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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Any boring facts add here I'm full of dumbassed triv and can bore a man to death in three hours not even breaking a sweat
Challenge me and get yours in
Must be from your head not google
Try not to lie x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you were to scale down the observable universe to the size of planet Earth, our planet would be 471 thousand times smaller than a speckle of dust.
Learned this in Croatia a while back  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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IT is still deemed technically illegal to not have 2pence on your person
Youd be a vagrant
And that lead to.the term
"I've not got two penny's to rub together" |
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By *lceeWoman
over a year ago
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"Dogs can't look up "
Snorts with laughter. Love that film!
In Ancient Rome, they didn't swear by their gods, men swore on their testicles. Which is where the word 'testify' comes from.
True story.
But I worry about what then happened should they be lroved to have perjured themselves
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"Dogs can't look up
Snorts with laughter. Love that film!
In Ancient Rome, they didn't swear by their gods, men swore on their testicles. Which is where the word 'testify' comes from.
True story.
But I worry about what then happened should they be lroved to have perjured themselves
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They lied about their cock size. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
The word "loo" is derived from Norman times when people would throw the contents of their toilet pots out of the window and would shout "guardez l'eau" (meaning "watch the water" as a warning to any passers by which over time was shortened to "loo" |
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If you look at the Houses of Parliament from across the Thames, then the House of commons is twards the right half of the building and the House of Lords is to the left half of the building.
The seats in the House of commons are coloured green and the seats in the House of Lords are red.
Likewise, the bridge to the right of the building (Westminster Bridge) is painted green and the bridge to the left of the building (Lambeth Bridge) is painted with red highlights. |
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Big Ben is not the name of either the clock r the tower. Big Ben is the name of the largest bell, the one which bongs the hour.
The tower has had several names and since the Queens Diamond Jubilee, it is called the Elzabeth Tower.
The tower itself is not directly attatched to the Houses of Parliament. It is free standing, and is built on a foundation of concrete.
Although it is very difficult to see it with the eye, the tower does lean slightly. |
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Percy Shaw from Halifax invented the Cats Eyes road studs.
He was very enthusiastic about the environment and slightly eccentric. He built a factory to manufacture the cats eyes in. There was a tree on the plot of land, which he didn't want to cut down so he built his factory around the tree. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Percy Shaw from Halifax invented the Cats Eyes road studs.
He was very enthusiastic about the environment and slightly eccentric. He built a factory to manufacture the cats eyes in. There was a tree on the plot of land, which he didn't want to cut down so he built his factory around the tree."
And the reason he used cats eyes was because if he used cats arseholes he would have needed twice as many cats!! |
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"My dog does. She's a bit daft! Tried to catch a flock of geese the other day as they flew overhead, she only missed them by about 100 foot!!"
Oops! That was referring to the dogs can't look up fact. |
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By *arry247Couple
over a year ago
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"Any boring facts add here I'm full of dumbassed triv and can bore a man to death in three hours not even breaking a sweat
Challenge me and get yours in
Must be from your head not google
Try not to lie x"
A factoid by deinition is an unreliable fact.
I.E. it is not the truth of the matter |
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"Any boring facts add here I'm full of dumbassed triv and can bore a man to death in three hours not even breaking a sweat
Challenge me and get yours in
Must be from your head not google
Try not to lie x
A factoid by deinition is an unreliable fact.
I.E. it is not the truth of the matter"
Are you sure about that?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You foot is the same size as the inside of your arm from wrist to the bend of your elbow.
From you head to the sole of your foot is the same length as your middle finger to middle finger if you hold your arms out to the side x
Your ears are not level to each other
The only part of the human body that does not grow are your eye balls x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I was at school I learned that if you baked all the wheat grown in the world in one year into loaves of bread and laid them end to end they would reach the moon.
Wonder how far they would reach today? |
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Humans' energy consumption is equal to burning all of the plants and trees on the planet every day.
We're not doomed though because every day enough solar energy reaches our planet surface to power our needs for a whole year. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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98% of the inside of an atom is simply empty space.
If you scaled this up so an atom was the size of Wembley Arena, the nucleus would be a pea right in the centre of the pitch and the electrons would be fullstops right up in the top corner stands. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A blue whale's heart is NOT the same weight as a VW Beetle, as it's been commonly bandied about for decades.
It actually weighs the same as a male gorilla, or two full grown men.
Furthermore, the blue whale's aorta is not big enough for a child to swim through; it's only just big enough to stick your head in |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jet planes weren't the first man-made thing to create a sonic boom; it was a whip cracking.
However, this wasn't proved till the invention of high speed cameras; everyone thought the sound was caused by the whip hitting the ground. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"All polar bears are left handed
Polar bears fur is not white it's transparent
Polar bears skin is black to soak up the sun "
See you learn something new every day |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Not all frogs croak like we think they do; most groan, squeak, scream, whistle or are simply silent.
Reason why we think all frogs croak is because when sound first came to Hollywood Studios, when they were filming a jungle scene, they wanted sounds that sounded like they were from the jungle.... and the frog that lives in Hollywood croaks. Hence it became folklore why we think all frogs croak. |
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"The term posh comes from when the wealthy used to sail on ships (I forgot which harbour)
Port
Out
Starboard
Home
As that way they got the best sunlight "
Not quite - that way they stayed out of the sunlight. |
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By *azkinsWoman
over a year ago
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Rabbits are the only other animal besides an owl that can see behind without actually looking that's why its so difficult to catch one try throwing something over it first lol yes I had one and no not a battery operated one  |
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"Rabbits are the only other animal besides an owl that can see behind without actually looking that's why its so difficult to catch one try throwing something over it first lol yes I had one and no not a battery operated one "
Don't owls have to turn their head to see behind though? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When you crave chocolate, it's because your body is craving the acid in chocolate but if you eat a few pickled onions, the craving should subside.
