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Strange Facts that go against the grain completely

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  • #152
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Mr.Biscuits wrote: »
    Grains have high levels of phytic acid, a substance that reduces our absorption of minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc, and magnesium.

    ..and lots more anti-nutrients like glutens, protease inhibitors, lectins etc.......


  • #153
    Batsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    Britain is the only country in the world that doesn't have its name on postage stamps.

    The British are the biggest per capita consumers of chocolate in the world and Britain has a greater variety of chocolate bars and treats on sale than any other country in the world.

    In 1945, a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of Big Ben and put the time back by five minutes.

    There are more chickens than humans in England.

    3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.

    142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.

    58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.

    31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in.

    19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate.

    British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after Xmas cracker-pulling accidents.

    18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

    A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years after trying to open bottles of beer with their teeth.

    5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out-of-control Scalextric cars.

    In 2000 eight Brits were admitted to hospital with fractured skulls incurred whilst throwing up into the toilet.


  • #154
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    superstoner90 wrote: »
    Could you die from too much oxygen?

    Yes


  • #155
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    British people aren't very clever, are they?


  • #156
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Batsy wrote: »
    Britain is the only country in the world that doesn't have its name on postage stamps.

    The British are the biggest per capita consumers of chocolate in the world and Britain has a greater variety of chocolate bars and treats on sale than any other country in the world.

    In 1945, a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of Big Ben and put the time back by five minutes.

    There are more chickens than humans in England.

    3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.

    142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.

    58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.

    31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in.

    19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate.

    British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after Xmas cracker-pulling accidents.

    18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

    A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years after trying to open bottles of beer with their teeth.

    5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out-of-control Scalextric cars.

    In 2000 eight Brits were admitted to hospital with fractured skulls incurred whilst throwing up into the toilet.

    Blah blah blah, Britain is the only country in the world to have the highest ratio of idiots per capita to Nobel laureates!

    FACT!


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  • #157
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Batsy wrote: »
    Britain is the only country in the world that doesn't have its name on postage stamps.

    The British are the biggest per capita consumers of chocolate in the world and Britain has a greater variety of chocolate bars and treats on sale than any other country in the world.

    In 1945, a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of Big Ben and put the time back by five minutes.

    There are more chickens than humans in England.

    3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.

    142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.

    58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.

    31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in.

    19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate.

    British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after Xmas cracker-pulling accidents.

    18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

    A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years after trying to open bottles of beer with their teeth.

    5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out-of-control Scalextric cars.

    In 2000 eight Brits were admitted to hospital with fractured skulls incurred whilst throwing up into the toilet.

    Interesting, I don't know the figures but the most dangerous thing in your house is the stairs.


  • #158
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    44leto wrote: »
    Interesting, I don't know the figures but the most dangerous thing in your house is the stairs.

    The most dangerous thing in your house, maybe
    The most dangerous thing in my house is my kukri knife


  • #159
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    The most dangerous thing in your house, maybe
    The most dangerous thing in my house is my kukri knife

    But you are still more likely to get injured using your stairs then your knife,,Or are you,, I would imagine more people are injured with kitchen knives then stairs, maybe I am wrong.


  • #160
    Wetai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    The most dangerous thing in your house, maybe
    The most dangerous thing in my house is my kukri knife
    I challenge


  • #161
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    44leto wrote: »
    But you are still more likely to get injured using your stairs then your knife,,Or are you,, I would imagine more people are injured with kitchen knives then stairs, maybe I am wrong.
    I'd say it's about equal. I've stabbed myself with knives and fallen down the stairs roughly an equal number of times, I think.


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  • #162
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    Batsy wrote: »
    The surface of the Earth is smoother than the surface of a snooker ball (if both were at the same scale).


    Hogwash


  • #163
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    44leto wrote: »
    But you are still more likely to get injured using your stairs then your knife,,Or are you,, I would imagine more people are injured with kitchen knives then stairs, maybe I am wrong.

    It's a silly thing to say anyway. More people in the US are killed by vending machines every year than by sharks. Does that mean a vending machine is more dangerous than a shark?


  • #164
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    seamus wrote: »
    I'd say it's about equal. I've stabbed myself with knives and fallen down the stairs roughly an equal number of times, I think.

    Yeah when you put it like that, also when you injure yourself with a knife, its usually ouch BOLLOX where's the plasters, but with the stairs its more fkuc I think I've broken something. Drink its a terrible thing.


  • #165
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    It's a silly thing to say anyway. More people in the US are killed by vending machines every year than by sharks. Does that mean a vending machine is more dangerous than a shark?

    No it just means more people have access to vending machines.


  • #166
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    Hogwash

    Maybe considering the size of the oceans?


