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

Hogzy

Mmcd wrote: »

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

Well considering he makes 10 million per day it would take 6 months for him to repopulate the sperm as it only takes one sperm to make a baby...

Were you purposly trying to be awkward or did you just not understand what was said?

Capt'n Midnight

Hogzy wrote: »

it only takes one sperm to make a baby...

<cough> identical twins <cough>

Hogzy

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

<cough> identical twins <cough>

<Cough> what about them <Cough>

Hagar

Wouldn't the next generation be very incestuous?

pirelli

Rice paper does not have any rice in it!

Mmcd

Hogzy wrote: »

Well considering he makes 10 million per day it would take 6 months for him to repopulate the sperm as it only takes one sperm to make a baby...

Were you purposly trying to be awkward or did you just not understand what was said?

Repopulating the planet means having people on it, not hypothetical sperm.
I was just being awkward but if you really want to attack his argument,
He would only have to make half the babies as the other half would be of the newborn mothers and......I doubt he could get it up that much!

Capt'n Midnight

As women all over the world gain more control over their lives, as well as access to birth control technology, birth rates are declining in almost all countries. If current trends continue, it is now predicted that instead of the population "explosion" predicted for the 21st century, global population should peak at about 9 billion by the year 2050, and decline after that.

Biggins

Dentists in the Far East used to pull teeth out with their bare hands!
In China, they practised by pulling nails out of wood with their fingers.

When diarrhoea turns pale, it contains bits of the lining of your gut.

The larvae of the pork tapeworm, hatched from eggs eaten in infected pork, can travel around the body and live in the brain,
eyes, heart or muscles.

Most people have mites – very tiny creatures related to spiders
– living in their eyelashes, eyebrows, ears and noses.

Bedouin wedding feasts sometimes include a roast camel, stuffed with a sheep, stuffed with chickens, stuffed with fish, stuffed with eggs.

In the 1800s, it was common to mix ground bones into flour to make it go further.

The Roman emperor Nero kept a what was called then a ‘glutton’ – an Egyptian slave who ate everything he was given to eat, including human flesh.
...Thought to be a possible origin on the present day word.

Condemned prisoners are traditionally allowed a delicious last meal.
In some US states, it’s not actually their last meal, but is served a day or two before the execution and is called a ‘special meal’.

The Spanish Inquisition was set up to find people who committed crimes against the church and its teachings.
They often questioned and tortured people until they confessed.
In the case of a child under 10, though, they could go straight to the torture and not bother with the questions.

Capt'n Midnight

The Spanish Inquisition had rules and procedures for torture unlike the civil authorities, in a lot of cases where people had the choice of a religious or civil trial they choose the Inquisition.

Printing of pamphlets started in northern prodestant europe where for political reasons they launched a PR campaign against the Inquisition. The same prodestants went on to burn witches long after the initial excesses of the Inquisition.

Biggins

The most poisonous animal in the world is probably the two-toned arrow-poison frog – only 28 grams (1 ounce) of its poison could kill nearly 3 million people.

In 1999, Brad Byers of the USA swallowed 10 swords each 68.5 centimetres (27 inches) long, and rotated them through 180 degrees in his throat.

The loudest recorded burp was produced by Paul Hunn of the UK in 2004. It measured nearly 105 decibels – as loud as a fast underground train whizzing past!

In an experiment with a condemned prisoner, Doctor Beaurieux of France discovered in 1905 that a person – or head – can hear and respond for around 25 seconds after beheading.

The English rhyme Ring-a-Ring-o’-Roses dates from the time of the bubonic plague.The ‘roses’ refer to red spots that appeared before boils started, the ‘posies’ to flowers people carried around to counteract the bad air that they thought caused plague, and the sneezing was an early symptom.

