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Tell us something strange (or something normal) that we didn't know, like this:
It is said that a Chinese prince invented tofu while he was searching for a substance to grant him immortality . . . he died at 43. Heh.
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Here's how it works:
Tell us something strange (or something normal) that we didn't know, like this:
It is said that a Chinese prince invented tofu while he was searching for a substance to grant him immortality . . . he died at 43. Heh.
Winston Churchill was the first person to be named an, Honorary U.S. Citizen.
A snail can sleep for three years.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
E.coli. is a normal flora that inhabits our intestinal tract.
75% of the U.S's pornography is made in L.A.
if a giraffe falls down it will die since it cant get up again.
Sliced bread was invented in the 1920's
Fingernails and hair do not actually grow after death, the skin simply is receding away giving the apperance.
the phantom is the first custumed hero in comics.
The show the flash from the 80's lasted only one season.
Barbie was modeled after an italian doll that was a sexual object to be oogled.
the care bears were not all bears. They included other animals, including a sheep, lion, and an elephant.
Most tooth paste contains the same ingrediants as that in anti-freeze
a viking creation myth includes the first two humans springing from the left armpit of the corpse of a giant. the magots who feasted on that same corpse became dwarfs.
Herclules in real greek mythology was a strong man, but would kill anyone a the drop of a hat if he could. He once killed the messanger who gave him bad news. Historically, he is said to have joined the rest of the gods on Mount Olympos when he married Hebe, the goddess of youth.
The superman from the 1950's live tv show did not go crazy and jump off a building to his death; he was actually found to die in his home of a fatal gun shot which was ruled a sucide though there is evidence to the contray, like his engagement and continueing movie career.
the sailor star lights, part of the sailor moon universe, are actually men who transform into women who are superheros. and yes, uranus and neptune are lesbians, not cousins.
From 1956 to 1969 Elvis Presley appeared in at least 33 movies.
Elfquest the comic started being published in 1978, dc now owns the rights and is going to start the francise anew in january. the movie is still pending.
Red Dwarf is making a movie, and if it does well here in america it will continue on a series. if not....
the mad cow disease started in sheep, moved on to goats and then cows. there is evidence that its jumped species again to humans, and the name of that disease is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Hitler had one nut.
Blue Whales have 10-foot long penises.
Honey is the only food that cannot spoil.
no, the care bears were all bears... the care bear cousins were other animals
80% of the world's pornography is made in L.A.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoman0chaos
Eskimo's have hundreds of words for "ice," but none for "hello."
My wife's lineage traces a direct line back to Charlemagne, through Judith of France, his daughter.
At one point in Finland Donald Duck comics were banned because he does not wear any pants.
:p
The Komodo Dragon isn't really poisonous, but the bacteria in its saliva is so toxic that it can kill a 500lb gorilla.
The literal English translation of "The Little Mermaid"'s title in Iceland (I think) is "The Flying Fish Fairy."
There is no word for "mermaid" in their language.
Walker, Texas Ranger is the #1 rated show amongst serial killers.
im a very big fan of the show, so i was very glad to hear tha for the first time. if you watch the show enough, it would make a lot of sense.
holy shit, that is my dream bass, lucas.
*Sigh...*
Here's one,
The vast majority of the lyrics to That Alanis Morisette song "Ironic" or what ever its called are not ironic. And that is infact ironic.
The most popular songs of pink floyd were written by the member that in fact, did not use heavy drugs. The weird hippy songs, like "i've got a bike" were.
...and now it's time for another *clang* Useless Fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable
America didn't first encounter guerilla warfare in Vietnam in the 60's, but in the Philippine-American War at the end of 19th/beginning of 20th centuries. Filipinos expected Americans to grant them independence after the Spanish-American War, but the US decided to keep them as a colony instead for the time being. As in Vietnam, US didn't outright win the war either. They captured Philippine resistance leader Emilio Aguinaldo and he ended up helping to quell the rebellion, supposedly. War might've been stretched out indefinitely if he hadn't been captured or killed.
Adolf Hitler was an anti-smoker who had cigarettes airbrushed out of art published in Third Reich propaganda. He was also a visionary environmentalist with plans for preservation of German woodlands. Then that whole Holocaust and WW2 thing happened :p
Things like that just put an interesting perspective on things. Lots more interesting facts on the Philippine-American War too.
Hitler = Environmentalist Leader
therefore logically, all environmentalists are Nazi's.
