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

yerayeah

The only team in the English football league that does not contain a letter with an enclosed space (ie q,e,r,o,g,p,a,d,b) is...... Hull City.

Now you know.

Also, about the chocolate, every chemical is harmful to the human body if present in a large enough dose.

tony1kenobi

pickarooney wrote: »

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.

David Schmidt Dir. of Sales & Maintenance Operations along with head if I.T. at Symbolics Inc died in a camel baiting incident in Tunisia in the early part of 1986.

unreggd

There's no word for the back of your knee

WIZE

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand

ynotdu

It is Legal to throw the president of the U.S.A from Airforce one if you are a secret service agent!and Prez is in a safety pod!


courtesy of Airforce one(the movie)
:pac:

Twee.

GiftofGab wrote: »

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

Probably a pretty clever person after seeing that calves did it and how they thrived on it.


The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means "help me".

Flecktarn

Birdie086 wrote: »

the european country that exports the most bananas is ireland

When did we start growing bananas?

keane2097

weemcd wrote: »

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

And now we're onto the mystery of what the nuts were named after...

ynotdu

keane2097 wrote: »

And now we're onto the mystery of what the nuts were named after...

Keane would ya stop talking a load of bolix!:D

Hagar

Flecktarn wrote: »

When did we start growing bananas?

We import them and re-export them often via a process known as "triangulation" ie they enter the port and are cleared for import and are then re-exported to a third port with ever having been unloaded.

PFL

Here's a few more - strangefacts.com


In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

MonicaBing

Hayes Wet Bunny wrote: »

Yeah but chicks go nuts for that kind of thing.

Yes, Tis true....i for one am crushing on a dude that does quirky intelligence cos im a wench for doing it myself;)

keane2097

ynotdu wrote: »

Keane would ya stop talking a load of bolix!:D

Harsh, but I guess you're not the first person to express similar dissatisfaction...

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055553211

Capt'n Midnight

Famous45 wrote: »

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

Dolphins can.

Capt'n Midnight

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!

12 times with Britney
http://www.pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm

ScumLord

When chimpanzees smile they show their bottom row of teeth, showing your top row of teeth like in a human smile means aggression.

Capt'n Midnight

The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stone.

keane2097

PFL wrote: »

Here's a few more - strangefacts.com


In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

The exclamation mark is the most misused form of punctuation in the English language!

I stuck an extra one in there...

ynotdu

keane2097 wrote: »

Harsh, but I guess you're not the first person to express similar dissatisfaction...

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055553211

ah go ask my nuts!(aka my bolix)I do declare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Capt'n Midnight

The other kind of mermaid is more fun.

Capt'n Midnight

Humans were not the first to use nuclear power.

Zillah

PFL wrote: »

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

Tipping is not customary in Iceland as gratuity is factored into bills, but they will by no means be insulted if you tip them. Worst case scenario someone might be confused as to what you're doing.

keane2097

ynotdu wrote: »

ah go ask my nuts!(aka my bolix)I do declare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God you're being terribly hostile...

tech77

unreggd wrote: »

There's no word for the back of your knee

Popliteal fossa?
Everyday word, you mean?

r14

Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the Englsih language other than technical words like the name of chemicals. It describes the political movement who oppose the separation of church and State.

Also the word hat-trick comes from cricket. When a bowler knocks out(?) three bat guys in a row he used to get a hat so it was known as the hat-trick.

*Is it obvious I know nothing about cricket? *

Schism

Zillah wrote: »

Tipping is not customary in Iceland as gratuity is factored into bills, but they will by no means be insulted if you tip them. Worst case scenario someone might be confused as to what you're doing.

Apparently it's the same in Japan, a friend of mine was over there recently and, as you do, left a tip after dinner. They were subsequently chased down outside the restaurant because the waitress thought they had forgotten their money.

keane2097

r14 wrote: »

Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the Englsih language other than technical words like the name of chemicals. It describes the political movement who oppose the separation of church and State.

Nope, you'll find it's Floccinaucinihilipilification...

r14

keane2097 wrote: »

Nope, you'll find it's Floccinaucinihilipilification...

Nope that one is coined - not a real word like antidisestab......

I'm talking about the undisputed champion of the word

Hogzy

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

SoWatchaWant

sub-x wrote: »

Dogs can't look up.

Not true.

keane2097

r14 wrote: »

Nope that one is coined - not a real word like antidisestab......

I'm talking about the undisputed champion of the word

Didn't you read the link?

The longest non-coined word is Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism.

The longest non-technical word is Floccinaucinihilipilification.

Hogzy

The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet

A man’s testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day - enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!

Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tonnes - that is four times as much as concrete can support.

