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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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What strange fact have you just found out about? Mine was..
When a boxing ref says "seconds out..round 2" its not to do with time but the corner men are the 2nds and he's telling them to leave the ring.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Continuing on with boxing
George Foreman has made more money selling his grills than for his boxing career in which he was a 2-time heavyweight champion. |
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"What strange fact have you just found out about? Mine was..
When a boxing ref says "seconds out..round 2" its not to do with time but the corner men are the 2nds and he's telling them to leave the ring...."
Oh bless........ x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The phrase Happy as Larry comes from a boxer called Larry Foley in the 1890s, before boxing was fully legalised. He won the biggest prize of about $150,000 dollars and a newspaper article in New Zealand had the headline “Happy As Larry” and the phrase stuck. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I did learn something new the other day hold on ........
Mary Wolestencroft was Mary Shelly's mum.
Blew me away that I didn't realise that."
Ava Lovelace, the woman who invented computer programming (to work with Babbage’s difference engine) was Lord Byron’s daughter. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The avocado marketing board stuck the wooden ball toy inside to help its flagging sales, since then profits have gone through the roof, although they slowed in recent times when the toy become predictable and tiresome. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The reason OXO cubes are so wrapped is because you are supposed to crush them inside their individual bags (to make a pillow shape) then tear a corner and tip the resulting powder in the pot. |
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"The reason OXO cubes are so wrapped is because you are supposed to crush them inside their individual bags (to make a pillow shape) then tear a corner and tip the resulting powder in the pot. "
My GOD....... and this |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?  "
And you know spaghetti spoons with the jagged edges, The hole in the middle is meant to be the perfect portion size spaghetti. |
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"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?
And you know spaghetti spoons with the jagged edges, The hole in the middle is meant to be the perfect portion size spaghetti. "
My spaghetti things have several holes for one , two , three , four portions etc...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?
And you know spaghetti spoons with the jagged edges, The hole in the middle is meant to be the perfect portion size spaghetti.
My spaghetti things have several holes for one , two , three , four portions etc......"
You must have a very posh spoon Granny because my spoon only has one whole. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x
And aren't actually nuts! "
Why call then nuts then.Are they tree testicles x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The left and right edges of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa match perfectly. So if it was on canvas instead of wood and curled into a tube it would be a seamless image. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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...keeping with boxing.
No to The Nookie
When Mike Tyson was a young, up-and-comer, he was one of the most feared heavyweight challengers the boxing world has ever boasted. At a compact 5’10”, he was quick enough to get inside on his typically larger opponents, and wreak physical havoc to devastating results. If a fight early in Mike Tyson’s career didn’t end with a KO or TKO, it was a shocker. He was, as they say, a bad man. Where did Mike get all of his punching power? According to the man himself, it was from abstaining from sex for five years. He felt that getting it on in the bedroom, before getting it on in the ring made a boxer weak and unfocused. If there’s any comparing his early career from his later career with more than a few sexual misgivings, there is something to be said about denying the nookie. Many boxers believe it.
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"Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x
And aren't actually nuts!
Why call then nuts then.Are they tree testicles x "
It's a stupid QI type fact. Nut has a specific botanical definition. Other nuts that aren't nuts include peanuts, cashews, almonds, and even walnuts! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?
I just learned this .... FAKE NEWS...... they are to hang your pan up. "
I do both! 
I stick the wooden spoon in the hole when I'm cooking. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There’s a hook to place your petrol cap (on the inside of the petrol cover )when filling the car with petrol, as opposed to faffing around with the pump and the cap and usually bank card |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Most shark attacks happen in water x
I’m more concerned about the attacks that happen out of water. How does this happen"
You need to watch the film Sharknado! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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All iPhone users. When you type a message and need to correct a error back in the midst of all the words. Hold the space bar, and slide to that little error... |
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By *imbobaMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?
I just learned this .... FAKE NEWS...... they are to hang your pan up. "
I thought this too but did check to see if my utensils fitted.  They don’t. Tried and tested.  |
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"That the holes in pan handles are to hold your spoon...... I mean, who knew?
I just learned this .... FAKE NEWS...... they are to hang your pan up.
I thought this too but did check to see if my utensils fitted. They don’t. Tried and tested. "
You my good man are a fucking scientist !
Don't let anyone tell you anything different.
I'm going to do a test with my pans now. |
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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago
somewhere, someplace |
"Newborn baby girls can have period.
It really shocked me when I heard it in an episode of a sitcom the other day. I googled it and it's true "
It is, it completely freaked my ex out when he was doing the nappy changes |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Didn't learn recently but it's my favourite factoid.
If you removed all the space between all the atoms in every living human the remaining solid matter would be the size of an average apple. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x
And aren't actually nuts!
Why call then nuts then.Are they tree testicles x
It's a stupid QI type fact. Nut has a specific botanical definition. Other nuts that aren't nuts include peanuts, cashews, almonds, and even walnuts! "
so what are the real nuts then? the only others i can think of are pistachio or monkey nuts |
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"Brazil nuts can be sexually transmitted and could kill someone with a nut allergy x
And aren't actually nuts!
Why call then nuts then.Are they tree testicles x
It's a stupid QI type fact. Nut has a specific botanical definition. Other nuts that aren't nuts include peanuts, cashews, almonds, and even walnuts!
so what are the real nuts then? the only others i can think of are pistachio or monkey nuts "
Hazelnuts and chestnuts |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The numbers on a toaster are the number of minutes to toast the bread... not some arbitrary "brown-ness" scale 
LvM"
Surely they are one and the same.
More minutes=Browner toast, less minutes=less brown |
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"The numbers on a toaster are the number of minutes to toast the bread... not some arbitrary "brown-ness" scale
LvM
Surely they are one and the same.
More minutes=Browner toast, less minutes=less brown"
My god You're right you know.
LvM |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
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"Most shark attacks happen in water x
I’m more concerned about the attacks that happen out of water. How does this happen"
I would assume, that some attacks could be in the boat or on the water's edge when being hauled in.
Embryonic sharks can and do eat their unborn siblings or unfertilised eggs.
Other shark facts, some 60% Viviparous sharks, that have live births. The other 40% are in the Ovoparity
Thanks to thoughtco for those factoids |
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"Newborn baby girls can have period.
It really shocked me when I heard it in an episode of a sitcom the other day. I googled it and it's true
It is, it completely freaked my ex out when he was doing the nappy changes "
I asked my mum if me or my sister had period when we were born and she was like: "If you had what?  " apparently neither of us had it and she has never heard of it before either 
K |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Newborn baby girls can have period.
It really shocked me when I heard it in an episode of a sitcom the other day. I googled it and it's true
It is, it completely freaked my ex out when he was doing the nappy changes
I asked my mum if me or my sister had period when we were born and she was like: "If you had what? " apparently neither of us had it and she has never heard of it before either
K"
My daughter produced milk.
I joked she could feed herself  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"All of the Covid in the world, if collected and put together, would fill half a can.
Half a can of what ?"
A can. Can of . Coca Cola. I call it a can because it doesn’t have any Coca Cola in it but was originally designed to hold Coca Cola. But now half of it has all the Covid in the world. A can of has Coca Cola in it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"All of the Covid in the world, if collected and put together, would fill half a can.
Half a can of what ?
A can. Can of . Coca Cola. I call it a can because it doesn’t have any Coca Cola in it but was originally designed to hold Coca Cola. But now half of it has all the Covid in the world. A can of has Coca Cola in it. "
Ha ha “” won’t publish. So a Fanta can then. |
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