Interesting facts

[g5000]

Did you know that there's no evidence that people thought the planet wasn't round. They all wrote that it was round, even the Greeks wrote that it was round.

Yep.

Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth around 250 BC.

 

[g5000]

The Pentagon was built in the 1940's, it has 23,000 staff

And all those military experts mistook a missile hitting the Pentagon for a Boeing 757.

 

[g5000]

Columbus took 80 tons of marijuana to America

As hemp rope.

 

[g5000]

A group of crocodiles in the water is called a float of crocodiles, whereas on land, they're called a bask of crocodiles.

There's no name for a group of Kola's because they don't get together in groups.

Koalas do from groups, and they are called a colony.

 

[g5000]

Dildos are illegal in Texas

Dildo Stores Near Houston, Texas​

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[Captain Caveman]

The can opener was invented 48 years after the can was invented.

 

[Blues Man]

The population of the UK is greater than the combined population of Canada and Australia

And crammed into a teeny country the size of the state of Michigan.

 

[bluzman61]

Jethro Tull is THE best rock and roll group not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Your eyebrows renew themselves every 64 days

 

[Captain Caveman]

There are 26 countries in the world that don't have a military

 

[Captain Caveman]

China has more US dollars in reserve than the United States itself. Six times to be precise.

 

[Captain Caveman]

If the US cut it's military spending by 85%, it would still have the biggest military budget in the world

 

[Captain Caveman]

The Hawaiian flag contains the Union flag of the UK -

 

[Captain Caveman]

No Monarch has been allowed in the commons -



I've actually touched the wear dent in the commons door make by Black Rod. I've been in the commons but a Monarch hasn't!!

 

[Captain Caveman]

If Celine Dion sang only the vowels in her name, it would be in the lyrics to Old McDonalds Farm.

 

[Captain Caveman]

French fries originated from Belguim

 

[Captain Caveman]

A Welshman's uvula is constantly covered in phlegm, hence when they speak Welsh, phlegm constantly flies out of their mouths.

 

[buttercup]

abu sure was busy on this thread.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Psalm 137 -

1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.

Who sang this!!

 

[fncceo]

Who sang this!!

Lots of people sang it.

It was written by the prophet Jeremiah.