A foreskin, the size of a postage stamp, from circumcised babies take only 21 days to grow skin that can cover three (3) basketball courts. Amazing isn’t it. Thanks to science. The laboratory-grown skin is used in treating burn patients.

keane2097

Hogzy wrote: »

A foreskin, the size of a postage stamp, from circumcised babies take only 21 days to grow skin that can cover three (3) basketball courts. Amazing isn’t it. Thanks to science. The laboratory-grown skin is used in treating burn patients.

Where can we get this enormous baby foreskin?

*giggles*

Snails can sleep for up to 3 years at a time. Now for ya. Mentioned that one day in biology, they'll never think of me the same again......:( Also, frogs have no ribs. Why is it that most of these here interesting facts relate to animals?

Hogzy

keane2097 wrote: »

Where can we get this enormous baby foreskin?

Im sure i can send you mine if your willing to pay postage, i was fairly big as a child.

keane2097

Hogzy wrote: »

Im sure i can send you mine if your willing to pay postage, i was fairly big as a child.

If it's still attached to you it's no longer a child's foreskin though...

And if you've just kept onto an old one no dice either - it has to be fresh...

Hogzy

keane2097 wrote: »

If it's still attached to you it's no longer a child's foreskin though...

:eek: im worried

keane2097 wrote: »

And if you've just kept onto an old one no dice either - it has to be fresh...

its 22yrs old, vaccum packed and still pink:pac: Ill send it registered!!!!

keane2097

Hogzy wrote: »

its 22yrs old, vaccum packed and still pink:pac: Ill send it registered!!!!

I'd prefer to collect it :pac:

Capt'n Midnight

Hogzy wrote: »

A foreskin, the size of a postage stamp, from circumcised babies take only 21 days to grow skin that can cover three (3) basketball courts. Amazing isn’t it. Thanks to science. The laboratory-grown skin is used in treating burn patients.

At the end of the tax year, the Tax Office sent an inspector to audit the books of a synagogue. While he was checking the books he turned to the Rabbi and said, "I notice you buy a lot of candles. What do you do with the candle drippings?"

"Good question," noted the Rabbi. "We save them up and send them back to the candle makers, and every now and then they send us a free box of candles."

"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer.

But on he went, in his obnoxious way. "What about all these biscuit purchases. What do you do with the crumbs?"

"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, realizing that the inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. "We collect them and send them back to the manufacturers, and every now and then they send a free box of holy biscuits."

"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all Rabbi.

"Well, Rabbi," he went on, "what do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"

"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi. "What we do is save up all the foreskins and send them to the Tax Office, and about once a year they send us a complete dick."

RATM

BVB wrote: »

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side (i.e. the first 8 moves in total) in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000

How did you arrive at that figure?

ynotdu

keane2097 wrote: »

God you're being terribly hostile...

been taking lessons from Roy;)......

ynotdu

dont surgeons save up foreskins&when they have enough have them turned into wallets?

when travelling they rub the wallet until it becomes a suitcase:pac:

WIZE

The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long

pebbles21

when a taxi stops in the middle of a busy road to pick up a fare ,the second it turns on its hazard lights it goes invisible

magenta73

you can't lick your elbow...............and yes, I have tryed:p

liah

keane2097 wrote: »

Didn't you read the link?

The longest non-coined word is Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism.

The longest non-technical word is Floccinaucinihilipilification.

Thought it was Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Is it bad that I can spell that without reference?

keane2097

liah wrote: »

Thought it was Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Is it bad that I can spell that without reference?

Wikipedia has Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis down as the "Longest word in a major dictionary" with the disputes to its claims to be the longest word in English centred around the fact that it is a technical word and that it was coined to be the longest word in the language...

Capt'n Midnight

Paul is the longest word , there is an AU between the first and last letters.

A7X

O'Coonassa wrote: »

BLUFF!

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

That makes alot more sense. Looks like my Physics teacher was wrong then :rolleyes:

Regardless it's still undetermined, but it is to be considered a solid within everyday life.

There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?". In terms of molecular dynamics and thermodynamics it is possible to justify various different views that it is a highly viscous liquid, an amorphous solid, or simply that glass is another state of matter that is neither liquid nor solid. The difference is semantic. In terms of its material properties we can do little better. There is no clear definition of the distinction between solids and highly viscous liquids. All such phases or states of matter are idealisations of real material properties. Nevertheless, from a more common sense point of view, glass should be considered a solid since it is rigid according to everyday experience. The use of the term "supercooled liquid" to describe glass still persists, but is considered by many to be an unfortunate misnomer that should be avoided. In any case, claims that glass panes in old windows have deformed due to glass flow have never been substantiated. Examples of Roman glassware and calculations based on measurements of glass visco-properties indicate that these claims cannot be true. The observed features are more easily explained as a result of the imperfect methods used to make glass window panes before the float glass process was invented.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html

Nolanger

Ireland's most successful filmmaker was a guy called Rex Ingram.
Totally forgotten now because no-one watches silent movies.