Spear

Biggins wrote: »

The English rhyme Ring-a-Ring-o’-Roses dates from the time of the bubonic plague.The ‘roses’ refer to red spots that appeared before boils started, the ‘posies’ to flowers people carried around to counteract the bad air that they thought caused plague, and the sneezing was an early symptom.

Apparently not.

http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp

Capt'n Midnight

Many WWI fighter planes used rotary engines. The crankshaft didn't move, instead the propeller was bolted to the the engine which rotated.

No need to to worry about loosing power when you are flying around in an NB-36H , it had 4 jet engines, 6 piston engines and a nuclear reactor.

chillywilly

A7X wrote: »

The longest word that can be spelt on a keyboard while only using one line of letters is typewriter

oh the irony!!:P

Capt'n Midnight

Spear wrote: »

Apparently not.

http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp

http://xkcd.com/250/xkcd.com/250/

sogood

Nolanger wrote: »

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

Dogs can survive on a diet of cats!

Biggins

It took the executioner three blows to behead Mary Queen of Scots in 1567.
And he still had to saw through the remaining skin and gristle with a knife.

During witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts, USA, in 1692, 25 people were condemned to death on the flimsy evidence of a group of hysterical girls.

It is said that the cursed mummy of Egyptian princess Amen-Ra was on board the Titanic when it sank in 1912, killing 1,500 people.The mummy was being sent from the British Museum to the USA; only the lid of the mummy’s coffin is still in the British museum.

In 1577, an outbreak of typhus in an Oxford jail killed 300 people – the judges, jury, witnesses and spectators at criminal trials. The prisoners, used to living in filthy conditions, all survived.

Spear

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

http://xkcd.com/250/

If the conspiracy's against Biggins and not me I can live with that.

Capt'n Midnight

The original AA NiCAD rechargable batteries had a charge of only 500mAh or so

Duracell single use Copper top alkaline AA batteries have 2850mAh charge in them, lasting nearly six times as long as the old ones but can only be used once.

Duracell Rechargable NiMH batteries have 2650mAh charge in them and can be used up to a THOUSAND times, the newer rechargables keep their charge for months and can be recharged up to a thousand times.

Webmonkey

Capt'n Midnight posts up the majority of facts on this thread :pac:

Biggins

Spear wrote: »

If the conspiracy's against Biggins and not me I can live with that.

I'm used to people out to get me anyway. :pac:

A common way of attacking a besieged castle or city in the Middle Ages was to catapult dead animals, corpses or even the heads of enemies over the walls.

In 1740, a cow found guilty of witchcraft was hanged.

A French medieval torture involved trapping a person in the stocks – a wooden structure that held their ankles while they sat on the ground – pouring salt water over their bare feet and letting a goat lick it off.

Romans who killed a relative would be executed by being tied in
a sack with a live dog, cockerel, snake and monkey and thrown into a river.

the whole year inn

actually laughed at the last fact,thats some way to go

Capt'n Midnight

People in this country and the UK have died because they didn't get the MMR vaccine.

BJC

Birdie086 wrote: »

the european country that exports the most bananas is ireland

That's because Fyffes is an Irish company and every year it buys the entire bannana stock of Panama to sell onto to the rest of Europe, panama lacks the trade links and tax exemptions to cut out the middle man.

doonothing

A7X wrote: »

FACHT im sitting down right now.

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8751_4784094,00.html
In case you haven't seen this

dsmythy

Me at the zoo was the first ever video uploaded to YouTube.

The short video also contains a small fact about elephants.

dunnomede?

In 1895 Micheal Cleary was charged with manslaughter (rather than murder) for the burning of his wife Bridget as he believed her to be a changeling.
Upon release Micheal Cleary established Clearys a shop on Dublin's Sackville Street (today known as O'Connel Street)








Last part may or may not be true

omyatari

toilet paper use;

44% wipes front to back from behind their backs
60% looks at the paper after wiping
42% folds, 33% just grabs, 8% does both 6% rolls paper around their hands
50% claims to have used tree leaves for wiping
8% claims to have used their hand (paperless)
2% claims to have used money
68% hangs the roll so that it rolls off forwards, 25% prefers it rolling backwards

some psychologist claim this last one defines your personality,
the first one would suggest an open, social person, the second one would indicate introvert and shy.


source; http://www.uselessinformation.org/

Smart Bug

If the rule 'there's an exception to every rule' is true, then every rule must have an exception, the exception to this rule being that it has no exception.

