Strange Facts!

[chip anderson]

Early politicians required feedback from the public to determine what was
considered important to the people. Since there were no telephones, TV's or
radios, the politicians sent their assistants to local taverns, pubs and
bars who were told to "go sip some ale" and listen to people's conversations
and political concerns. Many assistants were dispatched at different times.
"You go sip here" and "You go sip there." The two words "go sip" were
eventually combined when referring to the local opinion and thus, we have
the term "gossip."

[chip anderson]

I promise this is the last of the 1700's


At local taverns, pubs and bars, people drank from pint and quart sized
containers. A bar maid's job was to keep an eye on the customers and keep
the drinks coming. She had to pay close attention and remember who was
drinking in "pints" and who was drinking in "quarts." Hence the term
"minding your "'P's and Q's

[Sean]

chip anderson said:
I promise this is the last of the 1700's

Don't say that........ The 1700's have got to be some of the best post's to this thread. If indeed that is the end of them........then all i have to say is that i really enjoyed them. :)

[Sean]

Oil from the ground isn't black,it's dark green.

[chm2023]

Another theory is that this was a tip for pressmen when setting type, not to reverse the 2 letters. Yet another is it was an admonisment to children to remember to say please and thank you!

[Sean]

The life expectancy of a guitar is about 15 years. Violins,however improve with age and sound better at 100 years than day one.

[Sean]

Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting during his entire lifetime.

[Chris Ryser]

Sean said:
Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting during his entire lifetime.

Would be interesting to know how much he would be worth today if he would have kept all the paintings

[Shutterbug]

[QUOTE]hcjilson said:
Stewardess is the only word in the English language that is typed entirely with the left hand!

Yes.....you quessed it! I'm left handed.

No, it is the LONGEST word typed entirely with the left hand. There are many others. Ewe,dad,swat,sweet, etc, etc. LOL

[Sean]

The tug-of-war was once an official competitive event in the Olympics (from 1900-1920)

[Sean]

The oldest musical instrument in the world is the flute. Cave dwellers made flutes out of the hollow leg bones of birds.

[Sean]

Lions,the Kings of the Jungle,don't even live in jungles. They live in savannas.

[Sean]

July is National Hot Dog Month.On average....... Americans eat 70 hot dogs per person every year.

[Sean]

Worms don't have eyes..................

[myodisk]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

[myodisk]

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.


:cheers:

[myodisk]

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself

[myodisk]

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

[myodisk]

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

[myodisk]

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent.

The Tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

Celery has negative calories- it takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200 people.

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

The strorage capacity of human brain exceeds four Terrabytes.

Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call.

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

[Sean]

Eskimos use walrus whiskers for toothpicks.

[Sean]

Heroin was the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.

[Shutterbug]

Pete Hanlin said:
Yes.....you quessed it! I'm left handed.
My condolences, Harry... If I'm not mistaken, left handed people have an average life span that is 9 years shorter than right handers (a strange but true fact if ever there was one). :(

Let's hope you're a righty at heart! :p

They no doubt kill themselves off trying to function in a world that makes few items specifically for lefty's! It's dangerous out there folks! :0)

shutterbug

[Sean]

Shutterbug said:
They no doubt kill themselves off trying to function in a world that makes few items specifically for lefty's! It's dangerous out there folks! :0)

shutterbug

[Sean]

Some people are more flexible than others, but no one is double jointed.