Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The medical name for the fear of long words is
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

(15-12-2019 21:37 )goatman222 Wrote:  The medical name for the fear of long words is
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Already posted see https://www.babeshows.co.uk/showthread.p...pid2392265

China owns nearly all of the pandas in the world, even the ones you see at zoos.

They rent them out for about £1 million a year

An Egyptian Pharaoh named King Pepy II commonly smothered his servants in honey to keep flies away from him.

(15-12-2019 21:47 )billyboy1963 Wrote:  

(15-12-2019 21:37 )goatman222 Wrote:  The medical name for the fear of long words is
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Already posted see https://www.babeshows.co.uk/showthread.p...pid2392265

In the words of my 2 year old nephew... shit

(15-12-2019 21:04 )goatman222 Wrote:  If you watch a squirrel long enough it will either rape or be raped

That's strange because last Saturday there was a squirrel in my friends' back garden and all we saw was it stealing food out of a bird box!

(15-12-2019 22:12 )GMach1 Wrote:  

(15-12-2019 21:04 )goatman222 Wrote:  If you watch a squirrel long enough it will either rape or be raped

That's strange because last Saturday there was a squirrel in my friends' back garden and all we saw was it stealing food out of a bird box!

You didnt watch it long enough

It is thought that the three ships referred to in the tune 'I Saw Three Ships' were in fact camels-it is coloquilly known as 'the ship of the desert'

Wassailing was a way of a group of minstrels to basically get a free drink. They would go around the town knocking on pub doors and entertain the landlord and regulars with song in hopes of being given a drink in their wassail bowls.

Wassailing was also a way of blessing a tree(apple) so that it would be a good crop - toast was attached to its branches and cider sprinkled over the base to make it grow. Blessings to God towards the master of the house(were you a servant) would be attached to various parts of things such as cattle(for good yield of beef) and maize (for a good crop of corn)

Epiphany tells the story of the Magi (Three Wise Men) arriving at the stable to worship the Lord. Now this is odd because if Jesus was born 12 days before that, yet all Nativity scenes depict the Three Wise Men already present.

I have now posted 500 more posts in under two months-how did that happen?

Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls has caused the falls to recede approximately seven miles over the past 10,000 years.