Useless information

[Pudding]

Originally Posted by CarylB

Another fact about hippos ... they don't swim

Not true. Although adult hippos don't swim, baby hippos do.

In Greek Mythology, redheads turn into Vampires when they die

[CarylB]

Originally Posted by Pudding

Not true. Although adult hippos don't swim, baby hippos do.

Yes because they have much greater buoyancy as babies. I was talking about aults

In Greek Mythology, redheads turn into Vampires when they die[/I]

MYTH .. just as is the New Zealand myth that they have a straight road to heaven

Caryl

[Pudding]

Originally Posted by CarylB

Yes because they have much greater buoyancy as babies. I was talking about aults

You should be more specific when quoting your useless facts

Aristotle was known to believe that redheads were emotionally unhousebroken. Smart guy Mr.Aristotle

[CarylB]

Buridan's jack ass paradox is based on an earlier paradox outlined by Aristotle

[Pudding]

During the Spanish Inquisition flame coloured hair was evidence that its owner had stolen the fire of hell and had to be burned as a witch.

[Evil One]

Originally Posted by Pudding

During the Spanish Inquisition flame coloured hair was evidence that its owner had stolen the fire of hell and had to be burned as a witch.

Depending on the owner in question that could give a brand new meaning to 'You've been through the fires of hell!'

[RSG]

Originally Posted by Pudding

Not true. Although adult hippos don't swim, baby hippos do.

In Greek Mythology, redheads turn into Vampires when they die

That explain why my ex (baby's mom) is like a rose!

Meat sings the word 'that' twenty-five times in the smash hit single 'I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do...)

[Pudding]

In the late 16th century, the fat of a redheaded man was an essential ingredient for poison.
The Egyptians regarded the color as so unlucky that they had a ceremony in which they burned red-headed maidens alive to wipe out the tint.

[The Flying Mouse]

You sure do have a facination for Redheads pud.

I don't know if anybody's noticed, but there is an L in Noel

[Pudding]

Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse

You sure do have a facination for Redheads pud.

Not really. I just googled useless facts and a whole page of redhead stuff came up, would be a shame to see them go to waste.

I don't know if anybody's noticed, but there is an S in fascination

[The Flying Mouse]

Unless you make a typo?

[The Flying Mouse]

I just googled "usless facts" and not a single result was a page about redheads, but here's some stuff that was there..........

A man irate about his income tax paid Uncle Sam with a plaster of Paris check that weighed several pounds. He wasn't all that bright, because once the government cashed the check, it was returned to him and he had to keep it for five years for his records.

Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albuquerque.

Since 1949, the LEGO company, based in Denmark, has produced more than 200,000,000,000 of the plastic elements that make up the Lego System.
There are 102,981,500 ways to combine six of the 8-studed bricks of one color.
The name LEGO did not (as urban legend has it) come from the cry of an angry mother who couldn't get her kid to put down his toys and come to dinner: "LEGO of those bricks or I'll kill you!" It's from the Danish, "LEg GOdt," which means "play well."

Before settling on the name of Tiny Tim for his character in "A Christmas Carol", three other alliterative names were considered by Charles Dickens. They were: Little Larry, Puny Pete and Small Sam.

Peter Karpin, a German espionage agent in World War I, was seized by French Intelligence agents in 1914 as soon as he entered the country. Keeping his capture a secret, the French sent faked reports from Karpin to Germany and intercepted the agent's wages and expense money until Karpin escaped in 1917. With those funds the French purchased an automobile, which, in 1919, in occupied Rurh, accidentally ran down and killed a man, who proved to be Peter Karpin.

A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.

[Pudding]

Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse

I just googled "usless facts" and not a single result was a page about redheads,

I might have googled "useless fats" instead, my spelling mistake.

[Monstro]

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

[Pudding]

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than what it had to begin with.

[The Flying Mouse]

The ancient Greeks had no word for blue.
They refered to the sky as "bronze".
Ancient Greeks were dumb.

Tibbles The Destroyer
Tibbles the cat arrived on Stephens Island in 1894, with her master Mr David Lyall, the new lighthouse keeper.
Quickly getting to grips with the local hunting grounds, Tibbles was soon leaving gifts of dead birds for her master at the lighthouse door.
One such bird proved to be of a kind that Mr Lyall had not seen before, and was in fact a hitherto unknown species.
The discovery quickly found its way to Sir Walter Buller, New Zealand's ornithological expert at the time. A duly excited Buller reported the find to the British Ornithologists' Club in London after classifying the bird as a member of the wren family.
The "Stephens Island Wren" proved to be an important find.
One of only three flightless songbirds in the world, and the only perching flighless bird in the world, ever.

Unfortunatly, before this prize find was verified, Tibbles had wiped the entire species out, killing all ten mating pairs left in existance.

It is the only instance of a species being wiped out by a single individual.

A rather pissed off Buler was to state in 1905.........

Originally Posted by Pissed off New Zealand bird watching dude

...it would be as well if the Marine Department, in sending lighthouse keepers to isolated islands where interesting specimens of native birds are known or believed to exist, were to see that they are not allowed to take any cats with them, even if mouse-traps have to be furnished at the cost of the state.

[Hypnobabe]

Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse

The ancient Greeks had no word for blue.
They refered to the sky as "bronze".
Ancient Greeks were dumb.

Tibbles The Destroyer
Tibbles the cat arrived on Stephens Island in 1894, with her master Mr David Lyall, the new lighthouse keeper.
Quickly getting to grips with the local hunting grounds, Tibbles was soon leaving gifts of dead birds for her master at the lighthouse door.
One such bird proved to be of a kind that Mr Lyall had not seen before, and was in fact a hitherto unknown species.
The discovery quickly found its way to Sir Walter Buller, New Zealand's ornithological expert at the time. A duly excited Buller reported the find to the British Ornithologists' Club in London after classifying the bird as a member of the wren family.
The "Stephens Island Wren" proved to be an important find.
One of only three flightless songbirds in the world, and the only perching flighless bird in the world, ever.

Unfortunatly, before this prize find was verified, Tibbles had wiped the entire species out, killing all ten mating pairs left in existance.

It is the only instance of a species being wiped out by a single individual.

A rather pissed off Buler was to state in 1905.........

Mousie appears to have been watching the same episode of QI that I was.....

[The Flying Mouse]

Originally Posted by Hypnobabe

Mousie appears to have been watching the same episode of QI that I was.....

That's quite interesting