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  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #60 - December 15, 2013, 02:37 AM
    -In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death

    -It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.

    -The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

    -Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn't wear pants.

    .-In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands.
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #61 - December 15, 2013, 02:48 AM
    -Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge outward.

    -The following principles are said to help Buddhists to act well: 1. Not to hurt living things, 2. Do not take avantage of what is not there, 3. Use senses correctly, 4. Speak kindly, and, 5. Do not take or use drugs or alcohol.

  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #62 - December 16, 2013, 12:32 AM
    -The longest common English word that can be typed using only the left hand is stewardesses.

    -The word typewriter can be typed entirely using the top row of keys.

    -Eisotrophobia is a fear of mirrors.

     -Female praying mantids sometimes eat their mates.

    -Fleas can jump up to 200 times their height. This is equivalent to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.

    -The Ancient Greeks exercised naked.  In fact, this is where our word “gymnasium” comes from; γυμνός (gymnos) means naked in Ancient and Modern Greek.
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #63 - December 16, 2013, 12:38 AM
    Quote from: Quod Sum Eris on December 15, 2013, 02:31 AM
    Homosexuality is fine if it's for allah.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8bf8Vfx87c


    I'm so disappointed there were no replies to this.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #64 - December 16, 2013, 12:49 AM
    O.o
    Wow really cool


    -Historians note that in some cultures, homosexual behavior was not viewed as effeminate but as evidence of a man’s masculinity. Examples include the Celtic and Greek cultures.

    -
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #65 - December 16, 2013, 12:58 AM
    Quote from: INcePtion on December 16, 2013, 12:32 AM
    -The Ancient Greeks exercised naked.  In fact, this is where our word “gymnasium” comes from; γυμνός (gymnos) means naked in Ancient and Modern Greek.


    I feel left out. I went to a gymnasium for three years and nobody was naked unless before/after the gymnastics classes bathing and changing clothes. "Gymnasium" is also the name for "high school in several European countries.
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  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #66 - December 16, 2013, 01:01 AM
    -In ancient China, warriors would cannibalize their enemies by eating their heart and liver.

    -More than 4,000 Chinese children are named Aoyun, meaning “Olympic Games”

    -Nail polish was invented in 3000 B.C in China, and was made from egg whites, beeswax, gum, and colored powder.


    Quote from: Nikolaj on December 16, 2013, 12:58 AM
    I feel left out. I went to a gymnasium for three years and nobody was naked unless before/after the gymnastics classes bathing and changing clothes. "Gymnasium" is also the name for "high school in several European countries.

    Yeah it is a name for high schools, but specifically for those where you study latin and greek.

    -In Ancient Rome, their preferred method of teeth whitening was to brush and gargle with urine. The ammonia in urine can help whiten teeth.

    In Vietnam and other parts of Asia, blackening one's teeth is seen as increasing sex appeal as well as warding away evil spirits. The custom is performed by both men and women.
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #67 - December 16, 2013, 01:48 AM
    Quote from: INcePtion on December 16, 2013, 12:49 AM
    O.o
    Wow really cool


    How so?
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #68 - December 16, 2013, 03:10 PM
    Cycling for an hour gives you an hour's extra life.
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #69 - December 16, 2013, 05:12 PM
    Quote from: Quod Sum Eris on December 16, 2013, 12:38 AM
    I'm so disappointed there were no replies to this.


    Perhaps it was just absurd beyond possible reasonable conversation.
    What can be said after listening to that?!?
    Hummmm...
    Let me get this straight.. as a Muslim you think someone who thinks it right, loving and kind to have homosexual relations with a person they love should die the horrible death by stoning. But it's okay to do something you think is repulsive if you think you're doing it for a good cause. Okay so wouldn't anything be justifiable by that reasoning?
    Then where would the conversation go?
    From the absurd, to the bazar, to the asinine, to the rude, to the....
    Oh well just down hill.
    If at first you succeed...try something harder.

