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RE: Strange but true. - Neffa - 06-06-2020
It’s treasonous to put a stamp on an envelope upside down.
It’s illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day.
Cows have regional mooing dialects.
RE: Strange but true. - Can the Man - 06-06-2020
The two tiny holes drilled in every BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.
Daddy longlegs have penises, which technically makes them not a spider.
Bullfrogs do not sleep
RE: Strange but true. - Can the Man - 06-06-2020
The Himalayan Honey Bee – the largest of the honey bees – makes a hallucinogenic honey that tribes collect.
RE: Strange but true. - Jay - 06-06-2020
(31-05-2020, 01:48 PM)Mikey Wrote:There is always one smartie pants out there!!(31-05-2020, 01:30 PM):PJay Wrote: It takes around an hour to drive to outer space!
Surely it depends on where you start, if you are at the bottom of the Mariana Trench it’ll take 90 minutes just to get to the surface, quite a while to decompress and get the water out of the engine. Also what are you driving I think only a Toyota hilux would survive both depth and the re-entry to earth.
RE: Strange but true. - Moth - 07-06-2020
The Golden Gate Bridge has started to sing.
Golden Gate
(06-06-2020, 02:41 PM)Neffa Wrote: It’s treasonous to put a stamp on an envelope upside down.
It’s illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day.
Actually, no. the Treason Act makes it an offence to do any act with the intention of deposing a monarch, and Royal Mail says putting a stamp upside down does not fulfill that criterion.
It was only illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day in 1644 as that day was legally mandated as a fast day.
[19 December, 1644.]
Public notice to be given for observation of Monthly Fast till further order.; And on the next day, being Christmas Day, in particular.
¶Whereas some doubts have been raised whether the next Fast shall be celebrated, because it falleth on the day which heretofore was usually called the feast of the Nativity of our Saviour. The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled doe order and ordaine that publique notice be given that the Fast appointed to be kept on the last Wednesday in every moneth ought to be observed untill it be otherwise ordered by both Houses of Parliament: And that this day in particular is to be kept with the more solemne humiliation, because it may call to remembrance our sinnes, and the sinnes of our forefathers, who have turned this Feast, pretending the memory of Christ into an extreame forgetfulnesse of him, by giving liberty to carnall and sensuall delights, being contrary to the life which Christ himselfe led here upon earth, and to the spirituall life of Christ in our soules for the sanctifying and saving whereof Christ was pleased both to take a humane life, and to lay it down againe.
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911.
It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament wearing a suit of armour.
It is illegal to be drunk on licensed premises.
RE: Strange but true. - Can the Man - 07-06-2020
In Slovakia they have Christmas Carp that live in the family bathtub for a few days before they are eaten.
Strawberries can also be white or yellow, and some can even taste like pineapples!
Sunsets on Mars are blue.
Bluetooth” technology was named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. He united Denmark and Norway – just like the wireless technology united computers and cell phones.
RE: Strange but true. - Moth - 08-06-2020
It is illegal to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.
Quite what "suspicious circumstances" are I'm not sure.
RE: Strange but true. - Neffa - 08-06-2020
What do you have to do to make a someone think your handling is ‘suspicious’
Hide it in your liberty bodice? Shove into a wellie.
RE: Strange but true. - Can the Man - 09-06-2020
When watermelons are grilled or baked, they lose their granular texture and can even be used as meat substitute, a ‘watermelon steak’.
There is an opposite of albino animals, which aren’t white, but black. These are known as Melanistic animals.
In September 2007, a guy named Kevin Shelley broke 46 wooden toilet seats with his head in one minute to create a world record.
RE: Strange but true. - Neffa - 09-06-2020
In September 2007 a man called Kevin had the worlds biggest self imposed headache.