weird facts

  • The Carpuccino is a car that was fueled by coffee. It could drive 210 miles on a full tank.

  • A woman lost her wedding ring and found it 16 years later growing on a carrot in her garden.

  • In Japan, there is a fire alarm for the deaf. It emits a wasabi mist to awake anyone nearby.

  • Orangutans like to eat soap.

  • London has so many trees, it can be classified as a forest.

  • eBay started off as a site that gave information about ebola.

  • KFC used to sell candles that smelled like fried chicken.

  • Neanderthals made toys for their children.

  • A man tried to blow up the Eiffel Tower because its light kept him up at night.

  • The first thing ever written on the Internet was “lo.” It was supposed to say “login” but the computer crashed after the first two letters.

  • Someone on eBay bought a Cheeto for $99,900 because it looked like Harambe the gorilla.

  • If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.

  • A Coca-Cola employee can get fired for drinking Pepsi on the job.

  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

  • Drinking a quart of soy sauce in one gulp can leave you in a coma.

  • Sumo wrestlers are not allowed to drive.

  • Cats rarely meow to other cats.

  • In 1985, a bear ate over 75lbs of cocaine and then died of an overdose. He is known as Pablo EskoBear.

  • The woolly mammoth was around when the pyramids were being built.

  • Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.

  • If you have 23 people in a room, there’s a 50% probability that at least two of them share a birthday.

  • Cheese is the world’s most stolen food item.

  • Nintendo was founded in 1889 and it started off as a card company.

  • McDonald’s chicken nuggets are always 1 of 4 different shapes. Ball, Bone, Bell, or Boot

  • Dead people can get goosebumps.

  • ‘No melon, no lemon’ spelt backwards is ‘No melon, no lemon.’

  • The weight of all the electrons in motion that make up the internet at any one moment is equivalent to 50 grams, which is the same weight as a large strawberry.

  • J.R.R. Tolkien and Hitler fought against one another in the Battle of Somme during WWI.

  • Thomas Edison’s last breath is in a tube, in Detroit’s Henry Ford museum.

  • Alaska is the only state that can be typed using one row on a keyboard.

  • There are more planes in the sea than there are boats in the sky.

  • More Monopoly money is printed than real money.

  • Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players of all time, died at the age of 64. The exact number of squares on a chessboard.

  • The total amount of time that World of Warcraft has been played around the world is over 6 million years.

  • More people drown in the desert than die of thirst.

  • Blind people don’t see blackness, they see nothing.

  • More people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

  • For every person living, there are about 15 people who are dead.

  • On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.

  • The longest word in the English language takes 3 and a half hour to pronounce and contains 189,819 letters.

_
Nice facts Pinocchio… though some would be considered fallacious, due to lack of empirical and/or scientific evidence and data. They do make for good jokes though. =D> interesting name.

_
…when people say “we haven’t had much of a Summer” …even though it was hot for months.

it’s 39C here today so count your blessings y’all

(that’s 102F in yank)

Arnold Schwarze the negger was the first citizen in the U.S. to purchase a Humvee.

I knew that fact ; )

Everyone knows that fact.

A fact that very few people know:

Schwarzenegger is not Schwarze Negger (negger is not a word in German) but Schwarzen Egger, meaning black castle.

_
It actually denotes someone from South Germany and/or dark-haired,
who ploughed the land, so a farmer/agriculturalist etc.

Also: Schwarzenegger is a German surname that means person from Schwarzenegg, which is both a town in Switzerland and a place in Land Salzburg in Austria. The name also translates literally to “black ploughman” in German.

_
Castle is Schloss, in German… I’ve been to a Schloss… fun times.

Why FC dropping lies, like napalm yo!

Meaning yes, it refers to a dwelling, and quite possibly in a historic sense, as Germany had a tapestry of some 300 different little cultural realms, it did refer to a fairly substantial dwelling in the state where the name originated. Though the origins of the translation which I have from a reputable source, might be too obscure for google to produce it entirely correctly.
I did not lie. What is with everybody here.
Well,

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERtkpnXLrL4[/youtube]

No riddle
but I aint riding that fiddle.

_
Sanatan is the oldest religion in the world, not Hinduism: founded between 6,000 years to 8,000 years ago by various prophets (messangers of god) in present-day India and Pakistan while the roots date back to 7280 BC (about 10,000 years back).

