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With the different interests & ages of the Blondeites I'm sure there could be some crackers.

Mine first......

Where you see a statue of a famous person on a horse - you can tell how they died from the horse's stance:

• Both front hooves off the ground - they died in battle
• One front hoof off the ground - they died from injuries inflicted in battle
• All 4 hooves on the ground - they died of natural causes

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I thought you were going to say "Two front hooves off the ground, rogered to death by the horse"

you could be right i am sure lady godiva died of hypothermia and the horse is always has four hoofs on ground

 Although construction of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Strasbourg started in 1015, it was not until 1439 that the spire was completed.

Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women's feet.

Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's Colosseum.

If any of the heads on Mt. Rushmore had a body, it would be nearly 500 feet tall.

The estimated weight of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is 6,648,000 tons.

The extended right arm of the Statue of Liberty is 42 feet long.

The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.

X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

Ten per cent of the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the roads in America.

All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.

At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.

The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.

The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.

The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.

The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.

The only dog to ever appear in a Shakespearean play was Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.


More later!!!

 




 

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What I hate about some facts...

When they tell you a distance or volume and try to put that in perspective for you as if your tiny mind can't possibly comprehend what the quantity looks like. Instead they make it dafter by comparing it to something completely stupid.

Example - Loch Morar is Britains deepest freshwater lake. It is over 310m deep, that's the same height as all of Rembrandts paintings laid one on top of the other.

lol

coca cola.

John pemberton invented it as a health tonic ( and everyone knows it had cocaine in it), He painted the existing trademark brand on his store and it has always been like so.

he sold the tonic to Asa candler for $2300, ( what a mug!!!! ) and he died pennieless.

Indiana Jones - the original person cast for this role was infact Tom "magnum " Seleck and he pulled out due to other commitments.

The initial funds that created the first apple computer came from selling a calculator and a van. Steve wozniac and stephen jobbs worked out of a garage until they had perfected the first practical home computer.

Bill gates spent $7,000,000 on a garage for his cars.

superted the cartoon was created by a bloke called Mike young.

Count duckula first appeared on Dangermouse ( and he was not a vegiterian )

Joel shuster and jerry siegel who created superman put the S on his chest as a mark of their creation ( s from both theit last names ) no other reason!! ( they too sold their creation for buttons and had to fight to get some royalties, but they both lived in poverty for years after their creation was a success and made millions of dollars for other people.

It was Hitlers idea to start Volkswagen!!!!!!, Probably the only good idea he had.

thats it for the moment

I'm gonna be a stick in the mud here. I don't think this is true.

Unless... you are speaking of a specific time period, a certain type of statue/sculpture, or a certain group of famous people.

Great thread - love it!

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

Olympic badminton rules say that the cock has to have exactly fourteen feathers.

There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different colour combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube.










 

The first-known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 BC.

The seven wonders of the ancient world were: ... 1. Egyptian Pyramids at Giza ... 2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon ... 3. Statue of Zeus at Olympia ... 4. Colossus of Rhodes - or huge bronze statue near the Harbor of Rhodes that honored the sun god Helios ... 5. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus ... 6. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus ... 7. Lighthouse at Alexandria.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Mr End is on a roll --- soemone is going to have to sedate him to get him to shut up :)

 :D :D

I was going to stop, but before someone puts the stun dart in me backside, here's some more


These contain some of my favourites, no idea why  :D



According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.

On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
 

 

The only things that are white on a polar bear are the teeth & the whites of the eyes - the skin is black & the fur is clear.

The Ace of spades is more ornate than the other aces becasue when playing cards were taxed you had to buy the As sperately from the Government, to ensure the tax was paid.

There are 9 million bicycles in Beijing .. thats a fact, its a thing we cant deny.

We are 12 billion light years from the edge , thats a guess no one can ever say its true.

There are 6 billion people in the world, more or less, and it makes me feel quite small.


Katy Mellua told me :)

you are going all warm and fuzzy Kiv. Any reason why?

Sorry mate but you are wrong about the Fur, this is one of those urban myths.

Its like the other one where people only think the earth has 1 moon. where infact it has 2.

 8)


By the way, talking of fuzzy ... whatever happened to "Fuzzy felt"  is it still available ??   i remember spending hours playing with my zoo fuzzy felt as a nipper :)

 :redcard: :redcard: ;tracet;

I propose Blonde become a Katie Whatsewrname free zone!!!

I back Rod up ... Polar Bear fur is translucent.

To add to the foaming on this thead..

The most distant object visible to the naked eye is the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and is approx 4 million light years from earth (that's a lot of normail miles).

Very beautiful it is too.

In the UK, driving laws do not apply to doctors on the spring and autumn equinoxes.

For the first 6-8 weeks after they start to walk, babies can only turn left - the ability to turn right develops later.

There are more calories in nineteen cream crackers than there are in four jelly babies.

Dogs can't look up.

Most of the facts in trivia lists on the internet are wrong.

 ;tk;

oh no they're not

::::Slaps thigh:::::

Ohhhhh yes they are!

Sorry was in panto mode...

I disagree with the dogs looking up one.

ooooh our very own Blonde pantomime LOL

Tighty as widow twankey

we will have to have an open audition for the ugly sisters .... far too many of us could get that part !!!

Junior/Poker girlie is nailed on as cinderella

The Nun ...Puss in boots :)

Any other suggestions ??

Kiv as the back end of the pantomine horse?

Ginger as Peter Pan?

Heidi as the Fairy godmother?

who would be the seven dwarves?

