Nice Little Facts

[RcCle]

The "Close Door" button on elevators does not do anything according to the  Schindler elevator guy.

[albrecht]

The "Close Door" button on elevators does not do anything according to the  Schindler elevator guy.

I've always heard that also. Wonder if true? Someone also told me the "cross-walk" button on street corners is similar deal. Just for show and to keep people occupied. Walk signal will come on simply when the traffic light pattern is correct....not because you are pressing a button.

[Treading Water]

What about hitting the call button over and over when you're waiting in the hall?  That still speeds up the elevator, doesn't it??   :

[PB the Deplorable]

The "Close Door" button on elevators does not do anything according to the  Schindler elevator guy.

As long as the horn works, I'm good

[Bart Ell]

Sid Vicious toyed with using the name Sid Caesarean.

[jazmunda]

In 1954, Bob Hawke was immortalised by the Guinness Book of Records for chugging 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Bob later became the Prime Minister of Australia.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

[PB the Deplorable]

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

In Uruguay, biting an opponent during a soccer match is also legal under the same circumstances

[b_dubb]

In Uruguay, biting an opponent during a soccer match is also legal under the same circumstances

Has anyone asked the obvious question? Is this guy a vampire?

[jazmunda]

Has anyone asked the obvious question? Is this guy a vampire?

No but apparently he was a mean baby.

[PB the Deplorable]

It's impossible to get pregnant while listening to George Noory

[jazmunda]

It's impossible to get pregnant while listening to George Noory

I think we need to test this scientifically.

[onan]

Russia has the same surface area as Pluto.

[jazmunda]

In 2007, it was estimated that 22 per cent of living Australians (21 million) had a Convict ancestor. Contrary to popular belief I was not one of them.

[RealCool Daddio]

Porky's is the most successful Canadian movie ever made.

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[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Russia has the same surface area as Pluto.

And is only slightly more inhabitable.

[bottomfeederareus]

In 2007, it was estimated that 22 per cent of living Australians (21 million) had a Convict ancestor. Contrary to popular belief I was not one of them.

So Jazmunda, your telling us that we should not get our facts from Falkie.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Porky's is the most successful Canadian movie ever made.

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That is the dumbest, silliest movie ever and I was on the floor wetting myself laughing the first time I saw it. Inside this bod lies the soul of a 12 year old. A really, really immature 12 year old.

Here's my fact: A praying mantis has one ear.     I had to look long and hard for that piece of fascinating trivia.

[coaster]

Heres a fact. George Noory breathes through his anus and defecates out of his mouth.

[eddie dean]

Heres a fact. George Noory breathes through his anus and defecates out of his mouth.

Fecal vomiting (aka stercoraceous AKA Gnooraceous vomiting) is a kind of vomiting, or emesis, in which partially or fully digested matter is expelled from the intestines into the stomach, by a combination of liquid and gas pressure and spasmodic contractions of the gastric muscles, and then subsequently forcefully expelled from the stomach up into the esophagus and out through the mouth and sometimes nasal passages. Though it is not usually fecal matter that is expelled, it smells noxious. Alternative medical terms for fecal vomiting are copremesis and stercoraceous vomiting.  Copremesis like all emesis may lead to aspiration. However, if contents of the large intestine are aspirated, severe or even fatal aspiration pneumonia results, secondary to the massive number of bacteria normally present distal to the ileocecal valve.

[Yorkshire pud]

Bruce Dickinson (Lead singer of Iron Maiden) is not only an airline pilot, but an expert fencer; known to have planted ten miles of picket fencing in one hour on his own*...



*No, not that kind of fencing.

[Yorkshire pud]

Can someone confirm: Having sex doggy style in Virginia is illegal. (With a bloke and a woman)

[maureen]

House flies do not perceive slow motion.

The Zen Art of Fly-swatting!!

[Yorkshire pud]

The hide that goes into Rolls Royce cars comes only from bulls, to avoid stretch marks...and the field they live in has no barbed wire to avoid damage. Mr Henry Royce was the engineer, and to the day Rolls Royce engines in Derby is known as 'Royce's' by it's staff as an acknowledgement of the engineering brilliance of old Henry.

[maureen]

The hide that goes into Rolls Royce cars comes only from bulls, to avoid stretch marks...and the field they live in has no barbed wire to avoid damage. Mr Henry Royce was the engineer, and to the day Rolls Royce engines in Derby is known as 'Royce's' by it's staff as an acknowledgement of the engineering brilliance of old Henry.

... and the dashboard is changed for free if the termites attack!!

[Yorkshire pud]

... and the dashboard is changed for free if the termites attack!!

And they don't break down...they merely fail to proceed. 

[Eddie Coyle]

     Jokes about Art Linkletter's daughter go over the head of most young people**.

      ** Young people would include anybody born post-JFK admin.

[onan]

     Jokes about Art Linkletter's daughter go over the head of most young people**.

      ** Young people would include anybody born post-JFK admin.

you kids say the darndest things.

[Eddie Coyle]

you kids say the darndest things.

    Too soon!

[eddie dean]

Can someone confirm: Having sex doggy style in Virginia is illegal. (With a bloke and a woman)

Are you planning a trip to the states?

Related fact:
Oral sex was agaist the law in as many as 14 states until 2003 when the Supreme Court ruled on Lawerence vs Texas.