a thread full of useless facts

[Barnet Seagull]

A banana is a herb aswell as a fruit. FACT.

QUOTE]

Not strictly true. A banana is a fruit. The banana plant however is a herb.

 

[The Large One]

No word in the English dictionary rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

A chilver is a female lamb, they once said on QI.

 

[Buzzer]

Accountancy is sexy.

 

[Easy 10]

If you spill paint on the carpet and then immediately pour vinegar on top of it, your mum will be furious.

 

[barney]

when counting upwards from 0, algie will get stuck at 17, and not be able to continue.

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

when counting upwards from 0, algie will get stuck at 17, and not be able to continue.

No, that's useful barney

 

[The Large One]

The Russian linesman in 1966 wasn't Russian.

 

[pasty]

I have just eaten a cheese and sandwich spread sandwich on Hovis Best of Both bread for my lunch, washed down with a can of Sainsburys own diet pineapple and grapefruit drink.

 

[Lankyseagull]

It will take 13,000,000,000,000,000 post it notes to cover planet earth

Rectangular or square ones?

 

[Dave the OAP]

W A Mozart's Requiem was not all written by W A Mozart ( he died whilst composing LaCrimosa)

 

[The Large One]

If you put every Palace fan into a rocket that could only carry a 2 ton payload, and sent it to the moon, that would be brilliant.

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

A squash ball moving at 150 kilometers per hour has the same impact of a .22 bullet.

 

[Easy 10]

A jellyfish can eat its own face.

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

Armadillos can be housebroken

 

[The Large One]

A jellyfish can eat its own face.

A jellyfish IS its own face.

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

February 17th, 1930, was the first flight by a cow in an airplane. The milk that was produced by the cow during the flight was put into containers and parachuted over the city of St. Louis.

 

[Easy 10]

A jellyfish IS its own face.

This is a thread for FACTS Alan.
Please keep your nonsense to yourself.

 

[Dave the OAP]

If David Bellotti ever sets foot in Brighton and its environs, he will not be welcomed with open arms like he was by some......

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath

 

[Lankyseagull]

Harvard uses "Yale" brand locks on their buildings. Yale uses "Best" brand.