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over a year ago
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Mine is Custer actually had almost a grade 1 haircut at the big horn he knew the value if his scalp ... so the long flowing blond locks is a Hollywood myth  |
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"Mine is Custer actually had almost a grade 1 haircut at the big horn he knew the value if his scalp ... so the long flowing blond locks is a Hollywood myth "
Ooo, that's interesting. Makes a lot of sense though. And I always thought the man was a fool. |
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The giraffe gestation period is 15 months.
I discovered that whilst googling stage 4 cancer death rates. I started off looking for trousers? Weirdly that was the only fact that stayed with me. Google is mental  |
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"Mine is Custer actually had almost a grade 1 haircut at the big horn he knew the value if his scalp ... so the long flowing blond locks is a Hollywood mytown h
Ooo, that's interesting. Makes a lot of sense though. And I always thought was a fool...."
graduated 2nd last in his class from West point he was a chancer and very egotistical. .. but also very courageous. |
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"The giraffe gestation period is 15 months.
I discovered that whilst googling stage 4 cancer death rates. I started off looking for trousers? Weirdly that was the only fact that stayed with me. Google is mental "
An African elephants gestation period is 24 months. I love going down Google holes  |
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"Mine is Custer actually had almost a grade 1 haircut at the big horn he knew the value if his scalp ... so the long flowing blond locks is a Hollywood mytown h
Ooo, that's interesting. Makes a lot of sense though. And I always thought was a fool.... graduated 2nd last in his class from West point he was a chancer and very egotistical. .. but also very courageous."
Courageous to the point of walking into an obvious trap lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. X
I have that 
Yeah, beards are nasty. Except F&B of course, his is magnificent "
Aw yeah he’s ace. Couldn’t snog him though even though he is a beautiful man  |
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"Pediophobia, the fear of dolls. This is me lol
coulrophobia is the fear of clowns, scares the f##k out of me xx "
It's strange how people can be scared by the oddest things. Personally I dont have any phobias. |
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"Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. X
I have that
Yeah, beards are nasty. Except F&B of course, his is magnificent
Aw yeah he’s ace. Couldn’t snog him though even though he is a beautiful man "
Nor me, but for different reasons |
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A school of clownfish is always built into a hierarchy with a female fish at the top. When she dies, the most dominant male changes sex and takes her place.
There are lots of species of marine life that have this ability to change gender |
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"Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. X
I have that
Yeah, beards are nasty. Except F&B of course, his is magnificent
Aw yeah he’s ace. Couldn’t snog him though even though he is a beautiful man "
Ooh I would beard or not |
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"A school of clownfish is always built into a hierarchy with a female fish at the top. When she dies, the most dominant male changes sex and takes her place.
There are lots of species of marine life that have this ability to change gender "
I did know this, it's a particularly nice factoid  |
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"Pediophobia, the fear of dolls. This is me lol
Oh dear, so you were a teddy girl as kid then?"
I was, I had big dolls till age 8 and watched one in a horror film. I then threw every doll out .Id not sleep if a doll with glass eyes was in my house now lol |
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"Pediophobia, the fear of dolls. This is me lol
coulrophobia is the fear of clowns, scares the f##k out of me xx "
Yes clowns is another fear after Poltergeist and IT |
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"A school of clownfish is always built into a hierarchy with a female fish at the top. When she dies, the most dominant male changes sex and takes her place.
There are lots of species of marine life that have this ability to change gender
I did know this, it's a particularly nice factoid "
I find it fascinating and the fact it’s possible |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Pediophobia, the fear of dolls. This is me lol
coulrophobia is the fear of clowns, scares the f##k out of me xx
It's strange how people can be scared by the oddest things. Personally I dont have any phobias."
Flying ants and ants nest go through me too lol Im not brave am I lol |
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"Pediophobia, the fear of dolls. This is me lol
Oh dear, so you were a teddy girl as kid then?
I was, I had big dolls till age 8 and watched one in a horror film. I then threw every doll out .Id not sleep if a doll with glass eyes was in my house now lol"
Hated dolls, still do. I had a tiny tears which lived in the bottom of the wardrobe, creepy things. |
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By *hloevtTV/TS
over a year ago
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"Pediophobia, the fear of dolls. This is me lol
coulrophobia is the fear of clowns, scares the f##k out of me xx
Yes clowns is another fear after Poltergeist and IT "
I loved both the IT films, scared the hell out of me x |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Two "Zulu" related ones for you...
Firstly despite the film suggesting the brave men were all Welsh the reality is most of the actual men were Midlanders - Henry Hook the d*unk villain amongst them was actually a sober and very proper man and the two officers (played by Michael Caine and Stanley Baker) were clueless when it came to battles - the real brains behind it all was the commissary who had a minor role in the film.
There's a link between Zulu and Gladiator too - the latter sampled the Zulu chants for the chants of the Hun hoards at the start of the film |
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"Pediophobia, the fear of dolls. This is me lol
coulrophobia is the fear of clowns, scares the f##k out of me xx
It's strange how people can be scared by the oddest things. Personally I dont have any phobias.
