Nice Little Facts

[JesusJuice]

[Luka Megurine]

crazy... there are more carbs in a 20 ounce bottle of mountain dew than i eat for a meal people drink to much soda

https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/mountain-dew/mountain-dew-(20-oz)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmGz01QNDVQ

[twiki]

the queen is the legal owner of one-sixth of the earth's land surface.

[albrecht]

the queen is the legal owner of one-sixth of the earth's land surface.

Somewhat inaccurate but complicated. Like any marginally rich person there is lots of parsing and legalese. But for someone as rich as her, and a few others, there is LOTS of legalese, agreements, and interesting financing, laws, and stuff. Lots of the holdings are in corporations, trusts, 'legal fictions,' and the "Queen," and other royals, also be sever-able "persons" between the public/royal and personal holdings, etc.
ps: she is the world's largest drug-dealer though (had to say, just for YP.)

[Dr. MD MD]

Somewhat inaccurate but complicated. Like any marginally rich person there is lots of parsing and legalese. But for someone as rich as her, and a few others, there is LOTS of legalese, agreements, and interesting financing, laws, and stuff. Lots of the holdings are in corporations, trusts, 'legal fictions,' and the "Queen," and other royals, also be sever-able "persons" between the public/royal and personal holdings, etc.
ps: she is the world's largest drug-dealer though (had to say, just for YP.)

A worthy documentary on the subject that lays it all out pretty clearly. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=641Oyk3d5HM

[MV/Liberace!]

In 2007, rumors spread that British forces had secretly infested Basra, Iraq with giant killer badgers.

[Rix Gins]

In 2007, rumors spread that British forces had secretly infested Basra, Iraq with giant killer badgers.

Guess it's just the mood I'm in but your post moved me to tears of laughter.  Thanks MV.

[MV/Liberace!]

Guess it's just the mood I'm in but your post moved me to tears of laughter.  Thanks MV.

you can thank my "fact or crap?" cards, heh heh.

[albrecht]

"Start with the Friday the 13th date. That was also the week in 1980 when the first "Friday the 13th" movie opened, featuring ax-spattered gore. The Gores' house was the 13th from the corner. From the time of the death until the body was discovered took about 13 hours. From the day of the death until Montgomery was arrested took 13 days.

And one more: On the kitchen table, Deffibaugh found a blood-flecked newspaper opened to the movie page and an ad for The Shining, a movie where Jack Nicholson's character famously hacks through doors with an ax.

"I think about it," Deffibaugh said about the Gore crime scene, "every June 13th."

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2010/06/11/some-in-wylie-don-t-know-of-1980-ax-slaying-others-can-t-forget

[Jackstar]

A common kitchen ingredient, found in every Mooslim household, can be added to instant chocolate pudding mix to create a high explosive.




ALSO, LIZARDS.

[MV/Liberace!]

The average rotating microwave platform makes one rotation every ten seconds.

[Taaroa]

Norway's Bouvet Island is the most remote in the world with the nearest inhabited land being 1400mi away.

[Juan]

Walmart's website lies as to what is in stock at the local store.

[K_Dubb]

Though not technically a fact as the company has never disclosed it, the banana-pineapple flavor of Juicy Fruit probably comes from a chemical byproduct of whiskey distillation.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/03/fruit-juicy-fruit/

[Dr. MD MD]

Though not technically a fact as the company has never disclosed it, the banana-pineapple flavor of Juicy Fruit probably comes from a chemical byproduct of whiskey distillation.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/03/fruit-juicy-fruit/

Interesting read, kdubb...but now I'm on a quest to hunt down some jackfruit. 

[K_Dubb]

Interesting read, kdubb...but now I'm on a quest to hunt down some jackfruit. 

I hope you can find some.  They are monstrous things usually sold in fly-covered, plastic-wrapped sections in dingy Asian markets around here.

Incidentally, I suspect the same flavor in Erinmore tobacco which, if I remember right, came out of Belfast around the same time.

[GravitySucks]

A Boeing 737 has about 135 miles of copper wire. The weight of the copper alone is over two tons.

[albrecht]

A Boeing 737 has about 135 miles of copper wire. The weight of the copper alone is over two tons.

No wonder they have fences and security around airports and don't park them near the Meth heads and homeless.

[Jackstar]

A Boeing 737 has about 135 miles of copper wire. The weight of the copper alone is over two tons.

How much copper is used to build an antigravity coil? Asking for a friend who thinks you're a huge faggot.

[MV/Liberace!]

How much copper is used to build an antigravity coil? Asking for a friend who thinks you're a huge faggot.

you're awkward and have trouble forging relationships.  we get it.

[Inglorious Bitch]

Walmart's website lies as to what is in stock at the local store.

Bastards

[Taaroa]

A squid has three hearts.

[Yorkshire pud]

A Boeing 737 has about 135 miles of copper wire. The weight of the copper alone is over two tons.

The two engines of a Boeing 787 produce more thrust than the eight engines of a B52.

[Taaroa]

The two engines of a Boeing 787 produce more thrust than the eight engines of a B52.

When they aren't having icing issues...

[Yorkshire pud]

When they aren't having icing issues...

That isn't the engines per se. 

[Taaroa]

That isn't the engines per se. 

There have been incidents with the GEnx specifically having icing issues and there's a related airworthiness directive affecting 747-8s and 787s.

[aldousburbank]

A squid has three hearts.

So do three artichokes, nine whores, and thirty politicians. For a total of 45. Think about it.

[Yorkshire pud]

There have been incidents with the GEnx specifically having icing issues and there's a related airworthiness directive affecting 747-8s and 787s.

Are RR Trents okay?

[Taaroa]

Are RR Trents okay?

I think the ones on the 787 are okay, but the A380...

[Rix Gins]

Senator Robert Kennedy used an 'applause prompter' at gatherings when he was running for President.  I went to see him talk at an airport and I was standing by a big speaker.  He delivered his speech and every once in awhile the crowd would break out in applause but it was strange because I could hear the roar of the crowd coming out of that speaker before anyone behind me would clap or cheer.  Of course everyone was like lemmings, and fell into cheering once that speaker thing prompted them to do so.