Did You Know? ....... Strange Facts

sub-x

Dogs can't look up.

Horsefumbler

Loopy wrote: »

Lets all laugh at Frada and feel better

online cliques are destroying the ah boards!

Capt'n Midnight

A shark will only attack if you are wet.

The old Arab cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

Spear

The claims about glass are wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Behavior_of_antique_glass

liah

sub-x wrote: »

Dogs can't look up.

I never understood how anyone actually bought that one. It makes no sense, of course they can look up, and yet I've spoken to people who actually believe they can't.

wudangclan

Spear wrote: »

The claims about glass are wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Behavior_of_antique_glass

myth-busted!

sub-x

liah wrote: »

I never understood how anyone actually bought that one. It makes no sense, of course they can look up, and yet I've spoken to people who actually believe they can't.

Sure,next you will be telling me there is no such thing as God :rolleyes:

Spear

wudangclan wrote: »

myth-busted!

Here's a better one though, warm water freezes faster than cold water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect

wudangclan

sub-x wrote: »

Sure,next you will be telling me there is no such thing as God :rolleyes:

careful there, dermot ahern could getcha

jester77

women blink twice as many times as men do... must be why they keep missing things!!

Turd Ferguson

liah wrote: »

I never understood how anyone actually bought that one. It makes no sense, of course they can look up, and yet I've spoken to people who actually believe they can't.

sub-x wrote: »

Dogs can't look up information on Wikipedia

Is that better liah?

Famous45

This is a fact -- you won't kill yourself by holding your own breathe.

Caoimhín

Spear wrote: »

The claims about glass are wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Behavior_of_antique_glass

It seems that i was wrong.

Thank you for clearing that up.

Fiend-Foe

Hayes Wet Bunny wrote: »

That guy scared the crap out of me when I was younger!

Hagar

If you are enjoying this thread half as much as I am then I'm still enjoying it twice as much as you are.

seanybiker

Famous45 wrote: »

This is a fact -- you won't kill yourself by holding your own breathe.

I just killed myself and got someone to jump start me off their car. Myth busted

Caoimhín

Hagar wrote: »

If you are enjoying this thread half as much as I am then I'm still enjoying it twice as much as you are.

Woah, thats really deep dude.


No, no, wait, stop it, you are freaking me out now.

pebbles21

Kangaroos cant walk backwards

cows can walk upstairs but cant walk down them ( what was the guy who found that out doing with the poor cows:eek:)

O'Coonassa

A7X wrote: »

Tis a very viscous slow moving liquid. Go to old churches that hae the original glass still intact. The bottom of the pane of glass will be thicker than the top.

BLUFF!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Glass_versus_a_supercooled_liquid

Adyx

Haven't we done this recently already? Anyway Polar bears aren't white. Their fur is transparent hair which reflects light.

Lobelia Overhill

Elephants can't jump

Polar bears are the only animal that will seek out humans for food (sharks, lions, tigers etc tend to stumble across them by accident)

A child under the age of five cannot reach over the top of their head to touch their ear - if you get what I mean, and I'm damned if I'm going looking for a four year old to take a photo of.

People in Britain and Ireland don't eat horse meat because they consider it "sacrilegious" as our ancestors worshipped Epona, the horse goddess.

Baywatch was the most watched show on television.

The Davestator

you can't fold anything in half more than 7 times. Try it with paper, toilet paper etc and you'll see!

Adiboo

Birdie086 wrote: »

the european country that exports the most bananas is ireland

That'd be Iceland actually.

donmeister

The Davestator wrote: »

you can't fold anything in half more than 7 times. Try it with paper, toilet paper etc and you'll see!

Wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kmaNNg7BI

pickarooney

meditraitor wrote: »

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

My dermatoglyphics teacher would beg to differ.

Nolanger

Dogs can survive on a strict vegetarian diet.
Cats will die on a strict vegetarian diet.

pickarooney

javaboy wrote: »

Proprietor is the same length. I figured that out after glancing at the keyboard. Perhaps I'm one of those idiot savants with amazing talents that employers aren't interested in.

While I was checking to see if you were right, I noticed perpetuity. Is there a club we can join?

www.symbolics.com was the first domain name ever registered. You'd think in 24 years they'd have time to come up with something a little better than this.

Caoimhín

Nolanger wrote: »

Dogs can survive on a strict vegetarian diet.

