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paulc
05-10-2007, 04:31 PM
I love the odd facts ya read now and again,so I thought Id try one here and see who else has some,here goes.

The national colour of Ireland is Blue, not green.haha.

AbbeyRoad
05-10-2007, 04:45 PM
Greenland is mostly ice as opposed to Iceland being lush with green grass and fields.

P.S. I actually knew that about Ireland - I use to work for Jefferson Smurfit.

Evangeline1
05-10-2007, 04:46 PM
If you touch it too much you'll go blind.

AbbeyRoad
05-10-2007, 04:48 PM
If you touch it too much you'll go blind.

LMAO!

paulc
05-10-2007, 04:48 PM
If you touch it too much you'll go blind.
I thought if you done something else too much you went blind.

Evangeline1
05-10-2007, 04:55 PM
I thought if you done something else too much you went blind.
Sounds like blind people have all the fun! :eek: :thumbs:

~Sal~
05-10-2007, 10:36 PM
It's impossible to lick your elbow.

CarbonBasedLife
05-10-2007, 10:37 PM
It's not impossible to give yourself a blowjob.

~Sal~
05-10-2007, 10:42 PM
:lolhit: It's not impossible to give yourself a blowjob.
Care to share the detai...........waaaaaaaaaait, I take that back!

CarbonBasedLife
05-10-2007, 10:44 PM
:lolhit:
Care to share the detai...........waaaaaaaaaait, I take that back!

Hahahaha, here's a hint: backwards somersault.

Pendragon
05-11-2007, 01:46 AM
You know I could've lived my entire life without knowing that and been happy. Now not so much.

Pendragon
05-11-2007, 01:49 AM
"Maggie May" was the b track, not originally meant to be released as a single.

Fidel Castro tried out as a pitcher (I believe) for the then Washington Senators baseball team.

And at one time Michael Jackson was black. I know weird huh?

Evangeline1
05-11-2007, 06:59 AM
Snoop Dawg smokes pot!

Ride4Life
05-11-2007, 07:07 AM
The state rock of California is Asbestos

Evangeline1
05-11-2007, 09:17 AM
Thong underwear is really uncomfortable.

I like to go commando.

Jenny_92808
05-11-2007, 08:26 PM
Greenland is mostly ice as opposed to Iceland being lush with green grass and fields.

P.S. I actually knew that about Ireland - I use to work for Jefferson Smurfit.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

Jenny_92808
05-11-2007, 08:29 PM
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

mikezila
05-11-2007, 08:31 PM
Thong underwear is really uncomfortable.

I like to go commando.
normally, i'd say that was TMI, yet i feel compelled to ask for proof:@@:

warrior1972
05-11-2007, 08:31 PM
want to tell a waitress in America she did a shitty job. Leave her/him a penny. It is a secret code that "YOU SUCK" if you don't leave any tip they just think you didn't know better.

mikezila
05-11-2007, 08:35 PM
spermology isn't just the study of seeds, it's also the study of trivia.;)

mikezila
05-11-2007, 08:37 PM
want to tell a waitress in America she did a shitty job. Leave her/him a penny. It is a secret code that "YOU SUCK" if you don't leave any tip they just think you didn't know better.
F' that! i tell them myself...and the manager.

i'm mean like that...but i do get the back story first.

Jenny_92808
05-11-2007, 09:11 PM
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!

Evangeline1
05-12-2007, 02:05 AM
want to tell a waitress in America she did a shitty job. Leave her/him a penny. It is a secret code that "YOU SUCK" if you don't leave any tip they just think you didn't know better.
Then they spit in your food-trust me I've seen it done in the back of the house of the place I used to wait tables! (Tho I would never sink that low to do it, but trust me there are people who do and will-BEWARE!)

Imp
05-12-2007, 10:05 AM
Then they spit in your food-trust me I've seen it done in the back of the house of the place I used to wait tables! (Tho I would never sink that low to do it, but trust me there are people who do and will-BEWARE!)

?

Usually you leave the tip after youve eaten, and they have no chance of spitting in it.
*another good reason I don't eat out much though*

Jenny_92808
05-12-2007, 01:20 PM
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

http://www.funofun.com/weirdfacts.htm

paulc
05-12-2007, 02:59 PM
Theres a street in Kinsale County Cork called
The Worlds End.

Evangeline1
05-12-2007, 06:35 PM
Girls are smarter than boys.

:thumbs:

~Sal~
05-12-2007, 07:11 PM
The only thing that doesn't grow on a baby is the eye... Eyes maintain the same size...it is a survival thing... we don't kill cute... big eyes = attractive.

Sparky2
05-12-2007, 07:17 PM
In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.

:eek:

mikezila
05-12-2007, 08:50 PM
The only thing that doesn't grow on a baby is the eye... Eyes maintain the same size...it is a survival thing... we don't kill cute... big eyes = attractive.


seriously, eyes never grow, but ears and noses never stop growing.

also on the subject of eyes, they're not attached to the brain, they're part of it.:@@:

Imp
05-12-2007, 08:50 PM
In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.

:eek:

While here in the States...

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f328/ravenheart101/look.jpg

mikezila
05-12-2007, 08:52 PM
While here in the States...

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f328/ravenheart101/look.jpg
i was going to say that:lolhit:

Jenny_92808
05-12-2007, 09:44 PM
On average there are eight insect legs in every chocolate bar. YUM.... Protein!
http://www.elsegundousd.com/eshs/bayeagle/features/january/weird_Facts.htm

~Sal~
05-12-2007, 11:14 PM
seriously, eyes never grow, but ears and noses never stop growing.

also on the subject of eyes, they're not attached to the brain, they're part of it.:@@:

Yeah the eye thing is cool...it is weird though when you look at a baby and think their eyes are never going to change size...also when you look at old people their ears are huge... I was gonna post the ear thing later... ya beat me to it...

