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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2017 7:01 pm

Though we would have at least one member mention it , most likely fake news as he does not have any photograph evidence as yet. Laughing

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2017 7:06 pm

Warner Brothers Corset Company created the bra cup sizing system, which is now used universally by manufactures.

Wonder what remarks we get on this item?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 6:37 pm

Silk was developed in China where it was kept a secret for more than 2,000 years. Anyone found trying to smuggle silkworm eggs or cocoons out of the country was immediately put to death.

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:05 pm

Two hundred and fifteen pairs of jeans can be made with one bale of cotton

Baiting Guru Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 2163

Only four if they are Pastor Frank's jeans

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 10:01 pm

The heart beats approximately 100,000 times per day and 2.5 billion times during the average human lifespan.

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:21 pm

The pressure created by the human heart is sufficient to squirt blood to a distance of nearly ten meters.

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:15 pm

Did You Know

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

The blue whale's heart beats just nine times per minute.

The heart of a brachiosaurus is reported to have been as big as a pick-up-truck.

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 10:30 pm

Did You Know.

An octopus has three hearts and an earthworm has five.

The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.

The heart was thought to be the centre of human intelligence during the Middle Ages. (Klaasvaak spung to mind).

A giraffe's heart can measure up to two feet in length and weight as much as 25 pounds.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Klaasvaak wrote:

Did you know that my insecurities are expansive and growing?

Where have you been? I heard you were dead.

Baiting Guru Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 2163

one of my garden gnomes fell ill. I had to take care of the little fella

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 10:36 pm

CLOCKWISE

Northern hemisphere: hurricanes go anti-clockwise.

Southern hemisphere: hurricanes always go clockwise.

If you see an object spinning in a clockwise direction you are using the right side of your brain more than the left side. The opposite is true if you see an object spinning anti-clockwise.

Windmills in Ireland turn in a clockwise direction, whereas windmills in the rest of the world turn anti-clockwise.

Hair grows from the scalp and swirls in a clockwise direction around the crown in the majority of people. Like left- or right-handedness, though, some people's hair grows in the opposite direction.

The planet Venus rotates clockwise whereas most other planets rotate anti-clockwise.

Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 5:06 am

Iron for iron is "ӕфсӕн". Iron is both one of the dialects of Ossetian and the Ossetian word for Ossetian in general (ирон).

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 12:13 am

^
Thanks for clarifying that one up.

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 4:04 pm

Nicholas Cage once did magic mushrooms with his cat. Surprised

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 2:05 am

Fo'andles wrote:

Northern hemisphere: hurricanes go anti-clockwise.

Southern hemisphere: hurricanes always go clockwise.

Did you know that the direction of the hurricane spin is determined by the rotation of the earth and temperature of the water? Warmer water exerts more "pull" and is almost always closer to the equator. As the earth rotates from west to east the greater "pull" is south of the eye in the Northern Hemisphere, causing a counterclockwise spin, and north of the eye in the Southern Hemisphere, causing a clockwise spin.

Does this same phenomenon also apply to flushing toilets?

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:38 am

Toilets are way too small to be affected by Coriolis.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 23

@fo'andles "The planet Venus rotates clockwise whereas most other planets rotate anti-clockwise."

Did you know it also rotates on it's axis longer than it takes to orbit the sun so a day on Venus lasts longer than a year.

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:51 am

Venus has a lot of remarkable qualities...

The Venerian atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide, with a pressure at the surface equal to 92 atmospheres and a temperature at the surface of 460 Celsius. It has been said that if you stood on the surface, the refractive qualities of the atmosphere would enable you to see the back of your own head.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 9:23 pm

Quote:

Northern hemisphere: hurricanes go anti-clockwise.

Southern hemisphere: hurricanes always go clockwise

Aren't they typhoons in the south?