Did you know... (random fact thread!)

[slacker2114]

In colonial times, bathing habits were almost non-existant. Women would use beeswax to hide blemishes on their faces. If something would happen to the beeswax (cracks, runs etc), it was considered impolite to stare at it. If you were caught staring, you were promptly told to "mind your own beeswax".

 

[milagros317]

There are 206 bones in the human body. 😀

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Are you absolutely sure about that one? I've read from several sources that Van Gogh was on one of his frequent absinthe binges when he performed his famous self-surgery. In any case, we both agree that the "for love of a woman" story was bullshit, anways.

I guess I'm not 100% sure. I read it out of a trivia book that I have. 'The Unbelievable Truth!' written by Jeff Rovin. I thought that since it was from a book source rather than just the internet, it was more accurate. I guess not. According to the book, after van Gogh came to, he had wrapped the severed section of ear and presented it to a prostitute named Rachel. She wasn't fond of his paintings, and he wanted to show her that there was worse things he could give her.



Did you know... that though we're taught in school that there are seven continents, there are really only six, geographically speaking. The boundary between Europe and Asia is artificial, the work of ancient Greek mapmakers who believed the two regions were separated almost entirely by water from the Aegean to the North Sea. When the truth became known, it wasn't enough to displace tradition ... or European resistance to the idea of being considered part of Asia.

 

[Bugman]

There are six pounds of pennies in the average American home.

There are an estimated 140 billion pennies in circulation.

A roll of coins wrapped in paper is called rouleau.

Because of the weight of its face a penny is slightly more lokely to land on *heads* then *tails*.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Did you know... that gasoline doesn't freeze. At temperatures below -180 degrees Fahrenheit, it turns into a gummy substance. But it never becomes totally solid.

 

[Cave In]

Did you know, The planet Saturn is so light it would float in water

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Did you know... that the phrase "kick the buck" orginially connoted a suicide. In medieval times, suicide victims usually tied a rope to their neck, slung it over a rafter, then leapt off a bucket. Most kicked it as they strangled and convulsed. 😱

 

[Bugman]

Did you know...

Difficult Teneasee got its name because the residents could not agree on a name for the town.

Smallest town in the U.S.:Hove Mobile Park City,pop. 2. (North Dakota)

Greater Los Angeles is bigger then Rhode Island and Delaware combined.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Did you know... that déjà vu - the distint feeling that you've been somewhere or seen something before - is nothing more exotic than crossed wires. An image is flashed to your brain and recorded in memory an instant before it heads over to awareness. Though scientists know this happens, they aren't sure why. 😕

 

[slacker2114]

...The middle name of President Harry Truman was just the letter 'S.'

 

[ChosenofMystra]

Did you know that the great author F. Scott Fitzgerald had a foot fetish?

 

[Dário F]

Did you know that the WWE came to Portugal?

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Did you know... that the earliest known form of birth control was devised in Egypt in 2000 B.C. and consisted of crocodile excrement (to prevent the semen from penetrating) and honey (to prevent their odor from repelling suitors).

 

[ljjnico]

Did you know that Candice Michelle was a foot fetish/bondage model under the assumed name of Mackenzie Montgomery at FM Concepts Inc?

 

[Bugman]

Did you know....

When Danes living in Ireland between A.D. 800 and 900 didnt pay their poll tax on time the locals would slit their nose with a knife.Thats where we get the phrase paying through the nose.😱

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Did you know... that in Medieval Europe, a suntan was regarded as a sign of low birth: only commoners who worked in the fields all day had tanned skin. Nobles remained indoors or were comfortably shaded when they went out.

 

[Bugman]

Did you know.....

Austin Texas is the southernmost capitol city in the U.S.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Did you know... that Marie Antoinette did not say, "Let them eat cake," to poor French people who had no bread. It had been uttered 53 years before, in 1740, by a princess who, according to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Confessions, "when...told the peasants had no bread, replied, 'Let them eat cake.'"
Obviously, one of the anti-monarchists familiar with the statement attributed it to the Queen to rouse the populace against her. And successfully, too, since she was beheaded shortly thereafter.

 

[ChosenofMystra]

Did you know that the original title Mary Shelly had in mind for "Frankenstien" was "The Modern Prometheus"?

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Did you know... that just before being shot as he sat in a box at Ford's Theater, Abraham Lincoln had taken his wife's hand in his. She felt uneasy and asked her husband what people would think about this public show of affection. His last words were, "They won't think anything about it."

 

[natural tickler]

Did you know.....that no two snowflakes are identical

Did you also know.....that snakes cannot climb stairs (scientific fact)

 

[tickleshotel]

Dream Catchers *Do* catch bad Dreams and let Good Dreams Through? hence the name "Dream Catcher that has a Ring in the center..

 

[goddess_nemesis]

Did you know... that if you add the number of letters in the names of the cards in a deck of cards, excluding the joker, the count is 52 - the same as the number of cards in the deck.

 

[Goodieluver]

The tips at the end of shoelaces are called "aglets". Their true purpose is sinister.

 

[Bugman]

Did you know...

Bears can run faster uphill then downhill because their front legs are shorter then their hind legs?