Fact of the day

Turns out that, yes, it is a fact.

there you go.

Rome was not named after Romulus, as one may expect, but a woman named Roma.

Bollix. It was beamed down by Romulans.

Please note that some of the 'facts' below have been proven false myths. An example is the duck's echo which does not echo (but proved that it does).

It is impossible to lick your elbow (busted)
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

A lot of those are not facts.

mmm, third post, so won't be too harsh.

Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe not to bomb Whiteleys as he wanted it as his headquarters once he'd invaded Britain

i really need a shit.

that's fact as true today as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow

Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe not to bomb Whiteleys as he wanted it as his headquarters once he'd invaded Britain

I heard it was Senate House. It's all bollocks.

There was some senior nazi that made a lot of plans to move to Cornwall come the invasion

Hermann Goering was going to live in Goring-on-Thames apparently.

There are more Kopites in Essex per sq mile than West Ham fans - FACT!

spits in disgust

Please note that some of the 'facts' below have been proven false myths. An example is the duck's echo which does not echo (but proved that it does).

It is impossible to lick your elbow (busted)
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
** A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. **
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

well at least one of those is wrong and that was first one I looked up, couldn't be bothered checking any more.

Does a duck's quack echo?

     **The short answer is yes, it does. But this is a science myth that has been quoted all over the place.**

Professor Trevor Cox and a team at Salford University recently did some research to get to the bottom of the problem with the help of willing volunteer, Daisy the duck. They found that a duck's quack does echo, but it is quite hard to hear the echo because of the quality of the quack sound. A sound that fades in and out (like a duck quack) makes an echo which can become mixed up with the original sound being made. This means it is hard to distinguish one from the other.
The other reason the myth may have arisen is because you don't often find ducks hanging around places where you commonly get echoes, like cliffs on a beach, or large cathedrals!

Read it all,it tells you that at the top.

Read it all,it tells you that at the top.

It's no good trying to wriggle out of it now you know....

It's her who must be obeyed,she gave her dad our old PC now he emails everyday jokes,pics and lots of silly facts.EVERYDAY

It's her who must be obeyed,she gave her dad our old PC now he emails everyday jokes,pics and lots of silly facts.EVERYDAY

Her who must be obeyed?

Where are you from?

On The Buses?

The English word attic has its etymology in Attia: the Greek region where Athens was and is (tenses for AndyP). When Ancient Greek aritifcats began to be discovered and looted, the connection was made between the part of a home where one would store and forget old and unused pieces of family furniture, pictures, books, etc., and this part of the world where the history of Western civilization was "stored" and forgotten about.

Phone posting, Mark? ;)

It's Attica (or Attika) in a Latinised version of the name, Attiki or Αττική in (Ancient and Modern) Greek.

I do like 'aritifcats' and almost wish you'd typed 'aperitifcats'.

Surely you can talk about fictional/mythical characters in the present tense? When I comment on a character in a book or movie I don't use past? (I.e.: "Luke Skywalker is AWESOME!")

Where's Oliver?

It's not quite such a neat division, as there are fictional/mythical characters who both existed but were written about in fictionalised accounts. This is very tricky, for instance, in the case of the 'historical' and the 'literary' Socrates.

Well Luke Skywalker never died did he, so he would be present tense. Darth Vader, he's dead, we all saw him die. He'll be past tense won't he.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

The dot over the letter "I" is called a tittle.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
Down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen
In the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
(That explains a few mysteries....)

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per
Side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
Purple and silver.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
Because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

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

Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
Instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who
Discovered this??)

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down
So you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in
The USA."

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
Stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
For automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

What?!
If ordered a load of 2x4 from timber merchants and they gave me wood measuring 1-1/2" by 3-1/2" I would send it straight back.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
Purple and silver.

YouTube - What Rhymes With Orange?- QI - BBC comedy panel show

YouTube - What rhymes with purple? - Qi - BBC

Silver = chilver (female lamb).

arfursleeps facts are shit, FACT.

Turtle.