Strange facts - hechos extraños
According to insurance claims most road accidents are between two stationary vehicles.
De acuerdo con las demandas de seguro la mayoría de los accidentes de tráfico son entre dos vehículos parados.
What fact do you think is strange or funny?
¿Qué hecho piensas que es extraño o divertido?
16 Answers
¿Sabía usted que en Francia es ilegal llamar a un cerdo Napoleón?
Did you know that in France it is illegal to name a pig Napoleon?
A "jiffy" is defined as the time taken for light to travel some specified distance. In astrophysics and quantum physics a jiffy is the time it takes for light to travel one fermi. One fermi is 10?15 m, so a jiffy is about 3 × 10?24 seconds.
Not a very long time.
¿Sabías que El Pentágono incluye el doble de baños necesarios, debido a que al momento de la construcción existía una ley que exigía la existencia de un baño para blancos y otro para afroamericanos.?
The Pentagon was built with double the number of bathrooms required, as it was built during segregation. Half the bathrooms were for blacks and the other half were for whites
This one was brought home from school by my daughter:
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones
I just came across this one:
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
There are more Polish people in Chicago than there are in any other city in the world except Warsaw.
Hay más personas polacas en Chicago que hay en cualquier otra ciudad en el mundo menos Varsovia.
There's no such thing as "Solid Matter" - No existe tal cosa como la "materia sólida".
Sólo estoy poniendo esto por diversión. La física subatómic es realmente complicada, y yo no digo entender ni una pequeña fracción de lo que están discutiendo los teóricos hipercerebrados. Dicho eso...
En los modelos tradicionales, nos dicen que todo está compuesto de átomos, y que éstos se dividen en electrones, protones, y neutrones, con los electrones girando alegremente alrededor del núcleo de protones-neutrones.
Pero éstas particulas están compuestas de cientos de "sub-partículas", ninguna de las cuales es "sólida". Todas ellas son manifestaciones de energía que pueden o no existir en un momento dado, y que nunca pueden determinarse con ningún grado de precisión absoluta. Así que todo es energía interactuando con otras formas de energía en diferentes niveles y diferentes formas... y todo esto de alguna manera forma conglomerados que nostros (que también somos unos extraños compuestos de incontables fragmentos de energía) eventualmente llegamos a percibir como "materia". Pero llegando a lo más básico, ¡ni siquiera tenemos polvo en nuestra composición!
Si no tienes idea de lo que estoy hablando, este lugar es tan bueno como cualquier otro para comenzar a leer sobre estos asuntos.. 
I'm just throwing this in for fun. Subatomic physics is really complicated, and I don't claim to really understand more than a small fraction of what is being discussed by very brainy theoreticians, but....
In the traditional models, we are told that everything is composed of atoms, and atoms are divided into electrons, protons, and neutrons, with the electrons merrily spinning around the proton-neutron nucleus.
But these particles are composed of hundreds of "sub-particles", none of which are "solid". They are all a series of manifestations of energy that may or may not exist at a given moment and can never be determined with any degree of absolute precision. So it's all energy interacting with other forms of energy at different levels in different ways... and it all sort of forms clusters that we (also being these weird composites of gazillions of energy bits) eventually come to perceive as "matter". But come down to it, there's not even dust in our make up!
If you have no idea of what I'm talking about, this is as good a place to read about it as any other.
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
En Tokio, una bicicleta es más rápido que un coche para la mayoría de los viajes de menos de 50 minutos!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
En Natoma, Kansas, es ilegal para lanzar cuchillos a los hombres con trajes de rayas.
Melbourne, Australia es la segunda ciudad de habla griega más grande del mundo , junto a Atenas.
Melbourne Australia is the second largest Greek speaking city in the world, next to Athens.
Los polacos suelen creer en que cuando hablan en el idioma polaco con extranjeros de la manera lenta y clara, sus interlocutores deben entender todo sin ningunas problemas. ?Entiendes Mendes?
Poles deeply believe that when they talk to foreigners in Polish slowly and clearly, it's more than understandable that the latter must understand everything without any problems. Understand rubber-hand?
Well, I've witnessed such a situation on the train. Deeply ashamed of my paisano, I had to intervene... 
En inglaterra, por qué exisite solo un "organismo regulador de monopolios y fusiones encargado de velar por la libre competencia".
In England, why is there only one "monopolies commission".
A dentist invented the Electric Chair. (I knew they liked pain too much!!)
I just learned that a pony is not a baby horse -- it really describes a specific type of horse of small stature.
A baby horse is called a foal, not a pony.
A pony is a small horse (Equus ferus caballus) with a specific conformation and temperament. There are many different breeds of ponies. Compared to horses, ponies often exhibit thicker manes, tails and overall coat, as well as proportionally shorter legs, wider barrels, heavier bone, thicker necks, and shorter heads with broader foreheads. On occasion, people who are unfamiliar with horses may confuse an adult pony with a foal, which is a young, immature horse.
