Ash-Kennard Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Well, I never knew that !!!! In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "therule of thumb".Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled"Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma FlintstoneEvery day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.Coca-Cola was originally green.It is impossible to lick your elbow.The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour:61,000Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom SawyerEach king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king in history:Spades - King DavidHearts - CharlemagneClubs -Alexander, the GreatDiamonds - Julius Caesar111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs inthe air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg inthe air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. Ifthe horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of naturalcauses.Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go untilyou would find the letter "A"?A. One thousandQ. What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?A. All invented by women.Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?A. HoneyIn Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... "goodnight, sleep tight."It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month,which we know today as the honeymoon.In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England , when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them"Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down." It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, theyused the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phraseinspired by this practice.this is readable...I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulacltyuesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg.The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in awrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer bein the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed erveylteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.>~~~~~~~~~~~AND FINALLY~~~~~~~~~~~~>>At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan. Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 It is impossible to lick your elbow.no its not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish-Finger-er Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 add to that about 50% of the people in the world, are below average. and 75% of all people make up 3/4 of the world population. A ducks quack does echo. a man can drink 48 shots of corkies on a saturday night, and still be alive to tell the tale. as for the elbow licking, its not impossible to lick your elbow. its a very unusual trait, but sure i saw a video on the net, wen i was in school, of some gangly canadian lad doing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs inthe air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg inthe air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. Ifthe horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of naturalcauses.Urban Myth, not true at all. Said Stephen Fry on QI an age ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bessell Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 There will always be one completely wank and pointless thread going on tf at any one time FACT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash-Kennard Posted February 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 can always rely on tf not to appreciate anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20inchsuperstar Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 (edited) is this the latest way to kill time?they were pretty cool, especially the last one!you must be soooooo boredmattp.s, i may be the only person who appreciates your random thread so love me brother!!!! Edited February 12, 2007 by 20inchsuperstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChai Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Urban Myth, not true at all. Said Stephen Fry on QI an age ago...MAN! that was the best one!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plainlazy84 Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Quite an interesting read but seems to be based more on fiction rather than fact. Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled"Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.Not trueEvery day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.Hmm doubt it Q. What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?A. All invented by women.Not true. The first laser printer was invented by a bloke working for Xerox for a start >At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!!!!!!woohoo I'm not an elbow licker Anyway thanks for occupying me for a few minutes on a very boring evening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 no its notYou can lick your elbow though, well some people can.Its like some people can suck themselves off an other cant, not supposed to be able to but flexible people can.Oh, and i have mates that can do both before you say haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broomer Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 no its notyeah one of my friends can lick their elbow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20inchsuperstar Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Its like some people can suck themselves off an other cant, not supposed to be able to but flexible people can.i think i could but i dont want to try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 It's impossible to lick your back. Now that's a fact Now who will disagree with that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixed Pants™ Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 FACT: Fat Pants is sexy.Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos! There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants! The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off! Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!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! The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile! The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day! A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States! It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!........1..2..3...breathe....and repeat...........The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!Most lipstick contains fish scales!Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis! The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum! No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth! Safer browsing. Faster searching. Get the Google Pack.The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!Clinophobia is the fear of beds!A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second! Porcupines float in water!Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!........1..2..3...you know the drill..................now wasn't that fun...back to the facts........The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!Cat urine glows under a black-light!The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!The electric chair was invented by a dentist!Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand! The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove! Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!! Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!The state of Florida is bigger than England!There are more than one million animal species on Earth!In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suitsIt was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland! Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bessell Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 f**k me i always though u were a nob... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20inchsuperstar Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 glen you just crossed that line dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plainlazy84 Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Jacks Daniel's is famous for being a Tennessee whisky. But its home of Moore County, Tennessee where the drink is distilled is actually a 'dry county' and it is therefore illegal to buy the stuff in its home town. And another one that I've already posted on here a while back. But it is a classic so I'll post it again James Avery who played the big fat Dad 'Phillip Banks' on Fresh Prince of Belair is also responsible for the voice of Shredder from the Turtles Harrods owner Mohammed Al Fayed only ever drinks from his own flask which he has taken around for him, as he fears that he will be posioned in a plot to kill him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Safer browsing. Faster searching. Get the Google Pack.That's one hell of a fact, Fat Pants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20inchsuperstar Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 the person who discovered nitroglycerin was also the first person to win the nobel peace prize Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Urban Myth, not true at all. Said Stephen Fry on QI an age ago...Beat me to it .Interesting read though ash . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simpson Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 yeah one of my friends can lick their elbow.Same here but his tounge is like a metre long.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixed Pants™ Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 glen you just crossed that line dudeEh? With the sexy part?That's one hell of a fact, Fat Pants. I just copy and pasted it so the ads were all over the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beigemaster Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Something you may like to read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20inchsuperstar Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Eh? With the sexy part?no thats true, just the excess of the factage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixed Pants™ Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 (edited) You noez it!!1 You're sexy too They're good facts though, worth a read. Edited February 12, 2007 by Fat Pants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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