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

Keogg

The 100 year War between Britain and France actaully lasted 116 years.

Keogg

tech2 wrote: »

Check this out :cool:

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

43.If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

That last part's not true. It was disproven on Mythbusters. :pac:

ynotdu

Jumpy wrote: »

Only 60% look at the paper?

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


The other 40% get the cute little puppy from the Andrex ad(that runs away with the paper)to lick their ass clean?

dny123456

ART6 wrote: »

It's certainly a whole new experience on concrete

You should try it at the beach!

Mr Maroon

In August 1990 an unemployed French nuclear physicist named André Gardes attempted a singlehanded invasion of Sark* , armed with a semi-automatic weapon. The night Gardes arrived he put up signs declaring his intention to take over the island the following day at noon. He was arrested by the island's volunteer Constable, while sitting on a bench, changing the gun's magazine and waiting for noon to arrive.


*a small island in the southwestern English Channel. It is one of the Channel Islands, is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, and as such is a British crown dependency. It has a population of about 600.

Poor Uncle Tom

dny123456 wrote: »

You should try it at the beach!

It's called scuffling and it is a sport...:D

Mr Maroon

Albert Einstein, according to writer Illana Katz, may have had autism

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Libya's flag is the only flag which is all one colour (green) with no writing or decoration on it.

The only place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, never flies half-mast and does not get saluted, is the moon.

The Swiss flag is square.

The United Nations flag is the only flag that may fly above an USA flag on an American flagpole.

The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.

The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

There are six words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum.

Most car horns beep in the key of F.

The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.

The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.

A person from the country of Nauru is called a Nauruan; this is the only palindromic nationality. (spelled the same forwards and backwards )

Poor Uncle Tom

Mr Maroon wrote: »

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.;) )

I seriously hope the word breed or the word species is missing from that sentence somewhere...:D

line_of_fire

line_of_fire wrote: »

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

Almost certain that's not true

Mr Maroon wrote: »

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

occhio means "eye", no ?

Spear

Mr Maroon wrote: »

The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)

Not neccessarily.

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

limklad

anti chris-t wrote: »

i once read somewhere that glass is a liquid... figure that out

Yes it is. It has a very high viscosity and which is very close to a solid, therefore takes a very long time to go into a puddle.
Glass is so slow moving at room temperature that Windows Panes after a few hundred years get thinner at the top and falls into a larger bulge at the bottom.

Nolanger

COBOL computer language is 50 years old but its programs are expected to still be around decades from now because they're too expensive and time consuming to replace.

A7X

limklad wrote: »

Yes it is. It has a very high viscosity and which is very close to a solid, therefore takes a very long time to go into a puddle.
Glass is so slow moving at room temperature that Windows Panes after a few hundred years get thinner at the top and falls into a larger bulge at the bottom.

Unfortunatly, you, like I, have been had to a certain degree.

Look it up. It's been discussed earlier on. The reason for the thicker window near the bottom is not from this. Its from the pouring technique used at the time.

It is still undecided whether glass is a liquid or a solid but in everyday life it is considered a solid.

My physics teacher would disagree though ha

Capt'n Midnight

line_of_fire wrote: »

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

What about bonobos ?

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

Longest measure was half that. And they had plenty to measure since they were hunted to near extenction.

Humans have the largest penii of any apes or primates

But argentinian ducks have ones twice as long as they are

Right whales have very large testes. A pair can weigh up to a tonne.

longshanks

the skin on margaret tatchers hands is so thin you can see the blood pumping through her veins.

ynotdu

longshanks wrote: »

the skin on margaret tatchers hands is so thin you can see the blood pumping through her veins.

are you sure it is her blood?after all she has so much blood on her hands.........

Mr Maroon

Spear wrote: »

Not neccessarily.

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

bluewolf wrote: »

occhio means "eye", no ?

To both of ye, I don't know I just copied and pasted but having checked, yes occhio means eye.

Rebelheart

Only one chief-of-staff of the Irish Republican Army has also received the Nobel Prize for Peace during his life.

Seán MacBride is the name and Seán MacBride is the man.

Professey Chin

Mr Maroon wrote: »

The only place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, never flies half-mast and does not get saluted, is the moon.

I salute the moon flag to show my loyalty to our future moon-men rulers

Vinta81

Thought this was pretty cool...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmz5qYbKsvM

galwayrush

cheap wine tasets ok when one is pissed:D

Orlaith_

if you see a monument of a man on a horse that has both front legs off the ground, it means the man on the horse died in battle, if the horse has one leg off the ground it means the man was wounded in battle, if both horses front legs are on the ground it means the man on the horse died of natural causes

Capt'n Midnight

Orlaith_ wrote: »

if you see a monument of a horse that has both front legs off the ground, it means the horse died in battle, if the horse has one leg off the ground it means it was wounded in battle, if both horses front legs are on the ground it means the horse died of natural causes

fyp

There is no dark side of the moon, but there are places that are always dark on it.

I have found my missing box of microwave popcorn - FACT !

Pataman

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.

