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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Odd/unusual facts about anything! true facts or daft ones that sound believable.1,Cows can sleep standing up but can only dream lying down.2,Hitler was christened Adolphus ....not Adolf

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By *ensuallover1000Man over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Did you know that none other than the great Leonardo Da Vinci is credited with inventing scissors?

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By *icecouple561Couple over a year ago
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East Sussex

In the 15th century pregnant women were advised to wear a small bag containing, among other things, a dead chaffinch

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

There is an old by-law in Hereford that on a Sunday Morning in the Cathedral ground it is legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow.

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By *ensuallover1000Man over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Oral sex was technically illegal in Canada until 1969

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By *naswingdressWoman over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Some brands of sanitary pads (not in the UK) have random facts on the packaging. Brightens up the chore marginally.

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By *eorge JetsonMan over a year ago

Middlesbrough

Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"There is an old by-law in Hereford that on a Sunday Morning in the Cathedral ground it is legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow.

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quite right too

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By *icecouple561Couple over a year ago
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East Sussex

"Some brands of sanitary pads (not in the UK) have random facts on the packaging. Brightens up the chore marginally. "

I think it would just make me rage

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By *icecouple561Couple over a year ago
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East Sussex

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down."

My head can't understand that.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

In a medieval castles the spiral staircases was designed so a attacker couldnt use his sword arm, and defenders could, Most where right handed, a left hander would always go first.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Oral sex was technically illegal in Canada until 1969

Is that where the term 69 comes from?

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By *icecouple561Couple over a year ago
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East Sussex

"In a medieval castles the spiral staircases was designed so a attacker couldnt use his sword arm, and defenders could, Most where right handed, a left hander would always go first. "

Bodiam Castle has one spiral staircase that goes the opposite way. A guide did tell me why but I've forgotten

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By *naswingdressWoman over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Some brands of sanitary pads (not in the UK) have random facts on the packaging. Brightens up the chore marginally.

I think it would just make me rage

It's cute, actually. And they call it "odd spots"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

My neighbour has three rabbits!

(Bonus points for knowing

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By *icecouple561Couple over a year ago
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East Sussex

"Some brands of sanitary pads (not in the UK) have random facts on the packaging. Brightens up the chore marginally.

I think it would just make me rage

It's cute, actually. And they call it "odd spots"

. Do you have to wear tiny, white shorts and ride a skate board while reading?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"My neighbour has three rabbits!

(Bonus points for knowing

) "

Depends if she knows you know? If she don't then how do you know?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

This is true,Cornwall has its own language.

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By *naswingdressWoman over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Some brands of sanitary pads (not in the UK) have random facts on the packaging. Brightens up the chore marginally.

I think it would just make me rage

It's cute, actually. And they call it "odd spots"

. Do you have to wear tiny, white shorts and ride a skate board while reading?"

Haha! One usually reads these things on the toilet.

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By *icecouple561Couple over a year ago
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East Sussex

Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth 1st never met but the current film about them shows them meeting. This makes me rage. What makes me rage more is that one of the stars admitted as much on the Graham Norton show in a very casual manner.

I should get out more and read less I know

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

identical twins have different fingerprints

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth 1st never met but the current film about them shows them meeting. This makes me rage. What makes me rage more is that one of the stars admitted as much on the Graham Norton show in a very casual manner.

I should get out more and read less I know

I love history and hate the way films have poetic license to change facts, I also need to get out more lol

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The term "drag" comes from notes on a Shakespeare script where two male actors were to be "DRessed As Girls".

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I should get out more and read less I know

Also Mary queen of Scots was french not Scottish so would have had a french accent unlike in the film where she has a Scottish accent

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down."

Surely at some point you have to designate 0 coordinates for yourself so all your gyros can work.

You can distiguish exactly how you have moved relative to your previous position in pitch, yaw, roll and velocity xyz.

Your surrounded by a "sphere" of land marks too in the stars so youve got an easy full 360 reference too.

