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A ducks quack has no echo and nobody knows why "
Actually thats false, they tested it out on Brainiac years ago by taking a duck into a subway - lots of quacks, lots of echoes.
The correct name for a pigs snout is a 'gruntle'. |
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"Hey everyone has an interesting fact nobody really cares about please post. Mine is . . .
A ducks quack has no echo and nobody knows why "
According to QI that's not true |
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"in the northern hemisphere the water goes down the plughole cloclwise and in the southern hemisphere it goes down the plughole anti-clockwdise  "
Again according to QI that's not true |
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"There are no words that rhyme with orange!! X"
Apart from sporange !! (Courtesy of the Oxford Dictionary, I'm not that clever  )
"The only word in the 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary that rhymes with orange is sporange, a very rare alternative form of sporangium (a botanical term for a part of a fern or similar plant)" |
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"in the northern hemisphere the water goes down the plughole cloclwise and in the southern hemisphere it goes down the plughole anti-clockwdise "
actually you can make the water go down any way you like by swishing it in the direction you want. |
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Altho its may seem to go the opposite way down the plughole in australia the water is actually going the same way as in england its just in australia you are inverted . To prove this hold your hand in front of you turning it clockwise then hold your hand above you head turning clockwise and from underneath with apear to be going anti clockwise  |
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The saying rule of thumb comes from many years ago when it was perfectly acceptable to beat your wife but the law was it couldnt be anything wider than your thumb, hence thew law was called the rule of thumb
And the _xpression money for old rope was from the days of hanging where the noose was chopped into bit and sold to the croud watching |
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"in the northern hemisphere the water goes down the plughole cloclwise and in the southern hemisphere it goes down the plughole anti-clockwdise "
Not true, it can go either way in either hemisphere! |
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UK Useless Facts
95% of £5 notes have been in contact with cocaine.
If you buy a lottery ticket at 7pm on Saturday, you are more likely to die in the hour before the draw than you are to win.
No word in the English language rhymes with the word unicorn.
The easiest way to become a millionaire is to convert £4 sterling into Turkish Lire.
The Guiness Book of Records lists 'The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick' as the hardset tongue twister.
The most dangerous part of a plane journey from the UK to Australia is the drive to the airport.
An average of four people a year in Britain are killed by writing instruments.
Three serious accidents a year in Britain can be attributed to pencil sharpeners.
Last year, 43 British adults died in their bathtubs.
27 million porn mags are sold in the UK each year.
Britons eat on average 2.2 curries a week - spending £2.8 billion every year.
Lambeth council in south London owes £850 million (as of 1999) - this is more than the national debt of Guatemala.
During December 1998, Barclays Bank's cash machines in the UK dispensed a total of £1.24 billion in notes.
The average British motorist is overcharged by 50p a year for their petrol due to faulty pumps.
Accidents in the UK home for 1996: 343 injured putting on their socks; 112 hurt reading a newspaper; 41 hospitalised by marbles; 34 hurt by cardboard; 12 hosipitalised by paperclips; 11 accidents involving bathroom scales; 6 hurt using talcom powder; 2 hurt by tea cosys.
In 1870, British boxing champ Jim Mace and an American challenger fought for almost 4 hours without landing a single punch!
On 3rd March 1991, the Queen needed 3 stitches in one of her fingers after she tried to break up a fight between two of her corgies.
During World War 2, the British Minister of food considered a plan to feed the population with black pudding - secretly made from surplus human blood bank donations. The idea was thankfully rejected.
In the last 10 years, 8 people in Britain have been killed by cows.
During the 1978 fireman strike an army unit rescued an old lady's cat from a tree and then run over it as they drove away.
50% of male Internet users in Britain have viewed pornography on the Internet.
On average, in the UK per year:
488 people are injured by zips;
3,078 people are injured by slippers;
315 people are injured by photo frames;
and 70,000 are injured by dogs.
If every credit card in Britain was laid end to end they would stretch from London to Istanbul. (As of November 2001).
It is legal for a pregnant woman to relieve herself anywhere, including a policeman’s hat if she so requests.
In Kent before entering a plea the accused has the right to request trial by combat, to which the plaintive must select combat by knife, cudgel, or blacksmiths hammer, or must withdraw the charge.
The full name of the caterpillar from Danger Mouse is "Instar Emperor Nero the Second of Chorlton-Cum-Hardy".
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If a goose lays an egg in next doors garden they are by lew allowed to kick you in the balls ..
Acient egyptions believed the sun died everynight and prayed for it to be reborn..
A roman empera declared war on the sea, the same empera also went to a battle and forgot to tell his army..
Cleopatra married her brother, then her son, then her father in law (talk about keeping it in the family)..
The nursery rhym Mary Mary Quite Contrary refers to Bloody Mary.. "Silver Bells and Cockle Shells" were instroments of torture and "pretty maidsin a row" refered to the Gilloteen..
Everytime you stub your little toe it actually breaks..
97% of lip sticks are my of Fish Scales..
