Author Topic: Amazing facts (Read 48085 times)

Sam · « **Reply #200 on:** July 9, 2004, 02:12:48 am »

Wal Mart (company that owns Asda) is the 19th largest economy in the world. Apparently.

Sam · « **Reply #201 on:** July 9, 2004, 02:29:42 am »

The average man produces 50 000 sperm every minute.

Big Ig · « **Reply #202 on:** July 9, 2004, 04:38:18 am »

Quote from: Sam on July 9, 2004, 02:12:48 am

Wal Mart (company that owns Asda) is the 19th largest economy in the world. Apparently.

It's also got the 'somethingest' biggest army in the world... (OK OK, vagueoid rather than factoid

) either way, its one hell of a dodgy company...

Big Ig · « **Reply #203 on:** July 9, 2004, 04:59:02 am »

Interesting factoids about tallest mountains:

"Mountains are generally measured from sea level, in which case Mount Everest (29,028 feet; 8,848 meters) is king." 8,848 m
(Everest)
"Hawaii's Mauna Kea, though, rises an astonishing 33,476 feet (10,203 meters) from the depths of the Pacific Ocean floor. Measuring from base to peak, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on earth." 10,203 m
(Mauna Kea)
"A third way to determine the world's highest mountain is to measure the distance from the center of the earth to the peak. Using this method, Chimborazo in the Andes triumphs. Although it stands but 20,561 feet (6,267 meters) above sea level, its peak is the farthest from the earth's center." 6,267 m
(Chimborazo)

The third one is because the earth isn't a perfect sphere because of its spin, and so 'swells' outwards at the equator quite significantly. Hence ol' Chimborazo, being nearer to the equator (Ecuador) than the other two AND on a continent, is the furthest away from the centre of the earth.

Even weirder factoid - due to the equitorial bulge, beaches in equador are further away from the centre of the earth than the summit of Everest!

However, the tallest mountain in the solar system shits all over this lot... It's Olympus Mons, on Mars and is 3 times the height of Everest at 17 miles high (approaching space suit altitudes if it was on Earth) and over TWENTY times wider than it is high at 370 miles wide (that's roughly from Liverpool to Paris) even though Mars is only half the size of Earth. It's so wide compared to its height that were it on Earth you could drive to its summit and therefore to the edge of space.

Egg · « **Reply #204 on:** July 9, 2004, 03:43:45 pm »

John Lennon's Imagine was at number 1 for 4 weeks as was Enrique Englasias (sp?) Hero ( different year obviously)

BSBW · « **Reply #205 on:** July 9, 2004, 03:44:55 pm »

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

About 700 pounds. Compared to beavers, groundhogs/woodchucks are not adept at moving timber, although some will chew wood. A wildlife biologist once measured the inside volume of a typical woodchuck burrow and estimated that -- if wood filled the hole instead of dirt -- the industrious animal would have chucked about 700 pounds' worth.

BSBW · « **Reply #206 on:** July 11, 2004, 10:09:47 am »

Its impossible to lick your elbow

Approximetely 75% of people who have read this post will have tried to lick their elbow

BSBW · « **Reply #207 on:** July 11, 2004, 01:45:02 pm »

Come on own up who tried it?

AdamS · « **Reply #208 on:** July 11, 2004, 04:38:04 pm »

Some of a ducks quacks don't echo - scientists don't know why

Scientists don't know how a cat purs

Al Bol · « **Reply #209 on:** July 11, 2004, 04:53:30 pm »

Quote from: AdamS on July 11, 2004, 04:38:04 pm

Some of a ducks quacks don't echo - scientists don't know why

Scientists don't know how a cat purs

Scientists know nothing

AdamS · « **Reply #210 on:** July 11, 2004, 05:00:42 pm »

Quote from: AlBillBol on July 11, 2004, 04:53:30 pm

Scientists know nothing

I'm a bit of a ludite at heart

BSBW · « **Reply #211 on:** July 11, 2004, 05:00:50 pm »

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

BSBW · « **Reply #212 on:** July 14, 2004, 07:52:24 am »

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their arse. I hoped they wiped the fucker first.

Roddysul · « **Reply #213 on:** July 14, 2004, 11:08:29 am »

potato plants are highly poisonous in all parts of the plant except the actual potato bit - and even that is if it's green. The poison is destroyed by boiling

BSBW · « **Reply #214 on:** July 14, 2004, 01:16:10 pm »

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

Graeme · « **Reply #215 on:** July 14, 2004, 02:01:14 pm »

Quote from: s@h on July 8, 2004, 01:19:37 pm

I'm sure Roddy will correct me if I'm wrong, but your hair continues to grow after you've died.

