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Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.



The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.


The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.


A snail can sleep for three years.
 
Vigo, in Northern Spain is the worlds largest harbour. It's that big, every boat in the world can fit in it, with plenty of room to spare.

The circumference of the cabin on a 737 plane, is the same size as the engine on a Boeing 777.

The second most mountainous country in Europe is Spain, and Madrid is the highest capital city in elevation

There are no longer 9 planets in our solar system. Pluto has been reclassified.

The best snow in this country falls as between +1c and +3c

St Lucia in the Caribbean boasts the world only "drive through" volcano. The road through it is a main road and you actually drive through the crater.

The concrete in the middle of Hoover dam still hasn't set, despite being built over half a century ago.
 
rickmcfc said:
Vigo, in Northern Spain is the worlds largest harbour. It's that big, every boat in the world can fit in it, with plenty of room to spare.

Is that one of Marks facts? cos it's wrong.
 
Whilst studying lights and colours Isaac Newton stuck a long needle into the back of his eye socket simply just to see what would happen.

...He also once stared continuously at the Sun so much so that he had to spend a few days in a darkened room to allow for his vision to recover.
 
leruzin said:
Best before dates on packets of crisps is always a Saturday !! Go and have a check ...

Yep, went back a page and your 100% right...

casualdeyna said:
All crisps have a sell by date that fall on a Saturday, always.
 
Hamann Pineapple said:
Dolphins are the only other species besides humans to have sex for pleasure rather than reproduction.
This, like many others on here, is incorrect. Bonobos have sex for pleasure, they're always doing it. Homosexual animals certainly don't have sex for reproduction. I think most animals derive some kind of pleasure from it.
 

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