Did you know....

[squeakyB]

snails live around 5 to 7 years...:smiley11:

NOW SOMEONE ELSE FIND SOME USLESS INFO AND POST AND LETS SEE WHAT "KUK" GENERAL KNOWLEDGE WE CAN LEARN....

[zimajays]

A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation

Next....

[Edmonsta]

Took me bloody ages to work this out, but...

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


:smiley36:

[Chick]

Ladybirds eat pigeon lice.

[zimajays]

what happened here, I liked this thread so I will do another one.....................

This is for Iggy

A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.

[zimajays]

And another one for Iggy...


A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph

[zimajays]

Are any of you still with us..........


According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

[barto11]

um...why??

did you know that the first international cricket match took place between the USA and Canada...

[zimajays]

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

[Strawbs]

The inventor of the first flush toilet was called Sir Thomas Crapper!

[zimajays]

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second

[nightape]

Cool thread ZA!!:smiley20:

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket

[zimajays]

thanks nightape, but i can't take all the glory - squeakyB started it!

Donald Duck lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy

[zimajays]

Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.


And so they should!

[seziboo]

Did you know that the chicken came before the egg........I heard that from someone.......

[barto11]

Did you know that the chicken came before the egg........I heard that from someone.......

so where did the chicken come from??

[nightape]

thanks nightape, but i can't take all the glory - squeakyB started it!


Ooooooh, sorry for the tadza! Reps sent accordingly!:icon10:


According to Scandinavian traditions, if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf of bread, they are bound to fall in love! Bring on the bunny chow...:smiley2:

[Strawbs]

Apparently you can't lick your elbow?

[zimajays]

Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.

[barto11]

after William Webb Ellis picked up the soccer ball and ran with it, thereby inventing the glorious game of rugby...he became a vicar...clearly what he did was divine intuition

[zimajays]

after William Webb Ellis picked up the soccer ball and ran with it, thereby inventing the glorious game of rugby...he became a vicar...clearly what he did was divine intuition


WTF? What a load of crap, but lets not get into that here :smiley17:



A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites

[sally]

your heart is the size of your fist

[nightape]

Cat's urine glows under a black light!

[zimajays]

Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced


oh shit my time is numbered what with all the brain cells i lost to booze etc

[squeakyB]

The inventor of the first flush toilet was called Sir Thomas Crapper!

he he he he he!!! that is good!!!!

Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.

[Chick]

Cat's urine glows under a black light!

You have to wonder how they found this out. I wanna check mine, anyone got a black light to lend me.....

[zimajays]

Cat's urine glows under a black light!

You have to wonder how they found this out. I wanna check mine, anyone got a black light to lend me.....

You have to wonder how they found any of this out, I would have thought that they had better things to work out... you know silly things really like a cure for cancer, or aids...


A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!


So make a big bowl of coffee, put your head over it with a tea towel and suck in that steam!! Suck damn you suck!!!

[Chick]

So make a big bowl of coffee, put your head over it with a tea towel and suck in that steam!! Suck damn you suck!!!

See, I told you ZJ, there is nothing wrong with drinking huge amounts of tea and coffee. I'za suckin.... and a'slupin

[zimajays]

So make a big bowl of coffee, put your head over it with a tea towel and suck in that steam!! Suck damn you suck!!!

See, I told you ZJ, there is nothing wrong with drinking huge amounts of tea and coffee. I'za suckin.... and a'slupin


feeling better love...... right off to get my bowl of pick me up!

[zimajays]

Here we go Chick how to brew and good cuppa

Coffee Recipe from: 'Kitchen Directory and American Housewife' (1844)
"Use a tablespoonful ground to a pint of boiling water [less than a quarter of what we would use today].
Boil in tin pot twenty to twenty-five minutes. If boiled longer it will not taste fresh and lively.
Let stand four or five minutes to settle, pour off grounds into a coffee pot or urn.
Put fish skin or isinglass size of a nine-pence in pot when put on to boil or else the white and shell of half an egg to a couple of quarts of coffee."

