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Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machine gun to kill a hedgehog. This week's challenge is to find similarly bizarre facts, and Photoshop the ass out of them. Challenge suggested by Jabberwoc.
( , Wed 19 Dec 2012, 22:13)
Bizarre fact:
About 10 skydivers a year are sucked into jet engines.
( , Sun 23 Dec 2012, 13:13, More)
All the original series of the Henry vacuum cleaner 'family' were
named after members of the British royal family...

Factcheck
( , Sun 30 Dec 2012, 20:58, More)
Hugo Boss designed the uniforms for the Nazis, the SS and the Hitler youth.
( , Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:48, More)
According to Peter Cook, the whale is not an fish at all ....

how very interesting
de-ris www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnxXkjD6VmE
for printmeister (who was, I understand, a Pete n Dudd fan)
( , Fri 21 Dec 2012, 12:05, More)
The reason that there is a flower mode on some versions of Minesweeper is to
try and appease the "International Campaign to Ban Winmine" who called the game an "offence against the victims of the mines".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_%28video_game%29
( , Fri 28 Dec 2012, 12:57, More)
Tell Your Children! (adults only)

CFBigger, less artifact-y, and with footnotes
( , Sat 22 Dec 2012, 10:46, More)
MEGA TRANSFER!!
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.
(Source: 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off)
( , Thu 20 Dec 2012, 0:15, More)
In Minnesota,
it is illegal to cross a state line
whilst wearing a duck on your head.
( , Thu 20 Dec 2012, 6:23, More)
Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
( , Thu 3 Jan 2013, 13:21, More)


Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machine gun to kill a hedgehog. This week's challenge is to find similarly bizarre facts, and Photoshop the ass out of them. Challenge suggested by Jabberwoc.
( , Wed 19 Dec 2012, 22:13)

About 10 skydivers a year are sucked into jet engines.

( , Sun 23 Dec 2012, 13:13, More)

named after members of the British royal family...

Factcheck
( , Sun 30 Dec 2012, 20:58, More)


( , Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:48, More)


how very interesting
de-ris www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnxXkjD6VmE
for printmeister (who was, I understand, a Pete n Dudd fan)
( , Fri 21 Dec 2012, 12:05, More)

try and appease the "International Campaign to Ban Winmine" who called the game an "offence against the victims of the mines".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_%28video_game%29
( , Fri 28 Dec 2012, 12:57, More)


CFBigger, less artifact-y, and with footnotes
( , Sat 22 Dec 2012, 10:46, More)

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.
(Source: 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off)

( , Thu 20 Dec 2012, 0:15, More)

it is illegal to cross a state line
whilst wearing a duck on your head.

( , Thu 20 Dec 2012, 6:23, More)


( , Thu 3 Jan 2013, 13:21, More)