Strange Facts

[Coco]

List interesting strange phenomena here:

Mine is: male seahorses are the only male animal that can get pregnant and have babies.
More info: http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/parenting/06/14/seahorse.dads/

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[FUNKMAN]

the Banana Slug has both a penis and vagina...after mating they proceed to chew each others penis off...

man, i don't know how many times I've posted this but it's something that stuck in my mind...

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[Hawiian shirt craig]

the word FUCK is actaully old
english. at some point in
medevil england you were
required to obtain a permit to
have a child. once you did
this a FUCK notice was placed
on your door.

Fornication
Under
Consent of the
King

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[Steels]

Long Island native actually gains weight after staple surgery.

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[bboxer]

Cops are called cops because they used to have copper buttons.


Benjamin when I call in.

[A.J.]

Cops are called cops because they used to have copper buttons.


I read somewhere where it came from "Constable On Patrol".

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[HordeKing1]

Cops used to be called "coppers" b/c of the copper buttons. It was shortened to cops.


I've read that the etiology of the word "Fuck" was an anacronym of the "crime" of sex specificially -
For
Unlawful
Carnal
Knowledge



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[canofsoup15]

Mine is the simple fact that deer having been getting hit by cars for years, and yet still continue to stand in the road. What the hell.

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[KC2OSO]

Fuck came from the German verb Fichen meaning "to strike or hit".

Meantime, did you know that in 1948, Swiss engineer George de Mestral returned from a hike and noticed burrs clinging to his pants. He saw that the burrs had small hooks that attached to his clothing and came up with the idea for Velcro. Big whup.

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[thegreekchic]

The english vocabulary was taking from the greek language- as per the Dad from my Big Greek Fat Wedding.

Also "greek" was a slave name the Turks gave to us.




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[Zestie]

The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the
sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat crap!)



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[FUNKMAN]

the city of Salem in Massachusetts(where the Witch Trials/Hangings occurred) had it's name derived from Jerusalem

a Witch told me that!

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[The Chairman]

Meantime, did you know that in 1948, Swiss engineer George de Mestral returned from a hike and noticed burrs clinging to his pants. He saw that the burrs had small hooks that attached to his clothing and came up with the idea for Velcro. Big whup.


I thought it was develped by NASA to hold things down during space flight under a grvity free environment and the word is a conjunction of velvet, the soft side, and Crochet, the "hook" side. Was Mestral working for NASA?

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[TooCute]

Mine is: male
seahorses are the only
male animal that can get
pregnant and have
babies

Interesting, but wrong.
Actually, the males of all
species in the family
Sygnathidae (so named
because of their fused
snouts - this includes
'sea-dragons' and 'pipefish'
as well as 'sea-horses')
can get 'pregnant'.

However, to be precise,
since the males are simply
carrying eggs, the correct
term is 'gravid'. Pregnant is
generally reserved for
something that is actually
carrying developing young,
rather than eggs (although
the Sygnathidae do release
fully formed young at the
end of gestation, rather than
eggs. So, for example, you'd
never talk about a snake
being "pregnant".)

As an aside, that article is a
completely anthrocentric
piece of ridicularum.
Seahorses aren't
"romantics". They are purely
pragmatic. They carry the
eggs so that the females
can't run off and get sperm
from another male to
fertilize her eggs.

A related interesting fact
(which is actually a fact)
Male damselflies have
bristles on their "penises"
(not exactly penises but
since they are used to inject
sperm into the female they
are called penises). Why?
Because female
damselflies like to bang a
lot of males and save their
sperm. When the finally
decide that they have the
'best' sperm, they will then
use it to fertilize their eggs.
How they do this is beyond
me, or anyone who studies
such things. At any rate, the
bristles on the males'
penises are for scraping
out the sperm of previous
males the femals has
gotten it on with.

Sperm competition is fun,
huh?


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[The Chairman]

the Banana Slug has both a penis and vagina...after mating they proceed to chew each others penis off... <P>
Does that explain why the University of California at Santa Cruz has a Banana Slug as a mascot? <P>
http://www.goslugs.com/graphics/animation.gif <P>

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I'll take that Chesterfield now...

[The Chairman]

the Banana Slug has both a penis and vagina...after mating they proceed to chew each others penis off... <P>
Does that explain why the University of California at Santa Cruz has a Banana Slug as a mascot? <P>
http://www.goslugs.com/graphics/animation.gif <P>

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[bisqit999]

TooCute is really smart.

But I bet she didn't now that the first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

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[NurseMira]

I also heard that if you close your eyes...you become invisible.