[Chick]

blinded, can't read that - you been using my colouring pens - watch it!

[zimajays]

hope thats better.

[Chick]

Put fish skin or isinglass size of a nine-pence in pot when put on to boil or else the white and shell of half an egg to a couple of quarts of coffee."

I was ok until I got to this bit. what on earth is all that about?

The best coffee I have ever had was on the farm in Chipinge. We used to buy the local ground coffee, place a tablespoon in a muslim bag within a pot on the wood stove and simmer for 1/2hr. Sometimes we could stoke the fire up good and get the coffee to boiling point, but not often. It was delicious. Could never figure out why you could not buy the pure ground coffee in supermarkets throughout Zims.

Inyanga coffee was mentioned on Frazer once, they were larging it up!

[zimajays]

Put fish skin or isinglass size of a nine-pence in pot when put on to boil or else the white and shell of half an egg to a couple of quarts of coffee."

I was ok until I got to this bit. what on earth is all that about?

The best coffee I have ever had was on the farm in Chipinge. We used to buy the local ground coffee, place a tablespoon in a muslim bag within a pot on the wood stove and simmer for 1/2hr. Sometimes we could stoke the fire up good and get the coffee to boiling point, but not often. It was delicious. Could never figure out why you could not buy the pure ground coffee in supermarkets throughout Zims.

Inyanga coffee was mentioned on Frazer once, they were larging it up!

I dunno LOL. That is what it said on my trivia site, I thought I was going mad as well read it about 23 times and then figured its from 1844 so who knows...

[zimajays]

Ginger has been clinically demonstrated to work twice as well as Dramamine for fighting motion sickness, with no side effects

[Chick]

Ginger has been clinically demonstrated to work twice as well as Dramamine for fighting motion sickness, with no side effects



I can vouch for that, it's also good for nausia. I love sailing but get terrible sea-sickness, last time I went I took some ginger every few hours and I was not as sick.

[zimajays]

So how do you take it then, no let me refrase that... how would I get a kid to take it?

A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.

[zimajays]

"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.

[Strawbs]

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (You all recited em didn't ya? LOL Me too!)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (So do some of my best friends ~giggles~)

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years. (Man! Do I need THAT nap!!!)

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Spanish Moss is actually from the pineapple family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know everything

[igundwane]

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

That one is in fact a Myth :whistling:

[sally]

[quote=zimajays;75002]So how do you take it then, no let me refrase that... how would I get a kid to take it?

ginger ale, works just as well, i give passengers it when they feel sick, works every time!!

[zimajays]

[quote=zimajays;75002]So how do you take it then, no let me refrase that... how would I get a kid to take it?

ginger ale, works just as well, i give passengers it when they feel sick, works every time!!





Ta Sal for that!

[squeakyB]

Ginger has been clinically demonstrated to work twice as well as Dramamine for fighting motion sickness, with no side effects




I vouch for Ginger as well - is great for morning sickness - lived on grated ginger root and hot water for the first few months of my pregnancy...

[Strawbs]

[quote=zimajays;75002]So how do you take it then, no let me refrase that... how would I get a kid to take it?

ginger ale, works just as well, i give passengers it when they feel sick, works every time!!




or ginger nut biscuits work well too! :smiley20:

[yarrumsg]

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. bright side there will be gaps coz the some of the woman will be given birth so you can still get to where ur goin...


Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. but ur paperwork may get soggy...

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. and in the summer of 93 vic falls stopped flowing coz it was so hot there was a drought :P (just my 5 zim cents)

There are more chickens than people in the world. there are more sheep in nz than there are people...

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. explains why woman don't make great polititions, jfk beat out his opponenet by having the spot lights turned up so the other guy would blink alot..

Now you know everything

not quite.... did you know that Sea Horses are the only male species to give birth....

[zimajays]

Over 50% of all people fantasize more often about money than sex, so technically, Bill Gates is the hearthrob of the world.

