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

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    #92
    Adiboo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    Caoimhín wrote: »
    But not chocolate, it is toxic to dogs and even a small amount can kill a poor scooby.

    It's toxic to every animal, including us. But we have a much, much higher threshold to it than most animals, so the amounts we eat don't kill us.


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    #93
    baglady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭baglady


    The movie 'As Good as It Gets' was translated as 'Mr. Cat Poop' in Hong Kong


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    #94
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    BVB wrote: »
    in alaska it's illegal to throw a moose out of a plane!

    I'd imagine that's illegal pretty much everywhere dude...


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    #95
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    Zillah wrote: »
    I'd imagine that's illegal pretty much everywhere dude...

    Its supposed to be stated in their law


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    #96
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,253 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    The Davestator wrote: »
    you can't fold anything in half more than 7 times. Try it with paper, toilet paper etc and you'll see!

    Proteins?


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    #97
    GirlInterrupted
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭GirlInterrupted


    The Davestator wrote: »
    you can't fold anything in half more than 7 times. Try it with paper, toilet paper etc and you'll see!


    You can't fold any paper more than seven times, with the exception of silver paper.


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    #98
    weemcd
    Registered Users Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭weemcd


    The phrase "A turkey" from 10 pin bowling originates from England in the 18th century, where if you got 3 strikes in a row, you won a turkey.

    In films dealing with gangster culture you often see a pair of shoes hanging from an overhead electric wire, they are there to show one drug dealer/gang's teritory from another.

    Brazil the country was named after Brazil nuts, not the other way round.

    In England drinks in pubs were measured in pints and quarters, when punters began to get drunk and rowdy the landlord would shout at them to mind their pints and quarters, which in modern times has been shortened to "mind your p's and q's"

    I love this shít.

    More as and when I remember them!


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    #99
    Pooh-bah
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭Pooh-bah


    DanR wrote: »
    I thought that was pigs...? :confused:

    No pigs can swim,but if they do they slit thier throats with their trotters!..


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    #100
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    GirlInterrupted wrote: »
    You can't fold any paper more than seven times, with the exception of silver paper.

    mythbusters

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


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    #101
    Lord Trollington
    Registered Users Posts: 4,411 ✭✭✭Lord Trollington


    Your Poo is tapered at the end so that ur ar.se doesnt bang shut when your on the John......


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    #102
    yerayeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 804 ✭✭✭yerayeah


    The only team in the English football league that does not contain a letter with an enclosed space (ie q,e,r,o,g,p,a,d,b) is...... Hull City.

    Now you know.

    Also, about the chocolate, every chemical is harmful to the human body if present in a large enough dose.


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    #103
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    pickarooney wrote: »
    www.symbolics.com was the first domain name ever registered. You'd think in 24 years they'd have time to come up with something a little better than this.

    David Schmidt Dir. of Sales & Maintenance Operations along with head if I.T. at Symbolics Inc died in a camel baiting incident in Tunisia in the early part of 1986.


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    #104
    unreggd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭unreggd


    There's no word for the back of your knee


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    #105
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand


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    #106
    ynotdu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    It is Legal to throw the president of the U.S.A from Airforce one if you are a secret service agent!and Prez is in a safety pod!


    courtesy of Airforce one(the movie)
    :pac:


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    #107
    Twee.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,722 Mod ✭✭✭✭Twee.


    GiftofGab wrote: »
    Im more worried about who ever found out that you can get milk from a cow and who's idea was it to drink it

    Probably a pretty clever person after seeing that calves did it and how they thrived on it.


    The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means "help me".


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    #108
    Flecktarn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭Flecktarn


    Birdie086 wrote: »
    the european country that exports the most bananas is ireland

    When did we start growing bananas?


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    #109
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    weemcd wrote: »
    Brazil the country was named after Brazil nuts, not the other way round

    And now we're onto the mystery of what the nuts were named after...


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    #110
    ynotdu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    keane2097 wrote: »
    And now we're onto the mystery of what the nuts were named after...


    Keane would ya stop talking a load of bolix!:D


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    #111
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Flecktarn wrote: »
    When did we start growing bananas?
    We import them and re-export them often via a process known as "triangulation" ie they enter the port and are cleared for import and are then re-exported to a third port with ever having been unloaded.


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    #112
    PFL
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭PFL


    Here's a few more - strangefacts.com


    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!

    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 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!

    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!

    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!

    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!


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    #113
    MonicaBing
    Registered Users Posts: 611 ✭✭✭MonicaBing


    Hayes Wet Bunny wrote: »
    Yeah but chicks go nuts for that kind of thing.

    Yes, Tis true....i for one am crushing on a dude that does quirky intelligence cos im a wench for doing it myself;)


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    #114
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    ynotdu wrote: »
    Keane would ya stop talking a load of bolix!:D

    Harsh, but I guess you're not the first person to express similar dissatisfaction...

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055553211


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    #115
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Famous45 wrote: »
    This is a fact -- you won't kill yourself by holding your own breathe.
    Dolphins can.


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    #116
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The Davestator wrote: »
    you can't fold anything in half more than 7 times. Try it with paper, toilet paper etc and you'll see!
    12 times with Britney
    http://www.pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm


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    #117
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    When chimpanzees smile they show their bottom row of teeth, showing your top row of teeth like in a human smile means aggression.


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    #118
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stone.


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    #119
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    PFL wrote: »
    Here's a few more - strangefacts.com


    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!

    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 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!

    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!

    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!

    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!

    The exclamation mark is the most misused form of punctuation in the English language!

    I stuck an extra one in there...


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    #120
    ynotdu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Harsh, but I guess you're not the first person to express similar dissatisfaction...

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055553211


    ah go ask my nuts!(aka my bolix)I do declare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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    #121
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The other kind of mermaid is more fun.


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