Ok OK on the polar bear one, As I understand it, as explained by stephen fry on QI a polar bear had black skin with a double layer of fur, the top layer is translucent, and the bottom layer is not. The color white becomes visible to our eyes when an object reflects back all of the visible wavelengths of light, rather than absorbing some of the wavelengths.

At one time it was suggested that the polar bear hairs might have some of the properties of optical fibers. Apparently this is not the case.
 

ok I hope this clears things up.

If I have to be a fairy, then I wanna be Tinkerbell   ::::stamps foot:::::

the first registration plate evere released in the uk was    A 1 .

I think Tikay has to be the big baddie, with Ironside and Robert as his henchmen.

While a good ugly sister kiv would indeed make, I think he'd be better cast as buttons.

Buttons could have a pet monkey played by matt.

One from Peter Cook,

If the giraffe could leap, pound for pound, as high as the grasshopper, they could avoid a lot of trouble.

Nope, 4 :)

More electrons flow through a lightbulb in one second than water molecules go over Niagra Falls in one year.

A googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros. A googolplex is 1 googol to the power 10. If you started writing a googolplex now the sun would have burnt out before you finish.

If every zero in a googolplex was a sphere of volume 1cm x 1cm x 1cm there would not be enough space in the universe to write a googolplex out.

All the words ever spoken by mankind ever is approx. 10 to the power 18. (give or take a power!)

Spot the geek. :)

My grandad's hat size was 6/78ths

LOL that's my riding hat size :)

Did you count Keith Moon?

Daphne Moon fae Frasier and Alfie Moon fae Eastenders don't count as they are fictional characters.

The same applies for Button Moon.

American colonies actually declared their independence from the British empire on July 2, 1776. However, this declaration was not approved until July 4, 1776. Only two founding fathers signed the declaration that day: John Hancock and Charles Thomson. John Adams wrote, "The 2nd of July will be a memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival."

 The names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were withheld from the public until 1777, because their treasonable act would result in death if the Revolution were unsuccessful. Nonetheless, five signers were captured by the British and brutally tortured as traitors. Nine fought in the War for Independence and died from wounds or from hardships they suffered. Two lost their sons in the Continental Army. Another two had sons captured, and the British pillaged and burned the homes of at least a dozen of the fifty-six signers.

The noisiest land animal on this earth is the Howler Monkey. Their screechy calls can be heard over 2 miles away.

Easy way to settle this one, someone ask their dog what colour the ceiling is.

I might not have thought this one through.

67% of statistics are made up

including that one?

(p.s I am a statistician!!!)

Creative sort then :)

better to be creative than passive

True Vampire Bats only fly left out of their caves.

Lobsters are blue or black when alive.

It is possible to hypnotise a lobster.

Stewardesses and reverberated are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand; the longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop; Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands.

A duck's quack doesn't echo

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

Like babies then?

 ::)

Can someone help me get Mr End's toys back in his pram please?

I am very creative akshuullyy!

:-P

The red hot chilli pepper bird flies backwards

The glittery effect in some lipsticks is fishscales. (Apparently!)

Antidisestablishmentareanism, I typed that all with my left hand (it just took a while is all)

that expains why its mis-spelt

One handed typing on the internet - done a lot - admitting it ... very rarely<gg>

my betting is men spend the same amount of time saying those 2000 words as women do pausing for breath between their 7000.

Q why was Adam made 1st?

A because it's the only way he could get a word in edge ways

Smoking is a leading cause of statistics :)

I thought that was most car horns. maybe it's both.

The longest word in the English language is:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoniosis.

"Son, I sack casinos!"

is my favourite palindrome.

My birthday is a pailindrome.

and what is its meaning????

Sounds like something nasty, small and erupting in the lung area.

it is a disease, but i dunno what

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoniosis is the name of a lung disease caused
by small dust particles generated by a volcanic eruption.

Is your google broke?

The Pentagon has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

Probably a form of denial, what white man wants to stand next to a black man at a urinal.

nope just a lazy bugger

Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.

If manhattan island had the same population density as Canada only 12 people would live there!!

well i can tell you one thing, i know for a fact that this is wrong!   ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

Turn your ruler around, you're thinking centimetres.

Will any of this be in the exam?

http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm (http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm)

Urban Myth.... Salford Uni proved it does.... good spend of tax money there then  ::)

the glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher

That's a goodun!!

Although construction of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Strasbourg started in 1015, it was not until 1439 that the spire was completed.

Thats pretty good - 4 hours 24 minutes for all of that - I wonder if they stopped for lunch ?

LLAN­FAIR­PWLL­GWYN­GYLL­GOGERY­CHWYRN­DROBWLL­LLANTY­SILIO­GOGO­GOCH is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the longest place name in Wales.

This must p*ss people off who live in GORSA­FAWDDACH­AIDRAIGODAN­HEDDO­GLEDDOLON­PENRHYN­AREUR­DRAETH­CEREDIGION


But if you go around the world to New Zealand, they have silly long place names down to a fine art, at least they do in
TAUMATA­WHAKA­TANGI­HANGA­KOAUAU­O­TAMATEA­TURIPUKAKA­PIKI­MAUNGA­HORO­NUKU­POKAI­WHENUA­KITANA­TAHU

(for pedants this is the name of a hill though not a town!)

Now, sad person that I am, I think that is a fascinating post

Interesting people the Maoris

the coca cola people invented santa claus as we know him know  including his red suit and white beard

the whip is the first man made product that moves faster than the speed of sound

if you are blind you get 50 % off of your tv license

if neil armstrong was the first man on the moon  who took the pictures

No 1: oh yes
No 2: Oh no
No 3: only if number 2 is a lie...... ;)

Tracey

You got dat right girl!