Did you know ..... Strange facts.

[blackburn_stevie]

Feel free to add your own gems.

There are seven classifications of snowflakes: plates, stellar crystals, columns, needles, spatical dendrites, capped columns and irregular forms.

You didn't know that, did you? 

Cheers,

Steve

[ronnybabes]

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." through the pen of Conan Doyle.

[blackburn_stevie]

The third version of the Oxford English Dictionary was written beginning with the letter M.

[the-geezer]

In space, no one can hear you fart.

[mepixin12]

I just thought they were white!

Did you know that:  'The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog'  uses every letter in the alphabet?

[clifford2031]

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/class/snowtypes4.jpg

[merehazle]

Want to bet ?!

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[rose2008-2008]

When its a Full Moon people do strange things ha ha LOl??????

We all once had a TAIL????????. OOOeerrrrrrrr.

[*.*..lola..*.*]

 

Did you know that Garfield the cartoon cat once offered a free email service?  Nope me neither.

It was called gmail.com, later acquired by Google.
 

[rose2008-2008]

Aren"t people with three nipples supposed to be Wolf Babies or something??,,, i hope not as i have one!!!!.

[spawnjohnuk]

male seahorses give birth

[ronnybabes]

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

[10phizz]

Snow isn`t white, if it was it would leave a white residue after it melted. Its frozen water so is clear.

[10phizz]

Witches were reputed to have a third nipple

[spawnjohnuk]

 Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world

[blackburn_stevie]

rose2008 wrote ...... "Aren"t people with three nipples supposed to be Wolf Babies or something??,,, i hope not as i have one!!!!."

Think yourself lucky that you don't have three.

[geo1pat1]

Bacteria cannot survive on silver, which accounts for the fact that once it was discovered that bacteria caused infection in surgical wounds, and pre dating "Autoclave" sterilisation, surgeons used solid silver, and later, silver plated instuments (not including saws, and knives)

Manchester United and no doubt some other Premiership clubs, take more money from the sale of programmes at a single home game than my beloved Brentford take in total gate receipts for the entire season.

Henry VIII never said......."Pay  alimony ??????????????...........................Sod that !......I will think of another way !"

[tommy.irene]

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@mepixin12 wrote:

I just thought they were white!

Did you know that:  'The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog'  uses every letter in the alphabet?

Thats a good one..

[blackburn_stevie]

Lee Harvey Oswald still has an overdue library book from Dallas public library.

Wayne Rooney's voicemail password was Stella Artois.

"Huh?" means the same thing in every language.

A man can outrun a cheetah over a distance of four miles (6.4km) during the hottest time of the day.

 Russian officials can no longer say "Your thank you does not butter my bread" in case it's taken as a request for a bribe.

There's only one sneeze mentioned  in the bible.

 The Volkswagen Golf has been Germany's best-selling car for 32 years in a row.

The most popular US college degree earned by millionaires is engineering.

 The oldest piece of string dates back 90,000 years.

There were 10 facts in this list but the 10th wasn't up to snuff.

[blackburn_stevie]

Here's a strange factoid re sums.
Think of any number.
For the sake of argument we will use 243
Is it divisible by 9?
Yes. Just add the numbers up and if the total is divisible by 9 then so is the original number. As far as I know, this works with any number no matter how large.