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I really like this thread. Always some interesting information. But are you sure about #2? 1986?
#7 happened recently. The dog stepped on the rifle when the hunter laid it down to climb over a fence. The gun went off and shot the hunter in the leg,
Imagine going hunting with Cheney and his dog!
1. King Tut had buck teeth.
2. Britons send as many text messages in a week now as they did in the whole of 1999.
3. The defining measure for a kilogram is "Le Grand K", a cylinder of platinum and iridium held in Paris.
4. Using camera traps to count tigers - differentiated by their stripe patterns - was pioneered in the 1920s by Englishman FW Champion.
5. There are 29 "Labour and the Co-operative Party" MPs in Parliament, including Ed Balls.
6. The Italian Mafia have commandments.
7. Gun ownership per person in Finland is the third highest in the world.
8. Dinosaurs breathed like penguins.
9. The brain can turn down its ability to see in order to listen to complex sounds like music.
10. For every one millibar decrease in pressure the sea rises 1cm.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a019925
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Originally Posted by Scheherazade
How do they know these things? So random.Quote:
8. Dinosaurs breathed like penguins.
Well that explains alot!Quote:
9. The brain can turn down its ability to see in order to listen to complex sounds like music.
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Originally Posted by Niamh
Click on the link!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
1. Superstitious people in rural India sometimes organise weddings to animals in the hope of warding off curses.
2. Janet and John were named Alice and Jerry in the United States.
3. Until the late 1990s, the RAF's nuclear bombs could be activated using a bicycle lock key.
4. Qwerty is a regular on lists of most-popular passwords.
5. Residents of Middlesbrough are 25% more likely to suffer from heart disease than the UK average.
6. There is an average of 90 suicides a day in Japan.
7. Landfill rubbish sites in the UK cover in total an area of 109sq miles.
8. Twelve per cent of people with no religion pray sometimes.
9. Cats can be police constables.
10. The next generation of chip will pack more than four hundred million transistors into an area the size of a postage stamp.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a020177
Who's Janet and John and who's Alice and Jerry? I don't recall either set. I remember learning to read with Dick and Jane. I guess they've changed in 40 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Here is the related article:Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7092601.stm
I remember Dick and Jane and their little sister Penny, and I recall Jack and Janet, but no Janet and John or Alice and Jerry either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
So that's why guys have to turn down the radio when they're lost!!!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
1. The word Blighty comes from "bilayti", the Urdu for homeland.
2. Spotting a bargain releases "happy chemicals" like serotonin and adrenalin in the brain.
3. Babies make moral judgements about people.
4. Japan’s population will fall by 30% in 50 years.
5. The Queen took her corgi on honeymoon.
6. The brains of migraine sufferers are thicker in part of the cortex than those free of the severe headaches.
7. Radiohead's Thom Yorke paid nothing to download his latest album (just like the two-thirds of his fans who also got it for free).
8. The presence of kingfishers indicate that a waterway is in a healthy ecological state.
9. Beer has fewer calories than a similar measure of wine, milk or fruit juice.
10. Each economically active person is on 700 databases on average.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/
1. Eddie Irvine is Britain's wealthiest sports star – beating the Beckhams into second place by £30m.
2. Sleeping on the job is tolerated in Japanese work culture, as long as you remain upright and obey certain other rules. It's called inemuri.
3. Voltaire did not say "I disapprove of your views, but would fight to the death for your right to express them". It's a paraphrasing from a 1906 biography.
4. William Blake was not a fan of his poem in the preface to Milton, which became the words to the hymn Jerusalem. He removed it from later editions of the work.
5. The number of weather-related disasters has quadrupled over the past 20 years, the aid agency Oxfam says.
6. The first telephone directory, dating from 1880 and reissued this week online, had 248 names and no numbers. Callers were expected to call the operator and say the name of the person they wanted to talk to.