“Similar to many Austrian family names, the distinguished surname Egger is a proud sign of a rich and ancient ancestry. The earliest forms of hereditary surnames in Austria were patronymic surnames, which are derived from the father’s given name, and metronymic surnames, which are derived from the mother’s given name. Austrian and German patronymic names emerged as early as the mid-9th century. The patronyms were derived from a variety of given names that were of many different origins. The name Egger is derived from the Germanic given name Ogier or Edgar, which both combine elements meaning prosperity and spear.”

Maybe the name grew, to also include plush pads… a’la the prosperity connection? Who knows,.
_
On my mother’s French-Norman/Anglo side, her mother’s surname means sturdy… and she sure lived up to that name, I can tell you :neutral_face:
She was definitely from sturdy stock, and sturdy did she convey.

Beginning in the 30s the soviets started training German shepherds to be anti-tank weapons. First, the dogs were trained to deliver the explosive and then return to the trainer. The dog would pull with its teeth a harness release while underneath the tank, and then gtfo. This didnt work out well for several reasons, so they designed the harness to have a seven inch wooden lever mounted vertically above the dog. When he slid under the tank, the lever would be thrown and ka boom. Essentially the dogs became suicide bombers.

Other problems evolved as well. The obvious one being moving tanks, as opposed to stationary tanks. Another was the fact that german tanks used gasoline while soviet tanks used diesel. The dogs were trained with soviet tanks, so the different smell of the german tanks confused them.

All in all the program didnt work out, but there were a few notable instances and particular battles in which they performed very well.

(yo I’m like a scholar now on the Schäferhund. G’head, ax me anything.)

I wanna get a Czech working line german shepherd. The showlines have purposefully bred deformities into the original bloodline to change the shape (note the smaller haunches and sloping back) of the dog, and they dont tend to be as formidable in character as the working line dogs. Some of that breeding also made hip dysplasia more common among the resulting bloodlines. Also, the Czech german shepherds are the ones that look most like wolves.

Second choice is the saddle black and tan… the ‘classic’ shepherd that we always see. But no showlines. Man I had no idea about these differences and how they mattered.

youtu.be/_cSNWGmN1KI

Go to 1:49. A sire playing with his litter. This is so adorable I could just melt. See how he rolls into that submissive position for a split second as the puppies bombard him? That’s training, man. No I literally think dad is doing that on purpose to give the puppies a chance to experience that dominant position when pinning an opponent down. This is necessary to build their confidence… they have to know they are able to dominate in a fight like that… even if dad is faking it for them. They dont know that. They actually thought they took dad down. So adorable.

Another weird fact: one way to break an alpha male shepherd of his ‘attitude problem’, is to… check this shit out… ignore him when you enter the room.

How fucking interesting is that? The alpha’s confidence and sense of office depends on his being recognized and acknowledged by his inferiors. Ignore the fucker and he’s like ‘yo… what’s the deal man? I’m over here. You know, leader of the pack. Yoo-hoo… over here!’

_
Church records show the German Nazis melted down some 80,000 bells to make weapons or ammunition during WWII

Reclaimed church bells can only be returned on ‘permanent loan’ to its owner, as officially they are owned by the German Government

_
I recently read, that the temperature for weather-forecasting is taken in the shade…

Which is why it feels hotter when in the sun… I always wondered why that was, and now I know.

When you mix a drug like coke/amp with opiates, they don’t cancel each other out because one is a stimulant and the other is a depressant like you’d think they would do. This is because each of them have two effect profiles: central nervous system effects, and peripheral nervous system effects. The central nervous system effects of BOTH amphetamines and opiates is euphoria, so that does not cancel out, it actually synergizes and intensifies. The peripheral nervous system effect of amphetamine is jitteriness and anxiety, you know, usually all the negatives of a drug are in its peripheral NS activity; while the PNS effects of opiates, unwanted, are things like somnolence, itching, nausea, reduced breathing: so the only thing the two drugs cancel out for each other are actually their unwanted effects, which is a good thing. They take away one another’s negatives and reinforce one another’s positives. That is the origin of the speedball. When you fill a needle with cocaine/amp and heroin and inject it all simultaneously.