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By *ensuallover1000Man over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

In 1066, the famous Battle of Hastings didn’t actually take place in Hastings; Rather a few miles away in a town called (appropriately enough) Battle.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

In 12 grams of carbon there are 602,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 carbon atoms this number is known as avagadros constant and is 1 mole of a substance

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

During ww2 divers using mines, to sink German ships, most important peice of equipment was a Cork ball, so in the dark they knew which way was the surface.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Starlings are able to mimic sounds such as a telephone ringing, yes really

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The Viking didn't have horns on there helmets or had woman as sheild maidens

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By *icecouple561Couple over a year ago
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East Sussex

I should get out more and read less I know

Also Mary queen of Scots was french not Scottish so would have had a french accent unlike in the film where she has a Scottish accent"

Yep that makes me twitch a bit too.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

im allergic to penicillin

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By *naswingdressWoman over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I should get out more and read less I know

I was rather annoyed when watching The Favourite recently that female eyebrows were preposterously on (modern day) trend. Blondes don't naturally have black-brown eyebrows!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

All polar bears are left handed

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By *icecouple561Couple over a year ago
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East Sussex

"In 1066, the famous Battle of Hastings didn’t actually take place in Hastings; Rather a few miles away in a town called (appropriately enough) Battle."

Also the spot where King Harold was killed is incorrect, it's actually on a very dismal mini roundabout

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"In 1066, the famous Battle of Hastings didn’t actually take place in Hastings; Rather a few miles away in a town called (appropriately enough) Battle.

Also the spot where King Harold was killed is incorrect, it's actually on a very dismal mini roundabout

Fun face it's discribed During the battle both sides took a break for lunch.

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By *ensuallover1000Man over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Research has suggested that it is easier for a man to reach orgasm when his feet are warm.

.....which explains so many of the sock pics on here I’ll wager....

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The reason for the theory that left handed people are evil comes from the Latin word for left which is sinister, right is dexter hence dexterity

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down."
..and of course future male astronauts won't ask for directions. !!

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By *ensuallover1000Man over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"In 1066, the famous Battle of Hastings didn’t actually take place in Hastings; Rather a few miles away in a town called (appropriately enough) Battle.

Also the spot where King Harold was killed is incorrect, it's actually on a very dismal mini roundabout

The Godwinson Roundabout perhaps? - Loads of accidents there I bet as the arrows are probably pointing in every direction

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By *p4funCouple over a year ago

Plymouth

2013 is the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"All polar bears are left handed

Also their skin is black and fur is clear

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Hippos kill More people then snakes, lions, and crocodiles each year in Africa

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By *rinthiaMan over a year ago

dundee

I should get out more and read less I know

It’s called artistic licence.... basically they can do whatever they like..... don’t get me started, just one word “ braveheart” utter bollocks! From start to Finnish some of these people weren’t even born at the same time.

Just try to watch it as a good film entertainment .

If you are looking for facts try a musiem or books

Not Hollywood

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By *rinthiaMan over a year ago

dundee

You always find your keys in the last place you look !

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By *p4funCouple over a year ago

Plymouth

A group of pandas is called a

Bamboo ,embarrassment or a cupboard of pandas

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Your body makes about 2 million new red cells every second.

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By *ooliganMan over a year ago

Preston

"The term "drag" comes from notes on a Shakespeare script where two male actors were to be "DRessed As Girls"."

99% of acronym-based etymlogical origins are reverse engineered.

Shit (store high in transit), posh (port out, starboard home), and unfortunately drag (dressed as girls) are not true at all. They're what are known as "backronyms".

Acronyms tend only to apply to words that entered the language after the 1940s as they were popular with the military, particularly US. The actual word "acronym" was only coined in 1943 indicating that there wasn't much use for it prior to that date.

"Drag" most likely comes from the long dresses worn by theatre dames. It was commonly used in the 19th century before acronyms were widely used.

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By *ooliganMan over a year ago

Preston

And one for the OP, the world's first lightening conductor was in Preston.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Dogs can hear 4 times further than humans

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By *innie The MinxWoman over a year ago

Under the Duvet

"Hippos kill More people then snakes, lions, and crocodiles each year in Africa "

Imagine finding a hippo at the bottom of your sleeping bag

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Hippos kill More people then snakes, lions, and crocodiles each year in Africa

Imagine finding a hippo at the bottom of your sleeping bag"

Baby hippos will often play, tease and irritate crocodiles without any fear. Crocodiles know exactly how dangerous mama hippo is

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By *innie The MinxWoman over a year ago

Under the Duvet

"Hippos kill More people then snakes, lions, and crocodiles each year in Africa

Imagine finding a hippo at the bottom of your sleeping bag

Baby hippos will often play, tease and irritate crocodiles without any fear. Crocodiles know exactly how dangerous mama hippo is"

Play, tease,irritate...that's a new thread right there!

