Fondles Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 -The character known as the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and the phrase "mad as a hatter" are both based on a tragic episode in manufacturing history. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, hatmakers used various chemicals in their work, among them mercury for curing felt. Mercury is a deadly poison, and the thousands of workers who handled this noxious substance developed pathological symptoms---including kidney damage, anemia, inflammation of the gums, as well as insanity---known today as "hatter's syndrome." It is estimated that at one time more than 10 percent of all the workers in hat factories ended their lives insane. -Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered with water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable. -Though the Italian Renaissance flourished in Rome, not a single Renaissance artist, sculptor or musician of any stature was born in that city. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, practically all architects, painters, sculptors and musicians were imported to Rome. When they had completed their projects, they almost always departed. -In feudal Japan the Imperial Army had special soldiers whose only duty was to count the number of severed enemy heads after each battle. -In Turkey, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death. -In the Middle Ages animals were tried and publicly executed. Birds, wolves, insects, all were tried by ecclesiastical courts as witches and heretics, and suffered excommunication, torture, and death. The last such trial took place in 1740, when a French judge found a cow guilty of sorcery and ordered it hanged by the neck until dead. In 1386 at Falaise a judge ordered a pig to have its legs mutilated and then be hanged for killing a little girl. The pig was dressed up in the child's jacket and dragged to the town square with all the ceremony due a first-rate criminal. The execution, it is recorded, cost 6 sous plus a pair of gloves for the executioner so that he might carry out the killing with clean hands. -Before 1859 baseball umpires sat in a padded rocking chair behind the catcher. -The only manmade structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China. -The first letter of every continent's name is the same as the last: AmericA, AntarticA, EuropE, AsiA, AustraliA, AfricA. -In his youth Adolf Hitler was a landscape and portrait painter and, according to some who have seen his work, not a bad one. It was Hitler's inability to get into the Vienna Art Academy, it has been said, that caused him to hate that city forever. Of Hitler's three hundred paintings, only about twelve still exist. Four or five of these are in the U.S.A. -Thomas Edison was deaf from the time he was twelve years old. The malady was caused while Edison was trying to board a train at Frazer Station, Michigan, U.S.A. A conductor took hold of his ears to help pull him aboard. "I felt something snap inside my head," Edison later said. "My deafness started from that time and has progressed ever since." Edison never went to school---his formal education consisted of three months' attendance at a public school in Port Huron, Michigan, U.S.A. -The sixty-story John Hancock Tower in Boston, U.S.A. is haunted by one of the more mysterious problems in skyscraper history: its windows, hugh 4-by-11-foot panes of glass, pop out unexpectedly and shatter on the street below. The building, completed in 1972, was less than a month old when suddenly dozens of its windows began popping for no discernible reason. Determined to remedy the situation, the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company replaced all 10,334 windows with 400-pound sections of half-inch tempered glass. The windows kept popping out. Today the mystery remains unsolved, and windows occasionally still pop. To protect passers-by, John Hancock has hired two permanent guards who do nothing but peer up and spot the cracked panes before they tumble to the sidewalk. eh maybe more later.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamblersGrin Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 lets see the percentage of 12oz users who care Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 lame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 if the population of china walked past you in single file the line would never end due to the rate of re-production. the human race is a plague Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fondles Posted April 23, 2004 Author Share Posted April 23, 2004 well tease will have his amps soon so you can at least look forward to that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sekoe1 Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 i got a lame one for you THIS IS LAME!!!!!:lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClueTwo Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 -Before 1859 baseball umpires sat in a padded rocking chair behind the catcher. Now this is great...Fuckin FatAss umpire fucks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synaps Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 this thread is ++ information is knowledge ... regardless of how random or 'useless' it may seem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fondles Posted April 23, 2004 Author Share Posted April 23, 2004 im going to bed. i just read 20 pages of facts and now my eyes hurt. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/6917...7/fascinat.html here is where i got those from. find ur favorite and post em here yeeeeaaa:lick: :lick: :crazy: :crazy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InDY_500 Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 "The modern game that dates back the furthest is thought to be bowling" how interesting eh...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoHuxtable Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 When I fart it stinks. Believe it or not, it's true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telo Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 this shit is street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimsøn Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 The word "live" spelled backward is "evil." :eek: ...no way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