The walrus is the only mammel with the second largest penis..... I have the first  |
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By *yronMan
over a year ago
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In France, it's illegal to drive an HGV on a Sunday.
Until recently, performing oral sex was outlawed in Georgia, USA
The American national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, was originally a song sung in music halls to mock Americans, similarly, the song Scotland The Brave was originally anti-Scottish in nature.
A Scottish historian once attempted to count the historical inaccuracies in the film Braveheart. He stopped at 1,037.
The Army of Joan of Arc was mostly composed of Scottish soldiers hired by the French King.
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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago
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"UK Useless Facts
95% of £5 notes have been in contact with cocaine.
If you buy a lottery ticket at 7pm on Saturday, you are more likely to die in the hour before the draw than you are to win.
No word in the English language rhymes with the word unicorn.
The easiest way to become a millionaire is to convert £4 sterling into Turkish Lire.
The Guiness Book of Records lists 'The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick' as the hardset tongue twister.
The most dangerous part of a plane journey from the UK to Australia is the drive to the airport.
An average of four people a year in Britain are killed by writing instruments.
Three serious accidents a year in Britain can be attributed to pencil sharpeners.
Last year, 43 British adults died in their bathtubs.
27 million porn mags are sold in the UK each year.
Britons eat on average 2.2 curries a week - spending £2.8 billion every year.
Lambeth council in south London owes £850 million (as of 1999) - this is more than the national debt of Guatemala.
During December 1998, Barclays Bank's cash machines in the UK dispensed a total of £1.24 billion in notes.
The average British motorist is overcharged by 50p a year for their petrol due to faulty pumps.
Accidents in the UK home for 1996: 343 injured putting on their socks; 112 hurt reading a newspaper; 41 hospitalised by marbles; 34 hurt by cardboard; 12 hosipitalised by paperclips; 11 accidents involving bathroom scales; 6 hurt using talcom powder; 2 hurt by tea cosys.
In 1870, British boxing champ Jim Mace and an American challenger fought for almost 4 hours without landing a single punch!
On 3rd March 1991, the Queen needed 3 stitches in one of her fingers after she tried to break up a fight between two of her corgies.
During World War 2, the British Minister of food considered a plan to feed the population with black pudding - secretly made from surplus human blood bank donations. The idea was thankfully rejected.
In the last 10 years, 8 people in Britain have been killed by cows.
During the 1978 fireman strike an army unit rescued an old lady's cat from a tree and then run over it as they drove away.
50% of male Internet users in Britain have viewed pornography on the Internet.
On average, in the UK per year:
488 people are injured by zips;
3,078 people are injured by slippers;
315 people are injured by photo frames;
and 70,000 are injured by dogs.
If every credit card in Britain was laid end to end they would stretch from London to Istanbul. (As of November 2001).
It is legal for a pregnant woman to relieve herself anywhere, including a policeman’s hat if she so requests.
In Kent before entering a plea the accused has the right to request trial by combat, to which the plaintive must select combat by knife, cudgel, or blacksmiths hammer, or must withdraw the charge.
The full name of the caterpillar from Danger Mouse is "Instar Emperor Nero the Second of Chorlton-Cum-Hardy".
SAMMIandBILLY have to much time on there hands,fact
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When you drink alcohol your body stops burning calories from food and instead stores it into fat all the time the booze is still in your blood. The body get's it energy from the drink and only absorbs between 5 and 20% of the calories from it.
So if you stick to diet mixers and don't have that kebab on the way home from the pub. You can get d*unk and not worry about weight but probably mess up your liver!
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By (user no longer on site)
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A ducks quack has no echo and nobody knows why
Actually thats false, they tested it out on Brainiac years ago by taking a duck into a subway - lots of quacks, lots of echoes.
The correct name for a pigs snout is a 'gruntle'."
I was going to tell an interesting story about a pigs tail, but I can't as it's too early....... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It is still legal to shot a Welshman with a arrow within the walls of York town after midnight
I thought it was a scotsman in york, a Welshman is chester but only on a Sunday ."
Think your right just know it can be dangerous being a Celt |
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"It is classed as rape to have sexual relations with a lady for a period of 20 minutes after she has ridden a horse x"
Im pretty sure thats just one of those old wives tales  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When you drink alcohol your body stops burning calories from food and instead stores it intohe time the booze is still in your blood. The body get's it energy from the drink and only absorbs between 5 and 20% of the calories from it.
So if you stick to diet mixers and don't have that kebab on the way home from the pub. You can get d*unk and not worry about weight but probably mess up your liver!
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The diet mixers alone mess up your weight pmsl another miss guided soul that thinks diet isnt fattening because there are no callories in it! very naive and mistaken.
