The QI Thread

[Taekwon-joe]

Got something interesting to say that not many other people might know? Got a fact to share that is not quite what people would expect to hear? Post it in hear.

Remember that they must be 'Quite Interesting'.

For example:
Mammals that lay eggs are known as monotremes. There are only 3 living monotremes. The duck-billed platypus and two species of echidna, all of which are only found in Australia and New Guinia.

[worldh8er666]

the largest canivore is the polar bear
the smallest is the dwarf weasel
bats ARENT rodents
a certain charles ozbore hiccuped every second and half for 69 years
seals are also called pinapeds
extracting venom from a snake is called milking a snake
sirius A is the closest star 8.64 light years away
the imperial place in bayjing is 178 acres

[Al]

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30658

[Snave]

-All polar bears are left handed.
-A hairy back is inherited from the mothers side.

[albie_123]

sirius A is the closest star 8.64 light years away

WROUNG. Our sun is the closest.

[Glitch]

A fruitfly's sperm is 5cm.
A fruitfly's generation lasts two weeks.
Fruitflies were the first animal to go into space.
Exams were invented at Cambridge University.
Alan Davies used to mistake parsnips for chips.

Learnt all this on QI last night, and more.

[terrorbite]

A fruitfly's sperm is 5cm.

Yeah I saw that on last night's show.

Just to clarify what Glitch said, a single sperm of a fruit fly is apparently 5.8cm long. Apparently.

edit: Just found this:

Certain Fruit Flies of the genus Drosophila make the world's longest sperm. On species that biologist Daniel Lachaise studies makes sperm that are two-thirds of an inch long - more than 300 times longer than human sperm, 600 times longer than hippopotamus sperm (which are the world's shortest), and 6 times longer than the itself. The fly is not ripped apart by its own stupendous sex cells, however, because the sperm are hair-thin and all balled up. Still, making such gametes is a considerable effort for a small insect. "In humans," says Lachaise, "an equivalent energy investment would mean that males would make sperm 40 feet long."

[Glitch]

^^What he said.

[allfalldown]

the largest canivore is the polar bear
the smallest is the dwarf weasel
bats ARENT rodents
a certain charles ozbore hiccuped every second and half for 69 years
seals are also called pinapeds
extracting venom from a snake is called milking a snake
sirius A is the closest star 8.64 light years away
the imperial place in bayjing is 178 acresFor someone who knows such a lot of facts you seem to have very little knowledge of spelling and grammar :p

DID YOU KNOW?: You can see further at night than you can during the day.

[woobi]

Di you know? - On 25 October 1997, a mass tug-of-war contest was held at a park along the Keelung River in Taipei in celebration of Retrocession Day (the 52nd anniversary of the end of the Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan). Over 1,600 participants joined in the contest, exerting over 80,000 kg of force on a 5-cm nylon rope that could bear a force of about 26,000 kg at most.
Within seconds the rope snapped, severing the left arms of two men (Yang Chiung-ming and Chen Ming-kuo) below the shoulder. (The severing of the limbs was believed to have been caused by sheer rebounding force of the broken rope rather than the men's having wrapped the rope around their arms, as was sometimes reported.) The victims were taken to Mackay Memorial Hospital and underwent seven hours of microsurgery to reattach their arms.

[maw3193]

I read that on snopes.

[woobi]

:ninja:...uh...yeah.

Did You Know - There IS a word in the English language that rhymes with purple. Curple.

[maw3193]

And here was me thinking it was "Myrple".
CURSE YOU IMAGINATION!

[woobi]

I got it wrong, didn't I?
Crap.
Did you know - In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony.

[maw3193]

I'd hate to see what the mother in law looked like. :D

[esquilax]

Did You Know - There IS a word in the English language that rhymes with purple.


Of course..."burple" - when you burp and accidentally throw up purple stuff :p

(hope you weren't eating)

[Simon]

Of course..."burple" - when you burp and accidentally throw up purple stuff :p

(hope you weren't eating)

I was...I was eating the purple stuff.