destroya Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Originally posted by Seldoon -The only manmade structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China. nah, too thin. Originally posted by Seldoon -The first letter of every continent's name is the same as the last: AmericA, AntarticA, EuropE, AsiA, AustraliA, AfricA. they convenietly left out "north" and "south," which would be completely refute this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimsøn Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Re: Re: Lame facts for you Originally posted by destroya nah, too thin. It's true...I think you can see the Luxor pyramid too, due to the super bright light on it. Not for sure on that though. I know that the Wall is, and I think they're might be another one..maybe google can help me. Edit: here is a site about whats really visible from space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Re: Re: Lame facts for you Originally posted by destroya they convenietly left out "north" and "south," which would be completely refute this. isn't the continent generally referred to as "the americas" which coincidentally would also refute that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoHuxtable Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 ^^you guys are some fuckin brain surgeons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallix Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Originally posted by Seldoon [b -The only manmade structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China. -[/b] this is not true. recently china's state run textbooks have been revised.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duh-rye-won Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Re: Re: Re: Lame facts for you Originally posted by Crimsøn It's true...I think you can see the Luxor pyramid too, due to the super bright light on it. Not for sure on that though. I know that the Wall is, and I think they're might be another one..maybe google can help me. Edit: here is a site about whats really visible from space. i heard it was the great wall and the garbage dump on staten island. not joking, thats what i heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClueTwo Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Re: Re: Lame facts for you Originally posted by metallix this is not true. recently china's state run textbooks have been revised.. I was weary on this one..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalestineOne Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 . we fucked the Middle East Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overtime Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 when they were using wood to produce fire for steel, it took 10 acres of dense forest to make 1 ton of steel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InDY_500 Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 The "f" word occurs 246 times in Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas - that averages out at one every 35 seconds. Around 120 of them were delivered by Joe Pesci. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. The times of day that you are most likely to be hit by a drunk driver is 2am, 6am and 4pm. thats some random shit.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODS-1 Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Originally posted by Seldoon im going to bed. i just read 20 pages of facts and now my eyes hurt. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/6917...7/fascinat.html here is where i got those from. find ur favorite and post em here yeeeeaaa:lick: :lick: :crazy: :crazy: That music made it unbearable for me. But the average lead pencil can draw a line 35 miles long. Don't they know pencils aren't made of lead anymore??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubejinxed Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 hitler's art http://www.oskarschindler.com/Albums6/hitlerart19.jpg'> http://www.oskarschindler.com/Albums6/hitlerart3.jpg'> http://www.oskarschindler.com/Albums6/hitlerart4.jpg'> http://www.oskarschindler.com/Albums6/hitlerart2.jpg'> and you can't see the great wall from space... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synaps Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 wow ... hitler wasn't too bad, eh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilush Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 whatever. i like this thread. useless knowledge is always good to know, knowledge for that matter. i would rather read this than tease's amps anyway, i dont get shit out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASH.UGT Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 the HOLLYWOOD sign was once falling apart and hugh hefner gave the people a grant to have it fixed and the "Y" is dedicated to him. kangaroo's cant walk backwards. you'll never get to heaven with an AK47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatbastard Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Originally posted by ASH.UGT kangaroo's cant walk backwards. neither can an emu, which is why the kangaroo and the emu appear on the australian coat of arms (featured on our 50c peice) the idea is to be portrayed as a nation that cant go backwards, and we are always moving forwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
non-hetero Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Originally posted by Seldoon -The only manmade structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China. This is false. Has been proved and is being removed from textbooks even in China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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