Useless facts.
Posted: 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 £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.
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 £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.
