Damn. You may be right. I saw it mentioned on some 'natural disasters' type show on discovery a few weeks back. But a google search looks like theres one in 2036 instead. my bad, I shouldnt have paid any attention to the tv.
First person in the world to be bummed we're not going to die.
:d
OK, this is true;
I cant remember if it was in 93 or 94, but a team member of Dick Simon Racing placed small penis shaped icon decals in each of their drivers cars. Placed strategically where the driver could adjust the suspension in-car. Penis pointing meant 'stiffer'. Penis pointing downward meant 'softer'.
Lynn St. James was one of the drivers.
I cant remember if it was in 93 or 94, but a team member of Dick Simon Racing placed small penis shaped icon decals in each of their drivers cars. Placed strategically where the driver could adjust the suspension in-car. Penis pointing meant 'stiffer'. Penis pointing downward meant 'softer'.
Lynn St. James was one of the drivers.
Something like 90% of all Kebab sales in the UK happen after closing time.
Why does a large amount of alcohol give you the urge to eat a greasy cat on a stick?
Why does a large amount of alcohol give you the urge to eat a greasy cat on a stick?
Dude, firstly, there is some questions I need to ask before answering.
1 - When were you last drunk
2 - How drunk was you
Trust me, there is NOTHING as great as some real fast food when you are out drinking. Mmm, normally I canot stand MC. Donalds food, but when I am pisshead I just love that food, it's like everything in the world could not compare to a meal of fastfood when your out.
Strange thing, because I never seems to manage to get really "well feed" when drinking, tried myself the big MC Donalds menu, and I'm pretty sure I could manage more without problem, while I normally eats medium menus and gets relly stuffed.
1 - When were you last drunk
2 - How drunk was you
Trust me, there is NOTHING as great as some real fast food when you are out drinking. Mmm, normally I canot stand MC. Donalds food, but when I am pisshead I just love that food, it's like everything in the world could not compare to a meal of fastfood when your out.
Strange thing, because I never seems to manage to get really "well feed" when drinking, tried myself the big MC Donalds menu, and I'm pretty sure I could manage more without problem, while I normally eats medium menus and gets relly stuffed.
1. Eating apples is more effective on keeping you awake than drinking coffee.
2. Pigs are the only animals with humans that can burn in sun(not burn burn, you know, to get their skin red)
2. Pigs are the only animals with humans that can burn in sun(not burn burn, you know, to get their skin red)
- The temperature of a flash of lightening can reach 28,000°C (50,000°F)
- The parachute was invented more than 100 years before the aeroplane.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- The galaxy is so large light takes 100,000 years to cross it.
- The average pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
- The first stethoscope, invented in 1816, was made from a roll of paper.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats.
- The Amazon rain forest produces half of the world's oxygen supply.
- The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
- The only word in the English Language with all five vowels in reverse order is subcontinental.
- Of all birds, the kiwi lays the largest egg in proportion to its body size.
- The average human body contains enough iron to make a 3 inch nail.
- Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.
- When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit.
- The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
- If you see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
- The bark of the redwood tree is fireproof. Fires in redwood forests take place inside the trees.
- A normal rain drop falls at about 7 miles per hour.
- Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
- Male monkeys lose the hair on the top of their heads in the same way men do.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
- At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.
- Starfish don't have brains.
- China was the first country to use paper money.
- Humans are the only animals that can blush.
- The average human has over 1,460 dreams a year.
- Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.
- The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
- The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brother's first flight.
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
- Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
- It takes 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
- Baby robins eat up to 14 feet of earthworms every day.
- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
- The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.
- Carrots were first grown as a medicine not a food.
- The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
- A day on the planet mercury is twice as long as its year.
- Clouds fly higher during the day than at night.
- The sex of a baby crocodile is determined by the temperature in the nest and how deeply the eggs are buried.
- The three winter months in the southern hemisphere are June, July and August.
- "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
- You can tell the sex of a horse by it's teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
- Time slows down near a black hole, inside it stops completely.
- The world's first underground train system was the London Underground in 1863.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself (repeated from last facts)
- Because of the rotation of the Earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
Mmmm, nice Piggy. /me wants moar! 
Hmmm, me to. I have a facddiction. (my latest new word, meaning addiction to factual statements)
Sadly, I don't get any more until August...
Sadly, I don't get any more until August...
Get more now! :cry:
Long ass post...
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).
The pancreas produces Insulin.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
World Tourist day is observed on September 27.
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.
The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary "Peter Rabbit" children's stories in 1902.
In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.
A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
Cats can hear ultrasound.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
February is Black History Month.
Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.
The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).
The pancreas produces Insulin.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
World Tourist day is observed on September 27.
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.
The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary "Peter Rabbit" children's stories in 1902.
In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.
A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
Cats can hear ultrasound.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
February is Black History Month.
Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.
The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
Lots of lovely facts to keep Sir S14 happy
But no double fact posting or the 41 (or 82 now) guns will be pointing towards your head.
Loving this thread - Wants MORE!
Do you troll this thread for facts?
Yes, yes I do.
Facts:
- S14 DRIFT is a fact thread troller.
- I'm tired.
- Dettol kills 99.9% of bacteria.
- Cillit Bang.
but I must correct you : Dettol Kills 99.9% of bacteria. That's a whole 0.9% more!
But link
No, your scalp just contracts making it look like the hair grows.
That's very true, same goes for hangover.
BTW one of my most proud moments were when me and my friend were at McDonalds (drunk of course) and when I got out of the WC, I shouted "Yay I got to piss for free!" and at the same time I could hear the cashier saying to my friend that your bank account doesn't have enough money for hamburger. We felt very poor. Then we proceeded to grab a taxi.
Oh and that 2012 thingie, I dunno from where it has started, but it seems like this myth about 2012 is shouted all over the internet, there is different cosmic stories about world ending or aliens coming and etc. etc. So before actually something happens @ 2012 I wouldn't take any of that as a fact.
in one document that came from jim(channel) they predicted a world or a nuclear war to be on at 2012 and then nuclear weapons would destroy civilation
"Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are."
FINALLY! Some proof!
Although, they do make me more insane than they are by listening to them. But then again, beer's a man's best friend.
FINALLY! Some proof!
Although, they do make me more insane than they are by listening to them. But then again, beer's a man's best friend.
HMm, I think the difference is that mens tries to hide it, and coop with it, but end up having a shity life instead of going to shrimp.
Just look on S14, I'm pretty sure some people in white cloths will come and get him some day.
Just look on S14, I'm pretty sure some people in white cloths will come and get him some day.
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