O/T Useless Trivia Facts.....

[Rod Paradise]

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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[RED-DOG]

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

[Ironside]

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

[TightEnd]

 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!!!

 




 

[Nem]

 

[thetank]

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.

[AdamM]

lol

[Newmanseye]

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

[snoopy1239]

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'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!

[TightEnd]

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.










 

[TightEnd]

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.

[Heid]

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

 

[TightEnd]

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 



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.
 

 

[Rod Paradise]

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.

[Colchester Kev]

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