Random Fact Thread

Random Fact Thread

Feel free to contribute to try & make his day at graft pass by a little quicker

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

Did You Know, TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

u nutta, u really r bored

It is soooo bad, been here since 6 am & have served 3 people, hoorah! :yawn:

Fuckin hell lol... ill help cheer u up mate>>>

So thats where the tranny ended up...

Lmao

statistically 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license

cows produce more milk while listning to music

FACTOID

U STILL GOT THAT FACT BOOK U BOUGHT MATE

rhinoceros horns are not made of bone or cartilage... they are in fact formed from compacted HAIR

Carson is a ratared dwaf

In Nottingham it is legal to kill a Scotsman using a bow and arrow.

that cant be legal

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.

Austria was the very first country to use postcards starting in 1869.

Barbie's boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.

A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted.

In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.

A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar.

Butterflies taste with their feet.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they ! do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed..
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day

loving the crack about all polar bears being left handed!!

1 in 18 rapes are reported. cracking odds if you ask me !

The world's strangest laws

25. It is illegal for a cab in the City of London to carry rabid dogs or corpses.

24. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

23. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down.

22. In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon.

21. Under the UK’s Tax Avoidance Schemes Regulations 2006, it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you don’t want him to know, though you don’t have to tell him anything you don’t mind him knowing.

20. In Alabama, it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle.

19. In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk.

18. Royal Navy ships that enter the Port of London must provide a barrel of rum to the Constable of the Tower of London.

17. In the UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants – even, if she so requests, in a policeman’s helmet.

16. In Lancashire, no person is permitted after being asked to stop by a constable on the seashore to incite a dog to bark.

15. In Miami, Florida, it is illegal to skateboard in a police station.

14. In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation.

13. In England, all men over the age of 14 must carry out two hours of longbow practice a day.

12. In London, Freemen are allowed to take a flock of sheep across London Bridge without being charged a toll; they are also allowed to drive geese down Cheapside.

11. In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad.

10. In the UK, a man who feels compelled to urinate in public can do so only if he aims for his rear wheel and keeps his right hand on his vehicle.

9. In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on Sundays can be jailed.

8. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon more than six-feet long.

7. In Chester, Welshmen are banned from entering the city before sunrise and from staying after sunset.

6. In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.

5. In Boulder, Colorado, it is illegal to kill a bird within the city limits and also to “own” a pet – the town’s citizens, legally speaking, are merely “pet minders”.

4. In Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth.

3. In London, it is illegal to flag down a taxi if you have the plague.

2. In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals but is forbidden from looking directly at them during the examination; he may only see their reflection in a mirror.

1. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast is legally the property of the King; the tail, on the other hand, belongs to the Queen - in case she needs the bones for her corset.