Can you tell me some random/pointless facts?

Question

I like to know random suff so can you teach me some new facts.

Thanks

Answer 1

LIFE IN THE 1500'S

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.
Here are some interesting facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell,

so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.

Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.

The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water,

then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally

the children, Last of all the babies.

By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.

Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath.

It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery

and sometimes the animals would slip and off the roof.

Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

T he floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.

Hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh hold."

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.
Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old. "

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky.

The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a coupl e of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait to see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake."

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones

to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."

Answer 2

its raining right now.
barbie's(the doll) first an last name is barbera roberts
you have ringworm
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds
Almonds are a member of the peach family
'Dreamt' is the only word in the English language ending with 'mt'
On a Canadian 2 dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
There is no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones chewable Vitamins
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and nobody knows why
Coca-Cola was originally green
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades=King David, Hearts=Charlemagne, Clubs=Alexander the Great, Diamonds=Julius Caesar
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
In Scotland a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden… and so the word GOLF entered the English language
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
Pearls melt in vinegar
The youngest pope was 11 years old
There are more collect calls placed on Father’s Day than any other day of the year
It is impossible to lick your elbow
And finally, one more random fact… At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow

Answer 3

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear.


Women blink nearly twice as much as men.


Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.


If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Lol i love all these pointless info things too :)
xo

Answer 4

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy for an atomic bomb



The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt 30 feet


A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.




A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.



Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour (Don't try this at home)


The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human
jumping the length of a football field.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.



Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.


Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people.


Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.



A cat's urine glows under a black light.


An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.


Starfish have no brains


Polar bears are left-handed.


Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
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Answer 5

Only 3 movies won Oscars for Best Picture, Actor, Actress Director and Screenplay.
It Happened One Night
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Silence of the Lambs

Answer 6

This one is a little disgusting, but a co-worker posted it at his desk and it's something random and pointless that I never knew before:

At first it was thought that frogs could not throw up, but then it was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. The frog then uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Answer 7

The Warren House Inn on Dartmoor is the third highest [above sea-level] pub in England!

EDIT; It's 20/09/2007 today! That will never be repeated!

EDIT; On 07/07/07, I was 47!

EDIT; Newark is an anagram of 'wanker'!

Answer 8

The cost to use the first pay toilets installed in London was tuppence..
Eric Clapton does not play the famous first riff on the song "Layla" it is done by Duane Alman, Clapton comes in later..
The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free from rats..

Answer 9

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

Answer 10

The largest flower in the world is the Rafflesia. It looks and smells like rotting meat to attract flies which pollinate it. It has no leaves and lives as a parasite inside trees before shoving out its horrible flowers.