldn't be able to move faster, let alone move at all.

That's pretty common knowledge, though, isn't it? That expression always just made sense to me. Maybe it's because I live in wyoming.

 

[jaylach]

That's pretty common knowledge, though, isn't it? That expression always just made sense to me. Maybe it's because I live in wyoming.

Sigh... it is sort of like trying to talk to the south end of a horse running north...

 

[otterblue]

Here are a couple:

1. Children grow faster in the spring than any other season.

2. You're taller in the morning than you are at night, due to gravity compressing your vertebrae.

 

[DragonScales+Doubletails]

That's pretty common knowledge, though, isn't it? That expression always just made sense to me. Maybe it's because I live in wyoming.

maybe, the expression clicked with me but maybe not others because of the question "why beat an alive horse"