Author Topic: The 'well I never knew that' thread (Read 30954 times)

jaffod · « **on:** June 27, 2010, 06:46:03 PM »

David Byrne, musician of Talking Heads fame, was born in Dumbarton, Scotland.

Chakan · « **Reply #1 on:** June 27, 2010, 06:46:39 PM »

Butterflies taste with their feet

Al Bol · « **Reply #2 on:** June 27, 2010, 06:47:14 PM »

England are shit. But I suppose everyone knew that anyway.

RigBon1892 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 27, 2010, 07:16:58 PM »

Thomas Cook was an actual person.

davylpool · « **Reply #4 on:** June 27, 2010, 07:50:51 PM »

Everton are a "Big Club"

Randy Marsh · « **Reply #5 on:** June 27, 2010, 07:52:46 PM »

Daniel Radcliffe is a test tube baby

scouser4eva · « **Reply #6 on:** June 27, 2010, 08:16:51 PM »

New series of top gear is on bbc2

wardides · « **Reply #7 on:** June 27, 2010, 08:27:50 PM »

The inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Edison, is said to have been afraid of the dark.

AlphaDelta · « **Reply #8 on:** June 27, 2010, 08:47:09 PM »

The guy who built St Georges Hall committed suicide after he realised he built it the wrong way round - the rear of the premises should be facing Lime Street!

electricghost · « **Reply #9 on:** June 27, 2010, 09:10:12 PM »

Ian Rush is the cousin of The Chuckle Brothers, Barry and Paul.

ThepepeReina · « **Reply #10 on:** June 27, 2010, 11:40:13 PM »

Quote from: AlphaDelta on June 27, 2010, 08:47:09 PM

The guy who built St Georges Hall committed suicide after he realised he built it the wrong way round - the rear of the premises should be facing Lime Street!

i heard this just today. wierd that.

jaffod · « **Reply #11 on:** June 27, 2010, 11:43:33 PM »

Quote from: AlphaDelta on June 27, 2010, 08:47:09 PM

The guy who built St Georges Hall committed suicide after he realised he built it the wrong way round - the rear of the premises should be facing Lime Street!

Quality control can't have been much good.

ThepepeReina · « **Reply #12 on:** June 27, 2010, 11:45:03 PM »

the word bed actually looks like a bed, and the word ok looks like a sideways person!

The Gulleysucker · « **Reply #13 on:** June 27, 2010, 11:59:16 PM »

There's no such thing as cheese and onion flavour crisps.
They are just plain crisps but in different colour packaging, and your imagination then thinking they are.

ThepepeReina · « **Reply #14 on:** June 28, 2010, 12:04:05 AM »

the world is indeed actually flat. scientists made up a few years back that it was round just to see how guillable we where.

Gigantic Lamb · « **Reply #15 on:** June 28, 2010, 12:23:05 AM »

Quote from: Thepepereina on June 27, 2010, 11:45:03 PM

the word bed actually looks like a bed

thats a good one mate

Purple Gorilla · « **Reply #16 on:** June 28, 2010, 01:21:35 AM »

Sócrates and Rai are brothers

classycarra · « **Reply #17 on:** June 28, 2010, 01:32:50 AM »

Quote from: Thepepereina on June 27, 2010, 11:45:03 PM

the word bed actually looks like a bed

consider that nicked!

The Gulleysucker · « **Reply #18 on:** June 28, 2010, 10:51:07 AM »

There is no such thing as Light.
Light is just a word we use to describe the incompleteness of Dark.
Dark is the important stuff and we should use expressions like the speed of Dark, describing the maximum rate of collapse of Darkness.
Darkness and Dark are what really matter.

hooded claw · « **Reply #19 on:** June 28, 2010, 11:00:44 AM »

Quote from: Thepepereina on June 27, 2010, 11:45:03 PM

the word bed actually looks like a bed

Not only that, it is often used to teach children to differentiate between the 'b' and 'd' symbols.

God9 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 28, 2010, 11:10:07 AM »

Dogs can't sweat.

