Bananas
Dr_Fonz comments that bananas are infertile clones. This is correct; in fact, the Cavendish banana, which is the one we eat, is a triploidal mutant (as opposed to the diploid wild banana), and all plantation banana trees are clones of the one mutant banana. Dr_fonz further comments that a disease particular to that banana could wipe out the entire species. Replace "could wipe" with "is wiping" -- there is a fungus that attacks only Cavendish bananas that is wiping plantations out one by one... and that is why we're seeing more runty green bananas on the market, because they are being harvested small, before the fungus attacks them.
(chazz, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 21:28, Reply)

Honey...
Contrary to another post here, honey does go off. I've had it happen to me. However, it takes about a year and a half for unpasteurized honey to go bad at room temperature. That's how long it takes the natural fungicide to break down. After that point, it can get mouldy.

I'll call this useless information, because (apart from lazy meadmakers like me) who has honey in storage for a year and a half?
(chazz, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 21:18, Reply)

a ducks quack....
has an echo... just like every other noise
(nigger kid, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 21:01, Reply)

dog spelt backwards is god
the average parisian will step in dog shit evry 273rd step
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:59, Reply)

drink
both vodka and wiskey are named after water.

alcoholism damges the eyes making sufferers unable too see shorther wavelengh light like blues and purples. this is why van goughs art is very yellow, its all he could see clearly.

cirrhosis of the liver is caused by malnutrition not alcohol.

in the 19th century absenthe was made to appear greener by adding toxic copper compounds.

cannibis and all hemp derivatives contain compunds that attack cancer cells whilst leaving living tissue unharmed, and are illegal. alcohol contributes to all know tumor growths and is onsale evrywhere.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:51, Reply)

sky blue sam
is an idiot

def. idiot:
one who spoils a good joke
origonates from the Latin (idiotus) for pointing out the obvious

100%fact
(mr ruffles, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:50, Reply)

It a sad fact...
...but every year between 500 and 1000 Americans die of Autoerotic Asphyxiation Syndrome.

That's right, each year hundreds of Americans are found suffocated or strangled, often naked or dressed as women, in their fatal attempts at orgasmic nirvana.

This figure must change.

With a little guidance, and your support, we aim to treble this number by the year 2007.

Please, please, PLEASE send what you can to help our cause.

Whatever your donation; be it a plastic bag, an old school tie or a tramps belt, you can be assured that a deserving American pervert will benefit from an orgasm he'll never survive to remember.

So please, dig deep. It's our future too.
(tinpixel, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:50, Reply)

The burrowing rate of the gopher
is equivalent to a man digging a tunnel nearly eighteen inches in diameter and seven miles long in a period of ten hours.
( Roman Totale, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:46, Reply)

cat food
sausage meat costs less per pound than pet food
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:44, Reply)

Two gallons of beer
were included in the weekly ration for each child in the children's hospital in Norwich in 1632.
( Roman Totale, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:42, Reply)

trees
australia is the least forsested continent on earth but is the largest exporter of wood chips.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:41, Reply)

Motorway and A road numbering.
Draw a circle. That is the M25. The main motorways (M1,2,3,4,5,6) all go around the M25 in a clockwise manner from 12 o'clock.

Got it?

Now the science bit. You can tell where an A road starts by looking at it's number. For instance, the A580 starts to the right of the M5 and to the left of the M6. The A13 is clockwise from the M1.

Try it, it works.
(nevin Sharpness is a bourgeois concept, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:38, Reply)

One pound
of anything, when it is completely converted into energy, in keeping with Einstein's equation E = MC2 (I don't know how to do the squared bit), will probably produce 11,400 million kilowatt-hours of energy.
( Roman Totale, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:38, Reply)

You can tell where a phone number is by looking
at the letters on teh keypad. For instance, Southport (01704) if you leave the 01 out, the S is on the 7 key and the o is O. The 4 is the fact that Southport was the 4th largest town when the system was devised.

Manchester (0161) M is on the 6 key

Try it.
(nevin Sharpness is a bourgeois concept, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:36, Reply)

Hope this hasn't been said yet.
Starfish had been taking over a number of coves in some fishing community. Don't recall which. To alleviate the problem, fishermen would reel in the starfish, cut them up, and throw back the "dead" starfish.

What they didn't know is that if you cut a starfish into pieces, so long as there is a portion of the center on a given piece, you may grow a whole new starfish.


No longer do they fish.
(Fishy_Queen, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:15, Reply)

Nursery Rhymes
Ring-a-ring-a-roses has already been linked to the bubonic plague on here (although some dispute that), so I thought I'd add some other nursery rhyme 'facts'.

Jack & Jill Went Up the Hill has been linked to the beheading of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and also to pre-marital sex.

Pop Goes the Weasel refers to blowing your money (on food - half a pound of tuppeny rice, and drink - in and out the Eagle) and having to pawn your sunday best (weasal and stoat - coat).

Both Three Blind Mice and Mary Mary Quite Contrary refer to Mary I.

Who Killed Cock Robin refers to Robin Hood.
( Silva, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:13, Reply)

zxahn401
" Spiders Ears
are in their knees, if you want proof shout at a spider and it will run away, pull its legs of however an it wont be able to hear you and wont run anywhere."

Surely, the reason they won't run is because you've just pulled it's legs off? :P
(sky blue sam, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 20:02, Reply)

When my housemate leaves the house (to spawn the alien eggs she is incubating
the temperature in the house rises by 5 degrees and we all feel a reduction in our desire to strangle her with our bare hands.

Oh and all doves are complete cunts.
(BadKittyDirtyKitty, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 19:43, Reply)

42

(Duke Flipside Bidet to you, sir, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 19:31, Reply)

Sick days
40% of sick days are monday and friday
(Bored, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 19:24, Reply)

wow!
bees have really bad body odour.
smell one
(sextuple rooty, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 19:10, Reply)

After a bath or shower...
Elton John dries himself with a towel.
(dirty gypsy, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 19:00, Reply)

Spiders Ears
are in their knees, if you want proof shout at a spider and it will run away, pull its legs of however an it wont be able to hear you and wont run anywhere.
(Zxahn, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 18:44, Reply)

as of late,
everytime i fart, i shit my pants. FACT!

prove me wrong
(mrmonkfish yolo420weedwizard, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 18:35, Reply)

Dreamt
Dreamt is the only word in the english language to end in mt
(fistcount shite, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 18:28, Reply)

Grandpa's Knob generated electricity
www.energyadvocate.com/fw67.htm
( Coctail, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 18:04, Reply)

Durham
Untill the dissoultion of the monastrys the county of durham was owned by the church and ruled independantly from britain.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 17:39, Reply)

Stuff
ABBA was named after it's founding members; Alan, Brenda, Bill and Aunty Mary(Thanks, Vic and Bob).

Fish can breathe air, but because they're snobs, they'd rather die than do so.

Bram Stoker invented haggis.

Marilyn Manson once hugged a puppy live on stage.

Rope is made of rat pubes.

Blood is actually jam that has been chemically altered by the body.

Emily Bronte invented haggis.

Monkeys share 33% of their jeans with other monkeys. Not their new ones, just the ones that have got a bit of wear around the crotch.

100% of these facts are more factual than 90% of the 'facts' posted this week.
That is all.
(TheCastrator, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 17:37, Reply)

Schmoke!
wetherspoon pubs that banned smoking reported a 20% drop in profits.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 17:37, Reply)

nice..
Caniball serial killer jeffery dahmer wore one of his victims shirts to his own trial.

btw: his defence was humans taste like pork so anyone who has had a blt is equally as guilty.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 17:32, Reply)