ART6

omyatari wrote: »

toilet paper use;

44% wipes front to back from behind their backs
60% looks at the paper after wiping
42% folds, 33% just grabs, 8% does both 6% rolls paper around their hands
50% claims to have used tree leaves for wiping
8% claims to have used thier hand (paperless)
2% claims to have used money
68% hangs the roll so that it rolls off forwards, 25% prefers it rolling backwards

some psychologist claim this last one defines your personality,
the first one would suggest an open, social person, the second one would indicate introvert and shy.


source; http://www.uselessinformation.org/

So what about Muslims who use their right hand (or left - can't remember) and rose water to wash themselves and the other hand to eat with? There's a fair few of them fellers about;)

Another bit of useless information:

At the start of WWII the Royal Air Force dropped leaflets on Germany instead of bombs. Each leaflet read "This could have been a bomb". One crew dropped housebricks labeled "This could have been a leaflet" instead.

Biggins

Girls who made matches in the 1800s often suffered from ‘phossy jaw’ – their jaw bones would rot away, poisoned by the phosphorus used to make the matches.

Your body needs sleep.
Staying awake for two weeks can be enough to kill you.

Urine doesn’t contain bacteria. Becalmed or shipwrecked sailors used to drink it with no ill-effects.

In the 1800s, Mongolian prisoners were fastened into a wooden box little larger than a coffin where they were left to die. Some were given food for years, but never allowed out.

Whispered

Hayes Wet Bunny wrote: »

<- Galva put you up to that didn't he! :mad:

4zn76tysfajdxp

Biggins wrote: »

Your body needs sleep.

I must admit that this really doesn't come as a surprise.

helena.ryan wrote: »

<- Galva put you up to that didn't he! :mad:

No. And it's not a massive conspiracy to make you drink milk, calcium does build your bones all strong and shit.

Rusty Cogs 08

BJC wrote: »

That's because Fyffes is an Irish company and every year it buys the entire bannana stock of Panama to sell onto to the rest of Europe, panama lacks the trade links and tax exemptions to cut out the middle man.

But Iceland does produce the most bananas in Europe, growing them in thermally heated greenhouses.

omyatari

ART6 wrote: »

So what about Muslims who use their right hand (or left - can't remember) and rose water to wash themselves and the other hand to eat with? There's a fair few of them fellers about;)

Another bit of useless information:

At the start of WWII the Royal Air Force dropped leaflets on Germany instead of bombs. Each leaflet read "This could have been a bomb". One crew dropped housebricks labeled "This could have been a leaflet" instead.

The REAL question is,
what about the seashells in Demolition Man...:rolleyes:

i love the brickthrower btw....

majiktripp

Biggins wrote: »

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts!

40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans!

73.2% of all statistic's are made up on the spot.

line_of_fire

humans and dolphins are the only mammals that have sex for fun.

A whale penis is called a dork and is 15ft long!!:eek:

Biggins

Air conditioning systems are home to lots of nasty bacteria. And because they pump the same air around a building again and again, they are one of the best ways of spreading diseases to everyone in the building.

For centuries, it was illegal to cut up dead bodies, so surgeons and scientists had to pay criminals to steal the corpses of executed prisoners from the gallows in order to learn about anatomy.

In the late 1800s, the Egyptian railways were fuelled by burning ancient mummies because they were more plentiful than coal and wood.

Charles Osbourne, from Iowa, USA, hiccupped every 1.5 seconds for 69 years and then suddenly stopped.

