True Facts

[Posh Johnny]

Type a true fact that we didn't know




1...........Guiness was invented by a brit


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[Quarkz]

Sweet. I can just steal all the facts off the back of Libra packets.

2. It takes 150,000 litres of water to grow enough food to feed 8 people at one sitting

[sqrly]

The flying squirrel does not actualy fly, it glides.

[BigMille]

Flipping the bird (giving the finger) is derived from the Battle of Againcourt. The English longbowman would show their middle finger to the French to show that they could still fire their bows. When the French would capture a longbowman, they would cut off the middle finger thus rendering them incapable of firing their bows..

[BigMille]

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the Banana Split was invented in Columbus Ohio

[carbon kid]

a ducks quack dosent echo

[millekid]

aprilia's are the best lol

[Posh Johnny]

Flipping the bird (giving the finger) is derived from the Battle of Againcourt. The English longbowman would show their middle finger to the French to show that they could still fire their bows. When the French would capture a longbowman, they would cut off the middle finger thus rendering them incapable of firing their bows..

I'm sorry, that is wrong :no
That is for the 2 finger gesture we use here in the sign of a vee.

[Steve_TLS]

And it's where the saying f$#k you while giving the bird came from - changed from pluck yew, yew as in a yew bow. And because the arrows in the yew bow had pheasant feathers in them, the "bird" comes into it :laugh

(The bird here is a one finger salute too, not a back to front V)

[carbon kid]

bees are deaf

[little1uk]

bees are deaf
so are my kids....... well they never F ing listen to me

[Wingspan]

a ducks quack dosent echo

Not true, actually. They tested that one on Mythbusters some time ago. It does echo.

[Mizarc]

I'm still a baby twin......

[carbon kid]

Not true, actually. They tested that one on Mythbusters some time ago. It does echo.

you must have seen a different show too me!!!!!!!!!!

[BigMille]

The saying "let the cat out of the bag" is derived from the Cat o Nine Tails which was a whip that was carried aboard ships and usualy stored in a velvet bag....

[MASHMAN]

Yup, heard from a historian on a diving boat once upon a time about the vee being shown to the enemies of the english army to show that these 2 fingers were going to plucking kill yew (you've got way too much of a furtive imagination)...

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool - but only in tropical fish stores

[Wingspan]

you must have seen a different show too me!!!!!!!!!!

http://mythbustersresults.com/episode8

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp

http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_info/duck/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season_1)#Does_a_Duck.27s_Quack_Echo.3F