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[Anarchemitis]

[li]The Study of clocks is Horology[/li]
[li]The first intermeshing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_Fl_282] rotor helicoper was developed by Nazi Germany as an anti-submarine air vehicle.[/li]
[li]The name 'Combine' for Half-Life 2 came from a book about a Rebel-without-a-cause who went to a very corrupt Mental Institution called "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The warden combined the bureaucracy and horrid institutionalization as the nickname "The Combine".[/li]
[li]Oversight in Wikipedia is a type of deletion where it is absoloutely removed from existence. Not even Administrators can see it once it's deleted.[/li]
[li]The word white comes from the Common Germanic hwitaz though the Old English word hwīt.[/li]

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

Portsmouth F.C. won the FA Cup in 1939 with a 4-1 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In anaerobic respiration the human body creates lactic acid.

Portsmouth FC is one of the only 5 teams to win the season twice back to back since World War Two.

The smallest town to win the English Premier League is Blackburn Rovers.

Hitler's idea of perfection was: German, Not Jewish, Blond, Tall, Blue-Eyed and (for the men) well endowed. Hitler himself was: Austrian, Part Jewish, Short, Brown-haired, Brown-eyed, and only had one testicle.

 

[Higurashi]

Some would argue the relativity theory was advanced by Ruđer Bo?ković over 200 years before Einstein published it. Nikolai Tesla stated this as a fact. They were countrymen, and he has said Ruđer Bo?ković, the "great philosopher" (in his words), "wrote a thousand volumes of excellent literature on a vast variety of subjects".
This from the man who was on his way of developing a "teleforce" weapon that could "send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks."

 

[Anarchemitis]

That would be that fantastical Tesla Coil he wanted to make. That was one of his claims of its power, but the true nature was to bring wireless power to about half the state.

 

[gjkdioepppp]

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a charlie chaplin lookalike competition.

 

[Cymraeg Phill]

The British Rail Class 395 "Javelin" train will be the first Japanese built train to be used in the United Kingdom.

 

[SnowCold]

A black hole isn't a hole, its a VERY compressed planet
And for earth to be as compressed as a black hole, all of it's mattar needs to be compressed into a sive of a tennis ball!

 

[darkless]

There are no muscles in your fingers just tendons controlled by the muscle in your hand so no matter how much you work out your fingers technically never get any stronger

 

[Garrtoone]

--- The defining feature of a black hole, the event horizon, is a surface in spacetime that marks a point of no return. Once an object has crossed this surface there is no way that it can return to the other side. Consequently, anything inside this surface is completely hidden from observers outside. Other than this the event horizon is a completely normal part of space, with no special features that would allow someone falling into the a black hole to know when he would cross the horizon. The event horizon is not a solid surface, and does not obstruct or slow down matter or radiation that is traveling towards the region within the event horizon.

 

[COR 2000]

It has been proven by top scientists that the bird is, in fact, greater than, or equal to, the word.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

You, Sir, are a hero.

*Blushes*

Aw, Shucks. I mean, come on: It's only common knowledge! Don't you know about the bird? Oh, everybody knows that the bird is the word! B-b-bird, bird, bird bird bird ......

 

[Sporky111]

A new animal has not been *domesticated* in 1000 years. For the record, putting some exotic thing in a tank is not considered domestication.

 

[Birras]

Fun fact:It has been found that a homemade ballistic armor made from two layers of bathroom tile sandwiched between plaster can stop rounds from a 9mm pistol, a .45 pistol, and even twelve-gauge buckshot!

 

[Mythbhavd]

[li]William Shakespeare was 46 when the King James Bible was published. In that bible, in Psalm 46, the 46th word in is "shake" and the 46th word from the end is "spear". This is because he was called upon to help write the translation, and slipped his name in as a bit of a joke, for which he was well known at the time.[/li][/li]

I love pointing out this little oddity to mess with people, but alas, he wasn't one of the translators.

Marie Curie's papers are considered too dangerous to be viewed. In order to read the originals, one must wear protective clothing to avoid radioactive contamination.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

The planet Uranus is tilted 90 degrees, so it rotates south to north.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Team Fortress 2 is one of the first games ever to feature full-screen real-time motion blur.

 

[Sporky111]

There is no law that makes blowing up a nuclear bomb a crime. This is because everyone figured that no one would actually be stupid enough to detonate one.

There is actually a town in California where you can be fined $500 for detonating a nuclear bomb. Seriously, $500.

Here is another fact, spider silk is so strong that if it could be made as thick as a pencil, it could stop a Boeing 747 in mid-flight.

 

[whoops1995]

some butterflies have ears on their wings
Donald Trump has a phobia about shaking hands.
a mature mushroom can release more than 16 billion spores
Uranus is a gas giant (losts of people know that but i couldn't resist)
there are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible different soduku boards

I could go on but i won't read the bathroom reader, it's where i got all these facts.

 

[Berethond]

-Shakespeare invented 1600 words that are unique to the English language
-Any adult under 4'10" is legally considered a midget

 

[Berethond]

-The 'peace sign' is derived from the Germanic rune called the 'Toten-rune'. The Toten-rune represents death. The peace sign was invented by Hitler's propaganda officers during World War II and then adapted to the Hippie movement.

 

[Avalanche91]

-more then 30 percent of all male ducks is homoseksual.
-there is no sound in space. Star Wars, Dead Space, it all lied.
-a chicken will lay bigger, stronger eggs if you use the light to trick him in thinking the day is 28 houres long
-the sentence: 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
-Ever been so absorbed in a book or the tv you noticed/heard nothing else in the room? this is a definition of a trance state.
-an ostrich eye is bigger then its brain.