    Failing isn't falling down. Failing is not getting back up again.
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #70 - December 16, 2013, 05:53 PM
    Quote from: Quod Sum Eris on December 16, 2013, 01:48 AM
    How so?

    fascinated by the human stupidity
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #71 - December 16, 2013, 07:02 PM
    Quote from: INcePtion on December 15, 2013, 02:37 AM
    -The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

    I would like to see some verification of this. (Document, not youtube clip   Wink  )
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #72 - December 16, 2013, 07:26 PM
    Quote from: dagon on December 16, 2013, 07:02 PM
    I would like to see some verification of this. (Document, not youtube clip   Wink  )

    With all the shit that happens on this planet, it is easy to believe in such facts. But it's not decapitation. it is imprisonment.   If I find a document, I will post it.

    Sorry for providing with false information. Next time I'll check every single fact lol

  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #73 - December 16, 2013, 11:07 PM
    A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB, equivalent to the combined capacity of 62 MacBook Pro laptops Wink
    turnipovich
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #74 - December 17, 2013, 12:28 AM
    My MacBook Pro has been upgraded innumerable times then! Tongue
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  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #75 - December 17, 2013, 01:31 AM
    You're supposed to aim away from it.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #76 - December 17, 2013, 01:47 AM
    Quote from: three on December 05, 2013, 04:07 AM
    Your foot is the same length as your forearm. Elbow to wrist.

    I learnt that from Rolf Harris. Makes me sad to think it could be true what they say about him.
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #77 - December 17, 2013, 04:18 PM
    Van Gogh only sold one painting while he was alive. The Red Vineyard.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #78 - January 04, 2014, 03:25 PM
    Originally Coca Cola contained cocaine.

    You can't taste food without saliva.
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #79 - January 05, 2014, 04:33 AM
    My cat Simon is deaf.
    If at first you succeed...try something harder.

    Failing isn't falling down. Failing is not getting back up again.
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #80 - January 05, 2014, 04:52 AM
    Dead people can get goose bumps.
    turnipovich
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #81 - January 07, 2014, 12:29 AM
    On January 1, 2014, it was colder in Canada than it was on Mars. Now it's getting worse...
    I need to leave this fucking country! banghead
    turnipovich
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #82 - January 07, 2014, 02:31 AM
    I feel it, too.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #83 - February 08, 2014, 09:42 PM
    I used to compete in luge. This video sort of puts my teenage years in a completely different light...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effb2JYiKXM
     whistling2


  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #84 - February 08, 2014, 11:38 PM
    Quote from: INcePtion on December 15, 2013, 02:37 AM
    -Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn't wear pants.


    Quote
    Vuosina 1977 ja 1979 lehdestä aiheutui pieni sisäpoliittinen myrsky. Ulkomailla uutisoitiin, että Aku Ankka olisi ollut kielletty Suomessa, koska sen päähenkilö ei käyttänyt housuja. Kyse oli Helsingin ja Kemin kaupunkien säästötoimista, jotka väärin ymmärrettynä saivat aikaan kyseisen kaupunkitarinan.

    Translation
    Quote
    There was small political storm born from the magazine in years 1977 and 1979. In other countries it was announced that Donald Duck had been banned in Finland because the maincharacter did not use pants. It was caused by Helsinki's and Kemi's lowered budgets which as misunderstood created this urban legend in question.


    So no, Donald Duck has never been banned in here and actually I think it's more popular in Finland than in any other country. Mickey the Mouse is not popular in here.
    I ask many stupid questions frequently.
    I am curious, that's why I ask many questions.
    I am overly curious, that's why I ask stupid questions.
    I lack patience, that's why I ask frequently.
    So forgive me and answer me Smiley
  • Interesting Facts
     Reply #85 - February 08, 2014, 11:45 PM
    Here's some fun facts about New York City:

    The "wall" in "Wall Street" refers to the Dutch ‘wal’, an earthenwork fortification, not a wall in the modern sense.

    The wealthy of New York City originally opposed placing the Statue of Liberty in NYC, both for ideological and monetary reasons.

    The Charging Bull near Wall Street was originally placed as a symbol of protest against Wall Street.

    Don't know why these just came to my mind, but thought I'd share.
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