If everyone in China was to walk by you in a straight line, it would never end because China's overpopulation is occurring so rapidly.
That's an urban legend. It's not true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Violently Happy
Rapists and child molesters agree, AOL is #1.
One of the chief reasons for this was that it came out that the star was gay, or so I heard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cy...err M
That's cus it's bee shit, I mean how can bee shit spoil?!Quote:
Originally Posted by salmonax
Barbie's middle name is Millicent.
Wrong. It's bee vomit.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShineAqua
Quote:
Originally Posted by CynicalSphere
WOW ...
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/finland.htm
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"Irregardless" is an actual word...
Turds are poop that is magical.
Captain Vegetable is neither a captain or a vegetable. Although there have been reports that he would like to be either or both if possible.
Rarely will you come across purple Xmas lights, because purple lights are least visible to the human eye.
They removed the cool Terminator 3 pinball machine from our towns movie theater, and replaced it with Flintstones the Movie pinball.
And now it's time for "Good Idea, Bad Idea."Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
Good Idea: Playing catch with your grandfather.
Bad Idea: Playing catch with your grandfather.
Animaniacs is teh shizzle.
Or like the kid that comes out of the house and tells a story. Gold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable
Despite being closest to the Sun, the Maximum temperture on Murcury is lower than the temperture on Venus and they're all reletively cold compared to the inner temperatures of all the outer gaseous planets. Also, the nighttime tempertures on Mercury are lower than that on Mars - the outtermost inner planet.
Dead or Alive is neither Dead nor Alive.
I have 10 VHS, unopened copies of the Disney film "The Rescuers" that included Nudity a disgruntled employee spliced into the original theatrical release back in the day. The original VHS releases had the nudity removed, but the digitally remastered version had the nudity in tact. All the copies of the movie were recalled and destroyed (except mine and a few others) and they never saw store shelves (I worked at Best Buy at the time and bought them when I found out about the recall).
Sort of a fact, I guess.
Fo rizzle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable
Coffee filters in Europe are made of brown paper, not white.
In England cigarettes are called fags.
-A husband-and-wife team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has inscribed the entire New Testament on a silicon chip 5 millimeters square. Each letter, inscribed in 24-karat gold, was the size of a single bacterium.
-Anthropologists say that wearing pants was a result of the domestication of the horse. You can't ride astride in a toga.
You can get sick from brushing your teeth: when you take a shit, the odor/bacteria of your shit gets stuck on to the bristles of your toothbrush.
http://www.nma-fallout.com/vault/falloutart/barf.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Klonoa
yeah, same here.Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
this gets the job done though...
http://www.matchettsmusic.com/guitar...sajazzbass.jpg
nothing touches the Rick though.
Yeah. I'm your dad. What of it?
Canadians don't say "ey".
Uh oh... hopefully I'm safe (my bathroom):Quote:
Originally Posted by Klonoa
But they're still dumb. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by DjRocca
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
1/4 of LA is taken up of automobiles
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
2 out of 5 people live in China or India
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61000.
The city with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
The most commonly used password on computer systems is "password."
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
Woo! Fallout!Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
Holy shat. That's a huge bathroom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tones
Animaniacs was gold. They should put it on adult swim.
I thought that was GOD?!Quote:
The most commonly used password on computer systems is "password."
Yeah, but they DO say "eh". :pQuote:
Originally Posted by DjRocca
http://www3.sympatico.ca/taniah/Cana...iginal/eh2.gif
Eh
:lol: great blue print.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tones
HACK THE PLANTET!
And as for the toothbrush thing, that why you have a separate room for your toilet.
Today, November 19th is Have a Bad Day Day.
Yesterday, November 18th, was 18th birthday of the debut of Calvin and Hobbes.
In 1705, during Queen Anne's War with France, a small vessel was wrecked in the North Sea off the English coast village of West Hartlepool. The sole survivor was a pet ape that had belonged to the French crew. The townspeople captured the ape, and thinking it was a Frenchman in disguise, put the monkey on trail and hanged it as a French Spy.
Cashews have no shells. The Cashew is a seed, not a nut.
Glabella is the name for the space between your eyebrows.
Back in 1968, the MPAA forgot to trademark the "X" rating when they created the rating system. This is what allowed porn makers to lable their films as "XXX". Due to the "X" rating becoming synonymous with porn, the MPAA created the NC-17 rating in 1990, and made sure to trademark it.
If a grasshopper is hungry enough, it will eat the paint off your house.