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By *inkyLondonpairCouple over a year ago

London

I should get out more and read less I know

Also Mary queen of Scots was french not Scottish so would have had a french accent unlike in the film where she has a Scottish accent"

She was actually Scottish, but was engaged to the heir to the French throne when she was five and went to live in France until she was eighteen.

So she probably started out with a Scottish accent and changed to French as young children often do when they move.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Hippos kill More people then snakes, lions, and crocodiles each year in Africa

Imagine finding a hippo at the bottom of your sleeping bag

Baby hippos will often play, tease and irritate crocodiles without any fear. Crocodiles know exactly how dangerous mama hippo is

Play, tease,irritate...that's a new thread right there!"

Haha not a fan of those threads. Too much chaos!

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By *eorge JetsonMan over a year ago

Middlesbrough

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down.

Surely at some point you have to designate 0 coordinates for yourself so all your gyros can work.

You can distiguish exactly how you have moved relative to your previous position in pitch, yaw, roll and velocity xyz.

Your surrounded by a "sphere" of land marks too in the stars so youve got an easy full 360 reference too.

Thats exactly the point.

You can't work it out.

There's no point of reference for your brain to distinguish your co-ordinates

That's why astronauts are attached to the shuttle via the cable cos if they ever got seperated they'd simply float endlessly around into oblivion cos they'd never be able to coordinate themselves back to the "start point"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down.

Surely at some point you have to designate 0 coordinates for yourself so all your gyros can work.

You can distiguish exactly how you have moved relative to your previous position in pitch, yaw, roll and velocity xyz.

Your surrounded by a "sphere" of land marks too in the stars so youve got an easy full 360 reference too.

Thats exactly the point.

You can't work it out.

There's no point of reference for your brain to distinguish your co-ordinates

Well of course you could orient yourself. The stars are fixed points of reference.

Astronauts are attached by cable because they have no means of propulsion (unless they have the back back thing then they can fly free but its risky) so its justt a safety thing. Like working at height

For them there is a huge white space shuttle for reference. Just pick if you want it to be up or down behind or infront and your all set.

Gyros work perfectly fine inspace and maintain zero, reaction drives/wheels based on them let us precisely position anything in any orientation without any propellent too. Thats how we aim Hubble and rotate the space station

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest...And came 2nd.

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By *adyGardenWoman over a year ago

LONDON (se)

Renzo piano first designed the shard on a napkin

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"All polar bears are left handed

All polar bears have black skin and are allergic to penguins.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

12% of people bite their toenails

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple over a year ago

Cumbria

dogs cannot look up without moving their head.

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple over a year ago

Cumbria

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple over a year ago

Cumbria

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple over a year ago

Cumbria

Steak and blowjob day is the 14th of March......

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple over a year ago

Cumbria

They have perfected the art of dictating notes to your phone.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Dusty Springfield is the only white singer to have a number one song in the black American music charts... With Son of a preacher man.

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By *erDirtyRockstarMan over a year ago

buckinghamshire

The apollo crews did not have any life insurance.

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By *ensuallover1000Man over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Napoleon Bonaparte was not only Emperor of France, he was also a bit of a romantic at heart it would seem, as was demonstrated when he authored the romantic novel, ‘Clisson et Eugénie’.

What a guy!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The earth and moon orbit around each other.

If the earth and moon were the same size, the fulcrum point of the mutual orbit would be half way to the moon, but earth being so much larger, the fulcrum point in which the earth and moon orbit around each other is near but not at the centre of the earth.

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By *innie The MinxWoman over a year ago

Under the Duvet

Cats cannot play harmonica.

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By *ensuallover1000Man over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"Cats cannot play harmonica."

Dogs make for poor guitar soloists to.....

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"This is true,Cornwall has its own language. "
apparently 557 people speak Cornish as a first language !

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By *eorge JetsonMan over a year ago

Middlesbrough

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down.

Surely at some point you have to designate 0 coordinates for yourself so all your gyros can work.

You can distiguish exactly how you have moved relative to your previous position in pitch, yaw, roll and velocity xyz.

Your surrounded by a "sphere" of land marks too in the stars so youve got an easy full 360 reference too.

Thats exactly the point.

