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Well that's Quite Interesting

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  • #32
    ceekay74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    Cockroaches can live for nine days without their heads, at which point they die of starvation.


  • #33
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Under Brehon law there was no-fault divorce in Ireland.

    On the first of February each year a husband or wife could decide to walk away from an unsatisfactory marriage. They retained individual rights to any assets brought into the marriage.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    maudgonner wrote: »
    Please tell me this still exists. If so, I think we should arrange an After Hours road trip to see her.

    Must ask around. Here she is having a pint...

    http://www.farmersjournal.ie/big-bertha-the-celebrity-kerry-cow-that-captured-the-nation-166250


  • #35
    ceekay74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.


  • #36
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    The State of California has the 8th largest economy in the world.


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  • #37
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Caoimhgh1n wrote: »
    No it is not.


    Haha, Eugene is referring to an earlier post of mine which was the inspiration for this thread. Technically Ireland is a third world country.

    http://www.dailyedge.ie/ireland-third-world-566408-Aug2012/


  • #38
    ceekay74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.


  • #39
    Caoimhgh1n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,499 ✭✭✭✭Caoimhgh1n


    maudgonner wrote: »
    Haha, Eugene is referring to an earlier post of mine which was the inspiration for this thread. Technically Ireland is a third world country.

    http://www.dailyedge.ie/ireland-third-world-566408-Aug2012/

    Different definition of third world, though.


  • #40
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    Muckanaghederdauhaulia

    It was formerly regarded as the longest place name (in English) in Ireland (22 letters )its in Galway.


  • #41
    ceekay74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine


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  • #42
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    The Irish Academy of Engineers has recommended that a tunnel be built under the sea linking Ireland and Wales. The IAE has offered a futuristic vision of trains running at speeds of 150 mph between Rosslare and Fishguard, Wales. Currently, there is no financial backer for such a project.


  • #43
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    Couples in Ireland could marry legally on St. Brigid's Day (February 1st) in Teltown, County Meath, as recently as the 1920’s by simply walking towards each other. If the marriage failed, they could "divorce'" by walking away from each other at the same spot, on St. Brigid’s day the following year. The custom was a holdover from old Irish Brehon laws, which allowed temporary marriage contracts.


  • #44
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    maudgonner wrote: »
    Haha, Eugene is referring to an earlier post of mine which was the inspiration for this thread. Technically Ireland is a third world country.

    http://www.dailyedge.ie/ireland-third-world-566408-Aug2012/

    I knewed it before your post, innit.

    Although I did pick it up here on boards.


  • #45
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,711 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    Pretty sure its pigs mate.

    It's definitely dogs. Big Al says so.


  • #46
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Caoimhgh1n wrote: »
    Different definition of third world, though.

    The original definition.


  • #47
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Caoimhgh1n wrote: »
    Different definition of third world, though.

    The only real definition. As it happens this fact was on QI.

    Quite interesting.


  • #48
    ceekay74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    Most compliments men receive after growing a beard for the first time will be from other males.


  • #49
    Eugene Norman
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    The biggest exporter of bananas in Europe is Ireland.


  • #50
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    The Great Pyramid of Giza was built with such precision that modern day technology cannot replicate it. The mortar used for the 2,300,000 stone blocks is of an unknown origin. It has been analyzed and its chemical composition is known but it can't be reproduced, the mortar is stronger than the stone and is still holding up today. The Pyramid is aligned true north and is the most accurately aligned structure in existence and faces true north with only 3/60th of a degree of error. The position of the North Pole moves over time and the pyramid was exactly aligned at one time.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #51
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Funkfield wrote: »
    Typewriter is the longest word you can type on one line of a qwerty keyboard

    One of the longest.

    rupturewort has 11 letters and the following are as long as Typewriter; pepperwort, perpetuity, proprietor, repertoire.


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  • #52
    tomwaterford
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    Bookkeeping is the only word with three double letters in it

    /smug


  • #53
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Wagner only ever wore pink silk underwear.


    Ciabatta bread was only invented in 1982.


    Darwin had a tortoise named Harriet who died in 2006 aged 176.


    Snickers bars are named after a racehorse owned by the Mars company.


    The list is endless.....


  • #54
    recylingbin
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Big Bertha, a cow on a farm in South Kerry, held 2 Guinness world records in the early 90s, the most calves ()

    That's nothing. I know a load of birds like that in Dublin.


  • #55
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Brayden Scruffy Tequila wrote: »
    Wagner only ever wore pink silk underwear.


    Ciabatta bread was only invented in 1982.


    Darwin had a tortoise named Harriet who died in 2006 aged 176.


    Snickers bars are named after a racehorse owned the Mars company.


    The list is endless.....

    Pfft

    Snickers bar are called by that name cause we couldn't very well call them snunderpants bars , could we ?


  • #56
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Bookkeeping is the only word with three double letters in it

    /smug

    I heard the same thing once while boating up the missIssIppI.


  • #57
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    William of Orange made all the carrots orange, before he arrived they were different colours


  • #58
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    recylingbin wrote: »
    I heard the same thing once while boating up the missIssIppI.

    I do apologise....three consecutive double letters :pac:



    *this one I taught I was wrong....I was just mistaken :pac:


  • #59
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    I do apologise....three consecutive double letters :pac:



    *this one I taught I was wrong....I was just mistaken :pac:

    What about my niece's fav item..dooddee?
    :pac:


  • #60
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    I do apologise....three consecutive double letters :pac:



    *this one I taught I was wrong....I was just mistaken :pac:

    My sweettooth is hurting me.


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  • #61
    blackcard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,569 ✭✭✭blackcard


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Bookkeeping is the only word with three double letters in it

    /smug
    Bookkeeper


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