It would take 2 1/2 minutes to fall from the top of Mt. Everest.
Cracker Jack is the world's largest purchaser of popcorn.
A bat can eat as many as 1000 insects an hour.
Both poison oak and poison ivy are members of the cashew family.
In 19th-century England, "pants' was considered an obscene word.
99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as Jack-O'-Lanterns.
Only female mosquitos eat blood. The males eat sap.
Genetically speaking, a guinea pig is more closely related to a cow than a rat.
Darwin, the staunch believer in "Survival of the Fittest", was a lifelong hypochondriac who suffered from stomachaches, chronic insomnia, and fatigue.
Translated title of Boogie Nights in Hong Kong: "His Powerful Device Makes Him Famous"
Constipation kills more fruit flies than any other ailment.
The original Robocop movie was, in it's unedited state, rated "X" for violence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolffen
He also died a Christian and a firm believer in Creationism. ;)Quote:
Darwin, the staunch believer in "Survival of the Fittest", was a lifelong hypochondriac who suffered from stomachaches, chronic insomnia, and fatigue.
So he went crazy? ;)
Maybe . . . ? ;)
I can eat two whole pounds of bacon in a single sitting. And on top of this, my cholesterol is lower than most normal people.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable
As do most people on the Atkins Diet. :)
Toothpaste is fucked up. The reason most toothpaste has such a strong minty taste is to cover up the taste of detergent. The reason detergent is added to toothpaste? To make it foam. Doesn't help clean your teeth at all. But people want foamy toothpaste.Quote:
Originally Posted by M
Paint is all I have... :\Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
I get by.
Funny, I hear 'em say it all the time :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DjRocca
Many movies got X's before, it was what was after R, and that's why pornographic movies got the rating too. But as mentioned, it became synoymous with porn because it was more common to find people go through with the X rating that way...and then without it being copyrighted, anyone could use it.. XXX came later when people wanted to say it was "more hardcore than X."Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Vegetable
Pork rinds have seen a surge in sales over the past year due to people on low carb, high protein diets. Surprisingly, they're not that bad for you: 7 grams protein, most brands have 0 carbs, and much less fat than potato chips. So chow down on some pig skin.
And Canadians, most definitely, say "ey".
No, we don't.
Yes you do... liar.
I've heard it with my own ears, many times. I'm sure it's regional, much like "y'all" in America.
Saskatchewan isn't a part of Canada I recognize, so we're both right.
edit: In light of dude's post showing up out of nowhere.
Not exactly. What happens is that the misting of water when you flush can carry fecal particles or urine into the air, ending up on your toothbrush or whereever. If your toothbrush is at least 10 feet away from your toilet, you're safe. Or, you could just close the toilet cover when you flush.Quote:
Originally Posted by Klonoa
The average length of a gorilla's penis is one and a half inches.
This is wrong for several different reasons, but chief among them is that I'm not on the Atkin's diet. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolffen
Giraffe tongues are black.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar aka Zack Morris is in fact half Indonesian and half white....His mother is Indonesian and his father is White (Dutch). He is best known for playing "Zack Morris" on the series Saved By the Bell. He also appeared on Hyperion Bay and D.C. Beginning in January 2002, Gosselaar joined the cast of N.Y.P.D. Blue.
http://mixedfolks.com/images/markpaulgosselaar.jpg
weird....looks like a cracka to me.
A polor bear's DNA is more like that of a weasil, than of other bears.
A "Jiffy" is an actual length of time: 1/100th of a second.
Cat Urine glows under black light.
You forget 80% of what you learn each day ;)
if you want thousands upon thousands of pointless facts, goto www.straightdope.com . Its awesome.
Sunglasses that don't block UV rays do more damage to your eyes than not wearing sunglasses at all.
Plenty of Canadians say "eh", but for the most part it's a backwater Ontatio thing. Those are the same people who say "aboot".
I think the only person in the entire country who spells "eh" with a Y is DjRocca. :p
Sex actually helps cure headaches, as it widens the blood vessels in the body to allow for a more free flow of blood (headaches being caused by constricted blood vessels). So the next time you ask your partner for a romp in the sack, and they say they have a headache, it's all the more reason to go for the gold.
whatchou talkin aboot Willis? :p I personally don't hear it at all where i live, and if I do :o it's surely something so subliminal and unoticeable that it's nothing to banter aboot..about...errrm..about! :|Quote:
Originally Posted by sggg