Author Topic: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread (Read 220819 times)

Senator · « **Reply #960 on:** February 11, 2009, 01:55:45 PM »

And since Lobsters & Crabs are technically "insects" too, some of them still are, under the sea.

Speaking of Lobsters, guess who is their land buddy:

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #961 on:** February 11, 2009, 02:54:33 PM »

the Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas carols...
silly Puritans... then again, i find Xmas music annoying and abhorrent also lol

RCgothic · « **Reply #962 on:** February 12, 2009, 03:08:39 AM »

Speaking of scorpions, they occasionally come with cannons:

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/bsrotate.htm

Senator · « **Reply #963 on:** February 12, 2009, 09:07:55 AM »

It's warhammer. And it's big, expensive and mechanological, exemplifying the virtues of overwhelming high technology against costly human wave based attacks.

Therefore you must have it RC. Right? Right? :mrgreen:

RCgothic · « **Reply #964 on:** February 12, 2009, 09:21:41 AM »

lol, nope. It's a daemon-engine of the arch-enemy(useful fact). and therefore must be purged wherever it is found!

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #965 on:** February 12, 2009, 10:27:41 AM »

up to the age of six or seven months, a child can breathe and swallow at the same time...
an adult cannot do this...

Senator · « **Reply #966 on:** February 17, 2009, 12:18:33 PM »

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #967 on:** February 17, 2009, 12:40:02 PM »

the American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps...

Senator · « **Reply #968 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:37:09 PM »

...those were decoys btw.

In other news, in case you haven't heard an English nuclear submarine collided with a French nuclear submarine.

Guess these things are silent after all.

Quote

Opposition parties asked how the accident was possible. The SNP's Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, said: "The UK Ministry of Defence needs to explain how it is possible for a submarine carrying weapons of mass destruction to collide with another submarine carrying weapons of mass destruction in the middle of the world's second-largest ocean".

lolz

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #969 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:39:39 PM »

according to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer...

Villain · « **Reply #970 on:** February 19, 2009, 06:40:50 AM »

Here's a good one:

Star Trek is not actually real. So stop with the arguments of canon. :arms:

Aeries · « **Reply #971 on:** February 19, 2009, 08:24:02 AM »

Quote from: USS Prime on February 19, 2009, 06:40:50 AM

Here's a good one:

Star Trek is not actually real. So stop with the arguments of canon. :arms:

Ahh shit, there's the can of worms, gentlemen.

Check, please. :lol:

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #972 on:** February 19, 2009, 09:36:36 AM »

at room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet...

Dalek · « **Reply #973 on:** February 19, 2009, 10:04:56 AM »

Fact:

There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.

Fact. And yes, I was tempted to do the Dettol advert.

Senator · « **Reply #974 on:** February 20, 2009, 08:40:14 PM »

All the facts you need to know about ant sex:

10000 men
1 woman

Nebula · « **Reply #975 on:** February 20, 2009, 11:07:42 PM »

Quote from: Senator on February 20, 2009, 08:40:14 PM

All the facts you need to know about ant sex:

10000 men
1 woman

Uhhhh isn't it

10000 Women workers
4 men
1 Queen....

now something else

The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.

Senator · « **Reply #976 on:** February 21, 2009, 12:02:10 AM »

Uh, correct actually. And I didn't know that.

And apparently the male's only function is to mate with the queen.

Villain · « **Reply #977 on:** February 21, 2009, 10:16:43 AM »

Sounds like marriage to me.

Senator · « **Reply #978 on:** February 28, 2009, 10:39:25 PM »

Useful fact: What happened to all the UFO abductions/activity?

Didn't they use to be a cultural phenomenon in the 90s or something? I remember documentaries about it, films even. And suddenly it seems to have died out.
Where are all the youtube videos and photos now that every mobile phone has a camera? Don't they like us any more?

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #979 on:** March 07, 2009, 02:32:41 PM »

the unemployment rate in the US is now at 8.1%, or about 12.5 million...
the highest rate in 25 years...
600,000 people lost their jobs last months alone...

News:

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