The Interesting Facts Thread.

Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:47 am » by **I2haveseen**

Naranja wrote:Who validates these facts? Opinions is one thing but stating facts is holding something as truth.

Disturbing, thats what it is.

Not sure what you mean by disturbing????
& a fact is somethinh that can be validated (truth fits and (contradictually) dosen't fit that bill (ie: 1 persons eyewitness account can't be validated)).

Still your right on WHO validates.
I say any one can...... and if they've got doughts, they should.
Please feel free to check mine.
All my Shark sources are here :mrcool:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=shar ... 88&bih=498
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=shar ... 88&bih=498
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=bee+ ... 88&bih=498
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=bee+ ... 88&bih=498
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=bee+ ... 88&bih=498
( :headscratch:

think that's it)

Pretty hard to go wrong if you stick to wiki's though :flop:

Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:51 am » by **Troll2rocks**

I2haveseen wrote:
Naranja wrote:Who validates these facts? Opinions is one thing but stating facts is holding something as truth.

Disturbing, thats what it is.

Not sure what you mean by disturbing????

He posted that on acid, he thought that kermit the frog was giving him instructions on how to set fire to his legs on a boat in space.

#Acid can make you forget your own name. Fact!

Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:24 am » by **Fliegezeug**

I heard this one on a radio:

# The camel doesn't make any effort to save itself when it is drowning.

(Does it think that arrived in paradise?)

Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:42 am » by **Fliegezeug**

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Could someone lend me a camel to test the veracity of the text above?
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# Acid can make you forget almost everyth... Ooops!
Where are the hands I was using to write this post?
These are not mine... OMG!

Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:04 am » by **I2haveseen**

On LSD:

LSD was initially synthesized in 1938 from ergotamine. Eergot is a grain fungus that often grows on rye. Ergot poisoning is a proposed explanation of bewitchment.

LSD is measured in millionths of a gram, or micrograms. A typical dose is between 100 and 500 micrograms.

LSD became illegal in 1966.

LSD was given to people onknownst, to 'test' it's miltary application:

LSD is widely misconceived.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=lsd+ ... 88&bih=498

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=wiki ... 88&bih=498

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=wiki ... annel=fflb

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=wiki ... 88&bih=498

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=lsd+ ... 88&bih=498

Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:34 pm » by **Dagnamski**

Arnold Schwarzenegger Photo: REUTERS

By Our Foreign Staff Daily Telergruff

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1. His middle name is Alois.

2. He first picked up a barbell at the age of 13 and chose bodybuilding as a career at the age of 14. He was so dedicated that he would break into his local gym at the weekend, when it was closed, in order to train.

3. During a year of national service in the Austrian army he went AWOL during basic training in order to attend a bodybuilding competition. He spent a week in an army jail.

4. In 1966 he came second in the Mr Universe competition to Chester Yorton.

5. He learned English in London’s East End while staying with his coach, Charles Bennett, in Forest Gate.
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6. He moved to the United States at the age of 21 but Siskind and Susser, a firm of immigration lawyers, have claimed that he may have violated his visa and been an illegal immigrant.

7. In his early years in the United States, he had a relationship with Barbara Outland, an English teacher.

8. His first film appearance was as Hercules in the 1970 movie Hercules in New York. He was credited as “Arnold Strong”.

9. He had a brief career as a director, taking the helm for a 1990 television episode of Tales from the Crypt and then for the 1992 television movie Christmas in Connecticut.

10. In March, he revealed he is being courted for 15 films, including another installment of the Terminator franchise.

Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:52 pm » by **Poooooot**

During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

The Beast from Disney's Beauty and the Beast is a chimera, with the head of a buffalo, eyebrows of a gorilla, body of a bear, jaw and mane of a male lion, tusks of a boar, and legs and tail of a wolf.

Humans are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening, because during normal activities during the day the cartilage in our knees and other areas slowly compress.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue

Mon Dec 31, 2012 12:55 am » by **Hurtswhenipee**

111,111,111 x
111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321

It is impossible to lick
your elbow.

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Each king in a deck
of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades - King David

Hearts - Charlemagne

Clubs -Alexander, the Great

Diamonds - Julius Caesar

Q. What is the only
food that doesn't spoil?

A. Honey

The San Francisco
Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

At least 75% of
people who read this will try to lick their elbow!