You can't work it out.

There's no point of reference for your brain to distinguish your co-ordinates

Well of course you could orient yourself. The stars are fixed points of reference.

For them there is a huge white space shuttle for reference. Just pick if you want it to be up or down behind or infront and your all set.

Look...it's supposed to be fun and all I did was quote nasa who I presume are much better qualified than you and I to be able to actually print these facts so if your not happy with the concept of not being able to co-ordinate your position in space then ring Nasa and explain it to them and maybe they'll remove what they assume is facts that they've concluded after however many years.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

A blue whale ejaculates 40 gallons of sperm when mating. Only 10% enters the female. And people wonder why the sea is salty

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down.

Surely at some point you have to designate 0 coordinates for yourself so all your gyros can work.

You can distiguish exactly how you have moved relative to your previous position in pitch, yaw, roll and velocity xyz.

Your surrounded by a "sphere" of land marks too in the stars so youve got an easy full 360 reference too.

Thats exactly the point.

You can't work it out.

There's no point of reference for your brain to distinguish your co-ordinates

Well of course you could orient yourself. The stars are fixed points of reference.

For them there is a huge white space shuttle for reference. Just pick if you want it to be up or down behind or infront and your all set.

I’m assuming that as they mean deep space where you are literally looking at pin pricks of light and when you I’ve they will move, those pin pricks will also move as they are stars which orbit galaxies and so you can be sure of what is moving. Think of it as being down at the bottom of the ocean you are surrounded by darkness and don’t know which way is up or down, deep space is the same as you can’t tell which way is up down or whatever as you don’t know which way it was to begin with

And I’ll calmly hide back in the trench for the next onslaught

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By *acey_RedWoman over a year ago

Liverpool

"There is an old by-law in Hereford that on a Sunday Morning in the Cathedral ground it is legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow.

There's a similar one in Chester if you catch a Welshman within the city walls after midnight.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I stumbled upon this interesting piece of info recently....

"The Prince Albert piercing is named after Prince Albert who was the husband of Queen Victoria of England. He was reputed to have had this piercing done prior to his marriage to the queen around 1825. At that time, Beau Brummel started the craze for ultra tight men’s trousers. Because the pants were so tight, the penis needed to be held to one side or the other so as not to create an unsightly bulge. To accomplish this some men had their penis pierced to allow it to be held by a hook on the inside of the trousers. This piercing was called a “Dressing Ring” at the time because tailors would ask if a gentleman dressed to the left or the right and tailor the trousers accordingly. Tailors to this day will ask if you dress to the left or right."

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A blue whale ejaculates 40 gallons of sperm when mating. Only 10% enters the female. And people wonder why the sea is salty

I quoted that in a forum a few weeks ago too, it’s a shame it’s been proven to be false

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"In a medieval castles the spiral staircases was designed so a attacker couldnt use his sword arm, and defenders could, Most where right handed, a left hander would always go first. "

Norwich has the longest medieval wall in England

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By *tace 309TV/TS over a year ago

durham

"In 1066, the famous Battle of Hastings didn’t actually take place in Hastings; Rather a few miles away in a town called (appropriately enough) Battle."
on the site of Battle abbey

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The first man on the moon was NOT Lance Armstrong

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Birmingham has more miles of canals than Venice.

Also more shopping trollies in them.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"The first man on the moon was NOT Lance Armstrong "
Didn't Micheal Jackson do the first moonwalk !

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By *eorge JetsonMan over a year ago

Middlesbrough

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down.

Surely at some point you have to designate 0 coordinates for yourself so all your gyros can work.

You can distiguish exactly how you have moved relative to your previous position in pitch, yaw, roll and velocity xyz.

Your surrounded by a "sphere" of land marks too in the stars so youve got an easy full 360 reference too.

Thats exactly the point.

You can't work it out.

There's no point of reference for your brain to distinguish your co-ordinates

Well of course you could orient yourself. The stars are fixed points of reference.

For them there is a huge white space shuttle for reference. Just pick if you want it to be up or down behind or infront and your all set.

And I’ll calmly hide back in the trench for the next onslaught "

First 2 words in my post...."Deep Space" but as usual someone opted to disprove a post.

Nasa must know what they are talking about and even if it wasn't a true fact it was supposed to be fun, ahhhhh well, never mind.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The magic roundabout in Swindon, is not magic.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Time travel is impossible because the universe is expanding and you would never be able to travel to the same place in time....

