Smokin Joe
Squire
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
There is an improper name for the vagina.
I love random facts
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Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
PaulB said:
It's not true. On the LP, which for some reason I own, the sax is credited to a chap called Raphael Ravenscroft. I haven't been and looked that up, either, I just know it.
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
Damn, beaten to it by And.
Hilldodger
Guru
- Location
- sunny Leicester
Liquorice Allsorts were invented by a shop keeper in Leicester
Smokin Joe
Squire
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Karl Marx was a West Ham supporter.
FBOAB
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Colley Gate
Paul McCartney played on 'Urban Spaceman' by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and was credited on the sleve under the name of Apollo C Vermouth.
spandex
I love Dr D
cookiemonster said:The Ostrich has the largest eyes of any animal in relation to its head size. It also has the smallest brain.
The penis of the Golden Web Orb Spider snaps off during sex.
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/inverts/nephila.htm
swee'pea99
Squire
Just found a whole page of 'em...here are some of the better ones...
The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle."
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
I wonder how many are incorrect.
The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle."
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
I wonder how many are incorrect.
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
Back to equestrian statues, Peter The Great is immortalised
in St. Petersburgh on a horse with both front legs raised and he died from gangrene of the bladder!
in St. Petersburgh on a horse with both front legs raised and he died from gangrene of the bladder!
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
LOL I read that as frog!
Forgot to add, Gorillas can't swim!
Forgot to add, Gorillas can't swim!
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
tdr1nka said:
They're not very good at tennis, either, apparently!
Wolf04
New Member
- Location
- Wallsend on Tyne
Oops sorry should have read whole thread before replying.
Perhaps the thread should be renamed Urban Legends.
Your first fact is an urban legend
From Wikipedia
"There is an urban legend concerning a code for mounted statues, whereby the horse's hooves are supposed to indicate how the rider met his end. One hoof off the floor would indicate the rider died of wounds received in battle, or perhaps was just wounded in battle; two hooves off the floor would indicate the rider was killed in battle. An examination of the equestrian statues in most major European cities shows this is not true. If it ever was true, the practice appears to have died out in the 19th century"
Don't you watch QI?
Perhaps the thread should be renamed Urban Legends.
Greedo said:
Your first fact is an urban legend
From Wikipedia
"There is an urban legend concerning a code for mounted statues, whereby the horse's hooves are supposed to indicate how the rider met his end. One hoof off the floor would indicate the rider died of wounds received in battle, or perhaps was just wounded in battle; two hooves off the floor would indicate the rider was killed in battle. An examination of the equestrian statues in most major European cities shows this is not true. If it ever was true, the practice appears to have died out in the 19th century"
Don't you watch QI?