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[Coco]

Meantime, did you know that in 1948, Swiss engineer George de Mestral
returned from a hike and noticed burrs clinging to his pants. He saw that the
burrs had small hooks that attached to his clothing and came up with the idea
for Velcro. Big whup.



I thought it was develped by NASA to hold things down during space flight
under a grvity free environment and the word is a conjunction of velvet, the
soft side, and Crochet, the "hook" side. Was Mestral working for NASA?


Whoever it was I consider them a genius.

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[BrianTheBailBondsman]

the 1986 us tax reform act exempted profits from the sale of reindeer.

"Getting my 15 minutes of fame a few seconds at a time"999 my last dotcommando poster post

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[flipper21]

California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat.


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[Coco]

An elephant's trunk normally has 40,000 muscles.

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[shit4brains]

there are no army bases in new hampshire


live free or die

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[Contra]

a goldfish can only remember things in half hour increments

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[Reephdweller]

13 - The average number of people killed each year when vending machines fall on them.

.7% of the worlds population is estimated to drunk at any given time....which approximates to 44 million people at this moment are sloshed!

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[Reephdweller]

It is illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.

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[KC2OSO]

I got the Velcro bit from the World Almanac. Great reading on the terlet. They could be wrong. I think it was the Swiss dude though.

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[Death Metal Moe]

Does anyone know any facts about Morning Wood? It's kinda annoying, especially when my parents come in my room to wake me up for something.

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Its illegal to walk around NYC with a hard-on

[Reephdweller]

$0.00 is the amount of money that Linda Lovelace was paid for her role in Deep Throat. The movie has grossed over $600 million to date.

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[FUNKMAN]

Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again...

cool...

this is real fact #84, found on a Snapple cap...

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[LatinSpiceXoX]

Snapple cap fact #2 :: Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.

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[philth]

Female Tarantulas can live up to 30 Years, While the males only live 1/3 that

[FUNKMAN]

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[Doogie]

I've read that the etiology of the word "Fuck" was an anacronym of the "crime" of sex specificially -
For
Unlawful
Carnal
Knowledge

ACtually HK, that is not entirely true. Fuck is derived both from German and Norwegian is the second one if I remember correctly. People placed FUCK as being a medieval anachronism, but that is very incorrect as anacronism's generally didnt come about in large usage until the automobile age...As of this post I dont have the link. I will provide the link when I edit it in a little bit

EDIT- here is the quote I found
[Fuck] is a very old word, recorded in English since the 15th century (few acronyms predate the 20th century), with cognates in other Germanic languages. The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-394-54427-7) cites Middle Dutch fokken = "to thrust, copulate with"; Norwegian dialect fukka = "to copulate"; and Swedish dialect focka = "to strike, push, copulate" and fock = "penis". Although German ficken may enter the picture somehow, it is problematic in having e-grade, or umlaut, where all the others have o-grade or zero-grade of the vowel.

Some more strange facts: Hitler and Napoleon both ruled countries they were not born in.

They both were thrown out in half the time they invaded Russia. (Napoleon took two months to enter to Moscow, thrown out of Russia in one month. Hitler took two summer campaigns to enter Russia, thrown out in one)

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[bigbaldirish]

Snapple cap fact #2 :: Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.

make sense never attached to the mother

the term rule of thumb comes from, in the early 1900's it was legal to beat your wife with a stick that was no wider than your thumb

[HordeKing1]

ACRONYM - A word formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term (Like NATO or GPS or FUCK)

Anachronism - 1. An error in chronology; especially a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other and 2. A person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially one from a former age that is incongruous in the present.

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[hyperspace]

4 out of 5 dentists reccomend trident for those who chew gum. ive always wondered why #5 was skeptical

[muffaluffagus]

Does anyone know any facts about Morning Wood? It's kinda annoying, especially when my parents come in my room to wake me up for something.


I heard somewhere that morning wood occurs because the body has to go so long without urinating, so you get a hard on to prevent peeing in your sleep...

Are you ruff and tuff with your muff and stuff?

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[DroopyGirl]

Every person who lives in Holland has at least one bicycle and there are twice as many bikes as cars.

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[TooCute]

Lots of animals change
sex, not just oysters. And if
you think about it, it's
actually STRANGER that
there are species that
DON'T change sex!

and droopy, do you mean
that there are as many
bicycles in the netherlands
as there are people, or do
you really mean that every
single person owns at least
one bicycle???!! If you really
meant what you said, that's
incredible!!


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