7. MI6 calls its spies "operational officers".
8. The Romans had roadmaps.
9. Pigeon racing is not regarded as a sport while baton twirling is, for taxation purposes, by HM Revenue and Customs, on the advice of the UK's Sports Councils and UK Sport.
10. By the time they are four, children from poor families are likely to have heard 13 million words. For children from better off families, a figure of 45 million is typical.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a020713
:lol: How can one sleep and reman upright?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
In Urdu, it should be 'vilayti' which instead of meaning homeland means 'foreign'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
1. To be declared dead there is no time limit - the seven-year rule only applies in the High Court on the settlement of a disputed estate.
2. No Briton has been extradited from Panama since an extradition treaty was signed 100 years ago.
3. JE55USS - and other combinations of letters and numbers with strong religious connotations - cannot be used for personalised number plates. Rude words are also banned.
4. There are fewer than 50 wild animals performing in UK-owned circuses.
5. Two-thirds of Ricky Hatton's calorie intake when training for a big fight - and trying to lose excess weight he piles on between bouts - is from meal replacement supplements.
6. India's "hugging saint" has dispensed 26 million cuddles - her helpers count each off with a clicker.
7. Books used to be bound in human skin.
8. Santa Claus, for Dutch and Belgian children, lives in Spain and travels north by steam ship.
9. One in four children don't count their father as immediate family.
10. Tango routes are longer routes flown by some airlines to by-pass the expense of flying through several air traffic zones.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a020997
1. Renowned atheist Professor Richard Dawkins likes singing Christmas carols.
2. The White House grounds are a National Park.
3. The Australian town of Eucla has its own time zone.
4. Pentonville prison, when built in 1842, had toilets in all the cells. They were later taken out.
5. Church of England vicars don't have to wear a collar if there's a "justifiable cause".
6. Ike Turner made what's widely considered to be the first rock 'n' roll record - Rocket 88 - in 1951.
7. Iago in Othello is the third longest part in all of Shakespeare's plays.
8. The strength of wine has increased from 11.5% alcohol by volume (ABV) to 13.5% ABV in recent years.
9. Police were banned from striking in 1919, after walk-outs that year by officers in London and Liverpool.
10. Anyone convicted of a criminal offence is bound to pay a £15 "victims' surcharge".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a021276
And that is a wonderful thing. :thumbs_up :) :D Actually it has improved the taste and quality of wine. Now most wines are at least acceptable, when years ago it was hit and miss.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I have ADD....ooooooooooh....squirel.....
1. Humour comes from testosterone.
2. Wii players use only 2% more energy than players of regular computer games.
3. There were 1,580 cosmetic treatments in the UK on average last year.
4. Blood alcohol concentration does not decrease when you eat as well as drink.
5. Reading in dim light does not harm your eyesight.
6. Only 10% of a horse's lifetime winnings can be attributed to its bloodline.
7. There are 17 surviving versions of the Magna Carta - or 17 Magnae Cartae.
8. The whale is descended from a raccoon-sized land-based mammal called the Indonyus.
9. Only one in a hundred tourists visiting the UK stay for longer than three months.
10. Nick Clegg, the Lib Dems' new leader, once took a road trip across the US with his friend Louis Theroux.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a021276
Oh really? and who decided this a man?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Thats becaus ethey all go and do it abroad.. where its cheaper and you get a holiday thrown in.Quote:
3. There were 1,580 cosmetic treatments in the UK on average last year.
I have been saying this for years!! Its brightlight that hurts.Quote:
5. Reading in dim light does not harm your eyesight.
That is VERY true! I get so worked up when I play first-person shooters on my PS2..It is really intense, but no one understands gamers...Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Yes. In our area, electricity used to go off a lot. It never cared whether it were my exams the next day or not so sometimes I had to study in candle-light at night (that's what you get by leaving work at the eleventh hour to do :p ). Next day I would wake up worried if it had hurt my eye-sight but to my astonishment, dear eye-sight always seemed to be as fine as it ever was. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
1. Circumcision does not reduce sexual satisfaction.
2. The UK has only one polar bear, at Edinburgh Zoo. Its name is Mercedes.
3. Window cleaners who work on very tall buildings are trained to lie flat if their platform comes loose - a tactic which appears to have saved the life of Alcides Moreno, who tumbled some 500ft (150m) to the ground in New York.
