Tv shows like "QI" give us loads of interesting information. So what do you know ? Nothing made up Thank You....
2007-02-23 02:00:24 · 18 answers · asked by hbk13 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Before she became a politician, it was Mrs Thatcher's proudest claim that she had revolutionised the composition of Mr Whippy ice cream.
If all the Cadbury's Creme Eggs made each year were stacked one on top of each other they would stretch from the Bournville factory in Birmingham to Australia - around 12,000 miles
World War I dealt the corset a fatal blow when the U.S. War Industries Board called on women to stop buying corsets in 1917. It freed up some 28,000 tons of metal.
The origins of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme:
Humpty Dumpty was not a person pilloried in the famous rhyme. Humpty Dumpty was in fact a huge canon! The canon, Humpty Dumpty, was strategically placed on the protective wall of "St Mary's Wall Church" in Colchester, England. During the English Civil War (1642 - 1649) the town of Colchester was fiercely fought for by the Roundheads and Cavaliers. A shot from a Parliamentary canon succeeded in damaging the wall beneath Humpty Dumpty which caused the canon to tumble to the ground. The Royalists, or Cavaliers, 'all the King's men' attempted to raise Humpty Dumpty on to another part of the wall. However, because the canon , or Humpty Dumpty, was so heavy ' All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again!' This had a drastic consequence for the Royalists as the strategically important town of Colchester fell to the Parliamentarians after a siege lasting eleven weeks.
Computer viruses first started on Apple-Macs
2007-02-23 08:42:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Whoever above me said something about "the common sign of the devil: 666"........well, new studies have revealed that this is wrong. Early versions of the bible, before the infamous King James version, all point towards the Number of the Beast being 616 and not 666! 666 was a mistranslation - incredible how things become 'common knowledge' that are actually wrong.
It's true - I'm sure there are articles on the internet about it.
Well anyway, I think that's interesting :o)
2007-02-23 02:32:33 · answer #2 · answered by PKblue 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That the common sign for the devil 666 is the first 36 numbers added together (1+2+3+4......33+34+35+36=666) and it's a triangular number.
2007-02-23 02:09:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm answering a question posted by a meerkat, so I'd say... yes. Aside from that, I'm not sure I'd characterize things as strange and interesting. It's all more sort of surreal.
2016-05-24 02:02:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That carrots were not originally Orange but were bred that way by people in the Netherlands as a symbol of support for the House of Orange during their struggle for independence from the Spanish in the Seventeenth Century. Prior to the Dutch making carrots Orange they were generally white, red or purple in colour.
2007-02-23 02:17:17 · answer #5 · answered by Golf Alpha Nine-seven 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If you type smirnoff on your mobile phone with predictable text, it will spell poisoned instead.
If you are kidnapped and thrown into a boot of car, kick out the backlights, put your hand through and start waving. The kidnapper will not know but other drivers are bound to notice and alert police.
If someone tries to snatch your bag, throw it one direction and run the opposite way from where you threw it. The thief will be more interested in the bag rather than harming you.
2007-02-23 02:14:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The one fact that I once told my trusting, young daughter, which made her look at me in total disbelief, occurred on the beach in Bradenton one day.
With a rather vast beach lying before us, I picked up a handful of sand and explained to her that there are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet earth.
2007-02-23 02:11:40 · answer #7 · answered by AZ123 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you're feeling dizzy and on the brink of a heart attack after eating oily foods, suck on a calamansi (a tiny lime from the Philippines) and the dizziness will stop almost immediately and prevent the heart attack.
2007-02-23 02:34:30 · answer #8 · answered by cchinitaa 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that ants express distress by rubbing their body plates together to make squeaking noises ("stridulations")
the angle between the ground and the wall of a pile of sand is fixed, and depends on the size of the grains.
Bob Dylan is of turkish descent.
2007-02-23 02:11:48 · answer #9 · answered by Alyosha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That ginger (real ginger) stops you from feeling physically sick if you pop a bit on your tounge for 5 mins. Dont taste too nice, but blimey does it work!!
Oh and if you cut onions, place a wooden spoon in your mouth and your eyes wont "cry".
oh and that London Lady is a fabulous lady!! indeed. xx
2007-02-23 02:06:36 · answer #10 · answered by london lady 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