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    saffron_starsaffron_star Posts: 789
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    potatolegs wrote: »
    The little plastic thing on the end of a shoe lace is called an aglet

    Phineas and Ferb?
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    FairyFeet1964FairyFeet1964 Posts: 510
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    The length of your foot is the same length as your forearm!
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    LiparusLiparus Posts: 4,743
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    Napoleon was actually taller than the average Frenchman in his lifetime.
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    BellaRosaBellaRosa Posts: 36,549
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    fender101 wrote: »
    a rabbit can have sex in 11 seconds.

    :eek: How do you know that :o
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    BelligerenceBelligerence Posts: 40,613
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    There is no equivalent word for 'thank you' in the Danish language.
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    BellaRosaBellaRosa Posts: 36,549
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    TomGrant wrote: »
    A pigs orgasm lasts half an hour or something insane like that.

    Now I am getting worried how you know these facts :o
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    BellaRosaBellaRosa Posts: 36,549
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    Your nipples :o are in line with your earlobes.
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    JB3JB3 Posts: 9,308
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    The length of your foot is the same length as your forearm!
    I knew that.
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    far2coolfar2cool Posts: 6,334
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    By clicking the first (unbracketed) link on the first paragraph of any wikipedia article, you'll eventually get to the article for 'Philosophy'
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    davordavor Posts: 6,874
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    There is no equivalent word for 'thank you' in the Danish language.

    I'm afraid that you are wrong on that one mate. There is an equivalent word for "thank you" in the Danish language. "Tak" means "thank you" in danish. They don't have an equivalent word for "please".
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,064
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    You learn something new every day..apparently.

    So unleash your worldly knowledge upon your fellow DS-ers & tell us something most of us didn't know,be it trivial or enlightening.
    I'll start off with

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

    we used to write MT on gas bottles.
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    November_RainNovember_Rain Posts: 9,145
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    The phrase "someone is walking over my grave", used in response to a sudden shiver, derives from medieval folklore that a sudden cold sensation was caused by somebody walking over the spot where one's grave would eventually lie.
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    AudioRebelAudioRebel Posts: 32,201
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    we used to write MT on gas bottles.

    Cool.Just figured out why. ;)
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    BelligerenceBelligerence Posts: 40,613
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    davor wrote: »
    I'm afraid that you are wrong on that one mate. There is an equivalent word for "thank you" in the Danish language. "Tak" means "thank you" in danish. They don't have an equivalent word for "please".
    Oops, I'll go soil myself!

    I should have known that, watching endless episodes of The Killing...:o
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    flashgordon1952flashgordon1952 Posts: 3,799
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    any new motorway will be a toll road....especially any that start in london.... or connect with the M6 M1 M40
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    AvidianAvidian Posts: 6,049
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    The winged statue on top the Shaftesbury Monument Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus was intended to be that of the Greek god "Anteros", and not "Eros"....or "The Angel of Christian Charity".
    http://old.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?p=42145

    Although rare, it is possible for two parents with blue eyes to have a biological child/children with brown eyes....eye colour is not a simple genetic recessive/dominant trait....a complex interaction of multiple genes and multiple variants of these genes determine eye colour....almost any parent-child combination of eye colour can occur.
    http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/the-eyes-have-it-on-multiple-gene-question

    In Bulgaria, people nod their head to mean “No” and wobble their head to say “Yes”.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gipj1caZUg
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    CasualCasual Posts: 2,696
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    You were adopted.
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    USIMUSIM Posts: 586
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    The human body contains approximately 10 times as many bacteria as it does human cells.

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080603085914.htm

    So, when people say that they have no purpose in their life, this is never true as they are actually providing a home for bacteria.
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    AudioRebelAudioRebel Posts: 32,201
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    Casual wrote: »
    You were adopted.

    Erm... orphaned actually.

    Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin wee.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 714
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    I can expand my tongue sideways 7cm (2.5 inches) and then contract it back to normal size.
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    Madridista23Madridista23 Posts: 9,422
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    Andrue wrote: »
    Male budgies have blue noses.
    It's called a 'Cere'. :cool:
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 139
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    You can't lick your elbow. Not only is this an interesting fact, but it is interesting that it is so interesting. Why would people be so taken-aback by that, but they are. Anyone reading this will try and lick their elbow - thus investigating whether this is a true fact or not. Other bits of trivial fact will not result in the person hearing about it going ahead and trying to prove or disprove whether it is correct with such eagerness. So the fact this is such an interesting fact is as interesting as the fact you can't do it. (you just tried to lick your elbow didn't you...)
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    James FrederickJames Frederick Posts: 53,184
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    The coat wore by Professor Marvel in The Wizard of Oz was once owned by L.Frank Baum who was the author of The Oz books

    It wasn't purposely done but they just needed an old coat and found one in a second hand shop it was perfect but during filming they found the name tag inside it and when they looked into it they found it really did belong to L.Frank Baum
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    FizzbinFizzbin Posts: 36,827
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    Maxwell44 wrote: »
    You can't lick your elbow. Not only is this an interesting fact, but it is interesting that it is so interesting. Why would people be so taken-aback by that, but they are. Anyone reading this will try and lick their elbow - thus investigating whether this is a true fact or not. Other bits of trivial fact will not result in the person hearing about it going ahead and trying to prove or disprove whether it is correct with such eagerness. So the fact this is such an interesting fact is as interesting as the fact you can't do it. (you just tried to lick your elbow didn't you...)

    Ummm... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mHSF0RKZEs
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    NewExampleNewExample Posts: 1,196
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    The length of your foot is the same length as your forearm!

    Do you mean biceps? Because I should have smaller forearms if so :confused:
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