Now this little gem of random information intrigues me. It is illegal to play tennis in the streets of Cambridge. Now correct me if I'm wrong but surely its illegal to play tennis in the streets anywhere in the UK?

My QI fact is St Nicholas, otherwise known as Father Christmas, is the patron saint of thieves, virgins and Communist Russia...not sure if I believe the communist bit, but it sounds hilarious!

[esquilax]

It is legal for Hackney carriage drivers to urinate on the rear offside wheel of their car. This happened in my town recently, and a woman complained about it. She was told that under a 158-year-old law he was perfectly allowed to do it.

Also, another Bournemouth fact: There is only one street in the town.

I was...I was eating the purple stuff.

Purple is a fruit :eng101:

[Simon]

Purple is a fruit :eng101:

Hahaha yes, yes it is.

Alfred Nobel, the man whom the Nobel prize was named after, was the inventor of dynamite :rolleyes:

[Stringy Pete]

the largest land based canivore is the polar bear

Edited for truth
Can't be upsetting the Sperm Whale now can we ;)

[RobW]

Every time someone watches anything to do with or involving Ant and Dec on the small screen 56 Vietnamese childs die for the production of the show by being beaten with canteloupes.


May not be true.

[Simon]

Every time someone watches anything to do with or involving Ant and Dec on the small screen 56 Vietnamese childs die for the production of the show by being beaten with canteloupes.


May not be true.

Im pretty sure it is.

Mao Tse-Tung, infamous chairman of the Peoples Republic of China, was an assistant librarian.

[allfalldown]

Can't be upsetting the Sperm Whale now can we ;)Surely the blue whale is the biggest? They eat krill, as far as I know. Krill are animals, therefore blue whale = carnivore. Since the blue whale is also the largest animal alive today, it must also be the largest carnivore.

QED.

[JJSL]

62% of Bulgarians describe themselves as either \'not very\' or \'not at all\' happy. bet you didn't know that :p

The average person in the United Kingdom drinks as much tea as 23 Italians.

Moldova has one of the smallest artillery forces in Europe, and the highest rate in the world of death by powered lawnmower.

[stalefish]

Over 3 million Americans claim to have been abducted by aliens.

[JJSL]

ha ha ha what idiots *aliens come and abduct me while posting this* HELP!

oh yer and Two-thirds of the world\'s executions occur in China.

[worldh8er666]

Over 3 million Americans claim to have been abducted by aliens.
nearly all of americans claim to have been abducted by aliens but this proves there is intelligent life out there because they bring 'em back.
...

[JJSL]

he he why don't they abduct english people?

[Taekwon-joe]

he he why don't they abduct english people?

They would overpower them with their superior linguistic skills.

[JJSL]

hmmm yer good idea :D

[stalefish]

And of course tea. We drink 23 times more than the Italians!As you read this, the Moon is moving away from us. Each year, the Moon steals some of Earth's rotational energy, and uses it to propel itself about 3.8 centimeters higher in its orbit. Researchers say that when it formed, the Moon was about 14,000 miles (22,530 kilometers) from Earth. It's now more than 280,000 miles, or 450,000 kilometers away.Yay for google.

[ZOIDBERG]

Kiwis have the shortest beak of any bird, because beaks are measured from the tip to the nostrils. Also, silver also has a word that rhymes with it... chilver.

[junior]

Earth's atmosphere is, proportionally, thinner than the skin of an apple.

[dejosc]

Surely the blue whale is the biggest? They eat krill, as far as I know. Krill are animals, therefore blue whale = carnivore. Since the blue whale is also the largest animal alive today, it must also be the largest carnivore.

QED.

umm no because it said land-based and a blue whale doesn't come on land very often

[Mozzer]

Another one from last night's QI:

There are more molecules in a glass of water than there are grains of sand in the world.

