Useless facts.

gordonartist · Post by **gordonartist** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:07 am

St. John's Wood is the only station on the London Underground whose name contains none of the letters of the word 'mackerel'.

The sanskrit word for war literally translates as "wanting more cows"

If you took all the christmas trees in England and placed them in Wembley stadium, it would be pretty hard to play football.

9/11 actually happened on 11/9!

If the human brain were simple enough to understand, we'd be so simple, we couldn't.

Fish can breathe air, but because they're snobs, they'd rather die than do so.

Marilyn Manson once hugged a puppy live on stage.

Blood is actually jam that has been chemically altered by the body.

Emily Bronte invented haggis. .

Apparently a Ducks quack is the only sound which has no echo.

If you grab hold of a Nettle it won't sting you - only if you brush against it.

Apple pips contain cyanide... not enough to kill you though. Unless you eat a whole bunch of them.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Britain in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

American airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

The first advert shown on Channel 5 (in the UK) was Chanel No 5.

A Polar bear's liver contains 15,000 to 30,000 units of vitamin A which would prove fatal should a human eat it.

Despite what our eyes tell us, a polar bear's fur is not white. Each hair shaft is pigment-free and transparent with a hollow core. Polar bears look white because the hollow core scatters and reflects visible light, much like ice and snow does.

When photographed with film sensitive to ultraviolet light, polar bears appear black.

Subbookkeeper is the only English word with four consecutive pairs of double letters.

The Surface area of the lungs is roughly the same as a tennis court (80 meters square). Nutmeg is lethal if taken intravenously.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

If you had an ocean big enough Saturn (the planet) would float on it. The plastic bits on the end of your shoe laces are called aglets.

The cog system on the Ã‚£2 coin doesn`t work. For it to work there needs to be an even number of cogs.. the system on the coin has an odd number.

The burrowing rate of the gopher is equivalent to a man digging a tunnel nearly eighteen inches in diameter and seven miles long in a period of ten hours.

Sheep are immune to arsenic.

There are only 3 words in the English language with a double "u": Vacuum, Continuum and Residuum. The Norwegian word for bra is brystholder.

Take care,

Gordon.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:10 am

gordonartist wrote: The Norwegian word for bra is brystholder.

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I have learned a new word today. And for some oddball reason, I find it amusing. Not sure why.

911 · Post by **911** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:13 pm

[QUOTE=gordonartist]

If you grab hold of a Nettle it won't sting you - only if you brush against it.[QUOTE]

But if you drink too much nettle tea, it will damage your kidneys.

[QUOTE]Nutmeg is lethal if taken intravenously.[QUOTE]

Has anyone really wanted to do that?:-2

911 · Post by **911** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:15 pm

OK, how do you get those little quote thingys to work?

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:20 pm

9/11 actually happened on 11/9!

Depends where you live really. Here we quote the month first.

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:30 pm

Clancy wrote: This is a pic of the Earl Of Sandwich (that's his mistress next to him)

Apart from having a mistress, and doing all the things you'd normally do, the Earl liked to gamble. To avoid leaving the gaming table, he asked that meat be put between slices of bread. This is why today we still call that a sandwich.

.....you can have a sandwich with your mistress, but it would involve having a very open minded wife

if his wife was ok with that was she an "open sandwich" ahahahahahaha

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:37 pm

Clancy wrote: .....lettuce be honest here, and meat somewhere in the middle

well it would be a heck of a pickle if mr. sandwich was caught in a jam.

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:49 pm

Clancy wrote: Its two words, Arn,

......Middle Aged

HAH!

so true

911 · Post by **911** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:22 am

Did you know they sell Udder Cream in the fabric store for people who sew? That's cream for udders! Like on a cow!

Does that have some sort of connotation there? I don't get it. I sew and I've never felt the need for my hands to feel like a cows boob. Aren't they hairy? The boobs, not my hands.

:yh_cow