Is it true that the eyes are a "part" of the brain?

mikezila
05-12-2007, 11:44 PM
Yeah the eye thing is cool...it is weird though when you look at a baby and think their eyes are never going to change size...also when you look at old people their ears are huge... I was gonna post the ear thing later... ya beat me to it...

Is it true that the eyes are a "part" of the brain?
that's what i've been told since HS

Phyrex
05-13-2007, 01:18 AM
Your eyes are attached to your brain via optic nerves, I don't really think that they are actually part of your brain.

Darth Be'lal
05-13-2007, 01:30 AM
Iceberg lettuce and eggplant have no nutritional value whatsoever. It's just cellulose and water.

A barking dog won't bit because a dog can't bite while barking, dammit.

mikezila
05-13-2007, 01:32 AM
Your eyes are attached to your brain via optic nerves, I don't really think that they are actually part of your brain.
it's "they're not attached, they grow out of"...i stand corrected:o



sort of

~Sal~
05-13-2007, 09:42 AM
Bulls are really colour blind...

they should outlaw that sport anyway...talk about barbaric...

mikezila
05-13-2007, 09:50 AM
not all mules are sterile...

http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm307517.html

~Sal~
05-13-2007, 10:00 AM
not all mules are sterile...

http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm307517.html
but they sure as hell are all stubborn...oh wait, you weren't talking about men...

Jenny_92808
05-13-2007, 11:45 AM
In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the
animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal are
punishable by death. (Like THAT makes sense.)

http://www.wildcrazy.com/facts2sex.htm

Evangeline1
05-13-2007, 11:54 AM
In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the
animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal are
punishable by death. (Like THAT makes sense.)

http://www.wildcrazy.com/facts2sex.htm
OK-That is the sickest, twisted, bizarre, grossest thing I have read today.

How do people know these things? :confused:

Lock up you cats and dogs people! :eek:

Wonder what the Human Society in Lebanon is like! :rolleyes: :

Jenny_92808
05-13-2007, 01:40 PM
If the world were 100 people


There would be:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from North and South America

8 Africans

52 would be female and 48 would be male

70 would be nonwhite, 30 white

59% of the entire world's wealth would belong to only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States

80 would live in substandard housing

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition

1 would be near death

1 would be near birth

Only 1 would have a college education

99 of them will not see this message, because only 1 would have a computer.

Imp
05-13-2007, 08:59 PM
If the world were 100 people


There would be:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from North and South America

8 Africans

52 would be female and 48 would be male

70 would be nonwhite, 30 white

59% of the entire world's wealth would belong to only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States

80 would live in substandard housing

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition

1 would be near death

1 would be near birth

Only 1 would have a college education

99 of them will not see this message, because only 1 would have a computer.

wow. Now that is interesting.

warrior1972
05-13-2007, 09:10 PM
OK-That is the sickest, twisted, bizarre, grossest thing I have read today.

How do people know these things? :confused:

Lock up you cats and dogs people! :eek:

Wonder what the Human Society in Lebanon is like! :rolleyes: :


ROFLMAO!! oh god that was the greatest

Jenny_92808
05-14-2007, 08:29 PM
A Washington, D.C., man was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of committing five bank robberies. A common link in three of the robberies were notes asking for the money, then ending with the word 'dammit’.

hmmm....I wonder where Darth lives?

paulc
05-14-2007, 08:36 PM
Probably in his bunker waiting on the Mugahadeen rolling in.

WindWip
05-14-2007, 09:11 PM
59% of the entire world's wealth would belong to only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States
bwahahahaha, I'm part of the snobby elite!

ltennant
05-15-2007, 10:32 AM
last time i smoked weed it was with a 72 year old lady

Jenny_92808
05-15-2007, 09:19 PM
last time i smoked weed it was with a 72 year old lady

Weed: New Facts, Old Fictions

The First Stone Age

About a hundred thousand years ago (we're guessing here), a 72 year old half-frozen cheif cave man named Urg (we're guessing here, too) made a discovery so big that its effects are still being felt all over the world.

Urg was freezing, so he tossed a bundle of plants he'd tugged out of the ground that afternoon onto the fire in his cave. And as he and his friends squatted over the fire and warmed themselves, they noticed strange changes creep over them.

The shadows on the cave walls got weird, for one thing, and the fire seemed way cool.

They also noticed that the chief's jokes (which they had all heard a thousand times) were funny again -- at least everybody laughed and pounded each other on the back and rolled in the dirt.

If Urg and his friends had given it any thought, they would have noticed other changes come over them, too -- changes in the way they thought and felt and acted, that we're only now beginning to fully understand.

Because (surprise!) the weed that Urg threw on the fire was marijuana and, without knowing it, Urg and his pals had thrown the world's first pot party.

This story isn't true, as far as anybody knows. (After all, prehistory wouldn't be pre-history if anyone left notes.)

On the other hand, it makes as much sense as a lot of other stories that have been passed around about marijuana since the first Urg noticed it growing down by the local watering hole and wondered what it was good for.

Even though Urg didn't find all the answers to that question, the people who came later sure kept asking.:)

Jenny_92808
05-16-2007, 10:13 PM
Strange but true
Tablecloths were originally meant to used as towels so that each dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Jenny_92808
05-20-2007, 04:50 PM
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!