Nice Little Facts

[wr250]

fixed ... squash is not food.

so i should eat squirrels instead of squash ? i think not.

[zeebo]

so i should eat squirrels instead of squash ? i think not.

ok if you put it that way, I'll find a few squash recipes for you.   

[Eddie Coyle]

   Norman Jewison wasn't Jewish.


   And Kathy Ireland isn't from Ireland.

[Daggit]

   Norman Jewison wasn't Jewish.


   And Kathy Ireland isn't from Ireland.

Are you going to try and tell us that Yusaf Islam wasn't a terrorist?

[Eddie Coyle]

Are you going to try and tell us that Yusaf Islam wasn't a terrorist?

   A 5 ton dirty bomb would sound better than the warbling of Cat Stevens.

[Daggit]

   A 5 ton dirty bomb would sound better than the warbling of Cat Stevens.

Ain't that the truth.

[Kelt]

Nick Blackman is a black man.

[zeebo]

Cleopatra lived closer to the building of the first Pizza Hut than the pyramids.  The Great Pyramid was built circa 2560 BC, while Cleopatra lived around 30 BC.  The first Pizza Hut opened in 1958 which is about 500 years closer to her time.

[BobGrau]

During increasingly desperate attempts to keep the French from capitulating in the early days of WWII, Churchill offered to merge the UK and France into one nation.

[ks3484]

The US President and Vice-President cannot be from the same State.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Churchill ordered the sinking of the French fleet in 1940 rather than see their ships ceded to Germany.  1297 French sailors were killed in the British attack.

[Zoo]

I fucking hate my Government!!1

[b_dubb]

I fucking hate my Government!!1

I did not see this coming

[Yorkshire pud]

The Magna Carta of 1217 (1215 was rejected) formed the basis of the British and American laws that came later...of all the statutes, only three remain in British modern law. The rest are now largely irrelevant.

[Yorkshire pud]

Ants have seven noses; all smell different odours.

[Zoo]

I did not see this coming

Well you should've    I mean I only say this five to fifty times a month!!1

[MV/Liberace!]

One of Saturn's moons looks like the Death Star.

[Gd5150]

The "White House" allows people of all colors to enter and live there. Even Kenyans.

[Marc.Knight]

Al Sharpton has visited the White House 81 times since 2009.  One of his more notable quotes:  “White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”

[Kelt]

At one point I thought I had the bad AIDS.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

The "White House" allows people of all colors to enter and live there. Even Kenyans.

That statement is neither nice nor is it a fact, but it is little, in a sense.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

In Istanbul Turkey, a man went to the roof of a building, intending to commit suicide.  A crowd formed and began shouting at him to jump.  The man got upset, pulled out his schlong, and urinated on them.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

When Sweden plays a soccer match against Denmark, the televised scoreline reads "SWE-DEN."

The remaining letters of the names of the countries, not used, are DEN-MARK.

[zeebo]

The US President and Vice-President cannot be from the same State.

I had to check this one out.  Looks like it's not quite that simple.  It sort of seems to work out that way in practice but is not a strict constitutional requirement.  For nerdy gov't procedure types who are interested see here:

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/vicepresident.asp

[zeebo]

The Magna Carta of 1217 (1215 was rejected) formed the basis of the British and American laws that came later...of all the statutes, only three remain in British modern law. The rest are now largely irrelevant.

Well yeah they had like eight just about pudding.  And like five were about how long to steep various teas.

[Marc.Knight]

Say or spell "racecar" backwards.

[Daggit]

Betty White is older than sliced bread.

[Daggit]

North Korea and Finland are separated by one country.

[Daggit]

And this one goes out to my brother in law who is a native Chicagonian and a long, long suffering Cubs fan.

The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed.

[Daggit]

When Sweden plays a soccer match against Denmark, the televised scoreline reads "SWE-DEN."

That is only true for Sweden home games.