Random Facts

[MrZigster]

I find this very, very interesting.

[TalkShow Bob]

women can be colour blind, it's just reallllly rare

however its women that carry the colour blind gene, and pass it on (usually) to their male children

[worm]

Staying with eye colour:

Blue eyed parents can't have a brown eyed child. Brown eyed parents can have a blue eyed child.

Edited February 13, 2011 by worm

[gratedenini]

Fascinating stuff and you can see why it's a favourite of Mr Fry. It's beautiful, maaan. We really are all kith and kin.

[jamiejc]

The bubbles in Guinness beer sink to the bottom - no one knows why?

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

[diddly-dee]

Only, approximately, 10% of US citizens have passports.

[nightcrawler13]

The bubbles in Guinness beer sink to the bottom - no one knows why?

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

[diddly-dee]

and Kirk never said "beam me up Scotty"

Bubble bubble, toil and trouble - was not said

[Ed209]

Only, approximately, 10% of US citizens have passports.

[lifelessfool]

Let them eat cake - was not said

[Ed209]

AC Milan started life as a cricket club set up by english expats in 1899. The italians still call it AC Milan (instead of AC Milano) in honour of its british roots.

Edited February 16, 2011 by Ed209

[Purple Monkey]

"Luke, I am your father" is another bizarrely common movie misquote, because it's from one of the biggest and most popular films ever made.

It's "No, I am your father".

I found out today that female Hyenas have penises, and they give birth through their penis. I'm not talking downstairs-mixup manginas here, I'm talking full on, male genitalia squeezing out something the size of a large puppy. (By virtue of that chilling fact, it is also quite entirely reasonable to conclude and declare that there is no God.)

I recently learned that The Black Sea and The Red Sea are called those names because in Turkish they used colours for navigation and black is used to denote something as being northern, while red is used for southern. I thought that was interesting.

Edited February 17, 2011 by Purple Monkey

[worm]

''You can have it in any color as long as it's black'' - Ford

''Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar'' - Freud

''Give me your f**king money'' - Geldof

All bollocks. And my favourite of them all.......

Marx was not a socialist, never claimed to be a socialist and thought that socialists were daydreamers. I tend to agree.

Edited February 17, 2011 by worm

[Purple Monkey]

the only reason Super Mario has a moustache is due to the limited number of pixels in early video games, so having a tache creates a nose and mouth

Edited February 17, 2011 by Purple Monkey

[worm]

It's also the reason he resembles a plumber and why that eventually became his given 'trade'.

- Was given a hat because hair was hard to draw.

- Wears dungarees to provide colour contrast and make his arms more visible.

He was a carpenter in Donkey Kong, and he was actually the bad guy (he was cruel to Donkey Kong which is why he flipped out and kidnapped his girl).

When they made the Mario Bros game they brought in Luigi, and the gameplay of that game meant the artwork suited the idea of them being in a sewer fighting off well known sewage problems such as gigantic rogue crabs. This was where they both became plumbers, which then became a theme for all future games as they featurred sewage pipes. They became Italien due to good old fashioned racism.

[Purple Monkey]

Pac-Man is also the very first video game 'character'. Before then videogames only featurred control over objects like spaceships.

[TalkShow Bob]

"Luke, I am your father" is another bizarrely common movie misquote, because it's from one of the biggest and most popular films ever made.

[Gre]

I recently learned that The Black Sea and The Red Sea are called those names because in Turkish they used colours for navigation and black is used to denote something as being northern, while red is used for southern. I thought that was interesting.

[windy_miller]

Floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest non-technical word in the English language.

The longest technical word is the chemical name for titin that is 189,819 letters long http://www.sarahmcculloch.com/luminaryuprise/longest-word.html

The Colossal Squid has the largest eye of any animal (30 - 40 cm in diameter)

[rexclark]

Billy Corgan claims that the current Bass player in The Smashing Pumpkins was also one of the two girls on the cover of Siamese Dream.

Personally I think it's a load of bollocks as she'd be 13 at the time.

[TalkShow Bob]

Over the course of the average life your head will age 200 nano seconds more than your feet.

30% of people in Wales were born in England.

In the case of a nuclear strike it was BBC policy to play the sound of music.

[jump]

White people smell like milk to asians.

[rabid]

In the case of a nuclear strike it was BBC policy to play the sound of music.

[jamiejc]

In the case of a nuclear strike the US postal service was going to issue emergency change of address cards.

[rabid]

Americans