I use this all of the time lol! I always have a jar in!
Eve. X |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The term posh comes from when the wealthy used to sail on ships (I forgot which harbour)
Port
Out
Starboard
Home
As that way they got the best sunlight "
Was used on transatlantic crossings. Port on UK to USA then starboard side homewards. They charged a lot more for these cabins as they got more sun than the other side. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The capercaillie (a large type of grouse) went extinct during the early 1900s due to deforestation. In the 1970s and 1980s, they were reintroduced to Scotland, but today, their numbers are in decline yet again.
If numbers keep falling, capercaillies will be the only British animal to go extinct twice. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Technically, there are 46 states in the USA.
Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts officially call themselves Commonwealths, not States, since this is what they decided to call themselves at the end of the War of Independance. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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In ghost busters egon says the battery cells of their proton pack has a half life of 5000 years. This doesn't mean it expires in 2500 years. It means that in 5000 years the battery life is now at 2500 life. Then in 2500 years after that one the battery life is 1250 years and so on and so |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Dogs can't look up
just tried this with my dogs..
They can 
Dog owners are gullible *joke*
The word 'gullible' isn't actually in the dictionary. "
Nice try |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The capercaillie (a large type of grouse) went extinct during the early 1900s due to deforestation. In the 1970s and 1980s, they were reintroduced to Scotland, but today, their numbers are in decline yet again.
If numbers keep falling, capercaillies will be the only British animal to go extinct twice. "
If they were extinct - where did they get more from to become extinct twice? |
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Dr. Kellog was good friends with a Welsh harpist, Nansi Richards.
Nansi pointed out the dimilarity between the name Kellog and the Welsh word ceiliog.
Translated to English, ceiliog is cockrel.
And that is why the mascot for cornflakes is a cockrel. It's also why the cockrel is red and green, the two colours other than white of the Welsh flag. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The only way iron can be formed is in a supernova.
The dying sun creates the iron wich ultimately kills the sun.
When it explodes into a supernova it throws iron, carbon and other elements into the cosmos.
So the iron in your blood came from an exploded star somewhere. 
We are all made of star stuff.x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Gold can only be created in a supernova due to it being atomically heavy.
Mens shirts (when you button up) is left over right, so they could pull a sword out without it snagging if it was the other way around. Women's are right over left so the maids could do it up easily.
Elephants cannot jump at all. |
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"Gold can only be created in a supernova due to it being atomically heavy.
Mens shirts (when you button up) is left over right, so they could pull a sword out without it snagging if it was the other way around. Women's are right over left so the maids could do it up easily.
Elephants cannot jump at all. "
It's also why we, the pesky British, walk on the left and drive on the left.
It all makes travelling on the London tube / underground / metro..... even more interesting!
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"Gold can only be created in a supernova due to it being atomically heavy.
Mens shirts (when you button up) is left over right, so they could pull a sword out without it snagging if it was the other way around. Women's are right over left so the maids could do it up easily.
Elephants cannot jump at all.
It's also why we, the pesky British, walk on the left and drive on the left.
It all makes travelling on the London tube / underground / metro..... even more interesting!
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Which wouldn't be a problem if people could tell their left from from their right... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The only way iron can be formed is in a supernova.
The dying sun creates the iron wich ultimately kills the sun.
When it explodes into a supernova it throws iron, carbon and other elements into the cosmos.
So the iron in your blood came from an exploded star somewhere.
We are all made of star stuff.x"
Slight change to that. If a star starts to form iron it means it's doomed and star is dying - the star will either become a supernova or collapse into a neutron star. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Gold can only be created in a supernova due to it being atomically heavy.
Mens shirts (when you button up) is left over right, so they could pull a sword out without it snagging if it was the other way around. Women's are right over left so the maids could do it up easily.
Elephants cannot jump at all.
It's also why we, the pesky British, walk on the left and drive on the left.
It all makes travelling on the London tube / underground / metro..... even more interesting!
Which wouldn't be a problem if people could tell their left from from their right..."
As I say we British have been walking on the proper side - we walk on the left so we could pull our theoretical swords out on enemies to attack them easily. |
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"Gold can only be created in a supernova due to it being atomically heavy.
Mens shirts (when you button up) is left over right, so they could pull a sword out without it snagging if it was the other way around. Women's are right over left so the maids could do it up easily.
Elephants cannot jump at all. "
See previous comment on hefalumps. |
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When you look at something, it isn't the colour it appears.
So if you look at an orange, it is every colour but orange. All the colours are absorbed by there own colour, as there is no orange in orange the orange is reflected and that is what you see.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Factoids aren't actually fact 
If that's correct, then you shouldn't be telling us this in a thread asking for factoids.
Unless the fact that factoids aren't fact is actually a factoid.
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No, it's factually correct that factoids aren't facts |
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"Factoids aren't actually fact
If that's correct, then you shouldn't be telling us this in a thread asking for factoids.
Unless the fact that factoids aren't fact is actually a factoid.
No, it's factually correct that factoids aren't facts "
Well fact me! |
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Potatoes are technically a fruit.
Elephants can't taste pepper.
It's impossible for a banana to sink in beer.
In Kazakhstan most people are left handed.
After retiring from Blue Peter, Shep went on to be a dog fighter.
The word 'gullible' isn't actually in the dictionary.
In university Nick Clegg was in the cage fighting team.
these are all from memory.
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"No.1 That was not out of your own head
No.2 The number is wrong ... By slot.
There's something like 1.3 million earths in the sun"
No1 wasn't out of my head as I didn't invent it but learned about it a while back, so I didn't have to look it up... 
No2...See what happens when you don't look it...
The Liger is the biggest feline on the planet... |
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