I'm alive and mine doesn't grow

Al Bol · « **Reply #216 on:** July 14, 2004, 02:07:44 pm »

Quote from: Col on July 8, 2004, 02:26:10 am

a 'Wigan kebab' actually consists of 3 skewered pies

I never knew that and I live in a part of Wigan.

Not that Golborners do consider themselves to be Wiganers though.

Anthony · « **Reply #217 on:** July 14, 2004, 04:30:33 pm »

From today's F365 mediawatch

In Chinese, Wayne Rooney's surname is rendered with characters that are pronounced Lu Ni. Apparently that translates as:

'Stupid Buddhist nun'.

Col · « **Reply #218 on:** July 14, 2004, 06:20:31 pm »

Quote from: AlBillBol on July 14, 2004, 02:07:44 pm

I never knew that and I live in a part of Wigan.

Not that Golborners do consider themselves to be Wiganers though.

Nobody outside Wigan wants to consider themselves Wigginers.

Leigh is the way forward.

Al Bol · « **Reply #219 on:** July 14, 2004, 07:55:42 pm »

Quote from: Col on July 14, 2004, 06:20:31 pm

Nobody outside Wigan wants to consider themselves Wigginers.

Leigh is the way forward.

The way forward to what? The 19th Century?

Col · « **Reply #220 on:** July 14, 2004, 09:01:43 pm »

Cheeky bar steward, at least we're a town in our own right

Al Bol · « **Reply #221 on:** July 14, 2004, 09:04:54 pm »

Quote from: Col on July 14, 2004, 09:01:43 pm

Cheeky bar steward, at least we're a town in our own right

Yeah, but Sir Roger was born here (the World Cup Winner and former Liverpool striker as opposed to the member on these forums).

BSBW · « **Reply #222 on:** July 14, 2004, 09:37:32 pm »

Penile Factoids:

Very hung men in Hollywood have been called "Hollywood loaves" (and the women who go after them "size queens"). No one disputes that some men who belong to this coveted club are:
Liam Neeson: According to an article in Penthouse, actress Dana Delany once said that if Liam Neeson, James Woods, and Ed Begley Jr., were placed in the same room, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
Bruce Willis: He was exposed in "The Color of Night." According to Chuck Thompson's amazing newsletter (filled with stories about celebrity penises and even an occasional photo), in the director's cut, one can still ''ogle Bruce's big thick circumcised shlong. . . . There's almost more hair down there than on his head. . . . Keep it coming! We want to die hard."

Sean Connery: When he was young, he posed nude in art classes-and supposedly caused at least one artist to drop her pencil.
David Letterman: One of his fans has created a Web site called "Dave's Basket," consisting of various shots of Dave "stretching out" his jeans.
Warren Beatty: According to Penis Size and Enlargement, Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty's sister, once said that she wanted to be in a movie with her brother so she could see what all the fuss was about.
Don Johnson: He's said to be as big around as a beer can.

Others with a mountain of evidence stacked up against them:
Patrick Stewart
Peter Lawford
Brendan Fraser
Rob Lowe
Harrison Ford
Ryan O'Neal
David Duchovny
Alex Baldwin
Charles Bronson
Jack Nicholson
Jason Priestly
James Caan
Jim Carrey
Matt Dillon
Woody Harrelson
Tommy Lee Jones
Lyle Lovett
Bruce Jenner
Jason Patric
Robert Redford
Jimmy Smits
Christopher Reeve
Kiefer Sutherland
Steve Martin
Michael Caine
Dolph Lundgren
Sean Penn
Dick Cavett

The Legend Lives On
Did Elvis belong to the "National Endowment of the Arts?" He used to refer to his pole as "Little Elvis," but he also once described Little Elvis as "a big ole ugly Hillbilly pecker." So who knows whether he left women all shook up or not.
John Wayne was probably more of a duchess than a duke. Photos of him in women's clothes, complete with pocketbook, appeared in the tabloids.
Frank Sinatra was so endowed that one of his wives, famous actress Ava Gardner, said of him, "He only weighs 120, but 100 pounds is cock."
Clark Gable was called the King of Hollywood, but an old-time movie star once said that he was so small, he was practically the Queen of Hollywood.
Errol Flynn was so hung that he entertained Hollywood partygoers by playing "You Are My Sunshine" on the piano-using only his organ.
A few other well-endowed old-timers:
Charlie Chaplin's tool was referred to as "the eighth wonder of the world."
Gary Cooper was supposedly "hung like a horse."
Ernest Hemingway was "like a 30-30 rifle shell."
Roddy McDowall was not only endowed but flexible, and supposedly performed self-fellatio in front of others as a "party trick."

