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

Icaras

4 out of 5 people know 72% of statistics are made up

emeraldstar

Strange facts? The sun is shining. Like actually shining. Warmly.

L31mr0d

Before ~15 months old babies do not recognise themselves in the mirror.

You'd be amazed the number of new parents I've told this to who've been insulted by this fact.

ynotdu

L31mr0d wrote: »

Before ~15 months old babies do not recognise themselves in the mirror.

You'd be amazed the number of new parents I've told this to who've been insulted by this fact.

most babies are so ugly it is lucky for them they dont recognise themselves!:D

Capt'n Midnight

L31mr0d wrote: »

Before ~15 months old babies do not recognise themselves in the mirror.

unless they are changelings :eek:

Havermeyer

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!

M5

The egg came before the chicken.

seanybiker

Hagar wrote: »

PS you spelt Scobie wrong.

no he didnt. He was on about dogs sure. Ya ever hear of scooby doo

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

seanybiker wrote: »

no he didnt. He was on about dogs sure. Ya ever hear of scooby doo

*applause*

Schism

M5 wrote: »

The egg came before the chicken.

Proof

5318008!

Humans are unique in their ability to sweat to lose heat. That's also why we're relatively hairless. While animals sweat to give off odours, they need to use other less efficient methods to avoid overheating such as panting and flaps of skin or large ears ect.

In africa there's certain animals that cannot pant while running. If you keep chasing them at a reasonable pace (obviously not sprinting) for 15 minutes they just collapse on the spot giving you an easy meal!

seanybiker

Captain Mords Spiced Bum wrote: »

*applause*

Woo go me.

ferrigan101

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:)

The fear of going up or down stairs is called climacaphopia.

I Shot J.R.

Fred and Wilma Flintstone were the first couple to be on tv in bed together. That actually came up in a pub quiz one night.
On a different note, Madelaine McCanns parents did it, gangsta rap made them do it.
Be champions

Sofiztikated

If you shoot an elephant, a hippo and a rhino with the same amount of tranquilliser (can't remember the amounts, which may be important) the elephant will stand stock still, the hippo will slow down, but the rhino will just get pissed off.
The rhino is also one of those animals that will die if chased for 15 minutes.

pljudge321

Sofiztikated wrote: »

If you shoot an elephant, a hippo and a rhino with the same amount of tranquilliser (can't remember the amounts, which may be important) the elephant will stand stock still, the hippo will slow down, but the rhino will just get pissed off.
The rhino is also one of those animals that will die if chased for 15 minutes.

You don't happen to like Michael Crichton books do you?

pickarooney

Sofiztikated wrote: »

If you shoot an elephant, a hippo and a rhino with the same amount of tranquilliser (can't remember the amounts, which may be important) the elephant will stand stock still, the hippo will slow down, but the rhino will just get pissed off.
The rhino is also one of those animals that will die if chased for 15 minutes.

Given the first fact, what would be scary enough to persuade a rhino to run for 15 minutes?

Lilyblue

meditraitor wrote: »

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

Excellent

phasers

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

:eek:

This has to be a rumour spread by greedy left-hand store people

galwayrush

phasers wrote: »

:eek:

This has to be a rumour spread by greedy left-hand store people

Damn you Ned Flanders.:eek:

polar Bears are left handed.

marcsignal

It's dangerous to stick anything smaller than your elbow in your ear

Capt'n Midnight

François Isaac de Rivaz made the first hydrogen powered car over two hundred years ago.

galwayrush

marcsignal wrote: »

It's dangerous to stick anything smaller than your elbow in your ear

pardon?

galwayrush

From Wikipedia.

boards.ie is an Internet forum based in Ireland. It is considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites online. [1] As of April 2009 the site has over 1,000,000 visitors a month, 220,000 registered accounts, almost 1,000,000 threads and more than 12.5 million posts. A wide variety of topics are discussed, mostly from (but not limited to) an Irish perspective.

In 2003, boards.ie achieved one million posts to its forums.

And, in 2008, the popular After Hours forum achieved its millionth post.