4. At school, Sir Edmund Hillary was in a gym group for those lacking co-ordination.
5. Siblings who are separated when adopted may be naturally attracted to each other in later life.
6. Etiquette dictates that at dinner parties, a man should always talk to the woman on his left during the first course, and right during the main course.
7. One in three British adults is on a permanent diet.
8. Octopuses need mental stimulation.
9. Liverpool is not Europe's only capital of culture this year.
10. Half of men aged 16-24 haven't read a single book in the past 12 months.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a021984
1. The Scottish crossbill is the only bird unique to the UK.
2. Barack Obama attended a stag party in Wokingham.
3. Nicolas Sarkozy never had dinner at home in eight years, according to his ex-wife Cecilia.
4. Christopher Columbus introduced syphilis to Europe.
5. Carrots used to be purple.
6. Both men and women find long legs in the opposite sex attractive, but not too long.
7. Rodents used to weigh a tonne and have skulls half a metre long.
8. MPs can claim up to £250 a month without producing receipts.
9. There is no such thing as pure black.
10. Brazil has more people of African descent than any country outside of Africa.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...html#Friday018
1. Swedes have a word for a man who visits prostitutes - torsk.
2. Using a mobile before bedtime can delay you getting to sleep.
3. A bear helped carry ammunition for Polish troops during World War II.
4. Moleskin clothes used to be made of moles' skins.
5. Wealthy people are more likely to drink than those in low-income homes.
6. Ships emit twice as much CO2 as planes.
7. "Plain vanilla" is a term for basic financial instruments such as shares.
8. Only offal-free versions of haggis are available in the United States.
9. Super-fast broadband fibres are laid in the sewers.
10. "Fischer chess" is a game in which the pieces are placed on the board in random order.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a022482
1. the names of all the sirens
2. my latin teacher doesn't care about rules when we're close to regionals!
3. Cough drops really taste like candy if you're sick enough
4. the names of all the muses
5. the cello can go as high as the violin
6. I can't come up with ten things
7. the battle of Marathon occured in 490 BC
8. my sister is nice enough to make tea for me
9. Chiru would spend the weekend with me
10. I would be sick
Fair enough! Learn something new everyday!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I always wondered that....Quote:
4. Moleskin clothes used to be made of moles' skins.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a022482
1. Fear of needles is known as belonephobia.
2. Double-income families are not a modern invention - in prehistoric times, they were the norm.
3. Cumbria is the safest county in England and Wales.
4. The D-Day landings were practised on the island of Eigg.
5. Irish singer Joe Dolan sold his hip for charity in an online auction.
6. Some 2.9 million rooms have been lost in British homes over the past five years as owners opt for open-plan designs.
7. Almost 4% of Scotland's phone boxes didn't host a single call in 2007.
8. The age at which we are most vulnerable to depression is 44, while a 70-year-old who is physically fit is, on average, as happy and mentally healthy as a 20-year-old.
9. Chameleons change colour to stand out and attract mates, rather than hide.
10. Harry S Truman, former US president, has no middle name - his advisers insisted he insert an initial between his first and last names if he was to have any credibility with US voters.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a022800
1. A white stag lives in the Highlands.
2. Brain tumours can be diagnosed by a handshake.
3. Ian Fleming's contract with the Sunday Times allowed him to spend winter in Jamaica.
4. Kosovo's dialling code is the same as Monaco's.
5. A fire at a landfill site in Guernsey has been smouldering for three years.
6. Staffordshire bull terriers are one of only two breeds that the Kennel Club recommends as suitable with children, the other being a Chesapeake Bay retriever.