But not chocolate, it is toxic to dogs and even a small amount can kill a poor scooby.

Ace2007

pebbles21 wrote: »

Kangaroos cant walk backwards

cows can walk upstairs but cant walk down them ( what was the guy who found that out doing with the poor cows:eek:)

lol some chap in ballymun found this out the hard way - but with a horse - think kids brought the horse up the stairs of one of the flats, but the lift was broke and the horse wouldn't go down - priceless - poor horse was just lookin over the balcony....

ynotdu

BVB wrote: »

No proof needed !!!




People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system - not to mention a good belly-laugh is great exercise!! Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

BVB you forgot to mention that six year olds get 300 laughs a day from observing *Adults*

liah

Ace2007 wrote: »

lol some chap in ballymun found this out the hard way - but with a horse - think kids brought the horse up the stairs of one of the flats, but the lift was broke and the horse wouldn't go down - priceless - poor horse was just lookin over the balcony....

Erm...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O66Sdu_GCc

WIZE

In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals but is forbidden from looking directly at them during the examination; he may only see their reflection in a mirror.

WIZE

ynotdu wrote: »

BVB you forgot to mention that six year olds get 300 laughs a day from observing *Adults*

Kids laugh at me and run off . must be the nose:(

Ace2007

liah wrote: »

Erm...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O66Sdu_GCc

stairs are not steps

Hagar

Caoimhín wrote: »

But not chocolate, it is toxic to dogs and even a small amount can kill a poor scooby.

Is that why you can't buy chocolate in Limerick?

PS you spelt Scobie wrong.

GirlInterrupted

The eyeball of an Ostrich is larger than its brain.

liah

Ace2007 wrote: »

stairs are not steps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D9TVczy6rw

Either way, a horse can still complete the function required to go down stairs. The horse was probably too shít-scared over the idiots who brought it in in the first place, the stairwell was likely dark, and it probably couldn't see its footing.

They are fully capable of stairclimbing. What a horse can climb, it can get down.

TheZohanS

ART6 wrote: »

Giraffes are the only animals that can't swim.

*Possibly with necks that long they don't generally need to*

....and dead cats.

WIZE

in alaska it's illegal to throw a moose out of a plane!

GiftofGab

pebbles21 wrote: »

cows can walk upstairs but cant walk down them ( what was the guy who found that out doing with the poor cows:eek:)

Im more worried about who ever found out that you can get milk from a cow and who's idea was it to drink it

Adiboo

Caoimhín wrote: »

But not chocolate, it is toxic to dogs and even a small amount can kill a poor scooby.

It's toxic to every animal, including us. But we have a much, much higher threshold to it than most animals, so the amounts we eat don't kill us.

baglady

The movie 'As Good as It Gets' was translated as 'Mr. Cat Poop' in Hong Kong

Zillah

BVB wrote: »

in alaska it's illegal to throw a moose out of a plane!

I'd imagine that's illegal pretty much everywhere dude...

WIZE

Zillah wrote: »

I'd imagine that's illegal pretty much everywhere dude...

Its supposed to be stated in their law

pickarooney

The Davestator wrote: »

you can't fold anything in half more than 7 times. Try it with paper, toilet paper etc and you'll see!

Proteins?

GirlInterrupted

The Davestator wrote: »

you can't fold anything in half more than 7 times. Try it with paper, toilet paper etc and you'll see!

You can't fold any paper more than seven times, with the exception of silver paper.

weemcd

The phrase "A turkey" from 10 pin bowling originates from England in the 18th century, where if you got 3 strikes in a row, you won a turkey.

In films dealing with gangster culture you often see a pair of shoes hanging from an overhead electric wire, they are there to show one drug dealer/gang's teritory from another.

Brazil the country was named after Brazil nuts, not the other way round.

In England drinks in pubs were measured in pints and quarters, when punters began to get drunk and rowdy the landlord would shout at them to mind their pints and quarters, which in modern times has been shortened to "mind your p's and q's"

I love this shít.

More as and when I remember them!

Pooh-bah

DanR wrote: »

I thought that was pigs...?

No pigs can swim,but if they do they slit thier throats with their trotters!..

WIZE

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

You can't fold any paper more than seven times, with the exception of silver paper.

mythbusters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAEBbotuIE

Lord Trollington

Your Poo is tapered at the end so that ur ar.se doesnt bang shut when your on the John......