Flying ants and ants nest go through me too lol Im not brave am I lol"
If I see a flying ant it dies! Ants are just wingless wasps. |
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"Two "Zulu" related ones for you...
Firstly despite the film suggesting the brave men were all Welsh the reality is most of the actual men were Midlanders - Henry Hook the d*unk villain amongst them was actually a sober and very proper man and the two officers (played by Michael Caine and Stanley Baker) were clueless when it came to battles - the real brains behind it all was the commissary who had a minor role in the film.
There's a link between Zulu and Gladiator too - the latter sampled the Zulu chants for the chants of the Hun hoards at the start of the film"
Yeah I knew that most of them were from the midlands after I looked it up from Sabatons Rorke's Drift song.
Didnt know about the sampling though, that is interesting. |
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"The only thing Americans don't have a bunch of is....collective nouns."
American dialect is much closer to english dialects from the Elizabethan period. We changed our dialects to distinguish yourself from the Americans |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Make your right foot do clockwise circles as you draw in the air the number 6 with your right hand
See if you foot changes direction
That's to do with how our brains are wired"
Prove if needed be that drummers are weird. |
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"Make your right foot do clockwise circles as you draw in the air the number 6 with your right hand
See if you foot changes direction
That's to do with how our brains are wired
Prove if needed be that drummers are weird."
The brain is incredibly plastic, even as adults. It's amazing what its capable of. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Two that stick with my
1) You are more likely to be killed by a coconut that a shark
2) your 5 times more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you are of winning the lottery
Boom! Mind blown!  |
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"Two that stick with my
1) You are more likely to be killed by a coconut that a shark
2) your 5 times more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you are of winning the lottery
Boom! Mind blown! "
Gambling in a con, the house always wins. |
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The first heart transplant had to take in a state of the USA where it would not be considered murder to remove the damaged heart before replacing with the donor heart
Everywhere else in the world it was considered murder.... |
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"Pediophobia, the fear of dolls. This is me lol
Oh dear, so you were a teddy girl as kid then?
I was, I had big dolls till age 8 and watched one in a horror film. I then threw every doll out .Id not sleep if a doll with glass eyes was in my house now lol
Hated dolls, still do. I had a tiny tears which lived in the bottom of the wardrobe, creepy things."
I keep seeing creepy dolls on YouTube top 5s vids. I sleep with bathroom light on then even though ive no dolls in my house lol |
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"The first heart transplant had to take in a state of the USA where it would not be considered murder to remove the damaged heart before replacing with the donor heart
Everywhere else in the world it was considered murder.... "
Holy shit, that is interesting |
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"The first heart transplant had to take in a state of the USA where it would not be considered murder to remove the damaged heart before replacing with the donor heart
Everywhere else in the world it was considered murder....
Holy shit, that is interesting "
Ref: Bill Bryson - The Body |
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"Gorillas eat their poo as it still has so much goodness in it, like a kebab!!! X
All rodents related to guinea pigs do the same.
As in uncle rat ? X "
Not quite, all species in the genus cavia are herbivorous. Rats arent. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
A lot of Steve Wright's factoids seem to be in The Metro Newspaper.
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A male ballet dancer is called a ballerino.
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In 1993 Peter Gabriel fans sang Happy birthday to him on the 13 May, just as he came on stage.
A bit of paper was thrown from fan to fan, stating that this was going to happen...in French.
Nothing unusual about that, except his birth month is February.
What's two months between the Godfather of Prog and a bullring full of fans.
How do I know this? I was there, near the middle of the arena. Great night.
He took it in his stride, what a guy.
Walking off afterwards listening to Games without Frontiers being whistled down the streets...aah, them were, the days  |
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"A lot of Steve Wright's factoids seem to be in The Metro Newspaper.
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A male ballet dancer is called a ballerino.
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In 1993 Peter Gabriel fans sang Happy birthday to him on the 13 May, just as he came on stage.
A bit of paper was thrown from fan to fan, stating that this was going to happen...in French.
Nothing unusual about that, except his birth month is February.
What's two months between the Godfather of Prog and a bullring full of fans.
How do I know this? I was there, near the middle of the arena. Great night.
He took it in his stride, what a guy.
Walking off afterwards listening to Games without Frontiers being whistled down the streets...aah, them were, the days "
Sounds like it was a cracking night buddy |
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"Sloths only come down from trees to do a poop and when they've finished they do a little poop dance! "
There are two sloth species after there used to be one of the most diverse genus in the Americas. There was even a mountain sloth. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Sloths only come down from trees to do a poop and when they've finished they do a little poop dance! "
No shit! I've just seen the video. It's true.
Does this mean that the likes of Miley Cyrus, J Lo and the like have lap dancing poles in front of their toilets?
(The mind boggles, the hips wiggle) |
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"Fray Bentos is the capital of the Southwest region of Rio Negro in Uruguay...
Oh, and I formed the useless information department about 9 years ago, I'm still looking for recruits "
A kindred spirit |
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"Elephants have the longest gestation period at 95 weeks.  . And the North American opossum has the shortest at just 12 days.
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Marsupials (like the opposum) first evolved in south America. Opposums are the last remaining marsupial in the Americas |
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"Elephants have the longest gestation period at 95 weeks. . And the North American opossum has the shortest at just 12 days.