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down.

Surely at some point you have to designate 0 coordinates for yourself so all your gyros can work.

You can distiguish exactly how you have moved relative to your previous position in pitch, yaw, roll and velocity xyz.

Your surrounded by a "sphere" of land marks too in the stars so youve got an easy full 360 reference too.

Thats exactly the point.

You can't work it out.

There's no point of reference for your brain to distinguish your co-ordinates

Well of course you could orient yourself. The stars are fixed points of reference.

For them there is a huge white space shuttle for reference. Just pick if you want it to be up or down behind or infront and your all set.

And I’ll calmly hide back in the trench for the next onslaught

First 2 words in my post...."Deep Space" but as usual someone opted to disprove a post.

Nasa must know what they are talking about and even if it wasn't a true fact it was supposed to be fun, ahhhhh well, never mind. "
give us another Jetsons it was interesting fact

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By *orthantsblueeyesMan over a year ago

Northampton

Someone at work today told me that a 2 day old gazelle can run faster than a racehorse.

Also that flight attendants don't like serving diet cola as it takes too long to pour

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By *2000ManMan over a year ago

Worthing

"2013 is the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers

Only one day has all the same digits:-

11th November 1111

Until 11th November 11111 lol

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"And one for the OP, the world's first lightening conductor was in Preston."

Preston also had (and still does have) the very first ever Kentucky Fried Chicken shop in the UK.

It's still there.

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By *2000ManMan over a year ago

Worthing

There is a photograph of all people alive and dead...except for one. Michael Collins pointing the command module camera at Armstrong, Aldrin and Earth during the Apollo 11 mission.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/michael-collins-picture-1969/

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By *eorge JetsonMan over a year ago

Middlesbrough

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down.

Surely at some point you have to designate 0 coordinates for yourself so all your gyros can work.

You can distiguish exactly how you have moved relative to your previous position in pitch, yaw, roll and velocity xyz.

Your surrounded by a "sphere" of land marks too in the stars so youve got an easy full 360 reference too.

Thats exactly the point.

You can't work it out.

There's no point of reference for your brain to distinguish your co-ordinates

Well of course you could orient yourself. The stars are fixed points of reference.

For them there is a huge white space shuttle for reference. Just pick if you want it to be up or down behind or infront and your all set.

And I’ll calmly hide back in the trench for the next onslaught

First 2 words in my post...."Deep Space" but as usual someone opted to disprove a post.

Nasa must know what they are talking about and even if it wasn't a true fact it was supposed to be fun, ahhhhh well, never mind. give us another Jetsons it was interesting fact "

Well.....if you insist.

Little less technical this time.

Photons are actually little particles of accelering light....NOT klingon Warbird destroying torpedoes as star trek would have you believe.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down.

Surely at some point you have to designate 0 coordinates for yourself so all your gyros can work.

You can distiguish exactly how you have moved relative to your previous position in pitch, yaw, roll and velocity xyz.

Your surrounded by a "sphere" of land marks too in the stars so youve got an easy full 360 reference too.

Thats exactly the point.

You can't work it out.

There's no point of reference for your brain to distinguish your co-ordinates

Well of course you could orient yourself. The stars are fixed points of reference.

For them there is a huge white space shuttle for reference. Just pick if you want it to be up or down behind or infront and your all set.

And I’ll calmly hide back in the trench for the next onslaught

First 2 words in my post...."Deep Space" but as usual someone opted to disprove a post.

Nasa must know what they are talking about and even if it wasn't a true fact it was supposed to be fun, ahhhhh well, never mind. give us another Jetsons it was interesting fact

Well.....if you insist.

Little less technical this time.

Photons are actually little particles of accelering light....NOT klingon Warbird destroying torpedoes as star trek would have you believe. "
....Yes but actually...(only joking)!

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By *eorge JetsonMan over a year ago

Middlesbrough

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down.

Surely at some point you have to designate 0 coordinates for yourself so all your gyros can work.

You can distiguish exactly how you have moved relative to your previous position in pitch, yaw, roll and velocity xyz.

Your surrounded by a "sphere" of land marks too in the stars so youve got an easy full 360 reference too.

Thats exactly the point.

You can't work it out.

There's no point of reference for your brain to distinguish your co-ordinates

Well of course you could orient yourself. The stars are fixed points of reference.