[Chick]

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. and in the summer of 93 vic falls stopped flowing coz it was so hot there was a drought :P (just my 5 zim cents)



My friend has a photo of a dry Vic Falls and it's quite surreal to see.

[Patson]

shit do u think you could post that pic would love to see it...

[zimajays]

shit do u think you could post that pic would love to see it...


ahhh Chick how you can you say no, he askes so sweetly, bless...:smiley17:

[Chick]

Would love to post the pic, however, Chick in London - piccie in Shurugwi!

[zimajays]

In the French court of Louis XI, the fine ladies lived mainly on soup because they believed that excessive chewing would cause them to develop premature facial wrinkles.

[cujimmy]

A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an adult elephant (of either variety) and it's heart is the size of a van.

[zimajays]

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane

[zimajays]

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

[cujimmy]

Here's all of my useful information (pity you can't make a living from this stuff...):

Sharks have two penises.

The Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey, not New York.

There are more lawyers in the United States of America that on the rest of the planet.

There is more water in Loch Ness than in all the other lakes/lochs/loughs in the UK put together.

The full name of Bangkok is "Krungthep Mahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathani Burirom-udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amonphiman Awatansathit Sakkathattiya Witsanu Kamprasit", which translates to "The city of angels, the great city, the eternal jewel city, the impregnable city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukam."

AND here's a list that someone sent me the other day:

1. There are more British troops in Ulster than in Iraq.

2. One of the winners of the recent Palestinian primaries uses the nickname 'Hitler'. Around 25 PLO activists have adopted the name 'Hitler' or 'Abu Hitler'.

3. If all the Lego in the world were divided up evenly we would get 30 pieces each.

4. Lauren Bacall and Shimon Peres are first cousins.

5. There are half a million automatic machine guns in Swiss homes.

6. There are more Ethiopian doctors practicing in Chicago than in the whole of Ethiopia.

7. Seven of America's nine founding fathers denied the divinity of Jesus.

8. In the USA, on the 3rd and 4th days after heavy-weight championship bouts, the homicide rate rises by 9%.

9. One in every 3,400 Americans is an Elvis impersonator.

10. Europe's merchant ships produce around a third more carbon emissions than aircraft do.

11. Drivers called Ben are most likely to crash their cars: Ians are the safest.

12. Measured by GDP per head, Sweden is poorer than every US State apart from West Virginia and Mississippi.

13. More houses in China have a DVD player than hot & cold running water.

14. One in four British households own a copy of Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon'.

15. Australia emits 30% more greenhouse gas per capita than the United States.

16. Fidel Castro's fascination with Alexander the Great led him to name three of his sons Alexis, Alexander and Alejandro.

[Chick]

Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?
A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called "pygg." When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as "pygg banks." When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on.

[zimajays]

A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.

[barto11]

A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.

wouldnt he die of starvation then??

[zimajays]

Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals

[Chick]

Q: Did you ever wonder why dimes, quarters and half dollars have notches, while pennies and nickels do not?

A: The US Mint began putting notches on the edges of coins containing gold and silver to discourage holders from shaving off small quantities of the precious metals. Dimes, quarters and half dollars are notched because they used to contain silver. Pennies and nickels aren't notched because the metals they contain are not valuable enough to shave.

[Chick]

Q: Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called "passing the buck"?
A: In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility, he would "pass the buck" to the next player.

Q: Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?

A: It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would then just touch or clink the host's glass with his own.

[Chick]

Q: Why are people in the public eye said to be "in the limelight"?
A: Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and stage lighting by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In the theater, performers on stage "in the limelight" were seen by the audience to be the center of attention.

Q: Why do ships and aircraft in trouble use "mayday" as their call for help?

A: This comes from the French word m'aidez -meaning "help me" -- and is pronounced "mayday,"

Q: Why is someone who is feeling great "on cloud nine"?

A: Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud. If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares.

[sally]

Im on cloud nine