Facts that will blow your mind

[jakarta]

France was still executing people by guillotine when the film Star Wars was released.

Thereafter it was by means of Light Sabre?

 

[Mo Gosfield]

England's last two double internationals, Mike ( MJK ) Smith ( Cricket and Rugby ) and Arthur Milton ( Cricket and Football ) opened the batting for England v New Zealand at Headingley in 1958.
Milton scored a century on his debut and became the first England player to remain on the field for the whole of a Test Match. He was the last surviving double international before his death in 2007.
Smith played one rugby international for England ( v Wales in 1956 ) Milton played one football international for England ( v Austria in 1951 ) The referee for Milton's game v Austria was Eldon Griffiths. His brother ( Carwyn ) refereed Smith's only rugby international v Wales.
Smith and Milton's wives went to the same school and Smith and Milton both had twin brothers. They shared the same birthday and years later discovered that they shared a distant relative, who could include WG Grace in his ancestry.

 

[Goldstone1976]

It doesn't?! Well, I guess that explains the bad tasting eggs it's been laying.

I shouldn't find that funny at my age. But I really did.

 

[crodonilson]

Incredible that you think this an amazing fact that blows your mind....Do all simple things amaze you?

It's not simple, if it was it would already have been done in the over 20 year history of the PL.

 

[matildaseagull]

Selfridges does not sell fridges

 

[jay d]

God spelled backwards is dog

 

[The Legend that IS Lawro]

Is it true that you can't lick your elbow?

 

[fat old seagull]

In Switzerland, you can pay to have a creepy clown stalk your child for a week as a part of their birthday celebrations

http://www.odditycentral.com/funny/evil-clown-will-stalk-and-attack-your-child-for-a-fee.html

Jeesus.... No wonder they invented the Cuckoo Clock !

 

[Gwylan]

England's last two double internationals, Mike ( MJK ) Smith ( Cricket and Rugby ) and Arthur Milton ( Cricket and Football ) opened the batting for England v New Zealand at Headingley in 1958.
Milton scored a century on his debut and became the first England player to remain on the field for the whole of a Test Match. He was the last surviving double international before his death in 2007.
Smith played one rugby international for England ( v Wales in 1956 ) Milton played one football international for England ( v Austria in 1951 ) The referee for Milton's game v Austria was Eldon Griffiths. His brother ( Carwyn ) refereed Smith's only rugby international v Wales.
Smith and Milton's wives went to the same school and Smith and Milton both had twin brothers. They shared the same birthday and years later discovered that they shared a distant relative, who could include WG Grace in his ancestry.

I don't know whether all of that is true (although they did open the batting in that test and Milton did score a ton) but they didn't share a birthday: Milton's was 10 March and MJK's is 30 June

 

[Duffy Debut]

If you were brought up in the UK, join ISIS and kill people in cold blood you only get a 12 year prison sentence.

 

[pastafarian]

you cannot pee more than one pint in one pee

not sure i believe this one either

 

[sully]

It does appear thag ive got the wrong hole.
But I defo read about a hole that we couldn't deep deeper and went so far and couldn't get any further. And that the difference was the same as how high up wr could breath. Obviously my heght and depth is also wrong.

but I will find out the actual fact as it is very interesting.
I think its 12 miles up and 12 miles down , but il let you know when I find out.

If it helps, Everest is just shy of 9km above sea level and many humans have proved that we can still breathe at that height.

12 miles up sounds unlikely.

 

[vegster]

you cannot pee more than one pint in one pee

not sure i believe this one either

I have peed a full pint and then some in my past. I know it was a full pint as I used a pint glass.

 

[vegster]

Just seen the Guinness advert featuring Jonny Wilkinson during the half time adverts between PSG and Chelsea. The advert shows the love the Toulon fans have for their adopted hero cut with flowing pints of the black stuff.

Jonny Wilkinson is teetotal.

 

[rouseytastic]

There are about twice as many nipples on Earth as there are people.

You can’t hum while holding your nose.

Are you including pigs in this equation?

 

[vegster]

If you blocked off the western Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic (e.g. via a 15 mile wide dam), it would take around 200 years for the sea to dry up completely. Three times more water is evaporated from the Med than the water replacing it from all the rivers that flow into it.

And this has actually happened several times in Earth's history, there are large salt deposits under the seabed caused by evaporation.

 

[Garage_Doors]

I was born on the 4/5 the wife was born on the 8/9 and our first son was born on the 6/7.
Exactly 2 months and two days after my birthday and exactly 2 months and two days before the wife birthday.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Feedback is the shortest word containing all of the first six letters of the alphabet.

 

[Simster]

At the time of posting [MENTION=3385]crodonilson[/MENTION] has made 6549 posts on NSC. All of these are variations of one single joke - I am far from the first to observe this - which is to take something utterly banal and present it in a manner where he suggests that it is somehow amazing and wonderful, yet to be entirely and deliberately unconvincing in the way he does it, in the manner of a third rate presenter on a second rate TV or radio channel whose job is to attempt to enthuse the audience about whatever is to be broadcast, but continually destroys their credibility by ludicrously hyped up claims.

This may or may not make [MENTION=3385]crodonilson[/MENTION] the person who has told the same basic joke the most times in the history of humanity. I have no way of checking that, but he's given it a damn good go. What's more remarkable to me, is that I can somehow still find this joke amusing when he manages to put a sufficiently new spin on it and especially when some take him at face value.

Every single word of this.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Are you including pigs in this equation?

No I was not including pigs in the equation.
Could be a major flaw in my post.
Your choice if you want to include them, but you can count