For them there is a huge white space shuttle for reference. Just pick if you want it to be up or down behind or infront and your all set.

And I’ll calmly hide back in the trench for the next onslaught

First 2 words in my post...."Deep Space" but as usual someone opted to disprove a post.

Nasa must know what they are talking about and even if it wasn't a true fact it was supposed to be fun, ahhhhh well, never mind. give us another Jetsons it was interesting fact

Well.....if you insist.

Little less technical this time.

Photons are actually little particles of accelerating light....NOT klingon Warbird destroying torpedoes as star trek would have you believe. ....Yes but actually...(only joking)!"

Grrrrrrr.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

A giraffe is the only animal on Earth to be BORN with horns...

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By *VBethTV/TS over a year ago

Chester

My favourite fact:

The Pacific entrance to the Panama canal is further East than the Atlantic entrance. (Hint, the Pacific is on the other side of the USA.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Deep space only has "side to side"

You can't distinguish Left and Right or Up and Down.

Surely at some point you have to designate 0 coordinates for yourself so all your gyros can work.

You can distiguish exactly how you have moved relative to your previous position in pitch, yaw, roll and velocity xyz.

Your surrounded by a "sphere" of land marks too in the stars so youve got an easy full 360 reference too.

Thats exactly the point.

You can't work it out.

There's no point of reference for your brain to distinguish your co-ordinates

Well of course you could orient yourself. The stars are fixed points of reference.

For them there is a huge white space shuttle for reference. Just pick if you want it to be up or down behind or infront and your all set.

And I’ll calmly hide back in the trench for the next onslaught

First 2 words in my post...."Deep Space" but as usual someone opted to disprove a post.

Nasa must know what they are talking about and even if it wasn't a true fact it was supposed to be fun, ahhhhh well, never mind. "

Is that nasa Or nsa?

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By *ulldog_71Man over a year ago

Sedgefield

"The reason for the theory that left handed people are evil comes from the Latin word for left which is sinister, right is dexter hence dexterity "

wrong way round sinister came to mean evil because it means left in Latin, experts think the most likely reason for left handedness being considered evil is because Satan sat on the left side of God.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"In 1066, the famous Battle of Hastings didn’t actually take place in Hastings; Rather a few miles away in a town called (appropriately enough) Battle.

Also the spot where King Harold was killed is incorrect, it's actually on a very dismal mini roundabout

Fun face it's discribed During the battle both sides took a break for lunch."

It would presumably have been a much shorter battle if only one side had?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

My fav fact.

Star wars was never actually filmed in space

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I've said this before on another thread but I'm nothing if not repetitive!

A banana is classed as a herb and not fruit.

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By *ulldog_71Man over a year ago

Sedgefield

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By *ulldog_71Man over a year ago

Sedgefield

"I've said this before on another thread but I'm nothing if not repetitive!

A banana is classed as a herb and not fruit. "

Banana plants have to be planted with a gap between them as they "walk" moving up to about 40cm in a lifetime

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By *ertnsarahCouple over a year ago

West Bromwich

"There is an old by-law in Hereford that on a Sunday Morning in the Cathedral ground it is legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow.

There's a similar one in Chester if you catch a Welshman within the city walls after midnight."

And in York!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I've said this before on another thread but I'm nothing if not repetitive!

A banana is classed as a herb and not fruit.

Banana plants have to be planted with a gap between them as they "walk" moving up to about 40cm in a lifetime"

I never knew that!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"There is an old by-law in Hereford that on a Sunday Morning in the Cathedral ground it is legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow.

There's a similar one in Chester if you catch a Welshman within the city walls after midnight.

And in York!"

It appears nobody really liked the Welsh in mediaeval times!

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By *DSM - CUCKOLD - COUPLECouple over a year ago

manchester

I have toe bones as finger bones

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By *ulldog_71Man over a year ago

Sedgefield

In Icelandic witchcraft in the 17th century it was believed that Nábrók or necropants could produce infinite riches all you had to do was remove the skin from the waist down of a dead man (you had to get permission from him before he died) put some coins in the scrotum and wear them as trousers and the money would multiply in it's "pouch"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The President of Tajikistan has two left hands

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By *obbytupperMan over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

"The President of Tajikistan has two left hands"

Proper sinister then?

