Uncommonly known Facts

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Here is a chance for you to list facts very few people may know. For instance...



A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

Nathan

[Mr. Brightside]

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

[Narnia]

Sean! That is a way awesome photo - I love it!

Lord - He has a beautiful face and his beard is amazing and looks to be about 30 feet long, and that chair he's sitting in - WOW!

[Narnia]

Mr. Roger's Neighbourhood.



Film set studios WQED the sister station to WGBH Boston, are located in the neighbourhood I grew up in of Shadyside in Pittsburgh PA.

[Logio]

Sean! That is a way awesome photo - I love it!

Lord - He has a beautiful face and his beard is amazing and looks to be about 30 feet long, and that chair he's sitting in - WOW!

I as well. I might give my left thumb to have that chair.

Polly, speaking of Mr. Rogers...did you know that Fred Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister?

[SoulChild]

Wow guys, great thread. I can't think of nothing immediately...yet, Polly reminded me of something. I actually went to the camp were they filmed the first 'Friday the 13th'...so, in other words, I went to the camp were Jason died (drowned) in the lake. I need to figure out exactly where that is again. Somewhere upstate NY perhaps?

[Mr. Brightside]

I love this thread, the usless information we can learn

Strange British Facts

In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That’s where the phrase, “goodnight, sleep tight” came from.

Dying is illegal in the Houses of Parliaments

Berwick-upon-Tweed (a small town on the border of England and Scotland) was officially at war with Russia for 110 years until 1967

Rudolf Hess was the last prisoner to be kept in the Tower of London.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple

A law passed in 1585, making it illegal for women to “cause a nuisance with abusive or argumentative language”. A woman guilty of scolding had to wear a scold’s bridle, or metal cage, enclosing her head. The Criminal Law Act of 1967 finally abolished the punishment, and women may now scold freely.

The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

In York it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a crossbow upon seeing one, except for on Sundays. However any Scotsman caught drunk or with a weapon can still be shot on a Sunday, except with a bow and arrow. Similarly in Chester it is legal to shoot a Welsh person with a crossbow, as long as it is within the city walls and is done after midnight.

In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.

you have got to love that last one, whats all that about, the only thing I can think of is the man who brought in the law also run a tropical fish store

[Narnia]

Polly, speaking of Mr. Rogers...did you know that Fred Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister?

Yep - I do remember seeing him around town in his minister outfit - always made me do a double take when that happened.

[brother]

Cant resist........

Any of you remember these?

frito bandito

my father was the creator of these controversial gems

LOL

[Narnia]

The Planet Neptune has 3 main rings.

[Lion Spirit Walker]

Speaking of planetary rings, they recently discovered Saturn has another huge ring. It's mass is such that it can hold 1,000,000 Earths. [LOL. I'm sure that count is approximate.]


note; Silver backs, no, no. We ruled them out a several years ago, remember? (hehehehehe. I love it.)

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The universe is beige

Cosmic Latte is the color of the universe, according to a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in "The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum", published in 2002. In this paper, they reported that their survey of the color of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beige white. The survey included more than 200,000 galaxies, and measured the spectral range of the light from a large volume of the universe. The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E7.

Nathan

[Lion Spirit Walker]

note; astronomicaly speaking, the Universe is that which can be observed by humans.

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note; astronomicaly speaking, the Universe is that which can be observed by humans.

Colors determined by wavelengths...and yes, those colors determined by our perception.

Nathan

[Narnia]

A not so definitve answer, but fun to read and to research and put together nonetheless!

Why do people call coffee a Cup o' Joe?



Collective bits of information on the slang term Cup o' Joe ...

The phrase "cup of Joe" goes back to the mid-1840s

The name could have been a modification of java or jamoke, which were other names for coffee. It could also have been influenced by expressions at that time, such as "an ordinary Joe."

"Joe" is related to either the use of Joe as the common man (coffee is the common man's drink) or as a derivative of Java.

ENJOY your 'cup o' joe'!!

[Narnia]

Just continuing a wee bit more here with uncommonly known Universal facts ...

The Scale of Planets and Stars.

The Universe in Perspective.

*Note* this video does not have sound and or music ... so you can stop messing with the volume! *he-he*


Makes you feel kinda small ....

[brother]

The Origin of the name Nathan is from Hebrew meaning; He (God) has given.

Additional info:


In the Old Testament, Nathan is a prophet who served King David and his son, who was also called Nathan. Nathan is also used as a short form of Nathaniel or Jonathan.

It is also ranked 21st in America's top 1000 boy names

Hello Nathan

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The world's largest pipe organ, the Wanamaker Organ, in Philadelphia, weighs approximately 150 tons.





The world's largest pipe organ, the Wanamaker Organ weighs approximately 150 tons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqZJE...eature=related

Nathan

[Logio]

The Origin of the name Nathan is from Hebrew meaning; He (God) has given.

Additional info:


In the Old Testament, Nathan is a prophet who served King David and his son, who was also called Nathan. Nathan is also used as a short form of Nathaniel or Jonathan.

It is also ranked 21st in America's top 1000 boy names

Hello Nathan

Thanks, you're a brother, brother.

p.s. I dedicated a song to you.

[brother]

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