Off Topic Facts To Help Others

Me and Castro were saying on another thread about how your brain holds onto certain facts and they never leave you. Why?
Anyway I hope this helps someone.

A chain is 22 yards. There are ten chains in a furlong.

 

A pig can shoot his load for up to 30 minutes.

 

The temperature when both the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales are the same is -40 degrees.

 

Most snails are hermaphrodites

 

Thanks for that Porky

 

This will deffo come in useful as the little bastards are all over my strawbs.

 

That was always one of my favourites.

 

Sir Alec Douglas Home's name was pronounced Hume as centuries before an ancestor had shouted "Home, Home!" as a rallying cry and his troops had turned round and run for home.

 

Saved by the bell & a dead ringer originates from people being buried alive! Coffins would have a rope attached to a bell for you to ring incase you were unfortunate enough to find yourself buried after being in a coma!

 

Birthdays & wedding anniversary are, for me, all easily forgettable, however - Archimedes Principle & Richard Of York blah blah are two factoids stuck in there forever.

 

Archimedes principle was one I could always manage to bring into things no matter how irrelevant it was to the discussion.

 

Make your garden friendly to small snakes, like the garter snake. These snakes enjoy eating garden snails as well as other common garden pests.

Read more at Gardening Know How: Organic Snail Control: How To Control Garden Snails http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/insects/organic-snail-control.htm
Happy to help

 

Might make my garden into a snakepit too, bloody cats ****ting all over my lawn and fouling my lawnmower

 

Chazz wants facts. There's plenty of sites debunking your origin of saved by the bell.

 

Err I cant see that going down too well with the Mrs Bo. Got rid of the snails love now look at those snakes...

 

20% of office mugs contain fecal matter. (that's poo for the uneducated. It might have another a in it, I don't give a ****. Pun intended).

More if you work with Chazz.In fact, there might be more than just poo if you work with Chazz.

FACT.

 

Well it's a fact that if YOU wake up in a dark box? No one on here's gonna be bothered
AND chaz liked it!

 

I'm not really bothered if its not true its just things you cant get out of your head, probably your dad or mam lying to you about "facts"..

Bit like getting KinCoff (sp) if you sit on the concrete step outside your house. WTF is kincoff

 

I thought that was piles?

 

Reminds me of the family that lost their mum at a relatively early age, and got reassurance by sending texts to mums number. After a couple of years, they started to get replies from mums phone.

Turns out that after a period of no use, they phone companies reuse the number, so some random person thought they were receiving piss takes from their mates, and replied accordingly.