In 2004, 317 people were bitten by rats in New York City; 1,781 people were bitten by other New Yorkers.

(Final Exits, the illustrated encyclopedia of how we die by Michael Largo)

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Glue is made up of a substance that sticks to things and a solvent that keeps it liquid until you want it to stick.  When you put glue on a piece of paper, the solvent gradually evaporates until the glue becomes sticky.  When the glue is in a bottle, there is a space inside the bottle above the liquid that is full of air.  So why doesn’t the glue dry out?  Well there’s a limit to the amount of solvent that can evaporate to fill the space in the bottle. Once the space is full of solvent gas, no more solvent evaporates from the glue and the glue stays runny.

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Asked by marleevalencia

Mailbag Monday: When did we start using toilet paper (or anything down there, for that matter)?

What we know as “toilet paper” dates back to around the 1880’s, though people have been cleaning their rear ends for centuries. Before toilet paper, the obvious solution was to use things commonly found in the environment: Eskimos used snow, farmers used corn husks, and coastal inhabitants used shells or coconuts. Even the ancient Romans has a device for wiping, consisting of a sponge soaked in salt water at the end of a stick (giving new meaning to the phrase “wrong end of the stick”).

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Asked by: Neightkelly

Oh shit, forgot mailbag monday for the 2nd week in a row.

Alright, you know the deal. Or maybe you don’t. Leave a question and we here at Oh Yeah Facts will try to answer it.

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In Germany, copies of Medal Of Honor: Frontline had to be reprinted because there was a swastika on the back cover. The developers also had to go back into the game and take out all the Nazi flags and other paraphernalia.

Nazi symbols were outlawed in Germany shortly after the war ended, along with any copies of Mein Kampf
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In the game of Chess, the word “checkmate” comes from the Persian phrase “shah mat” and it means “the King is dead”.

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Great new, you don't actually swallow spiders in your sleep.

Back in ‘93, a columnist for PC Professional named Lisa Holst decided to prove that you could make up anything on the internet and people would believe it.

She did this by making up a set of facts that were utterly ridiculous, the spider myth among them (which itself was taken from a collection of insect folklore that dates back to the 1950s), and unleashing it on the world in the form of emails.

Well, first of all, this a real kick in the crotch of the intellect of spiders everywhere. Although spiders are occasionally seen doing stupid things, it’s safe to assume they have enough wit to realize when they’re about to crawl through the mouth of a damned giant. If the giant white teeth aren’t enough to deter them from going spelunking down your dark, wet throat (apparently no other animals have these) you’d think the heavy draft and deafening snoring sounds would be some sort of indication of how terrible a home your mouth would be.

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A large percentage of U.S. currency contains trace amounts of cocaine.

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Related: Don’t do drugs.

95 percent of high school students say they’ve cheated during the course of their education.

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Me? I cheat on every test and quiz I get. Every one. (PS, this is Adg, not James. I’m willing to bet he’s an honest person)

What about you, have you ever cheated?

A standard piano has 88 keys: 52 white and 36 black.

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