Marsupials (like the opposum) first evolved in south America. Opposums are the last remaining marsupial in the Americas "
That’s so sad. |
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"Elephants have the longest gestation period at 95 weeks. . And the North American opossum has the shortest at just 12 days.
Marsupials (like the opposum) first evolved in south America. Opposums are the last remaining marsupial in the Americas
That’s so sad. "
Shockingly it wasnt humans that killed them off, we dont really know why they disappeared. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"A lot of Steve Wright's factoids seem to be in The Metro Newspaper.
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A male ballet dancer is called a ballerino.
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In 1993 Peter Gabriel fans sang Happy birthday to him on the 13 May, just as he came on stage.
A bit of paper was thrown from fan to fan, stating that this was going to happen...in French.
Nothing unusual about that, except his birth month is February.
What's two months between the Godfather of Prog and a bullring full of fans.
How do I know this? I was there, near the middle of the arena. Great night.
He took it in his stride, what a guy.
Walking off afterwards listening to Games without Frontiers being whistled down the streets...aah, them were, the days
Sounds like it was a cracking night buddy "
It was mate, it was. Seeing Levon Minassian, on stage armed with his Armenian duduk (a member of the flute family) hairs-on-necks-were-standing-to-attention. He played The Feeling Begins (From the Last Temptation of Christ/Passion OST). What a sound. That drone made the air go electric.
I'd seen him for the first time at Bath in 1992 at his WOMAD festival, where he was the just the host, prior to releasing the US album.
World Of Arts Music And Dance: because too much music industry focus is on the UK/Ireland and US. The rest of the world needs exploring. Foreign holidays, food, cars and sometimes film: so why not music?
"Whistling tunes we piss on the goons in the jungle. It's a knockout" |
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"Sloths only come down from trees to do a poop and when they've finished they do a little poop dance!
No shit! I've just seen the video. It's true.
Does this mean that the likes of Miley Cyrus, J Lo and the like have lap dancing poles in front of their toilets?
(The mind boggles, the hips wiggle) "
They probably do and I wouldn't mind if they did!! |
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"The first heart transplant had to take in a state of the USA where it would not be considered murder to remove the damaged heart before replacing with the donor heart
Everywhere else in the world it was considered murder.... "
I´m pretty sure the first heart transplant was in South Africa. It was definitely Dr Christian Barnaard who performed it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Two "Zulu" related ones for you...
Firstly despite the film suggesting the brave men were all Welsh the reality is most of the actual men were Midlanders - Henry Hook the d*unk villain amongst them was actually a sober and very proper man and the two officers (played by Michael Caine and Stanley Baker) were clueless when it came to battles - the real brains behind it all was the commissary who had a minor role in the film.
There's a link between Zulu and Gladiator too - the latter sampled the Zulu chants for the chants of the Hun hoards at the start of the film
Yeah I knew that most of them were from the midlands after I looked it up from Sabatons Rorke's Drift song.
Didnt know about the sampling though, that is interesting."
.... In the prequel 'Zulu Dawn' it shows soldiers killed by a thrown spear. ... fact is the assagai was a stabbing weapon and it would be deemed cowardly to throw it at an enemy in zulu culture |
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"Two "Zulu" related ones for you...
Firstly despite the film suggesting the brave men were all Welsh the reality is most of the actual men were Midlanders - Henry Hook the d*unk villain amongst them was actually a sober and very proper man and the two officers (played by Michael Caine and Stanley Baker) were clueless when it came to battles - the real brains behind it all was the commissary who had a minor role in the film.
There's a link between Zulu and Gladiator too - the latter sampled the Zulu chants for the chants of the Hun hoards at the start of the film
Yeah I knew that most of them were from the midlands after I looked it up from Sabatons Rorke's Drift song.
Didnt know about the sampling though, that is interesting..... In the prequel 'Zulu Dawn' it shows soldiers killed by a thrown spear. ... fact is the assagai was a stabbing weapon and it would be deemed cowardly to throw it at an enemy in zulu culture "
Another cool little factoid. |
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Bluetooth” technology was named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. He united Denmark and Norway – just like the wireless technology united computers and cell phones. |
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"Bluetooth” technology was named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. He united Denmark and Norway – just like the wireless technology united computers and cell phones."
Huh interesting. Must of been before the Kalmar Union. |
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Software pirating of their software was the making of Microsoft. People copied and distributed their first computer language...Basic for microcomputers and it spread far and wide. It could (and nearly did) break Gates/Allens business but it became the industry standard and the rest is history.
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"Software pirating of their software was the making of Microsoft. People copied and distributed their first computer language...Basic for microcomputers and it spread far and wide. It could (and nearly did) break Gates/Allens business but it became the industry standard and the rest is history.
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The makers of Game Dev Tycoon deliberately released a cracked version of their game that would cause you to haemorrhage cash through pirating. |
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"Two that stick with my
1) You are more likely to be killed by a coconut that a shark
2) your 5 times more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you are of winning the lottery
Boom! Mind blown! "
Oh damn! |
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