Capt'n Midnight

The first car crash happened in 1771.

galwayrush

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The first car crash happened in 1771.

Did that happen in Ireland?

kraggy

Captain Darling wrote: »

You can catch a hare by putting salt on its tail.

Schism wrote: »

Shenanigans! Surely you must have caught the hare already to salt his tail.

I think that was the joke.

Capt'n Midnight

Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone.

Capt'n Midnight

galwayrush wrote: »

Did that happen in Ireland?

No it was in France, where the people on roundabouts used to have to yield right of way to those entering it.

Capt'n Midnight

Most French car insurance policies specificaly exclude cover on a one particular roundabout.

galwayrush

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Most French car insurance policies specificaly exclude cover on a one particular roundabout.

That's Champs Elyese.(sp?)

phasers

websites with "strange facts" make half of them up, but they're so weird that nobody can disprove them.

ball

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The first car crash happened in 1771.

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

No it was in France, where the people on roundabouts used to have to yield right of way to those entering it.

Did their insurance policy cover it?

Capt'n Midnight

For 110 years there existed a state of war between Russia and Berwick-upon-Tweed (population 11,666)

In 1966 a Soviet official waited upon the Mayor of Berwick, Councillor Robert Knox, and a peace treaty was formally signed. Mr Knox is reputed to have said "Please tell the Russian people that they can sleep peacefully in their beds."

To complicate the issue, some have noted that Knox did not have any authority with regard to foreign relations, and thus may have exceeded his powers as mayor in concluding a peace treaty. So in reality the Crimean War continues and is now in it's 156th year.

keane2097

galwayrush wrote: »

That's Champs Elyese.(sp?)

L'Arc de Triomphe I think you'll find...

Lilyblue

The longest place name in Ireland is Muckanaghederdauhaulia, in County Galway.

Ireland’s 15 principal railway stations are named after the leaders of the 1916 uprising.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people! Adios Lefties

Raze_them_all

magenta73 wrote: »

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

youtube it. It is possible for some folks

silverharp

Our Sun is so powerful that in theory a piece of it the size of a grain of sand would fry you at a distance of 3km

Duff

silverharp wrote: »

Our Sun is so powerful that in theory a piece of it the size of a grain of sand would fry you at a distance of 3km

What about at 4km?

Hogzy

Duff wrote: »

What about at 4km?

THen you get an awesome tan

Milky Moo

Turtles can breathe through their bums...or they can exhale through their bums....I am not sure it's something about turtles and their bottoms anyway!

Capt'n Midnight

silverharp wrote: »

Our Sun is so powerful that in theory a piece of it the size of a grain of sand would fry you at a distance of 3km

not according to black body radiation theory

Edison did not invent the light bulb.

A light bulb doesn't weigh a lot.

On average it takes 1.26 entities to change a lightbulb *
* may not be true

Capt'n Midnight

NASA use duck tape http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/5/52/Ducttapeshuttle.jpg

Priests socks are black.

Capt'n Midnight

Native cultures are so in tune with nature that most of the very large land animals not related to ones that co-evolved with us in Africa were wiped out locally shortly after they arrived.

silverharp

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

not according to black body radiation theory

but I read it in a book:D

Sofiztikated

pljudge321 wrote: »

You don't happen to like Michael Crichton books do you?

THATS where i read that! Jurassic Park, wasn't it! Couldn't figure out where that nugget of information came from!

pickarooney wrote: »

Given the first fact, what would be scary enough to persuade a rhino to run for 15 minutes?

Gawd, resist. I can't. I tried. Here's my first...

Yore Ma.

Sorry. I dunno, possibly rhino's are afraid of something. Like pedobears.

Tech3

Check this out :cool:

http://www.singlegrain.com/blog/301-useless-facts/

WIZE

As of May 2009, the Earth's Population is estimated to be about 6.77 billion

galwayrush

The Moon's Albedo is 0.39, like the Vangelis Album.

Mmcd

Hogzy wrote: »

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

Surely the least time taken would have to be 9 months!