I came across this list and thought I’d start a thread of which the sole purpose of is to store any useless/little known/interesting etc info that you might come across.
Here’s my initial contribution: 10 most cited refernces, living or dead.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
In my next life…
“Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license”
say is actually psychotic. He has three personalities.
His first personality, is named Canuck. He loves Canada and everything Canadian. He won’t even step on a maple leaf.
His second personality is named Bob Smith. He is an American. He loves Americans.
His third personality is the guy on this board named restless. He believes everything that militant islamists say about Americans.
The 1st Inuit Bible was published in Copenhagen in 1744.
The longest poem ever written by 1 person is Shah Namah, written by the Persian poet Firdausi in the 10th century. It’s 2804 pages long, 120000 lines & fills up 9 volumes. He spent 35yrs writing it.
The longest name of any city or town is Llanfairpwllgwynggyllgogerychwyrndrobwell, Wales. The ones with the shortest names are Y, France & A, Norway.
A otter is quick enough to dodge a rifle bullet
The 1st house numbers appeared in 1493 on Pont Notre-Dame in Paris
The word potpourri comes from the French phrase “putrid pot”
I can eat three bags of nacho chips in 15 minutes.
Unfortunatley i found this out tonight. I was stuck at a friends house and there was nothing there to eat.
Groove
TexasBulldog: Sorry, but some forms of primate do engage in sex for pleasure. I believe that it is the chimpanzee that not only engages in sex for pleasure, but also engages in prostitution (for food) and oral sex.
“Nice” didn’t always mean what it means today. Originally, it came from the Latin nescius (ignorant), and grew to mean “foolish” in the 14th and 15th centuries.
The Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea aren’t seas. They’re lakes.
Rabbits are more closely related to horses than they are to rodents or mice.
The Romans did not use chariots in ancient wars. They used them for sport and transportation, not in war.
There’s no evidence that pirates ever buried their treasure. That myth first came up when captain William Kidd lied about burying his gold during his trial.
Remember Atari games? The company isn’t Japanese, even though most people think so. The name was chosen so consumers would think the company, based in Northern California, was Japanese.
I;m going to upstage Monkeyboy Eric. Everyone knows the Caspian Sea is the biggest lake in the world, but it’s called Caspian the Romans thought they had reached the ocean because it’s salty & gave it the name ‘Mare Caspium’ or ‘Mare Hyrcanium’ which means salty sea.