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By *utie91Woman over a year ago

Hitchin

A banana is a berry

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A banana is a berry

Nope! Google it is definitely a herb.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A banana is a berry

Nope! Google it is definitely a herb. "

I take it back I have just seen something that says that it is both berry and herb

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By *utie91Woman over a year ago

Hitchin

"A banana is a berry

Nope! Google it is definitely a herb.

I take it back I have just seen something that says that it is both berry and herb"

Haha... yes, it’s both.

And a strawberry is not a berry

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Cows lie down if it's going to rain

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Sharks will only attack you if you're wet

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By *arbellsWoman over a year ago

Cambridge

The term Pandoras box comes from Greek Mythology. The legend goes Zeus gave Pandora (The first woman) a box and told never to open it, eventually curiosity got the better of her and she opened it. It is said that all the evil things like famine, war and disease were let out from the box and affected mankind.

Not really a fact but intesting tale!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

It's Illegal to be d*unk in a pub.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"There is an old by-law in Hereford that on a Sunday Morning in the Cathedral ground it is legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow.

There's a similar one in Chester if you catch a Welshman within the city walls after midnight.

And in York!

It appears nobody really liked the Welsh in mediaeval times!"

We used to steal your (The English) sheep and if caught used to pretend we was going to shag them so our hands weren't chopped off. Hense the word Sheepshaggers.

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By *ushandkittyCouple over a year ago

Gloucester

"A banana is a berry

Nope! Google it is definitely a herb.

I take it back I have just seen something that says that it is both berry and herb"

The last I heard the banana you eat is the berry of the plant, but the plant itself is a herb.

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By *WNewbies2000Couple over a year ago

wirral

If you drop toast it always lands butter side down, if a cat falls it always lands on its feet....

What would happen if you buttered a cats back????

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man over a year ago

BRIDPORT

If you eat lots of carrots you will turn orange.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"There is an old by-law in Hereford that on a Sunday Morning in the Cathedral ground it is legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow.

There's a similar one in Chester if you catch a Welshman within the city walls after midnight."

Similar to york, where if you were born within the city walls, you can shoot a Scot with a crossbow, if he's within the city walls.

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By *eorge JetsonMan over a year ago

Middlesbrough

"My fav fact.

Star wars was never actually filmed in space "

Seriously!!?????

Awwwwwww you've just RUINED the whole franchise for me now!!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"There is an old by-law in Hereford that on a Sunday Morning in the Cathedral ground it is legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow.

Sooo funny - I live in Wales and I am English will have fun with friends with this one..

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

In my job a swinger is an unbraked wagon on the back of a train.

Your not allowed a swinger insidevtge last three vehicles.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Cows lie down if it's going to rain"

Thats a myth they lie down to chew the cud regurgatated grass.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Cows lie down if it's going to rain

Thats a myth they lie down to chew the cud regurgatated grass. "
.. Do cows like Huddersfield !

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I nearly played for Leicester city but discovered lager and women instead

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Dooley Wilson -"Sam " in Casablanca; couldn't play the piano - he mimed playing it !

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

dogs see colours in the yellow to blue spectrum- its a myth there colour blind..they do find it hard distinguishing red&green..Dont let them drive!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest...And came 2nd."

Third actually lol

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The term Pandoras box comes from Greek Mythology. The legend goes Zeus gave Pandora (The first woman) a box and told never to open it, eventually curiosity got the better of her and she opened it. It is said that all the evil things like famine, war and disease were let out from the box and affected mankind.

Not really a fact but intesting tale!!

And at the bottom of the box all that’s left was hope!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

All the actors in Are you being served have died.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Chicagos nickname the windy city is nothing to do with the weather

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By *ulfilthmentMan over a year ago

Just around the corner

"In a medieval castles the spiral staircases was designed so a attacker couldnt use his sword arm, and defenders could, Most where right handed, a left hander would always go first.

Bodiam Castle has one spiral staircase that goes the opposite way. A guide did tell me why but I've forgotten

There are a few castles with left handed’ staircases, usually attributed the owning families having lots of lefties.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Final episode of friends aired almost 15 years ago!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"dogs see colours in the yellow to blue spectrum- its a myth there colour blind..they do find it hard distinguishing red&green..Dont let them drive!"

So to fuck with your dog only throw the red ball down at the park?

