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The most boring single fact you can come up with

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    #152
    worded
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    The cause of the ice age was .....
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    Ice


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    #153
    0byme75341jo28
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    worded wrote: »
    The cause of the ice age was .....
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    Ice

    I imagine it was cold temperature actually...


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    #154
    Sir Arthur Daley
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    The ice age melted because of people burning too much turf.


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    #155
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Samsgirl wrote: »
    You can't lick your elbow

    I'll think you'll find that some people can :cool:


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    #156
    kryogen
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    Saudi Arabia import camels from Australia

    Actually, thats a pretty deadly fact in fairness


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    #157
    kryogen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    Here you got, if you put 23 people in a room there is a 50% chance two of them will have the same birthday.

    Heres an actual boring, pointless fact

    The Lexmark Z25 Colour printer has a sound emission of 44dB.


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    #158
    [Deleted User]
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    It is now just after 02:30 and I’m listening to Kate’s bushes wow wondering should I go to bed or finish off the beer!


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    #159
    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    It is now just after 02:30 and I’m listening to Kate’s bushes wow wondering should I go to bed or finish off the beer!

    Can you get into the bush?


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    #160
    [Deleted User]
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Can you get into the bush?
    Tá sí ag codlata


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    #161
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users Posts: 6,065 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    ..... rain spreading from the west .....


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    #162
    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Tá sí ag codlata
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]a fait acopian[/FONT]


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    #163
    [Deleted User]
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    see the sea
    When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
    Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/ericcanton304667.html#QHacRPWkA67S3WoA.99


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    #164
    ascophere
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭ascophere


    The potato was invented in Fermanagh in 1694 by Protestant Ascendancy plantation lord Archibald Potato when he successfully hybridized a crab apple with a chunk of tree bark. His initial attempts to mass produce his new creation in Ireland failed due to the insatiable appetite of his feckless Catholic serfs being so great that they ate about 90% of all potatoes grown. No punishment, however severe, could whet this appetite so Lord Potato needed an alternative.

    The solution came when he contracted a Spanish multinational conquista-corporation to handle the growing of the potato in a location with a more docile labour force. The Spanish took Archibald Potato's entire crop and a large upfront service fee and sailed to South America. The Spaniards found the potato wholly unpalatable so upon arrival they promptly gave away the potatoes to a bunch of indigenous Peruvians and washed their hands of the entire endeavor. They then went in search of El Dorado and were never heard from again. At some stage in the following two years Archibald, while chasing what he believed to be a fairy through the woods of his estate, tripped and suffered a severe blow to the head from a nearby tree. The injury resulted in complete memory loss and in a cruel trick of fate the tree turned out to be the very one from which the potato spawning chunk of bark had originally come from.

    Thus it came to be that all knowledge of the true origin of the potato was lost to history. Archibald was a lifelong recluse who was both obsessively secretive and had a phobia of all writing implements and of keeping records. He quickly became a forgotten man but his contributions to humanity truly do deserve recognition. Potato not only invented the revered vegetable that bears his name but he also invented free market globalisation when he pioneered the practice of outsourcing the production of goods to the third world to avail of a cheaper and more easily controlled workforce.


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    #165
    Capt'n Midnight
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    kryogen wrote: »
    Saudi Arabia import camels from Australia

    Actually, thats a pretty deadly fact in fairness
    The Saudai's used to import sand from Wicklow.
    for water filters of all things


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    #166
    bnt
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    It is now just after 02:30 and I’m listening to Kate’s bushes wow wondering should I go to bed or finish off the beer!
    A beer in the hand is worth two in the Bush. :p

    Here's one: the cutting head of a boring machine, which was used in New York to excavate new tunnels for Grand Central Station, is just going to stay down there forever under Park Avenue. It would cost more to remove it than it's worth, so, far-future archaeologists are in for a surprise.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #167
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    bnt wrote: »
    A beer in the hand is worth two in the Bush. :p

    Here's one: the cutting head of a boring machine, which was used in New York to excavate new tunnels for Grand Central Station, is just going to stay down there forever under Park Avenue. It would cost more to remove it than it's worth, so, far-future archaeologists are in for a surprise.
    I think that there are three of them under the English channel for the same reason.


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    #168
    IvaBigWun
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    Jason Barry who played Dano in Love/Hate had a significant role in Titanic


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    #169
    Sir Arthur Daley
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Jason Barry who played Dano in Love/Hate had a significant role in Titanic

    Was he the fella in the crows nest?


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    #170
    Deathwish4
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    Anti-Bacterial handwash, if not used for 60 seconds plus, is rendered useless in terms of killing bacteria.


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    #171
    IvaBigWun
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Was he the fella in the crows nest?

    He was the Irish fella http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1997_Titanic/997TNC_Jason_Barry_001.jpg


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    #172
    fleet_admiral
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    Electricity was invented in 1985 by Dr. Richard Electricity


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    #173
    0byme75341jo28
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    Gay Byrne isn't actually gay.


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    #174
    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Milani Microscopic Group wrote: »
    Gay Byrne isn't actually gay.

    Link?


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    #175
    FGR
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    Dr Pepper, the drink, is not a qualified medical doctor.


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    #176
    Un Croissant
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    Paint dries.


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    #177
    0byme75341jo28
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Link?

    It has been discussed in detail in the past.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056042432


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    #178
    DriveN to KilL
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Was he the fella in the crows nest?
    no, he played the iceberg,...


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    #179
    Sir Arthur Daley
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    DriveN to KilL wrote: »
    no, he played the iceberg,...

    Was it a big one?


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    #180
    Joe Doe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Joe Doe


    All 'image searches' for the word 'watches' on thinterwebben will only show time pieces that have the time of 10:10.

    This is just yer aul regular quantum time space entanglement combined triangulation between:
    i) 50mm lenses on default aperature running 3/4" sensors
    ii) The quartz regular atomic cycle found inside most watches
    iii) Time-space localisation tie-in of google hosting servers

    ...tis nothing to worry about...


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    #181
    DriveN to KilL
    Site Banned Posts: 2 ✭DriveN to KilL


    10:10 is universal "happy time" as the clock hands simulate a "smile" to the human brain...8:20 is sad… instagram.com/p/fX5VjRq6jg/


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