Adult - Random Facts cause Jess is bored - Page 3

((deleted)) · 08-01-2009, 05:48 PM

^^^i didn't think it was mince pies that were illegal, i just thought it was illegal to eat them on christmas day! Oliver Cromwell banned it because he thought we would stop celebrating christmas wth such gluttony if we weren't allowed mince pies........some puritans!

rockaroni · 08-01-2009, 05:57 PM

Oh, maybe I was told wrong, I knew it was to do with Cromwell. But it's like Christmas pudding and Christmas cake too. Kinda makes sense. Still!

((deleted)) · 08-01-2009, 06:03 PM

there's probably a few different versions tbh.

damn puritains making christmas celebrations illegal.

Casper_Fading · 08-01-2009, 09:41 PM

mince pies are a cruel mockery of propery pies. who the hell likes fruit mince! EUGH!

Sigma · 08-01-2009, 10:13 PM

it's still legal to shoot welshman with a bow and arrow if they are in the centre of Shrewsbury on a Sunday, so I've heard

Schleier von Dunst · 08-01-2009, 10:16 PM

^ and also after 8 o'clock on any day

The One Who · 08-01-2009, 10:17 PM

Apparently you can legally take a King James spaniel into any public building in the UK, even if it's not a guide dog.

Christmas Day is one of the most popular days of the year for people to fill in their tax returns.

Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland are not countries.

Sigma · 08-01-2009, 10:18 PM

Andorra's Ministry of Defence has an annual budget of €20. They use it or blank cartridges for ceremonial purposes

Misunderstood. · 08-01-2009, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Femme Fatale

Look at him win at life.

HA HA HA

Stue · 08-01-2009, 11:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tokoloshe

Andorra's Ministry of Defence has an annual budget of €20. They use it or blank cartridges for ceremonial purposes

thats fantastic and in a strange way sorta cute...

and believe it or not but the average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

Casper_Fading · 09-01-2009, 04:56 AM

The United States of America technically only has 46 states, as four are commonwealths.

Animad · 09-01-2009, 10:38 AM

^^ That adds up to 50... Isn't there 51 states now; you missed out Hawaii/ Alaska?

I have loads more coz I know loads of really random things but my mind has all of a sudden gone blank.

Apart from bites from other human beings are the most likely of any other animal to cause you problems, the 2nd is a cats.

The One Who · 09-01-2009, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Animad

^^ That adds up to 50... Isn't there 51 states now; you missed out Hawaii/ Alaska?

There's 50 states in the USA, that's including Hawaii and Alaska. The UK is the 51st state.

rockaroni · 09-01-2009, 06:38 PM

A few random things I've found out over the last few months by drunkenly texting AQA with daft questions.

Vegans generally believe it is OK to swallow semen, as it is coming from a consentual human being.

It is possible to have wrists and no hands, but not possible to have hands and no wrists. There are 27 bones in the human hand.

A giraffe's face feels hard and bony.

It is possible to vibrate and not be a vibrator.

The average capacity of the male bladder is 1 pint, and can hold up to 3 before the need to too desperate. Therefore it is possible to piss a pint.

The average number of units consumed on new years eve by a British adult is 7.5 units.

Sinfonie · 10-01-2009, 02:02 AM

Speaking of semen..

According to the Re/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids (Paul Spinard, 1994), the average man produces about 3.5 mL of semen per ejaculation whose nutritional value is:

less than 1 calorie
150 mg. protien
11 mg. carbohydrates
6 mg. fat.
3 mg. cholesterol
7% US RDA potassium
3% US RDA copper
3% US RDA zinc
300 million spermatoza

How long do you think it will be before men have to have the nutritional piecharts tattooed on their body?

Leo Pard · 10-01-2009, 02:12 AM

Did you know that you can still be executed in the uk for 'piracey on the high seas' and 'high treason'.

*wants to try this out..*

Sinfonie · 10-01-2009, 02:23 AM

High Seas just means the bits of sea that don't belong to a country.

And technically, by law, all you have to do to be classed as a pirate is steal something off a boat.

Leo Pard · 10-01-2009, 02:37 AM

:] sounds like fun.

Mandimoo · 10-01-2009, 04:06 AM

it is illegal in the UK to serve alcohol to a known prostitute.... another of those old fashioned laws.

Mandimoo · 10-01-2009, 04:08 AM

just found a genious website - enjoy!

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

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

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

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

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.