Quote from BlueFlame :

Him PM'ing himself. Because it's funny.

You said it babe.

I said Random, not funny, what's funny is your post.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Him PM'ing himself. Because it's funny.

Ah har har ha rha hah fhadhdhdhahhahahahahah

No. :doh:

Random fact? The drain holes of some urinals have the shape of a dick!

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Ah har har ha rha hah fhadhdhdhahhahahahahah

No. :doh:

I was being sarcastic.

Quote from BlueFlame :

I was being sarcastic.

Thanks for informing us, without that, I would never of realised.......

Quote from AMB :

Thanks for informing us, without that, I would never of realised.......

I never would of realized that you would never of realized. Thanks for informing me, that you never would of realized.

Quote from BlueFlame :

I never would of realized that you would never of realized. Thanks for informing me, that you never would of realized.

But if you hadn't realised that he hadn't realised, then wouldn't be the one that wasn't realising that he had infact not realised the fact you hadn't realised he had been realised.

Consider yourself bamboozled?

Yes. I am very bamboozled.

I better come up with a fact now. Don't care if it has been posted before, but 49% of the world is woman. Also, 51% is male.

Quote from piggy501 :

49% of the world is woman. Also, 51% is male.

I thought it was the other way around? (51% chance for an X-chromosome to be formed)

Quote from (SaM) :

I thought it was the other way around? (51% chance for an X-chromosome to be formed)

Yesterday was [British] National Sword Swallower's Awareness Day.

Quote from J@tko :

Yesterday was [British] National Sword Swallower's Awareness Day.

I bet you were one of the only two that knew about it. The other person being the one who told you.
In that context, you should have informed a sword swallower while performing his art that his profession had a dedicated day.

"What? Really?" *turns head*

Ok, going through my pupil school planner, it has facts at the bottom of each week. Also had quotations but I'm in this for facts.

• The words racecar and kayak read the same backwards. This is called a palindrome.
  
• Did you know that the Leaning Tower of Pisa has never really been straight?
  
• Did you know the human head consists of 22 bones?
  
• The Bible is available in 2,233 languages.
  
• The mathmatical decimal system was introduced in 4 B.C.
  
• There are more than 2,700 languages spoken in the world.
  
• The Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp was issued in May 1840.
  
• The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.
  
• The worlds busiest bridge is the Howrah Bridge in Calcutta. It transports 57,000 vehicles a day.
  
• Traffic lights were in use before the advent of the motorcar.
  
• Somalia is the only country in the world where citizens speak only one language - Somali.
  
• African elephants only have 4 teeth to chew their food with.
  
• Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
  
• A house fly only lives for 14 days.
  
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
  
• The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki.
  
• The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896.
  
• There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.
  
• There have been 44 Presidents of the United States of America (can I say it said 43, but since time of printing Mr. Obama came along)
  
• Fish and insects do not have eyelids, their eyes are protected by a hardened lens.
  
• A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
  
• In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people.
  
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
  
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm tongue.
  
• No world in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
  
• The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an Elephant.
  
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  
• Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
  
• The average human eats 8 spiders whilst sleeping in a lifetime.
  
• If you spell out consecutive numbers, you would have to go up to one thousand until you found the letter a.
  
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  
• The world's smallest dog is the chihuahua, which means "tiny dog in the sky."
  
• A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
  
• The oldest inhabited city is Damascus, Syria.
  
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked past a rader tube and a chocolate bar in his pocket melted.
  
• Tokyo was once known as Edo.
  
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  
• WOMEN MAKE UP 49% OF THE WORLD POPULATION
  
• A jumbo jet uses up 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
  
• Midday refers to the moment the sun crosses the local meridian.
  
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumpes over the lazy brown dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.
  
• The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
  
• A kangaroo can hop at up to 40mph.
  
• The first credit card was issued in 1951.
  
• The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
  
• The chaffinch has no melody of its own and can only sing by imitating the song of another bird.
  
• A jellyfish is 95% water.
  
• A common flea can live for 22 months without food.
  
• The average person ingests about a ton of food and drink each year.
  

Thats all from this years book. Will go through last years book and see what it has to offer.

Just googled it and got both

I want to be a shark. No diseases from TVE then. !

Nice collection Piggy.

Quote from piggy501 :

• The average human eats 8 spiders whilst sleeping in a lifetime.
  

fake

Quote from chanoman315 :

fake

I don't believe that kind of statistic either. Nobody will ever know if they swallowed a spider so it's like saying ghosts exist really.

Quote from amp88 :

False

The thing about goldfish having a 3 second memory also isn't true. And the Howrad Bridge carries over 150,000 vehicles a day not 57,000 and thats still not the busiest bridge as the George Washington Bridge carries almost 300,000 cars a day unless you include pedestrians on the Howrah as it transports 4 million a day

sitonapotatopanotis backwards is sitonapotatopanotis

Quote from piggy501 :

Ok, going through my pupil school planner, it has facts at the bottom of each week. Also had quotations but I'm in this for facts.

• Fish and insects do not have eyelids, their eyes are protected by a hardened lens.

Fake. Catfish have EyeLids.

Quote from master_lfs.5101 :

• Google is the only site to have been Constantly up since 2001
  
• The internet will crash in 2012
  

Oh shut up. The internet will not crash, grow up and take your fear-mongering internet shit elsewhere.

On topic, I do believe that the average human would consume 8 spiders. If you think about it, you often see spiders when you are sleeping, or well, when you're going to sleep or whatever. You spend much of your life sleeping, so it's inevitable you may eat a couple of things you wouldn't otherwise touch.

Quote from piggy501 :

The world's smallest dog is the chihuahua, which means "tiny dog in the sky."

I rather think it's called after the sate of Mexico Chihuahua.

Funnily though, while it's the smalles dog, it's also Mexicos largest state.

On a sidenote: if there's so much clearly wrong stuff in that school bock, it's actually really scary.

Actually, in 2012 on April the 13th (friday) a meteor is to pass by the earth so close it will dip under the orbit of some of our satellites. Scientists are fairly confident that it will miss us.
What they're not so confident about, is if the orbit of said meteor will change as it passes by, because 7 years later it will return near by us again, on another friday the 13th.

I call BS on that.