Drippy Dick · « **Reply #21 on:** June 28, 2010, 11:16:57 AM »

Anything that the Gulleysucker says

pascoli · « **Reply #22 on:** June 28, 2010, 12:31:09 PM »

Whan a parachutist pulls his chord, he doesnt actually shoot upwards, its just that the person falling witht he camera hasnt slowed their fall, giving the impression that the other parachutist has suddenly surged upwards.

I never knew that.

deadlybuzz · « **Reply #23 on:** June 28, 2010, 12:38:58 PM »

Emus and kangaroos can't move backwards.

sparkiemark73 · « **Reply #24 on:** June 28, 2010, 12:39:41 PM »

Fish cannot see photographic negatives.

CHOPPER · « **Reply #25 on:** June 28, 2010, 12:43:22 PM »

Hedgehogs winter in either Cannes or St Tropez.

corkboy · « **Reply #26 on:** June 28, 2010, 12:49:24 PM »

Quote from: CHOPPER on June 28, 2010, 12:43:22 PM

Hedgehogs winter in either Cannes or St Tropez.

Nice.

sparkiemark73 · « **Reply #27 on:** June 28, 2010, 12:50:54 PM »

Razorblades get sharper the nearer you get towards the equator.

Andy @ Allerton · « **Reply #28 on:** June 28, 2010, 12:51:42 PM »

You CAN polish a turd.

Chakan · « **Reply #29 on:** June 28, 2010, 07:00:47 PM »

Quote from: Una cerveza, por favor on June 28, 2010, 06:55:40 PM

Go to Google, type in 2204355 and click I'm feeling lucky. Just do it.

What. The . Fuck?!!?

pheel · « **Reply #30 on:** June 28, 2010, 08:17:44 PM »

Quote from: Thepepereina on June 27, 2010, 11:45:03 PM

the word bed actually looks like a bed, and the word ok looks like a sideways person!

The bed thing was actually used on me by someone as i kept getting them mixed up (b's and d's) not the person! probably 33 years ago! still pops into my head every now and again.

buzzing · « **Reply #31 on:** June 28, 2010, 08:24:00 PM »

Quote from: Thepepereina on June 27, 2010, 11:45:03 PM

the word bed actually looks like a bed, and the word ok looks like a sideways person!

That's actually how i learnt which way my 'b' and 'd' letters went around when i was a few years old

buzzing · « **Reply #32 on:** June 28, 2010, 08:24:25 PM »

Quote from: pheel on June 28, 2010, 08:17:44 PM

The bed thing was actually used on me by someone as i kept getting them mixed up (b's and d's) not the person! probably 33 years ago! still pops into my head every now and again.

Same

Phil M · « **Reply #33 on:** June 28, 2010, 09:11:00 PM »

Sarge and Kaiser were actually the same person.

Grushko · « **Reply #34 on:** June 28, 2010, 09:14:55 PM »

Posh Spice takes it up the arse.

Gigantic Lamb · « **Reply #35 on:** June 28, 2010, 09:30:24 PM »

Quote from: Grushko on June 28, 2010, 09:14:55 PM

Posh Spice takes it up the arse.

And its not from David

Big Red Richie · « **Reply #36 on:** June 28, 2010, 10:07:51 PM »

President of FIFA, Septic Bladder, is such a technological luddite, he still thinks that the world is flat !

G a r y · « **Reply #37 on:** June 28, 2010, 10:20:34 PM »

Quote from: pascoli on June 28, 2010, 12:31:09 PM

Whan a parachutist pulls his chord, he doesnt actually shoot upwards, its just that the person falling witht he camera hasnt slowed their fall, giving the impression that the other parachutist has suddenly surged upwards.

I never knew that.

I remember learning that in 3rd year seniors in physics. Teacher was explaining forces and gave that as an example. Before that I always assumed the person shot up too!

Paul JH · « **Reply #38 on:** June 28, 2010, 10:30:16 PM »

Tom Cruise invented cling-film.

ThepepeReina · « **Reply #39 on:** June 28, 2010, 11:16:46 PM »

got a few of these. you can lead a cow upstairs but not down, a ducks quack doesnt echo and no1 knows why, and more people are killed annually by donkeys than sharks and plane crashes put together.