Fascinating Facts and Trivia

(21-10-2018 13:14 )rpj316 Wrote:  The Borneo long tailed slug attracts a mate by shooting her with hormone filled darts.

Sounds like me on a friday night

HARIBO sweets contain nine of the ten amino acids essential to human life (and you thought they were just funny looking and tasting sweets!)

In 1991,comedian Jerry Sadowitz was punched unconscious at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal after he greeted the crowd by saying : "Hello moosefuckers!"

(20-10-2018 19:44 )GreenMachine Wrote:  An old EVER READY battery building in North London(now owned by the Council) was used as the backdrop to Nemesis, the organisation seen in The Champions(Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo & William Gaunt)-the side part of the building was used as it looked so modern as the headquarters and the Geneva fountain was superimposed onto it. Didn't have a lot of money back then so looks all the more impressive knowing that.

I suppose being an old battery place, they were'nt charged a lot.
Apologies for such a brilliant pun.

Quote:Well, how their POTUS said it first in this case...

POTUS, is that Prick of the United States, by any chance ?

Whenever there is a crisis in this country the Prime Minister can call in his/her top,advisors for what is known as a COBRA meeting-sounds amazing but it's not -it stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A!

You might know the Adiemus(sp?) by Karl Jenkins and I am sure you also know it was once used by British Airways for their advert on an island with a big face at the end of it, but did you know that one of the original singers Miriam Stockley was also one of the singers of the original theme tune for Dangermouse cartoon of the 80's-CRUMBS!

In Taiwan,drunk drivers are given the option of playing games of Mahjong with elderly instead of a paying a fine.

The oldest "your mum" joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old babylonian tablet...
It was discovered in iraq in 1976,
Since then the tablet has been lost
But the text remains preserved

In early 20th century Australia many people would stand inside dead whales that washed up believing that the natural heat and gases during the putrefaction process would help sooth conditions such as rheumatism.