Peter Dowdeswell of the UK ate a three-course meal in a record 45 seconds in 1999. He ate oxtail soup, mashed potatoes, baked beans and sausage, and then prunes.

xabi

If you are in the middle of Lough Foyle the North is to the south, and the south is to the north.

Hagar

BJC wrote: »

That's because Fyffes is an Irish company and every year it buys the entire bannana stock of Panama to sell onto to the rest of Europe, panama lacks the trade links and tax exemptions to cut out the middle man.

Don't forget all the Chiquita bananas exported out of Ireland by Keelings.

dsmythy

omyatari wrote: »

toilet paper use;

44% wipes front to back from behind their backs
60% looks at the paper after wiping
42% folds, 33% just grabs, 8% does both 6% rolls paper around their hands
50% claims to have used tree leaves for wiping
8% claims to have used their hand (paperless)
2% claims to have used money
68% hangs the roll so that it rolls off forwards, 25% prefers it rolling backwards

source; http://www.uselessinformation.org/

40% of people leave it to guess whether their behinds are clean or not.

raunch

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.

Nice to know, it's a pity that with the recession/swine flu, and others, there isn't much to laugh about these days.

raunch

dsmythy wrote: »

40% of people leave it to guess whether their behinds are clean or not.

Hahahaha, i'm the one of the 60% that just needs to know.

ynotdu

line_of_fire wrote: »

humans and dolphins are the only mammals that have sex for fun.

A whale penis is called a dork and is 15ft long!!:eek:

Jeez thanks a bunch Line of fire:( My mot has just left me for a dolphin after reading your post.


I wished her a whale of a time as she left!


who,s gonna cook&clean for me now You dork!

Poor Uncle Tom

omyatari wrote: »

toilet paper use;

44% wipes front to back from behind their backs
60% looks at the paper after wiping
42% folds, 33% just grabs, 8% does both 6% rolls paper around their hands
50% claims to have used tree leaves for wiping
8% claims to have used their hand (paperless)
2% claims to have used money
68% hangs the roll so that it rolls off forwards, 25% prefers it rolling backwards

some psychologist claim this last one defines your personality,
the first one would suggest an open, social person, the second one would indicate introvert and shy.


source; http://www.uselessinformation.org/

Did you know: Dragin' your ass along the ground only works with carpet.? (trick I learned from my dog):D

Debunker

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

This sentence is grammatically correct.

ynotdu

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Did you know: Dragin' your ass along the ground only works with carpet.? (trick I learned from my dog):D

a dog dragging its ass across carpet=they have worms.


I hope the same is true about dolphins and spreads to my (ex)mot

ART6

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Did you know: Dragin' your ass along the ground only works with carpet.? (trick I learned from my dog):D

It's certainly a whole new experience on concrete (No I haven't -- don't think so anyway)

Now for something else, although not really on thread. When I was a small boy my father had me convinced that there was such a thing as an oozalem bird which, when excited, flew in ever decreasing circles until it disappeared up its own arse. I spent hours watching b****y birds until I copped on.

kwestfan08

It is impossible to lick your elbow

*runs away*

CutzEr

kwestfan08 wrote: »

It is impossible to lick your elbow

*runs away*

No it's not.

Jumpy

omyatari wrote: »

toilet paper use;

44% wipes front to back from behind their backs
60% looks at the paper after wiping
42% folds, 33% just grabs, 8% does both 6% rolls paper around their hands
50% claims to have used tree leaves for wiping
8% claims to have used their hand (paperless)
2% claims to have used money
68% hangs the roll so that it rolls off forwards, 25% prefers it rolling backwards

some psychologist claim this last one defines your personality,
the first one would suggest an open, social person, the second one would indicate introvert and shy.


source; http://www.uselessinformation.org/

Only 60% look at the paper?

How do the other 40% know their arse is clean?


Edit: Ah crud. Too late.