And from Alan Davies' interview with Jonathan Ross a few minutes later:

Stephen Fry's laser eye treatment messed up.

[JJSL]

cool just have to hope a giant peeler doesn't come along:D

[junior]

umm no because it said land-based and a blue whale doesn't come on land very often

And the blue whale also eats sea-vegetation like plankton, which makes it an omnivore, not a carnivore. This goes for all whales I think, as they generally eat whatever is in its way that isn't big. So lots of little sea things.

The polar-bear only eats meat, making it a carnivore.

[dejosc]

ah thankyou junior, i knew there was something else i forgot *shifty eyes*

[allfalldown]

umm no because it said land-based and a blue whale doesn't come on land very oftenDon't blame me, I'm not the one who started going on about whales. Excuse me a moment while I go and quote the person who started it.

Edit- Damn, it is my bad. I misread the post. Sorry all.

[/alan davies]

[dejosc]

ok i'm dreadfully sorry

[esquilax]

ok i'm dreadfully sorry

That's incredibly polite...

[Stringy Pete]

Land based was never first stipulated, making Polar bear incorrect, I corrected this and stated the correct Largest Carnivore in the process.

Silly people :p

[Taekwon-joe]

Anywho, the Greek philosopher, Chrysippus, is said to have died from a fit of laughter after seeing a donkey eat some figs.

[Meadow]

LOL



















































Figs.

[rocking-eggface]

did you know 88% of statistics are made up

[allfalldown]

All baby's eyes are blue when they're born.

[Erasmus]

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36343&page=1

how come when I do it, it only reaches 2 pages and they're full of crap?
Actually don't answer that, I don't think I'd like the answer.

On topic:

- The red dye on Smarties is made out of crushed beetles.
- Only humans and armadillos can get leprosy
- There is no word for blue in welsh or ancient Greek

[allfalldown]

- There is no word for blue in welsh or ancient GreekWhat colour are their newborn baby's eyes then?

[Angel@heart]

What colour are their newborn baby's eyes then?
LMAO
*giggles*
Anyway Red dye on smarties is made out of crushed beetles? Is that legal? ok scrap that - is it safe? Oh well it must be i mean smarties make you taste the rainbow
Are there beetles in the rainbow then?
ok QIs for you all
1) The average person spends three years of their life on the loo.
2) Most toilets flush in the key of E flat
3) In one year, Americans generate enough hazardous waste to fill the New Orleans Superdome 1,500 times over.
4) Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors. :eek: i bet hardly anyone knew that!

[Erasmus]

actually, it's skittles that make you taste the rainbow. Apparently.

also, William Shakespeare invented the word "elbow"

[terrorbite]

The bodies of newborn babies contain no bacteria. As a result, if they die, they do not decay, but become mummified.

[Erasmus]

hair, toenails and fingernails do not continue to grow after death, it's just a popular myth

[terrorbite]

hair, toenails and fingernails do not continue to grow after death, it's just a popular myth

Yep. It just looks that way because the skin is shrivelling up.

[Angel@heart]

actually, it's skittles that make you taste the rainbow. Apparently.

I knew that... :ninja: i was just testing you :p
1)During a severe windstorm or rainstorm, the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side.

2) If frightened or threatened, a mother rabbit may abandon, ignore, or eat her young. (Ewww :eek:)

3) You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. At worst, you would lose consciousness and the lungs would start to breath automatically.

[terrorbite]

2) If frightened or threatened, a mother rabbit may abandon, ignore, or eat her young. (Ewww :eek:)

Other animals do that too, such as hamsters, gerbils etc.

[Meatball]

Patrick Moore is turning over in his forum grave:

(oh well)

The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.

[Erasmus]

Other animals do that too, such as hamsters, gerbils etc.

why?!
So the rabbit is being tracked by, say, a stoat.
It picks up the stoat's scent and thinks: "shit! A stoat! Only one thing for it; better eat my children!"
As I've said before and will indubitably say again, there is something fundamentally wrong with the universe.