  • #167
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    The most dangerous thing in your house, maybe
    The most dangerous thing in my house is my kukri knife
    The most dangerous thing in my house is the wife!


  • #168
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,807 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    Hogwash
    There's only one thing stupider than people posting "facts" that are bullshit, and that's people calling real facts false without actually doing any checking to see if they are actually false

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  • #169
    Batsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    44leto wrote: »
    So why do we drive on the left

    Because driving on the left is safer than driving on the right.

    It's one reason why British roads are the safest in the world.


  • #170
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    Sindri wrote: »
    Abbey Road?

    Is not in the City of London


  • #171
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,354 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    Inch Strand in Co. Kerry is, well, a bit longer...
    And while we're on the length subject:
    Why are women such bad drivers?

    Because men keep on telling them that |
    | is six inches!


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  • #172
    Cú Giobach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Cú Giobach


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    Hogwash
    It is fairly true, if you had very sensitive fingers you just might be able to feel a tiny little bump where Kilimanjaro is and an very slight roughness where the Himalayas are. Hawaii might interfere with your game though.
    Also, even though the Earth isn't a perfect sphere it is actually within the tolerances to be a snooker ball.


  • #173
    Batsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    Originally Posted by bob the bob viewpost.gif
    Can you elaborate please?

    I work in the City of London and your post doesn't correlate with what I see every day, i.e. loads of roads

    There are no roads in the City of London. There are plenty of streets and alleys and lanes in the Square Mile but no roads.
    The name "road" came about where streets and lanes were good enough to enable horse riders and carriages to travel along. They were therefore places where others rode upon (road came from the Old English rad which meant "riding" or "hostile incursion").

    Because the streets and lanes of old London weren't wide enough for any carriage of the day, none of the pathways got the status of being roads.

    Over time things change but old pathway names remain. Therefore, in the City of London, there are no roads.

    City of London street map: http://www.armourersandbrasiers.co.uk/img/map_smaller.gif


  • #174
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Batsy wrote: »
    Because driving on the left is safer than driving on the right.

    It's one reason why British roads are the safest in the world.

    But for some reason driving on the right is safer for pedestrians. That what I remember reading. He didn't say why.

    British road are the safest because the police do a good job there, they enforce, here they just set speed traps, tax and insurance stops.

    I have never had my tyres, lights or anything checked by a garde at a traffic stop, I never heard of anyone else getting checked here either. But when I lived in the UK I did.


  • #175
    Scarlet42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 457 ✭✭Scarlet42


    it is not possible to lick your own tongue :p


  • #176
    Cool Mo D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭Cool Mo D


    Batsy wrote: »
    Because driving on the left is safer than driving on the right.

    It's one reason why British roads are the safest in the world.

    No, it isn't. Here's some background on why people drive on the left vs. the right.

    http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/634/why-do-the-british-drive-on-the-left


  • #177
    Tea_Bag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Tea_Bag


    Scarlet42 wrote: »
    it is not possible to lick your own tongue :p
    yes it is.. just fold it over on itself..?


  • #178
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Tea_Bag wrote: »
    yes it is.. just fold it over on itself..?

    I just done that, it is possible and it taste like a tongue.


  • #179
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Sponges grow in the sea.
    Imagine how much deeper it would be if not for this:eek:


  • #180
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Batsy wrote: »
    Because driving on the left is safer than driving on the right.

    It's one reason why British roads are the safest in the world.

    You mean 4th safest:
    http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/community/car-magazines-blogs/mark-hamilton-blog/the-worlds-safest-roads-revealed/


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  • #181
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    dx22 wrote: »
    Well whilst making a video to prove this claim the security staff in Harvey Norman asked me to leave so unfortunately i cannot supply any video evidence yet!

    impersonate a chelsea pensioner and go back in and try it again.


  • #182
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,585 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Batsy wrote: »

    3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.

    Impossible. Volts don't kill, it's the amps that. Sure you'd need at least double that to even have a chance of passing through a layer of skin! Even if they were submerged in water, you would need at least 50-75 volts to cause damage (possible death)


  • #183
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Batsy wrote: »
    "riding" or "hostile incursion"

    There is definitely no difference between either of those things. Fact.


  • #184
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Strange Facts that go against the grain completely

    Just watching Sky News, the Pakistani foreign minister is a ride. Fact.


  • #185
    Fizgig Bandicoot
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭Fizgig Bandicoot


    If you open your mouth, stick your tongue out and pretend to shake salt vigorously on it, you can taste salt. If you can't do it the first time, try it with your eyes closed.

    It's mad the way you can play tricks on your on own mind.


