View Full Version : Interesting facts..who would've thought it?


Gamadar
20-06-2012, 19:53
The crack that a whip makes is produced when a section of the whip moves faster than the speed of sound creating a small sonic boom. Strange but true!

You know any?:D

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:06
:(Apples can kill you!

Rampent
20-06-2012, 20:08
Piles erupt after curries.

SUPERDREAM
20-06-2012, 20:11
teach a spider to move forwards and backwards on command.
pull its legs off, and command it to walk either backwards or forwards and surprisingly the effects of removing its legs has caused the spider to go completely deaf.

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:22
An average male spends around 3,100 hours of his life shaving.

Rampent
20-06-2012, 20:23
An average male spends around 3,100 hours of his life shaving.

How many sat down?

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:24
If you put every person in China head to head across the Pacific Ocean they will drown.:)

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:25
How many sat down?

They don't sit down whilst shaving?:huh:

SUPERDREAM
20-06-2012, 20:25
dog poo is a pleasant commodity. 10,000 flies cant be wrong.

wednesday1
20-06-2012, 20:26
If you put every person in China head to head across the Pacific Ocean they will drown.:)



Hi Phil, the average SF troll has around 3 usernames per week - factual fact!;)

Rampent
20-06-2012, 20:27
They don't sit down whilst shaving?:huh:

Depends what's being shaved ;)

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:28
Depends what's being shaved ;)

Oh....I see.:suspect:

Rampent
20-06-2012, 20:28
Hi Phil, the average SF troll has around 3 usernames per week - factual fact!;)

Who's Phil :confused:

Gazza58
20-06-2012, 20:29
Sheff utd had a five point advantage and two games in hand,but still blew it.

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:31
Wednesday thinks that 58.35% of the characters who come on SF are someone called Phil.:D

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:32
Sheff utd had a five point advantage and two games in hand,but still blew it.

England are playing crap in Euro 2012 but will still beat the Germans!:cool:

SUPERDREAM
20-06-2012, 20:34
Did Phil play for Chalfont St Giles sunday methodist league?

Rampent
20-06-2012, 20:36
Wednesday thinks that 58.35% of the characters who come on SF are someone called Phil.:D

Sorry - wrong! It's 70.23% :)

chem1st
20-06-2012, 20:36
If you set your beard on fire the natural reaction is to slap yourself in the face.

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:37
Sorry - wrong! It's 70.23% :)

WOW....he's got it worse than I thought then!:loopy:

bassett-boys
20-06-2012, 20:40
The dot over the letter i is actually called a tittle.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Turtles can breath through their backsides!

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:43
Turtles can breath through their backsides!

I know some people who can talk through theirs.:roll:

Rampent
20-06-2012, 20:45
WOW....he's got it worse than I thought then!:loopy:

As a Wednesday fan I will give him the benefit of the doubt :)

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:49
People can just set on fire for no reason (spontaneous combustion).:suspect:

Rampent
20-06-2012, 20:51
People can just set on fire for no reason (spontaneous combustion).:suspect:

Only happens if David Icke nearby.

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:53
Only happens if David Icke nearby.

:huh::huh::huh: ........ now I am confused.

Rampent
20-06-2012, 20:55
:huh::huh::huh: ........ now I am confused.

He always finds the charred bodies on his wonky website.

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 20:58
The best way to kill a thread is to place it on the "I'm Bored" section.:roll:

bassett-boys
20-06-2012, 20:59
Spell out all of the numbers counting upwards eg one, two, three etc, you would have to wait until after the number 1000 until you find a letter A.

Rampent
20-06-2012, 21:02
The best way to kill a thread is to place it on the "I'm Bored" section.:roll:

The puzzle peeps will run with it for a few hours. I have to leave this thread now and keep my creditability intact. Sorry :o

bassett-boys
20-06-2012, 21:03
Heres a novel one, did you know that topless saleswomen are only allowed in Liverpool by law however only if they work in a tropical fish store?

And another crazy one

A Dutch court ruled that a bank robber could deduct the 2,000 Euros he paid for his pistol from the 6,600 Euros he has to return to the bank he robbed

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 21:10
Heres a novel one, did you know that topless saleswomen are only allowed in Liverpool by law however only if they work in a tropical fish store?