[rocking-eggface]

americans spend as much on internet porn as they do on world aid, shiver

ALSO if u chopped of a life girraffe's head it blood would squirt six metres into the air

[terrorbite]

why?!
So the rabbit is being tracked by, say, a stoat.
It picks up the stoat's scent and thinks: "shit! A stoat! Only one thing for it; better eat my children!"
As I've said before and will indubitably say again, there is something fundamentally wrong with the universe.

Its often linked to a dietary deficiency. If the mother can't produce enough milk, she might eat some of her babies to give her enough nutrients to feed the rest.

[allfalldown]

ALSO if u chopped of a life girraffe's head it blood would squirt six metres into the airRoffle, I'd like to see that in action :D

[strawberry jam]

also, William Shakespeare invented the word "elbow"

that one's not quite true.

[catinabox]

In addition to what Erasmus said, the Cochineal beetle is used to produce red dye, which is used in lots of products such as sweets and lipstick. Yes it is safe and legal. In Lanzarote (sp?) where I went on holiday once, they farm these beetles, which live on cacti, and on a your of the island the tour guide took one of these beetles and squashed it, red stuff came out.
Not sure if this has been done before but there are two rhymes for purple: curple (the part of a horse's reins which go under its tail) and hurple (to limp). There is a rhyme for silver as well, which is chilver (a ewe lamb), and I think I once heard the name McSporrange, which could be a suitable rhyme for orange if it was in the dictionary.

[Erasmus]

that one's not quite true.

Tis

[terrorbite]

In addition to what Erasmus said, the Cochineal beetle is used to produce red dye, which is used in lots of products such as sweets and lipstick. Yes it is safe and legal. In Lanzarote (sp?) where I went on holiday once, they farm these beetles, which live on cacti, and on a your of the island the tour guide took one of these beetles and squashed it, red stuff came out.
Not sure if this has been done before but there are two rhymes for purple: curple (the part of a horse's reins which go under its tail) and hurple (to limp). There is a rhyme for silver as well, which is chilver (a ewe lamb), and I think I once heard the name McSporrange, which could be a suitable rhyme for orange if it was in the dictionary.

Heh, I saw the cochineal beetles on a Lanzarote tour too :D

Also, orange = door-hinge... duh ;)

[catinabox]

Door-hinge doesn't really rhyme if you say it properly, and it's not exactly one word. I'm not sure about the word elbow, but I know Shakespere invented these words: leapfrog, majestic, summit, excellent, hurry, gust, monumental, barefaced, lonely
edit: also, Shakespere used 18,000 different words, while the bible only used 8000.

[dodo queen]

Something whale related again!
The killer whale is not actually a whale, it is really the largest member of the dolphin family (Yes, whales and dolphins are in seperate familys :p)

[Nuclear Spoon]

American catseyes break when you run overthem.


Because they're shite.


<3 Sean Lock.

Also,

In September 2001, the Democratic Republic of the Congo discovered that it had 21,652 civil servants on its payroll who do not exist.

lollerage.

[strawberry jam]

Tis


proof plskthxbi

[catinabox]

American catseyes break when you run overthem.


True! I saw that on QI. THe Americans call them Bot's Dots, because the guy who inventet them there was called Bot. The English ones are better however, they clean themselves when you drive over them

[HobNob]

the longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds

There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard

Unlike most fish, electric eels cannot get enough oxygen from water. Approximately every five minutes, they must surface to breathe, or they will drown

China has more English speakers than the United States

An 1898 novel by Morgan Robertson foretold the sinking of the Titanic, 14 years before the great ship went down. In Robertson's book, the ship, which has a passenger list filled with wealthy and powerful people, is on its maiden voyage when it strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on an April night and sinks. The name of the ship in Robertson's book: the Titan.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run

Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously and if you eat too much you can start hallucinating...take THAT Jamie Oliver and your grating nutmeg on pasta lol

In British pubs, beer is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."

in Uruguay intoxication is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself

[faragher]

Dogs can't look up.

