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I did not know that???

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:56:46 GMT

I thought it may be fun to educate ourselves about some of the weird and wonderful.

I want truly, I did not know that facts.

So I will start with one but I have hundreds.

Bob Marley was of mixed race his Grandfather was from sussex and his grandmother was a Syrian Jew.

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:57:32 GMT

the ring pull on a coke can was meant to hold a straw in place

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:00:09 GMT

Like it Carrie and I will say it ' I did not know that....'

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:07:39 GMT

my top three for today

Dogs can have a fatal reaction to eating chocolate. Chocolate contains a bitter alkaloid called Theobromine also known as Xantheose and that’s the active ingredient that’s bad for the dog.

Giraffes can go without water longer than a camel.

Almonds are members of the rose flower family or rosaceae family. The peach is also a member of the rose family.

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:16:29 GMT

The red liquid that comes from raw or undercooked meat is not blood.

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Liquid — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:02:50 GMT

A rather sinister background for this one but I was shocked;

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.

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:45:41 GMT

Einstein didn't wear socks.

The "V" in DVD does not stand for "video".

Using the same DNA commonality that makes humans 96-98.8% related to apes - humans are 90% related to cats and 50% related to bananas.

The speed of light is not constant and light does not always travel in a straight line.

Mel Gibson was born in New York and didn't move to Australia until he was 12 years old.

Rabbits are not native to Britain.

Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of people CAN kiss their own elbow because the definition of the elbow includes the inside of the arm.

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Liquid — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:24:54 GMT

I've always loved how many people think DVD the v stands for video:D

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

See its not the Christmas dinner that makes people fatter it's Christmas cards:)

Sound travels faster through steel than air or water.

The sound of a cracking whip is actually created by the tip of the whip moving fast enough to break the sound barrier causing a sonic boom. It was the first human device to break the sound barrier.

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Toby — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:20:22 GMT

These are blowing my mind!

- Eskimos use fridges to stop things from freezing

- Strawberries are also members of the Rose family

- Everything weighs 1% less at the Equator

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:55:14 GMT

Great thread!

One I read this morning; Obesity now tops hunger as the world’s biggest food problem

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sheepdog — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:04:03 GMT

DVD did at one point stand for Digital Video Disc till the computer industry pointed out that it could be used for other things so it changed to Versatile. Of course we always knew the alternate use of being a coaster, a frisbee, cooked under the grill with cheese....

Of course I could be cynical and point out that there is an inflation clause in the T&C's but that's really going off-topic 🙂

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:25:48 GMT

Digital versatile disc, VHS stands for video home system HD-DVD is actually advanced optical system before they renamed it

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:55:37 GMT

There are terms and conditions in a Phone contract........ I did not know that!!

Sorry, could help myself.

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Liquid — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:59:32 GMT

^^^ for the win:D

Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, has 85 letters. It's the name for a hill, 305 metres (1,000 ft) high, close to Porangahau, New Zealand.

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:18:53 GMT

It is impossible to lick your elbow...

(Laughing in advance at anyone who like me thought 'don't be daft, that's well easy to do...! Oh um maybe not then')

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:14:49 GMT

Lick the inside

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:21:45 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Lick the inside
Lol....That's cheating! Ha

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ComaChameleon — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:34:17 GMT

Uri Geller took Nintendo to court in 2000 because the Pokémon Kadabra was able to bend spoons and let things fly.

The sum of all numbers on a Roulettetable is 666.

In medival Japan agreements under gentlemen was sealed by crossing the urinestream.

Starfishs don't have a brain.

In New York there are 8x more rats as humans.

M&M's were developed for soldiers to be able to eat chocolate without having their fingers full of it.

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perksie — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:53:32 GMT

The weight of the cows in any given field will always be less than the weight of the worms underneath it.

There is one legal cannabis farm in the UK.

Venezuela provides Cuba with 115,000 barrels of oil a day - for free.

The brother of xxxxxxx washed his rental car after a lion ejaculated on it in Windsor Safari Park.

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Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:30:24 GMT

The Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Statistically, 6 out of 7 dwarfs are not happy.