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By *amlee7986Couple over a year ago

nottingham

Rats can't vomit

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The white of bird "shit" is actually it's urine

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

There are more inffinite irrational numbers than there are infinite whole numbers.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Singapore only legalised oral and anal sex for heterosexuals in 2017. Gay sex is still banned.

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By *terobs6869Man over a year ago

Llandudno

The Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey, not New York

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

"Dogs can hear 4 times further than humans"
Also ( apparently , though I've no idea how this was tested) A dog can smell a piece of cheese on the Moon

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"This is true,Cornwall has its own language. "

And they took it to America with them, there are some people in America who still speak it

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey, not New York

And its French

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Do fish get thirsty?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Birds (!feathered type) dont fart.

Feed the bread with bicarbinate of soda they explode.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

If you write down numbers you wouldn't come across the letter b untill 'one billion'

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Stalin never raised his voice! Now that makes him even scarier.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"This is true,Cornwall has its own language. "

Yes and none of us actually speak it either hahahaha. Lived here all my life and never met a single person who speaks cornish lol!

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By *ashful_at_firstMan over a year ago

Canterbury

Although it`s Chester, not Hereford...only after dark, and within the City walls...!

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

"If you write down numbers you wouldn't come across the letter b untill 'one billion' "

Is that not also true of g and googol?

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By *iamond coupleCouple over a year ago

leeds

The only reference mid water on a deep dive is that your bubbles go upwards. A bit difficult if you are using a rebreather

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

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By *acey_RedWoman over a year ago

Liverpool

"If you write down numbers you wouldn't come across the letter b untill 'one billion'

Is that not also true of g and googol?"

Eight?

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

"If you write down numbers you wouldn't come across the letter b untill 'one billion'

Is that not also true of g and googol?"

I retract that and sit on the stupid step for eight minutes doh

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

"If you write down numbers you wouldn't come across the letter b untill 'one billion'

Is that not also true of g and googol?

Eight?"

Yes exactly ... see my following post Haha

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

"If you write down numbers you wouldn't come across the letter b untill 'one billion'

Is that not also true of g and googol?

Eight?

Yes exactly ... see my following post Haha"

Although ... c and octillion?

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By *acey_RedWoman over a year ago

Liverpool

"If you write down numbers you wouldn't come across the letter b untill 'one billion'

Is that not also true of g and googol?

Eight?

Yes exactly ... see my following post Haha"

Oopsy

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS over a year ago

west here ford shire

There is a species of jellyfish that doesn’t die, they just keep living

The immortal jellyfish

Please check it out

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"If you write down numbers you wouldn't come across the letter b untill 'one billion'

Is that not also true of g and googol?

Eight?

Yes exactly ... see my following post Haha

Oopsy

"
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perhaps the g is silent like in knife - see u at confused.me. lol

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

"There is a species of jellyfish that doesn’t die, they just keep living

The immortal jellyfish

Please check it out"

There are threads that never die

What's wrong with my profile?

It's rude not to send a reply!!

Is bareback wrong in swinging??

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"There is a species of jellyfish that doesn’t die, they just keep living

The immortal jellyfish

Please check it out"

Good lord you're quite right. ! I'm glad I dont buy one birthday presents

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS over a year ago

west here ford shire

"There is a species of jellyfish that doesn’t die, they just keep living

The immortal jellyfish

Please check it out

There are threads that never die

What's wrong with my profile?

It's rude not to send a reply!!

Is bareback wrong in swinging??"

Providing all who participated are safe from std’s yes it’s ok

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By *ily Con CarneTV/TS over a year ago

Cornwall

I should get out more and read less I know

I love history and hate the way films have poetic license to change facts, I also need to get out more lol "

Luckily I do get out more

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

No piece of square paper can be folded more than 7 times in half !

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Talc is the softest substance on Earth

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

the word gullible has three l's in it

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

1, Liam neesons career is on hold.

2,Ukip are looking for a new leader.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Im hungry

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By *ushandkittyCouple over a year ago

Gloucester

The guy who signed Billy the kids death warrant also wrote Ben Hur

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Butch Cassidy's mother was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

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By *ingcom76Man over a year ago

cheltenham

Koalas have finger prints similar to humans.

Giraffes have the same amount of bones in their neck as a human neck.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The guy who signed Billy the kids death warrant also wrote Ben Hur"

That's not true

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Wallace

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