And another crazy one

A Dutch court ruled that a bank robber could deduct the 2,000 Euros he paid for his pistol from the 6,600 Euros he has to return to the bank he robbed

Googles tropical fishstores in Liverpool.:roll:

Gamadar
20-06-2012, 21:16
A hen can lay approximately one egg per day. It's cycle is actually about 25 hours. If you leave the light on however it will lay more eggs as it thinks that it is daytime.

chem1st
21-06-2012, 01:19
A cheapo bottle of vodka from the supermarket is over 80% tax.

Thus an alco working cash in hand to buy vodka actually pays more in tax than a higher rate taxpayer on his earned income.

rossyrooney
21-06-2012, 08:56
If you set your beard on fire the natural reaction is to slap yourself in the face.

What should you do if your wifes beard is on fire?

rossyrooney
21-06-2012, 08:59
Spell out all of the numbers counting upwards eg one, two, three etc, you would have to wait until after the number 1000 until you find a letter A.

What about a dozen then

rossyrooney
21-06-2012, 09:04
i don't know any ridiculous facts of the top of my head other than majority of body heat is lost through it.

barleycorn
21-06-2012, 09:10
i don't know any ridiculous facts of the top of my head other than majority of body heat is lost through it.

Any thread about interesting facts will contain at least one post which is patently untrue.

jb

rossyrooney
21-06-2012, 09:13
Any thread about interesting facts will contain at least one post which is patently untrue.

jb

Try telling that to the lady at the hat shop.................

merrylad
21-06-2012, 09:25
Droplets from a sneeze have been calculated at 100mph, the more shrimps a Flamingo eats the pinker it's plumage becomes, James Cagney never said"you dirty Rat" in ANY of his films, Nelson never wore an eye patch, he wore a sun shade to protect his good eye from the suns rays, It is not true that when the Titanic went down a Polar bear asked "any news on the ice burg?" Clint Eastwood is not Stan Laurels son.

rossyrooney
21-06-2012, 09:36
Americans eat roughly 8 acres of pizza per day

Not sure whether that is deep pan or thin though

oinkjames
21-06-2012, 13:18
67.5 % of statistics are made up on the spot.

Gamadar
21-06-2012, 15:33
Americans eat roughly 8 acres of pizza per day

Not sure whether that is deep pan or thin though

Is that each?:(

Gamadar
21-06-2012, 15:48
Roy Sullivan was a US park ranger. Between 1942 and 1977 he was struck by lightening on SEVEN different occasions. The Guinness BOR recognises this. He survived them all only to take his own life aged 71 over a love affair.:roll:

max
21-06-2012, 15:56
St Johns Wood is the only London tube station that does not contain any of the letters from the word mackerel.

As is Swindon the only football league club with the same characteristic.

Gamadar
21-06-2012, 16:08
Virginia Bottomley is an anagram of Im an evil tory bigot!:D

rossyrooney
21-06-2012, 17:14
a giraffe's neck has 7 vertebrae, just like a human

americas number one cash crop is marijuana

mongolia has the lowest population density in the world as 98 percent of its people live in the capital

a women blinks twice as many times as a man does in one day

a pigs orgasm can last 30 minutes

rossyrooney
21-06-2012, 17:20
Did you know... It is impossible to lick your elbow (I've tried, I've failed). 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow

RainbowAngel
21-06-2012, 17:44
99.9% of blokes scream, faint or be sick having tattoos
compared to only .1% of ladies :hihi: :hihi:

rossyrooney
21-06-2012, 18:26
January 30, 1933 was the day the words Hi yo silver! Away! were first heard as the lone ranger debuts on radio channel WXYZ of Detroit.

SUPERDREAM
23-06-2012, 10:36
An apple cannot eat its own bodyweight in water pumps.

rossyrooney
23-06-2012, 13:28
The United States has the world's highest number of McDonald’s restaurants per capita. Americans also die of obesity more often than any other nation, with more deaths than Mexico, Germany, Spain, Austria and Canada combined.

rossyrooney
23-06-2012, 13:28
The average person in the United Kingdom drinks as much tea as 23 Italians.

rossyrooney
23-06-2012, 13:32
About one-quarter of all nations drive on the left-hand-side of the road. Most of them are former British colonies.