Did you know...useless facts/information

bananas are actually herbs, not fruit..
tomatoes, pumpkin and anything else with seeds is a fruit
i cant believe how many people dont know this... no offence

 

Some people in Newton County, AR still have outhouses.

 

42% of statistics are made up on the spot.
About 50% of these posts are lies.
If you were to stretch out all the DNA in your body, end to end, it would go to the moon and back six times.
People with more symmetrical faces generally have higher IQs.
One night in Bankok makes the tough guys tumble.

 

The shortest possible sentence in the English language is "I am."

 

nope, he is still alive in prison. http://www.mansondirect.com/updates.html




I currently have 17 mosquito bites on my lower legs.

 

The crapper

Meaning:

The lavatory.

Origin:

Popular wisdom attributes the derivation of this slang term for lavatory to Thomas Crapper (1836 - 1904), the supposed inventor of the flush toilet. Unfortunately, Thomas Crapper didn't invent the flush toilet. He holds nine patents for plumbing-related inventions, including three for water closets, but flush lavatory, properly called the Silent Valveless Water Waste Preventer was patented in 1819 by Albert Giblin.

Nevertheless, Crapper is the name that people remember. He was certainly well-known in his day as a sanitary engineer. He had a thriving plumbing business and was sanitary engineer for several members of the royal family.

Like the widespread and misguided rejection of Nelson's deathbed quotation - 'kiss me Hardy', it has become commonplace to see the association of the name Crapper with toilets and defecation dismissed as an urban myth. As in Nelson's case, there doesn't seem to be any good reason for that. The word crap, either as a noun or as a verb, doesn't appear in English before Crapper's lifetime. The earliest citation is from the 1859 edition of John C. Hotten's A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words:

"Crapping case, a privy, or water-closet."



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There are older Dutch and German words (krappe/krape) and an English version crappe that could have been the source. None of these actually mean defecate or excrement.


Given what we know at present we can't say for certain that crap and crapping come from Thomas Crapper's name. Likewise, we don't have any clear evidence to say that they don't.

 

1 out of 4 Americans has appeared on tv?
61% of all hits on the internet are on sex-sites?
Everyday 21 newborn babies will be given to the wrong parents
The average person swallows 8 spiders in a year
Cannabis is the most widely abused drug in the world
The average person laughs 13 times a day
Elvis was originally blond
The average age of first intercourse is 15.3 years old
The average erect penis is 5,2" long - and 4,2" circumcised
Eskimoes use refrigerators to keep food from freezing
41% of all people take people with curly hair less seriously
20% of all females have had at least 1 homosexual experience
There is no such thing as anti-winkle cream
22% of the time, a pizza will arrive faster that an ambulance in Great Britain
96% of all women have at one time in their life faked an orgasm
3 people die every year, testing if a 9 volt battery works on their tongue
The 'Guinness Book Of Records' holds the record for being the most stolen book in public libraries
Butterflies taste with their feet
5% of the population is gay
The worlds best known word is 'okay', the second most well-known word is 'Coca-Cola'
The giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue
Charles Chaplin once won 3rd prize in a 'Charles Chaplin look-a-like contest'
In 1995 a Japanese trawler sank because a Russian cargo plane dropped a living cow from 30,000 feet
Only one book has been printed in more copies than the Bible - the IKEA-catalogue
1 cigarette takes away five minutes of a person's life
In 1950 we were 3 billion people on the earth - today we are 6 billion people
'Donald Duck' was banned in Finland, because he doesn't wear pants
74% of all nudist-females are nudists, because their husbands are nudists
More people die from a champagne cork popping, than from poison spiders
21% of all traffic accidents happen because the driver falls asleep
Did you know that originally a danish guy invented the burglar alarm? - unfortunately it got stolen

 

Dolphins and humans are the only animals who have sex for pleasure.

 

not true. lions fuck like 10 times a day at least.

 

if you fold a sheet of paper 42 times you can reach the moon.
but a sheet can be folded only 7 times. (or 8, i can't remember... try this at home!)

 

It's illegal to drive a dirty car in Russia (dunno if this is still true but it was at least.)
And I think it's still illegal to have a naked shop dummy on display in New York - dunno if people obey that though.

 

Mosquitos have 47 teeth.

 

The liver of the polar bear is toxic to humans due to the extreme level of vitamin A

 

A ANAGRAM of GRATEFUL DEAD, comes out FAT DRUG DEAL........

 

If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

 

It's pretty weird that I just read that fact(about 5 days ago) in a book about the life of the Frech author, Gustave Flaubert.