/edit

I know, I know...

[Angel@heart]

Dogs can't look up.

/edit

I know, I know...
I never got that one - is it true?? well i know it must be but i need explanations!

[albie_123]

No. I've seen a dog look up many a time.

[Angel@heart]

No. I've seen a dog look up many a time.
That's what i thought. they look up at you when they're laying down and u tell them to budge :p hee hee

[rocking-eggface]

british people spend over half a billion pounds on sausages each year.

[terrorbite]

british people spend over half a billion pounds on sausages each year.

Someone watched The F Word last night ;)

Did you see them cooking squirrels? Nooooo! :(

[Angel@heart]

Someone watched The F Word last night ;)

Did you see them cooking squirrels? Nooooo! :(
People actually liked the taste of the squirrels.
I wouldn't mind trying it
Althoguh the thought is wierd...but it cant be wrong coz its the same as chicken in a way :rolleyes:

[Taekwon-joe]

I had no idea this thread of mine was still going.

Now on with another fact:
Did you know that the proper name for this symbol # is an octothorpe?

[Chrisper]

"A short history of nearly everything" by Bill Bryson is a fact haven.

"For reasons that are still poorly understood, at depths beyond about 30 meters nitrogen becomes a powerful intoxicant. Under its influence divers had been known to offer their air hoses to passing fish or to decide to try to have a smoke break."

Aluminium in England, Aluminum in America. Which is right? According to this book neither. Humphrey Davy originally called it "Alumium", keeping with the "ium" trend. Some collegues persuaded him to rename it "Aluminum" for ease of saying. This is what America adopted. The British didn't like that and, wanting to keep with the "ium" trend (and quite rightly so), they put another I in (rather than taking the N away and thus adding anotehr syllable (sp?)) making it "Aluminium".

And talking about bacteria: "A species called Micrococcus radiophilus was found living hapilly in the waste tanks of Nuclear reactors, gorging itself on plutonium and whatever else was there."

After talking about the poor methods of the way organisms had been classified: "Even less comfortably ssceptabe to catagorisation was the peculiar group of organisms formally called myxomycetes but more commonly known as slime moulds...
"When times are good, they exist as one-celled individuals, much like amoebas. But when conditions grow tough, they crawl to a central gathering place and become, almost miraculously, a slug. The slug is not a thing of beauty and it doesn't go very far - usually just from the bottom of a pile of leaf litter to the top, where it is in a slightly more exposed position - but for millions of years this may well have been the niftiest trick in the universe.
"And it doesn't stop there. Having hauled itself up to a more favourable locale, the slime mould transforms itself yet again, taking on the form of a plant. By some curious orderly process the cells reconfigure, like the members of a tiny marching band, to make a stalk upon atop which forms a bulb known as a fruiting body. Inside the fruiting body are millions of spores which, at the approprate moment, are released to the wind to blow away to become single-celled organisms that can start the whole process again."
It then goes on to mention that most of these cells aren't related with most other cells with them in the slug/plant forms, let alone any other life on Earth.

Edit: Excuse the spelling - numb hands.

[Angel@heart]

After talking about the poor methods of the way organisms had been classified: "Even less comfortably ssceptabe to catagorisation was the peculiar group of organisms formally called myxomycetes but more commonly known as slime moulds...
Thought you were talking about Orgasms for a minute :rolleyes:
:ninja: No i do not have a dirty mind :ninja: :p

[Peachy]

In 1964 a young Zimbabwean was stung 2,243 times by bees. Amazingly he lived.

[Chrisper]

*shudder*

On another note, your line isn't pure. If you go up two generations you need 6 people to get together for you to exist (2 parents and 4 grandparents). 8 generations and it's over 250. 20 generations up and it's 1,048,576 people who needed to embrace each other for you to exist. 30 generations and it's 1,073,741,824 people. To the time of the romans it's about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, several thousand times the amount of people who have ever lived. This can't be right.