Only comment as some may take what youve said literally! Bottom line alcohol is fattening, particularly vodka! Then theres a mass of other considerations that go with diet fizzy drinks |
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By *c69funCouple
over a year ago
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"Its difficult to get a job as a saddlemakers bottom knocker    "
Its a saggers maker bottom knocker.
but your right in it is difficult these days due to the collapse of the pottery industry in the uk. |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
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If when out driving you hit and kill a deer ...you cannot take said deer away ,however the car behind you can keep said deer for themselves
It is illegal for taxi cabs in britain to carry coffins |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"in the northern hemisphere the water goes down the plughole cloclwise and in the southern hemisphere it goes down the plughole anti-clockwdise
Again according to QI that's not true"
Sure that one is true due to gravitational pull! |
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"Hey everyone has an interesting fact nobody really cares about please post. Mine is . . .
A ducks quack has no echo and nobody knows why "
Wrong, sorry but it does have an echo. I can post a link but not sure if links are allowed. |
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A duck’s quack does not echo.
busted
When examined by an audio-expert, it was found that the echo was "swallowed" by the original quack, due to the very similar acoustic structure between the quack and the echo. Because of this, it may be difficult to tell where the quack ends and the echo begins
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By *c69funCouple
over a year ago
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"in the northern hemisphere the water goes down the plughole cloclwise and in the southern hemisphere it goes down the plughole anti-clockwdise
Again according to QI that's not true
Sure that one is true due to gravitational pull! "
If you do a search on a famous video sharing site and put in" Ewan McGregor on the equator" there is a simple demonstration of this , can't see any trickery as some go on about about different plugholes and toilet designs. Just straight forward . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You can only fold a piece of paper in half seven times. No matter how big the paper is
not true. mythbusters disproved it"
Was it a standard weight piece of paper? According to inter web it was done 12 times but that was with foil |
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"Hey everyone has an interesting fact nobody really cares about please post. Mine is . . .
A ducks quack has no echo and nobody knows why "
yes it does, was scientifically proven on the Discovery Channel |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You can only fold a piece of paper in half seven times. No matter how big the paper is
again prooved wrong on qi
What is this qi you speak of ?"
:0 its an amazing quiz show hosted by the great Stephen Fry |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You can only fold a piece of paper in half seven times. No matter how big the paper is
again prooved wrong on qi
What is this qi you speak of ? :0 its an amazing quiz show hosted by the great Stephen Fry "
Thank you have to have a look |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You can only fold a piece of paper in half seven times. No matter how big the paper is
again prooved wrong on qi
What is this qi you speak of ? :0 its an amazing quiz show hosted by the great Stephen Fry
Thank you have to have a look "
u can find it most evenings on dave |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"A duck’s quack does not echo.
busted
When examined by an audio-expert, it was found that the echo was "swallowed" by the original quack, due to the very similar acoustic structure between the quack and the echo. Because of this, it may be difficult to tell where the quack ends and the echo begins
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Thanks for explaining that one. I was wrong then lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You can only fold a piece of paper in half seven times. No matter how big the paper is
again prooved wrong on qi
What is this qi you speak of ? :0 its an amazing quiz show hosted by the great Stephen Fry
Thank you have to have a look
u can find it most evenings on
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Thanks x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So are some swans
Swans in England belong to the Queen.
Not all of them."
Unmarked swans belong to the queen swans marked with dye on one or the other side of the beak belong to one of two company's |
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"you are unable to pee and sneeze at same time
I know plenty of women who pee every time they sneeze!
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no after the sneeze the muscles contract and they pee lol but the muscles inthe body actually tense in anticipation of the sneeze
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
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"you are unable to pee and sneeze at same time
I know plenty of women who pee every time they sneeze!
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no after the sneeze the muscles contract and they pee lol but the muscles inthe body actually tense in anticipation of the sneeze
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Not sure about this. I know sneezing sends my aim all to cock |
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"There are no words that rhyme with orange!! X
we live near a mountain called the Blorenge! not sure what it means though! "
Corange is also a word. it is a line on a chart joining points of equal tide range.
Also the law of killing welshmen with a bow and arrow on a sunday in York was repealed under many subsequent laws and by-laws, the main one being the law governing a bow and arrow being deemed as an offensive weapon and thus illegal to be carried in any public place. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Hey everyone has an interesting fact nobody really cares about please post. Mine is . . .
A ducks quack has no echo and nobody knows why "
Curple (the hind quarters of a horse or donkey) is a word that rhymes with Purple! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"There are no words that rhyme with orange!! X
we live near a mountain called the Blorenge! not sure what it means though!
Corange is also a word. it is a line on a chart joining points of equal tide range.
Also the law of killing welshmen with a bow and arrow on a sunday in York was repealed under many subsequent laws and by-laws, the main one being the law governing a bow and arrow being deemed as an offensive weapon and thus illegal to be carried in any public place."
Thank bugger for that I can go out again in York  |
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"There are no words that rhyme with orange!! X
we live near a mountain called the Blorenge! not sure what it means though!
Corange is also a word. it is a line on a chart joining points of equal tide range.
Also the law of killing welshmen with a bow and arrow on a sunday in York was repealed under many subsequent laws and by-laws, the main one being the law governing a bow and arrow being deemed as an offensive weapon and thus illegal to be carried in any public place.
Thank bugger for that I can go out again in York "
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