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I'm not sure if there's a thread similar to this already. It's basically just a place to put things that you have recently become aware of or found interesting. Obviously it should be something that you would think a lot of people do not know already. I'll start with something that I only became aware of recently...
Ray Houghton has worked for Sports Interactive as a consultant on their PC & Xbox360 game Football Manager since 2002.
Note: It doesn't have to relate to Football/Sport.
Mel Gibson's mother is from Longford and has a life long devotion to St Mel (same name as the catederal in Longford) and named her famous son after him.
windmills always turn anti clockwise,except here in Ireland
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!( Pat Dolan excluded);)
They are more galaxies in the universe than grains of sand on earth.
On a similar note, in pre-famine Ireland, peasants ate a stone weight of potatoes every day.Quote:
Originally Posted by strangeirish
Also, in a similar vein to The Boss' post, there are more possible positions in a game of chess than there are atoms in the universe, I think. That's why it's not yet close to being solved (it's currently only solved for all positions with six pieces on the board). By contrast, draughts is a proven draw.
There are no Dutch Elms left in Britain today - Completely wiped out
Ketchup leaves the bottle at a speed of 13 miles per year
The inscription on the grave of Elvis misspells his full name as per his birth cert.
A man wrote a 50,000 word novel without using the letter e. (too lazy to get the full details for ye at the moment as I'm writing from the iPhone.)
There are no Burger Kings in Finland.
The sooty shearwater has the longest migration distance.
Mozzarella cheese is named in honour of legendary Smiths front man Morrissey.
A rabbit is unable to vomit.
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.
That's also true of rats (and most rodents - not Groundhogs though for some reason). Not shocking, you may suppose, as they're close relatives. Not true! Rabbits are more closely related to horses than to rats. My favourite piece of animal kingdom vomiting knowledge concerns wrinkled frogs, a species in which the vomiting response "varies seasonally". It leaves me with the image of a couple of zoologists in a lab going,Quote:
Originally Posted by Onefootednopace
"Is it vomiting?"
"No."
"How about now?"
"No. Wait, yes. What did you do?"
"It's just gone midnight. I guess it's seasonal."
Bulimic rats must be really fat.
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Originally Posted by John83
I knew Gremlins were real
Iceland has the oldest parliament in the world, the "Althing", founded in 930AD, and may be (loosely or arguably) called the oldest democracy in the world.