I went anonymous

Anthony · « **Reply #223 on:** July 14, 2004, 11:43:30 pm »

The word "penal" refers to prisons whereas the word "penile" refers to penises.

BSBW · « **Reply #224 on:** July 15, 2004, 10:54:27 am »

Don't know what your talking about

Walshy nMe® · « **Reply #225 on:** July 15, 2004, 11:45:05 am »

If the worlds supply of oxygen ran out, we would all die.

Maz · « **Reply #226 on:** July 15, 2004, 12:15:10 pm »

With almost a 70% sugar content, raisins can contribute to tooth decay as much as other sweet snacks.

cochyn · « **Reply #227 on:** July 15, 2004, 12:41:39 pm »

A nuggett of gold the size of a piece of Dairy Milk, can produce enough gold leaf to cover a football field.

Maz · « **Reply #228 on:** July 15, 2004, 12:42:37 pm »

Quote from: cochyn on July 15, 2004, 12:41:39 pm

A nuggett of gold the size of a piece of Dairy Milk, can produce enough gold leaf to cover a football field.

BSBW · « **Reply #229 on:** July 15, 2004, 01:14:21 pm »

There are men in Guam whose full-time job it is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time... Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry

Roddysul · « **Reply #230 on:** July 15, 2004, 05:13:22 pm »

Quote from: Walshy Kopite on July 15, 2004, 11:45:05 am

If the worlds supply of oxygen ran out, we would all die.

However, life on Earth started when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere at all. Oxygen was a rather toxic and dangerous waste gas produced by plants

Millsee · « **Reply #231 on:** July 15, 2004, 05:17:57 pm »

Quote from: Roddysul on July 15, 2004, 05:13:22 pm

However, life on Earth started when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere at all. Oxygen was a rather toxic and dangerous waste gas produced by plants

Still is in some forms. O3 for example.

Roddysul · « **Reply #232 on:** July 15, 2004, 05:29:27 pm »

however - if it wasn't for O3 we'd all fry and have skin cancer

Anthony · « **Reply #233 on:** July 15, 2004, 06:39:58 pm »

And if it wasn't for O2 we would all be on T-Mobile!

Missus · « **Reply #234 on:** July 15, 2004, 09:19:37 pm »

Quote from: Anthony on July 15, 2004, 06:39:58 pm

And if it wasn't for O2 we would all be on T-Mobile!

BSBW · « **Reply #235 on:** July 16, 2004, 01:57:50 pm »

Over 11,000 people are injured every year trying out new sexual positions

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Emmy · « **Reply #236 on:** July 16, 2004, 03:17:42 pm »

The total capacity of water stored in the atmosphere at any time is enough to provide 2.5 cm of rain over the Earth’s surface.

BSBW · « **Reply #237 on:** July 16, 2004, 05:00:14 pm »

Sharon Stone once said, "I can't put a sentence together so thank God I can take my clothes off." But she now claims she was tricked into that infamous pantyless shot. She claims that the director told her to remove her panties because they reflected too much light.
Sure. As her friend Joe Eszterhas explained it, it would have been impossible for Sharon Stone not to know exactly what was going to be filmed. He wrote, "The shot had to be lighted, and the hair and makeup people were between her legs most of the morning." Saying she didn't realize what was going to happen was "Sharon's way of saying that she didn't inhale."

Roddysul · « **Reply #238 on:** July 16, 2004, 07:11:57 pm »

Quote from: BSBW on July 16, 2004, 01:57:50 pm

Over 11,000 people are injured every year trying out new sexual positions .

BSBW · « **Reply #239 on:** July 16, 2004, 08:45:31 pm »

Mel Gibson, a notorious practical joker, when he was working on the set of Lethal Weapon 4, put one of Joe Pesci's cigars in the, ahem, wrong end. He didn't let Pesci know about it until after he had smoked it.