Re: The "did you know?" thread

[skully]

Did you know tree hugging is forbidden in China? Export Bob Brown NOW.

[skully]

Did you know women blink twice as much as men?

[lardbucket]

Did you know a group of owls is called a parliament?

yes, and I've heard you 'owling about our parliament

[skully]

Did you know the word 'uncopyrightable' is the is the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter?

[skully]

Did you know the word 'typewriter' is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard?

[lardbucket]

is the is the?

WTAAS

[skully]

Did you know the average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites?

[skully]

Did you know the word 'rhythms' is the longest word without a vowel?

[lardbucket]

Did you know the average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites?

even more if RD's sock is hidden in the bedclothes

[skully]

Did you know the human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels?

[skully]

Did you know minus 40°C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40°F?

[skully]

Did you know according to the old English time system a 'moment' is 1 and a half minutes?

[lardbucket]

I nominate this thread for forum boron status.

[Gary 111]

I learned these facts about Australia on the discovery channel the other week:

Did you know that if you drowned Darren Lehmann in water warmer than 17 degrees centigrade he his spirit would come back and avenge his death instantly?

Did you know that Eskimos have 50 words for snow but no word for Phil Hughes?

Did you know Lindsay Hassett blames Skully for his premature hair loss?

Did you know the zoo keeper at Perth Zoo had to hose Rodney Marsh down with equipment originally designed for elephants at every interval whilst playing for Western Australia otherwise the slip fielders regularly complained of dizzyness, nausea and vomiting.

When combined with the Freemantle Doctor, Mitch Johnson's tattoo is capable of making the world spin off its axis to such a degree that a cricket ball travelling in a straight line appears to the naked eye to swing.

Did you know John Buchanan invented the post-it note, the letter j and the fielding position now known as 'Fourth Man'.

[skully]

I nominate this thread for forum boron status.

Did you know that because boron is not produced by stellar nucleosynthesis, it is a low-abundance element in both the solar system and the Earth's crust?

[embee]

Did you know in every episode of Seinfeld there is a reference to Superman? Fark me, I didn't.

Most of it is is a superman figurine in jerry's apartment ...but there was the Bizarro episode where Elaine befriended bizarro Jerry and his apartment was a mirror image of Jerry's and he had a bizzaro superman figurine

[skully]

Did you know americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips?

I see you are not surprised.

[skully]

Did you know 70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer?

[skully]

Did you know 32% of all land in the U.S. is owned by the government?

Maybe they should sell it to clear some of their debts.

[skully]

Did you know the oldest exposed surface on Earth is New Zealand's south island (or Madonna's boobs)?

[skully]

Did you know the word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want?

[skully]

Did you know Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'?

[skully]

Did you know the Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons (just a smidge more than Kim Kardashian's arse)?

[skully]

Did you know India has over 50 million monkeys (and one monkey farker)?

[skully]

Did you know Japan is the largest exporter of frog legs?

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