AS A MATTER OF FACT - share your random but interesting facts!

DanielGibbons

I feckin love boards

pirelli

Humm quietly to yourself and then Squeeze your nose and see what happens!

Go on i dare ya

IM0

stupidusername wrote: »

If you pinch a cats tail, it turns. gay.

fyp. you just read it wrong.

Thrill

One in every two children born in Ireland is among half of all the children born in Ireland.

Or something like that.

FACT. maybe




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stupidusername

IM0 wrote: »

fyp. you just read it wrong.

Ah I see. That is quite gay

whistlingtitan

A hippos milk is pink

The Scientician

Pineapples don't grow on trees.

DazMarz

Waafen-SS uniforms were made by a company that would one day become Hugo Boss.

FanadMan

The King of Moo wrote: »

There are four lights!

In Letterkenny, Buncranna, Sligo, Donegal Town and Ballybofey there is.....only the chips are nice - rest of the stuff is cold gunk:mad:

policarp

If you can get a pinch of salt on a rabbits tail,
you have him caught. . .
That's what my granny told me when she gave me the salt. . .

1ZRed

You burn approximately 26 calories for every minute of kissing. That's 1,560 calories for an hours make out session. That's nine times more calories burned by slow walking.

BunShopVoyeur

50% of all After Hours threads make you 3% more stupid for having read them.

Gummy Panda

The panda martial art is Handstand Peeing

aston

Navan spelt backwards is Navan

whatsername42

Alfred Hitchock had no bellybutton! Fact.

cock robin

Woodlice sh1t is square and it is the only creature on earth that does this.

danniemcq

cock robin wrote: »

Woodlice sh1t is square and it is the only creature on earth that does this.

really? hmmmm

it is quite high in copper though and they often eat it!

edit you sure you weren't thinking of Wombats?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_wombats_have_square_poo

edit 2: http://innocentdrinks.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ba8c69e2011570f50673970b-350wi

don't click if you are eating chocolate or anything brown and squarey...

Capt'n Midnight

There is no such thing as a drop bear.

Thylarctos plummetus is a marsupial not a bear.

MJ23

The last time any other team other than Rangers or Celtic won the Scottish premier league was 1985. Aberdeen.

cyrusdvirus

Hugh Lane, who died abourd the Lusitania, was also supposed to sail abourd the Titanic.

crank_1975

If you put 'Fact!' at the end of any old nonsence it becomes a fact. Fact!

bodice ripper

the pink fluid from The Abyss is real.

Capt'n Midnight

Polar bears are black.

ball

The opposite sides of a dice always add up to 7

mikemac1

The Corkonians calling themselves the Rebel county has nothing to do with the War of Independence

But instead is about them supporting a usurper to the English crown hundreds of years ago

Corkonians are not to be trusted

mikemac1

Dr Bob wrote: »

You know that daah daah daaah dah dah daah daah daah tone you'd hear on older nokia phones when you get an SMS text message ? Well that's "S M S" in morse code.

Very interesting

thunderdog

It would take 1000 years to watch every single youtube video back to back

mikemac1

The Scotti tribe from Ireland moved over to Scotland, wiped out the locals and now of course it's Scotland

So the Scottish Presbyterian stock who came to Ulster in the plantations and are still here were realy just coming home

eviltwin

The MGM lion was born in Dublin Zoo

RichieC

if you stack pennys on a chess board exponentially from A1, by the time you reach h8 the pile of pennys would of reached alpha centuri 4.36 Light years away!

DB Cooper 23

Sidney Poitier was the worlds first black man

mikemac1

Martin Luther King was a preacher, a man of god but wow, he had more women and affairs then JFK and Bill Clinton combined

Cee-Jay-Cee

Ralph Laurens real/original name was Ralph Lifshítz.

Banana oil isnt made from bananas, its made from petroleum.

-40 degrees Celcius is exactly the same as -40 Fahrenheit.

Apples are more efficient at waking you up in the morning than coffee.

stupidusername

Speaking of bananas, they only freeze at a temperature of -49 degrees.

jessiejam

CavanCrew wrote: »

A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes... do what you wish with these insightful words.

I wanna be a pig.....:D:D:D:D

vangoz

Rubbing a magnet over your computers hard drive makes it twice as fast

GordonCole

Buddhist tradition first came to the land of snow in the fifth century AD

Stiffler2

All my posts are FACT



FACT

chimmy chonga

A bird with her hand is better than two in the bush.

mikemac1

Al Gore invented the internet

patneve2

take everything wrote: »

In iceland, kite flying is illegal.

/waits to see how long it takes for that piece of bull**** to be refuted.

it actually was illegal in afghanistan for a while under the Taliban regime

mikemac1

Dublin Bay always had lots of problems with ships running aground.
That bastard Henry VIII was so sick of it that he ordered any ships pilot that damaged a boat in Dublin bay would have their eyes cut out
Where was Jack O'Connor and SIPTU back then



Due to the problems a decision was made to build Howth Harbour.
They clearly never listened to the locals as it was silting up before it was even finished and unsuitable for heavy ships
They had clowns of planners back then too

So the decision was made to build Dun Laoghaire


Around famine times you could post a letter in Ireland and have it delivered in London within two days.
Actually, it's pretty much the same time now so they were pretty decent back then

mikemac1

One more and it's AH's favourite topic
Welfare fraud

There was an almightly storm in Ireland in 1839.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Big_Wind
Not just any storm, this was the worst in hundreds of years

Now before WWI the old age pension was introduced.
Record keeping was not the best in Ireland, many would not even know their age

So to get the pension the officer would ask do you remember the storm
You say yes
Here's your pension :cool:

ancapailldorcha

Raphoe, the world's smallest city is located in Donegal.

Tea is known to degrade the anthrax toxin. Milk negates this effect however.

Paracetamol is toxic to cats.

1ZRed

Indubitable wrote: »

I have the biggest penis in the world.

(waits for the ladies)

But only guys show up...

mikemac1

Much of the worlds supply of Viagra is made in Cork

The worlds supply of Botox is made in Mayo

The European supply of household names like Max Factor, Oil of Olay and Clearasil is made in Tipperary

Sudocream which is definitely a houshold name was founded by a Dublin chemist with his own special solution. It's expanded and now employs ninety people in North Dublin. Success story

Gripe Water with alcohol was banned in Ireland years ago, well over a decade ago. Was on sale until recently in the UK

Funkfield

1 in 5 McDonald's burgers sold in Europe is made from Irish beef.

merengueca

The US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.

Why did the English people build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did they use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Okay! Why did the wagons use that odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagons would break on some of the old, long distance roads, because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts.

So who built these old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts? The initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot. Specs and Bureaucracies live forever.


So, the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.

Now the twist to the story. . . .

There's an interesting extension of the story about railroad gauge and horses' behinds. When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line to the factory runs through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than a railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

So a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined by the width of a horse's ass!

Capt'n Midnight

Irish railways have been built to the metric gauge of 1600mm since the 1840's

Mickey Dazzler

As a straight, non-intravenous drug taking man living in the Ireland you have absolutely no chance of catching HIV by having sex with a woman without a condom. No Chance.