Obscure facts ya know!

Post Reply New Topic

Salt is still used in Shinto purification rituals, including before sumo matches.

If you need to strip the paint off a car to the bare metal, expensive techniques or material are not necessary. All you need is some brake cleaner.

Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a ‘working model’ of his ‘death beam’. He warned the staff never to open it, describing it as a war-ending particle weapon that could stop invading armies and make warfare pointless. After his death in 1943, someone finally pried the box open and found nothing but a bunch of harmless old electrical components.

_________________
LIONS-STAMPEDERS-ELKS-ROUGHRIDERS-BLUE BOMBERS-TIGER-CATS-ARGONAUTS-REDBLACKS-ALOUETTES

The Canadian Football League - What We're Made Of

Feel free to talk to me, if you wish.

Every day is a gift- cherish it!

"A true, true friend helps a friend in need."

Did you know horses first evolved in the America but went extinct long before the native people could use them

The voice actor for Yuki Makoto, the protagonist of the Persona 3 movies, is Akira Ishida, who also voiced Kaworu from Neon Genesis Evangelion, N from Pokemon, and Wizardmon from Digimon. He was also the voice for Luke Skywalker in the Japanese dubs for Star Wars, Tom Riddle in the Japanese dub of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and--Wesley Crusher in the Japanese dubs of Star Trek Next Gen, of all characters.

Your body is younger than you. No matter how old you are, most of your body is less than 10 years old, because your cells are always recycling themselves. The epidermis recycles every 2-4 weeks, red blood cells are replaced every 4 months, and your skeleton turns over every 10 years.

_________________
LIONS-STAMPEDERS-ELKS-ROUGHRIDERS-BLUE BOMBERS-TIGER-CATS-ARGONAUTS-REDBLACKS-ALOUETTES

The Canadian Football League - What We're Made Of

Feel free to talk to me, if you wish.

Every day is a gift- cherish it!

"A true, true friend helps a friend in need."

In ASL (American Sign Language) male signs (dad, brother, uncle, male cousin) are signed above the eyes (usually on or around the forehead)

Female signs on the other hand (mom, sister, aunt, female cousin) are signed below the eyes (usually the cheek, jaw, nose, mouth, or chin)

heyhey,
another fact for np; Large differences occur between different types of flagella; the prokaryotic and eukaryotic flagella differ greatly in protein composition, structure, and mechanism of propulsion. However, both can be used for swimming.

^
You musta posted that in the wrong thread. No idea what thread that was meant for. But it cant be this one.

The US didn’t change immigrants’ names at Ellis Island in the late 1800s. Names were recorded when immigrants left their countries and confirmed using the ship’s manifest when they arrived. Most of the changed names were likely a result of errors, passengers giving false names, or people changing their own names at a later date.

_________________
LIONS-STAMPEDERS-ELKS-ROUGHRIDERS-BLUE BOMBERS-TIGER-CATS-ARGONAUTS-REDBLACKS-ALOUETTES

The Canadian Football League - What We're Made Of

Feel free to talk to me, if you wish.

Every day is a gift- cherish it!

"A true, true friend helps a friend in need."

The first Legend of Zelda game was apparently inspired by the creator's childhood and finding 'hidden lakes' and exploring forests.

~10 000 shipping containers fall off of ships each year. They are rarely retrieved. There are believed to be a few hundred thousand sunk in the world's oceans, slowly breaking down. Corten steel breaks down VERY slowly. Many contain plastic objects which will break down slowly as well.

Huey Lewis of HL & the News... 80's rock band...........attended and graduated from the Lawrenceville School, an all-male prep school in New Jersey, in 1967, and he achieved a perfect score of 800 on the Maths portion of the SAT.

Who knew?!

Elephants have funerals.
Dogs and cats can do simple math.
Cheetahs can run faster than a car on the highway.
A lot of people think insects aren't animals. Insects are animals.
A gorilla's scientific name is Gorilla gorilla gorilla. How creative!

Aren't animals cool?