7. 99% of beekeepers are hobbyists.
8. The Billy Bunter author, Charles Hamilton, is the world's most prolific, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
9. The UK spends more on cosmetic surgery than Germany, France and Italy put together.
10. Giving birth to a boy may increase the likelihood of severe postnatal depression.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...ast_w_43.shtml
Yeah, but they also believe in the Loch Ness Monster. :alien:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Rubbish. Most dog breeds are good with children. It's the odd breed that's not.Quote:
6. Staffordshire bull terriers are one of only two breeds that the Kennel Club recommends as suitable with children, the other being a Chesapeake Bay retriever.
:lol: Just keep the breast implants coming. :pQuote:
9. The UK spends more on cosmetic surgery than Germany, France and Italy put together.
I wonder if this is why my mother is on anti depressants. :DQuote:
10. Giving birth to a boy may increase the likelihood of severe postnatal depression.
1. If housewives got salaries at the going rate for doing household chores, they would on average earn £30,000.
2. Pacifist John Lennon was once an air cadet.
3. Women in Ivory Coast buy “bottom enhancing” injections for $2.
4. Whales catnap.
5. Young dinosaurs were prey to a giant frog.
6. John Prescott played in a parliamentary football team in the 1970s with Jonathan Aitken, Robert Kilroy-Silk and Neil Kinnock.
7. The female G-spot can be located by ultrasound.
8. People can have four kidneys.
9. A replica Statue of Liberty exists in Kosovo.
10. The first pop concert Barack Obama attended was as a 10-year-old watching Elton John.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...ast_w_44.shtml
Is that counting the pay a prostitute makes for bed time sex or is that over time? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Virgil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:
Shame on you!!!!!:brow:
In Ireland they estimated €40,000.
Well, apparently whoever did the study didn't account for all the services a wife provides ands were actually under estimating her possible net worth. :p ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Well, they say certain activities dimish after marriage so it is possible that whatever left of it is not worth taking into account. ;)
1. 23% of plastic bags used in the UK are from Tesco.
2. Someone is deported every eight minutes, according to the Home Office.
3. In 1752, the day after 2 September was 14 September.
4. Ugandan tribes recognise and deal with depression.
5. 70% of mental health inpatients are smokers.
6. For the first time in US history, more than one in every 100 American adults is behind bars.
7. There are 200-300 quakes in the UK every year.
8. Teenagers are having fewer babies.
9. Web browser Netscape Navigator once commanded 90% of internet traffic. Now it is 0.6%.
10. It is possible to donate half a liver.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a023923
Oh wow.Quote:
3. In 1752, the day after 2 September was 14 September.
Another wow!Quote:
10. It is possible to donate half a liver.
:brow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
1. The Duchess of Cornwall once watched Bob Marley in concert.
2. Archimedes was murdered over pi.
3. Forty years after colour TV was introduced to the UK there are still 34,700 people with black and white television licences.
4. Late running trains cost the country 14 million minutes last year.
5. A 4cm hole in the heart is not necessarily fatal.
6. Short men are more likely to be jealous.
7. Toasters are banned in Cuba.
8. Yasmin Le Bon is an anti-counterfeit campaigner.
9. Dolphins can communicate with whales.
10. The difference between vines within France's Champagne region and those just outside is 995,000 euros.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a024517
Apple pie or peach? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
One needs a licence to have a TV in UK? Amazing how innovative governments can be at taking money from people. Amazingly they haven't thought of that here.Quote:
3. Forty years after colour TV was introduced to the UK there are still 34,700 people with black and white television licences.
Oh my God. I can't believe this woman is alive.Quote:
5. A 4cm hole in the heart is not necessarily fatal.
The marvels of communism. You need permission to buy a toaster.Quote:
7. Toasters are banned in Cuba.
This is publicity for women to have relationships with tall men:D .Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Actually,this doesn't sound very strange to me.Have you noticed that most of the world's greatest leaders were short?...