Did you know...useless facts/information

Alabama was the birthplace of the actress Tallulah Bankhead at Huntsville in 1902. Between 1923 and 1968 she is said to have slept with 40% of the British aristocracy.

The British aristocracy suffered its greatest disaster on October 14th 1066 when 50% of its membership was killed at the Battle of Hastings.

Doors in London in the eighteenth century had up to ten keyholes to confuse burglars.

Red Square is neither red nor square. It is oblong and called Krasnaya Ploschad in Russian, meaning 'beautiful square'. The words for 'red' and 'beautiful' are the same in Russian.

$644 million was mislaid by the accounting firm Arthur Andersen during their 1999 audit of NASA.

 

the enigma machine cipher could not encipher a letter as itself.....

 

come again ?.

 

none of the variants of the enigma cipher was capable of enciphering a letter as itself


e could be encoded as k but not as e

that was it's fatal flay, only 25 possibilities per letter as opposed to 26 and that particular absence of possibility allowed turings bombe to break the mother like a ddt poisoned raptor egg.....

 

The first man to distill bourbon whiskey in the United States was a Baptist preacher, in 1789.

The Aztec Indians of Mexico believed turquoise would protect them from physical harm, and so warriors used these green and blue stones to decorate their battle shields.

More than 5,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered how to make silk from silkworm cocoons. For about 3,000 years, the Chinese kept this discovery a secret. Because poor people could not afford real silk, they tried to make other cloth look silky. Women would beat on cotton with sticks to soften the fibers. Then they rubbed it against a big stone to make it shiny. The shiny cotton was called "chintz." Because chintz was a cheaper copy of silk, calling something "chintzy" means it is cheap and not of good quality.

The pharaohs of ancient Egypt wore garments made with thin threads of beaten gold. Some fabrics had up to 500 gold threads per one inch of cloth.

The ancient Egyptians recommended mixing half an onion with beer foam as a way of warding off death.

The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.

 

Europeans are more tolerant of windmills than Australians are.

 

i lived in india till i was 13 and ive never seen round playing cards =s

 

Hey heifer when you die you shit and piss yourself that is where the 28oz. come from

 

I thought condoms in the old days were made from section of sheep's gut, with a knot tied in it.

 

43.2% of statistics are made up on the spot.

 

No it isn't. That stuff would stay on the scale.

 

polar bears are always lefthanded

 

I don't know if this one's been said yet, but something like 0.3% of all car accidents in Canada involve a moose.

 

my butt itches.

 

.0005% of the worlds population own a car

if you have change in a jar, a bank account, and a wallet full of cash, your richer than i forget the number, but a very large percent of the rest of the souls on this earth

 

i have something in my teeth.

and my furnace just kicked on.

homer "wahoo!"

 

hemp seeds are a complete vegetarian protein, as well as the most balanced source of essential omega fatty acids second only to whale oil, very healthy stuff.

 

I bet Gene Simmons can...

 

my friend can lick her elbow

 

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