That was all assuming that everyone in your line is completely unrelated to their partner. They aren't. Most people that you meet are distantly related to you. Your line isn't pure.

[Peachy]

Interesting animal facts:

Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.

The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

Deer can't eat hay.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

[maw3193]

It then goes on to mention that most of these cells aren't related with most other cells with them in the slug/plant forms, let alone any other life on Earth.
I KNEW IT! The aliens metamorphose among us! :zoidberg:

[Peachy]

A massive fan of the games console John Sterling actually changed his name to Sony Playstation.

[crab]

Man, this was the bomb the first time round.

It's the bomb the second time, too.

SPEAKING OF WHICH: the stuff TNT (or maybe dynamite) is made of was originally intended as fertiliser.

[Chrisper]

The air that we breath is 21%* oxygen. Without that oxygen we'd die. It sems a bit odd that that oxygen kills us (or at least is the main reason that we die of old age). Oxygen is a very corrosive gas. It causes our mitochondria to work (the things that turn oxygen into energy basically) but they make these things called free radicals. The body has its own defences against these free radicals but over time they are able to build up, leading to you body going wrong and you croaking it (not literally, of course, though the oxygen may cause your voice box to erode...)

The other reason is that life doesn't want you around too long. It wants you to pass on your genes and then snuff it so that you don't "water down" unique qualities that other generations have. Your cells, after a while, are programmed to die or stop functioning or become cancerous or whatever (that's why cancer is a huge killer, we've defeated the other diseases that kill people and we are around log enough for this "time bomb" inside your cells to go off).

That may have not made any sense as I'm not sure I understand it myself

*Edit: Ok you win freddystarfish

[maw3193]

Tri-Nitrate Tolulene, yep, seems like it, what with fetility being dependent on nitrate content. I wonder how they found out it was explosive, though.

[Bisyss]

SPEAKING OF WHICH: the stuff TNT (or maybe dynamite) is made of was originally intended as fertiliser.
And was invented by Alfred Nobel, the same man who created the Nobel Peace Prize, which will remain as one of the biggest ironies in history.

[maw3193]

He tried to make up for making one of the most explosive substances in history by promoting peace. Not that much irony, there, because it is intentional.

[Spleen]

if a male tiger and a lioness have offspring its called a tigron and is basically a lion with stripes but if its a male lion and a female tiger its a liger and can be around 5 and a half foot high up to its shoulder but unfortunately its illegal to make them in britain

sponges are the only organisms in the animalia classification without nervous systems

[Peachy]

The air that we breath is 26% oxygen. Without that oxygen we'd die. It sems a bit odd that that oxygen kills us (or at least is the main reason that we die of old age). Oxygen is a very corrosive gas. It causes our mitochondria to work (the things that turn oxygen into energy basically) but they make these things called free radicals. The body has its own defences against these free radicals but over time they are able to build up, leading to you body going wrong and you croaking it (not literally, of course, though the oxygen may cause your voice box to erode...)

The other reason is that life doesn't want you around too long. It wants you to pass on your genes and then snuff it so that you don't "water down" unique qualities that other generations have. Your cells, after a while, are programmed to die or stop functioning or become cancerous or whatever (that's why cancer is a huge killer, we've defeated the other diseases that kill people and we are around log enough for this "time bomb" inside your cells to go off).

That may have not made any sense as I'm not sure I understand it myself

Very true. Water is also poison if you drink large amounts of it you upset the nerve signals. You feel confused tired and can't stay awake, death can follow.

[freddiestarfish]

Air is only 21% oxygen.
Get it right.

[esquilax]

A massive fan of the games console John Sterling actually changed his name to Sony Playstation.

I've never heard of the games console John Sterling. Did Sega make it?

