Random Facts Thread

[Talnoy]

Random Facts.
Right here we are this thread is about those random fact you hear and cannot forget.
Granted that a lot of them are complete and utter nonsense but that the fun thing about them.

Just to start off

More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a typical French kiss!

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

[Rrogjenks]

There is no English word that rhymes with "month."

[HoopyFrood]

Ooh, we had athread like this in the lounge. It was very interesting. "Factoids" it was called.

Hmm...well...During a storm a lightening strike once killed all the black sheep in a herd but left all the white ones alive.

[Lenny]

On the subject of lightning, it strikes the same square quarter of a mile once a century.

[HoopyFrood]

More people are killed by donkeys than in aeroplane crashes (apparently)

[Ian8781]

It is impossible to tickle yourself, unless you manage to find that one tiny spot on the roof of your mouth and tickle it with your tongue!

[BookStop]

Originally Posted by Rrogjenks

There is no English word that rhymes with "month."

orange, silver, or purple either.


Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, published March 20, 1852,was the first American novel to sell 1 million copies.

[HoopyFrood]

Apparently there is one that rhymes with purple...Argh, I can't remember what it is though. I seem to recall that it's something to do with horses reins or saddle or something (??) Well, if anyone else watches Q.I, perhaps you'll remember and help me out!

[Lenny]

You might be thinking of bridle.

I got a the QI "Book of General Ignorance" for my birthday. There're some interesting facts in there.

Such as the baseball, one of the national sports of America, was invented in England. Some American visitors liked the idea, and taught some Americans to play it. An army general (or some other high-up patsy) liked the game so much that he claimed it was an American game (because he was patriotic like that).

[HoopyFrood]

No, not bridle. It sounds like...curple or something.

[pyan]

Try Hirple:

hirple definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta

[HoopyFrood]

There you go! See, I wasn't making it up! For once

[The Ace]

Originally Posted by pyanfaruk

Try Hirple:

hirple definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta

Naah, 'Hirple' is old scots for, ' To limp.'

It was a scottish merchant seaman with a, "Tanner ba," who introduced football to Brazil.

[pyan]

Originally Posted by The Ace

Naah, 'Hirple' is old scots for, ' To limp.'

That's what the link says, Ace.

[Aes]

The average human makes somewhere between 2,548-6,370kg of poo in their lifetime.

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