I thought it was Antimultidisestablishmentarianism

Jack Sheehan

There are 7,386 lesbians for every straight person in Finland. FACT!

Poor Uncle Tom

Jack Sheehan wrote: »

There are 7,386 lesbians for every straight person in Finland. FACT!

I'm afraid your maths are out...
Karolina was only kidding.....she's some joker that Karolina.!

Cupcake_Crisis

Orlaith_ wrote: »

if you see a monument of a man on a horse that has both front legs off the ground, it means the man on the horse died in battle, if the horse has one leg off the ground it means the man was wounded in battle, if both horses front legs are on the ground it means the man on the horse died of natural causes

Im afraid thats a lie, its just a myth!

There is only one pig in Afghanistan!

and it's in quarantine...

Spear

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

Im afraid thats a lie, its just a myth!

Snopes time again.

http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.asp

Cupcake_Crisis

Spear wrote: »

Snopes time again.

http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.asp

The really weird thing is that i have that episode of Qi on in the background........

Biggins

During heart surgery in 1970, a patient with haemophilia (an inherited condition which stops the blood clotting) needed 1,080 litres of blood – nearly 15 baths full – as he kept bleeding.

French man Michel Lotito is called Monsieur Mangetout (Mr. Eat Everything) because since 1959 he has been snacking on all kinds of glass and metal. He’s eaten a computer, 18 bicycles, an aeroplane, 6 chandeliers, 15 supermarket trolleys, 2 beds, 7 TV sets and a pair of skis. In total, he’s eaten more than 9 tonnes (1,984 pounds) of metal.

Rene Alvarenga of El Salvador has eaten 35,000 live scorpions.
He catches them himself with his bare hands and eats 20 to 30 per day.

Michael Lloyd of the USA holds the record for kicking himself in the head
– 42 times in a row!

Hungry huskies and polar bears have been known to attack explorers when they urinate – they are attracted by the smell.

On the east coast of the USA there is a laboratory that leaves dead bodies of humans and animals outside to decay so that scientists can study the rate at which they rot, and the maggots and microbes that help them decompose.

A zookeeper in Germany tried to treat an elephant for constipation with laxative foods and an enema (pumping oil into its anus through a tube). His cure was effective – the elephant produced 90 kilograms (200 pounds) of faeces, which landed on the keeper and suffocated him.

Bob Z

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

A shark will only attack if you are wet.

But if you werent wet you would be on dryland anyway?

poisonated

there are more people living in Dublin than city of London

Bob Z

When alexander bell invented the telephone he had to wait another five years for someone else to invent another telephone so that he could have someone to talk to!

RHunce

almost is the longest word in the dictionary in alphabetical order

Bob Z

galwayrush wrote: »

cheap wine tasets ok when one is pissed:D

I can verify this

Bob Z

Jack Sheehan wrote: »

There are 7,386 lesbians for every straight person in Finland. FACT!

in that case finnish people will be extinct soon

Capt'n Midnight

Bob Z wrote: »

When alexander bell invented the telephone he had another five years for someone else to invent another telephone so that he could have someone to talk to!

He didn't invent the telephone.

And legend has it that he called his assistant (watson ?) on one of the first calls when he spilt acid on himself. No not the flashback stuff.

Capt'n Midnight

Pataman wrote: »

I thought it was Antimultidisestablishmentarianism

Damn those NeoAntimultidisestablishmentarianismists :mad:

Capt'n Midnight

Bob Z wrote: »

in that case finnish people will be extinct soon

Oh noes, soon the Finnish finnish.

ZiMZuM

it is estimated that 99.9% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct.

Sauce....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction#cite_note-Newman-1

Crumble Froo

Biggins wrote: »

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

i may never forgive you for this.

Poor Uncle Tom

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Damn those NeoAntimultidisestablishmentarianismists :mad:

If it comes back into vogue would it be...(deep breath)

Retroneoantimultidisestablishmentarianismists...?

Hagar

Some of the electrons used in this post may have been used in nude pictures on other sites. You can see tiny lady-bits if you look really closely.

Capt'n Midnight

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

If it comes back into vogue would it be...(deep breath)

Retroneoantimultidisestablishmentarianismists...?

Just don't get me started on the pseudoRetroneoantimultidisestablishmentarianismists !

What do you call someone from Newtownmountkennedy ?

Mmcd

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Just don't get me started on the pseudoRetroneoantimultidisestablishmentarianismists !

What do you call someone from Newtownmountkennedy ?

A Kennadian!

Poor Uncle Tom

Mmcd wrote: »

A Kennadian!

What about someone from Muff..?:)

Muffian

longshanks

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

What about someone from Muff..?:)

a cunt

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Just don't get me started on the pseudoRetroneoantimultidisestablishmentarianismists !

?

well they have their moments, unlike the quasipseudoRetroneoantimultidisestablishmentarianismists !

longshanks

longshanks wrote: »

well they have their moments, unlike the quasipseudoRetroneoantimultidisestablishmentarianismists !

But what about the antiquasipseudoRetroneoantimultidisestablishmentarianismists.