[Darkscull]

Water is also poison if you drink large amounts of it you upset the nerve signals. You feel confused tired and can't stay awake, death can follow.

sounds like l'alcol* to me, :)
one little (ie. largely) known fact is that alan davis is very ignorant... however he can solve crimes really well... unless the tv lies





*alcohol

[Peachy]

I've never heard of the games console John Sterling. Did Sega make it?
No the man was called John Sterling and he changed his name to Sony Playstaion.

[maw3193]

Well known fact, ANYTHING in large amounts is bad for you.

[rocking-eggface]

back to TNT, i don't know if this is true but i heard that TNT was made using peanuts..??

[Peachy]

Maybe the complex starch molecule was used to increase combustion.

Thats right I know stuff.

[HobNob]

Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal
category

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet
came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again

The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is
Flint, Michigan, where Michael Moore hails from

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a
statement made by swearing on their testicles

Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode...same is true with bicarb I think

On average people fear spiders more than they do death

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider

The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled with out repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'

Disney's Snow White was originally drawn as a Blonde (good thing she didn't finish as a blonde, or i wouldn't have had an acting career!)

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year

It's impossible to lick your elbow. Two thirds of you will, after reading this, attempt(possibly yet again) to lick your elbow

Babies have no kneecaps when they are born

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes (seven minutes after what?)

King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie. (But I always thought it was Snow White...)

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear

Diet Coke was only invented in 1982

Charlie Brown's father was a barber (this was a question on eggheads the other night)

Before 1954, each Burnt Sienna Crayola Crayon contained approximately 1 microgram of LSD

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

Astronauts can't burp in space

It is legal to marry a dead person in France

[gxfu]

Charlie Brown's father was a barber (this was a question on eggheads the other night)

I knew that. It was clearly given away because Peppermint Patty kept saying that "your dad is a barber - that must mean he's rich! Barbers are rich".

[Darkscull]

these may have been mentioned before in this thread, and there was a chain letter containing them going around a few years ago, but here's some stuff:

Dolphins are the only animal apart from humans to have sex for pleasure...
a pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes...

a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet is:
the small, quick fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.

[Wadi]

Today there will be a bonus prize of 100 points if you can spot the cuttlefish in this thread.

(watch QI tonight)

[HobNob]

I watched it! I remember Alan Davies shouting CUTTLEFISH!!!

[QueenMILF]

If your pregnant its legal to ask a policeman for his helmet so you can wee in it.

Always wanted to try that one to see what they'd say....

[Tweekish]

Today there will be a bonus prize of 100 points if you can spot the cuttlefish in this thread.

(watch QI tonight)

Wasnt it on Marie Curie's head? I vaguely remember it was on a picture of her somewhere.

Despite what people think, you cannot see the Great Wall of China from space with the naked eye.

Its too narrow to be distinguishable.

[Discodoris]

The cuttlefish latin name is Sepia - original sepia colouring (as in the photo of Marie Curie) was derived from squid ink...

[Chassisbot]

back to TNT, i don't know if this is true but i heard that TNT was made using peanuts..??

Crushed shellfish, actually. Makes the chemical which stops TNT asploding randomly.

[crab]

Dolphins are the only animal apart from humans to have sex for pleasure...

I assume you mean heterosexual sex for pleasure.

Roughly 10% of all humans alive, ever, are alive NOW.

And when you hear the term "cuttlefish hypnotise their prey", they actually... Actually, you have just got to see it.

[Taekwon-joe]

Heres a couple of people who were/are known by their mothers maiden names.

William Arden (Shakespeare)
George Ball (Washington)
Albert Koch (Einstein)
Charlie Hill (Chaplin)
Sylvester Labofish (Stallone)
Arnold Jedrny (Schwarzenegger)
Michael Seruse (Jackson)
Frank Garaventi (Sinatra)
Tiger Punsawad (Woods)
Osama Ghanem (bin Laden)


He he! Labofish!!