Didya know ?

[Pat494]

America that staunch bastion of republicanism has in fact got 1 Royal Palace.

Can you guess where ? And no they didn't buy it for mega dollars off Europe like London Bridge and stick in the Arizona desert.

It is in Honolulu

 

[Pat494]

May - October 1893 was the Chicago World's Fair. A statue of The Republic was built.
Dr.H Holmes owned the major hotel there. He attracted lots of women, particularly young ones. He would lock them into an ordinary looking room at the hotel, which was also an airtight chamber and release gas into the room to kill them. In the basement he dissected the corpses and sold them on to the medical profession. At his trial he admitted to 28 murders but there may have been many more.
America's first known serial killer. He was found guilty and hanged.

 

[Pat494]

America's first notorious swindler lived about 100 years ago in New York called C. Parker. He was known to have hatched huge swindles by selling shares in the newly opened Brooklyn Bridge. He went on with this scheme and sold shares, particularly to immigrants of The Statue of Liberty, President Grant's tomb etc. The authorities finally nailed him with a 4th minor charge and he served the rest of his life in prison.

 

[Pat494]

The average person breathes 5 million times a year

 

[ZEN archer]

Blue whale fart bubbles are large enough to enclose a horse.

 

[Atilla]

Blue whale fart bubbles are large enough to enclose a horse.

 

[Pat494]

Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them

 

[ZEN archer]

French was the official language of England for over 600 years.

 

[Pat494]

You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.

 

[Pat494]

Earth is the only planet not named after a god

 

[postman]

Did you know, Pat494 has far too much free time on his hands.


Oh and thanks for the 'laugh out loud' start to my day on finding this thread.

 

[joeycoyle]

the osmotic regulator in the paramecium is the contractile vaucuole
in mexico a bean is a frijole

so what does that make a fart?

 

[Pat494]

Did you know, Pat494 has far too much free time on his hands.


Oh and thanks for the 'laugh out loud' start to my day on finding this thread.

Ok just to prove you right

Native Americans used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees after their children were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and Running Water

 

[Atilla]

Ok just to prove you right

Native Americans used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees after their children were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and Running Water

Big bear :-0

 

[joeycoyle]

why do you ask where your name came from 2 dogs fawking?

 

[Pat494]

The present population is expected to rise to 15 Billion by the year 2080 -
could get worn out just saying excuse me to the next guy.

 

[joeycoyle]

ill take the under, we are busting at the seams now

epidemic is a slight fave at 5/2
over economic monetary collapse 3/1
dead ocean is a live shot at 13-1
ukrainian ww3 is a popular choice at 5-1
slightly ahead of isreal nikes iraq and russia retailates at 7-1
franken food is a long shot at 50-1
i like the annanuki return at 27-1

Who do you like ???

 

[Pat494]

ill take the under, we are busting at the seams now

epidemic is a slight fave at 5/2
over economic monetary collapse 3/1
dead ocean is a live shot at 13-1
ukrainian ww3 is a popular choice at 5-1
slightly ahead of isreal nikes iraq and russia retailates at 7-1
franken food is a long shot at 50-1
i like the annanuki return at 27-1

Who do you like ???

how about a major asteroid strike in next 50 years at 20/1
what's an annanuki ?
India v. Pakistan nuclear war in next 50 years at 8/1
Japan acquires nuclear weapons in next 50 years at 5/1
Major conflict between China v. Japan, greed over islands/mineral reserves 5/1
Mediterranean Sea becoming a foul cesspit 5/1
The USA imploding. Loaded up with guns and racial tensions. 10/1

 

[Atilla]

The Chinese name diseases based on symptoms, so diabetes is known as “sugary pee,” while a dyslexic “has trouble reading.” Dementia derives from two Chinese characters meaning “insane” and “idiotic.”

 

[Atilla]

In 2013, out of 36.4 million flights, there were only 81 accidents and 210 fatalities, down from 90 accidents and 685 fatalities in 2009, according to the International Air Transport Association.


Compare that to Crash: Death on just Britain's roads;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2009/crash/8414354.stm