Strange Facts

[DC 536]

It's just one of those things that, as you said, sound just plausible enough to be true, but isn't.

 

It's along the lines of feeding rice to pigeons will make them explode, the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure, that can be seen from space, people only use a small percentage of their brain, that Napoleon was short (when he was average height for the time), "Let them eat cake", your tongue is separated into different taste zones, NASA spending millions on a space pen when Russia used pencils, people thought the world was flat until semi-recently (when in fact most of the scholars from the earliest days of sea-travel were aware it was round) and water doesn't flow the other way in the Southern Hemisphere.

Edited July 6, 2014 by DC

[Evil Gringo 279]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on August the 6th 1945 on a business trip... surviving the blast of the first ever atomic bomb used in anger he travelled back to his home town, arriving there at work on the 8th of August... in Nagasaki. Both times he was around 2 miles away from the blast and despite suffering burns, burst eardrums and temporary blindness he survived and didn't even get cancer or even use it as an excuse to miss work!

[Maxximus 353]

The technical term for the fear that the Pope is going to make horrific things happen to you is "Judaism".

 

Well played, sir. :lol

[King 277]

Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton are the only two actors to face off against a Terminator, an Alien and a Predator.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

[Paul 584]

Elephants are the only animal to have 4 knees.

 

This has been bugging me since I saw it, so I checked it out. Its untrue.

[Omega 354]

You know, it would have been nice if you'd have give some info on why it's untrue as otherwise you're just correcting someone for the sake of it.

[Paul 584]

OK, its untrue because they don't have 4 knees.

 

Or if it helps

 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=do+elephants+have+4+knees+

 

edit:

 

LMGTFY, Im so 2007. :lol

[Omega 354]

Whatever.

[Paul 584]

Grow up, you're starting to act like me. :lol

 

 

edit: smilie added so people know its a joke and not me having a go at Meggles.

Edited July 16, 2014 by Paul

[DC 536]

Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton are the only two actors to face off against a Terminator, an Alien and a Predator.

They were also both killed by Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli from Heroes) in Near Dark.

[etz 78]

That's a weird little club to be in..

[Guest The Puzzler]

I remember reading a while back that Richard Kiel (Jaws from the James Bond films) was originally chosen to play The Hulk in the tv series.As the pilot began filming, the producers felt that he wasn’t bulky enough.His scenes were re-shot with Lou Ferrigno, however 1 scene in the pilot with Kiel as the Hulk remains.

[Guest Inno]

John Leeson was the voice of K9 AND Bungle from Rainbow.

[DC 536]

When they were creating the TV show House, the remit for the lead character was that he must be American, and definitely not British, as Bryan Singer (who was the showrunner) felt previous British actors' attempts at US accents had been terrible.

 

When Hugh Laurie auditioned speaking with the accent he would eventually use in the show, Singer actually singled him out to the other producers and said he was the compelling American actor he had been looking for.

 

To say he was shocked to find out the truth is an understatement.

[Guest Boyo]

Your hands always close when you fall asleep.

 

Cheers!

[DC 536]

Your hands always close when you fall asleep.

No they don't. :lol

[Guest Boyo]

Your hands always close when you fall asleep.

No they don't. :lol

Unless something prevents them, like sleeping with your palms flat, then yes they do. They will always close.

 

Cheers!

Edited July 18, 2014 by Boyo

[DC 536]

Unless something prevents them, like sleeping with your palms flat, then yes they do. They will always close.

So not always then. :lol

[Guest Boyo]

Ok, your hands WANT TO close when you fall asleep. Whatever FFS :roll.

 

Cheers!