  • #186
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Tea_Bag wrote: »
    calculating the mass of the atmosphere above us is a fairly easy thing to do.
    especially if you've been feeling under pressure lately


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  • #187
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    If you touch your right elbow with your right hand and try to eat your left ear, you can't scream.


  • #188
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Sindri wrote: »
    A bee by all rights should not be able to fly.
    Only if you used an old theory of flight that didn't take into account vortex lift

    In science and engineering when the theory doesn't match the facts you have to change the theory.


    Gravity is just a theory,

    and so is Intelligent Falling :pac:


  • #189
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    Fizgig Bandicoot wrote: »
    If you open your mouth, stick your tongue out and pretend to shake salt vigorously on it, you can taste salt. If you can't do it the first time, try it with your eyes closed.

    It's mad the way you can play tricks on your on own mind.

    delicious!


  • #190
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    44leto wrote: »
    Strange Facts that go against the grain completely

    Just watching Sky News, the Pakistani foreign minister is a ride. Fact.

    Agreed. Id do her.


  • #191
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    The traffic on the quays in Dublin city used to be the other way around, North quays took you West and South quays took you East
    and before that they were two way on both sides as you can see in this film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Shore


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  • #192
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    It's a silly thing to say anyway. More people in the US are killed by vending machines every year than by sharks. Does that mean a vending machine is more dangerous than a shark?
    There was a factoid about vending machines killing US Marines than enemy action.

    The basis in truth is that you could shake free drinks out of the machine and at the time there weren't that many wars.
    http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-18/local/me-3725_1_vending-machines-marine-corps-recruit-depot-fatal-accident

    Good thing BinLaden didn't think of that, instead of IED's you'd have vending machines all over Iraq


  • #193
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    antodeco wrote: »
    Impossible. Volts don't kill, it's the amps that. Sure you'd need at least double that to even have a chance of passing through a layer of skin! Even if they were submerged in water, you would need at least 50-75 volts to cause damage (possible death)
    It's volts that jolts and mil's that kills ;)

    (miliamps that is)

    20V may give you a shock
    10V directly across your heart (not skin) could be fatal

    I have to call BS on the 9V battery unless someone comes up with a peer reviewed source
    Batsy wrote: »
    3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.


  • #194
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The recently announced single atom transistor contains more than one atom.


  • #195
    Mr NoTV
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭Mr NoTV


    The chain on a chainsaw is pushed, not pulled round the bar.


  • #196
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    Hogwash

    The max difference between high and low on earth is about 17km
    According to wiki the average diameter is 13000km
    Deviation of 0.13%

    Golf ball difference is 0.254mm
    According to wiki the diameter is about 47mm
    Deviation of 0.54%

    Golf ball is way less smooth.


    Fizgig Bandicoot wrote: »
    If you open your mouth, stick your tongue out and pretend to shake salt vigorously on it, you can taste salt. If you can't do it the first time, try it with your eyes closed.

    It's mad the way you can play tricks on your on own mind.

    I'm very glad I did that in the privacy of my own home so that I didn't look like I decided to mime giving oral sex to a man while at college.
    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    It's volts that jolts and mil's that kills ;)

    (miliamps that is)

    20V may give you a shock
    10V directly across your heart (not skin) could be fatal

    I have to call BS on the 9V battery unless someone comes up with a peer reviewed source
    I read somewhere that it takes only 35mA across the heart to kill.

    If I remember my multimeter readings correctly the resistance of my skin was about 1400Ω.

    IR=V (Ohm's Law)
    I(1400)=9
    I=9/1400
    I=6.5 mA

    6.5 < 35
    QED:P


    Fact: I have far too much time on my hands.


  • #197
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    The heart isn't heart shaped.

    Stars aren't star shaped.

    Ginger isn't ginger coloured.


  • #198
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    This was on the telly last week.

    In the USA pizza is a vegetable. FFS.


  • #199
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    If you block your nose and bite into an apple, onion or potato you won't be able to tell which is which.


  • #200
    Jim_Kiy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭Jim_Kiy


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    It's volts that jolts and mil's that kills ;)

    (miliamps that is)

    20V may give you a shock
    10V directly across your heart (not skin) could be fatal

    I have to call BS on the 9V battery unless someone comes up with a peer reviewed source

    a few mV at a few uA can kill but it would need to be applied through broken skin..I would believe its possible but the fiqures quoted per unlikely if in fact it has ever happened.

    I decided to google a bit..

    Apparently there was a US sailor being trained as an electrician who killed himself by sticking the probes of an Ohmmeter through his skin to measure his internal resistance.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/28/the_odd_body_death_by_battery/


  • #201
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    kincsem wrote: »
    This was on the telly last week.

    In the USA pizza is a vegetable. FFS.

    If that is the case, I claim beer is also a vegetable and therefore good for you.


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