Interesting Fact Thread.
 

For the new board, an old favourite returns!

Fact: Although denim jeans were popularised by cowboys in the American west, a similar type of heavy cotton trouser was worn by dock workers in Genoa somewhat earlier. Theses Genoese workers were knoen as Genes, and from that we derive the word jeans.



400 = stalker!

Yes! I love these threads.

Another word origin:
O.K. means oll korrect (all correct)
I need to pull out my dictionary but from what I can remember... it originated in Boston around 1830. It was the trend then to spell things wrong and abbreviate them. I guess oll korrect became popular and it sticked as ok, okay, o.k. ...

Hip Priest is a stalker!
Congrats.

More interesting facts please.
I love pointless information.

You beat me to the next level! Now I'm not the biggest loser on here!

Interesting Fact: Salami at Subway comes in packages labeled "Genoa".

Genoa is a kind of salami......you know that....I hope.

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fact: 99.9% of the members on this forum have no life

Is it that low? I'm surprised. But at last we're keping busy, you know, because -

fact: in some Polish cities suicide rates have risen by 15%! If only they has this forum.

Fact: LOL is spelled exactly the same backwards

Onomatapaeia and palindrome describe words that they are not. Lisp is unpronouncible by people with lisps. 'Plop' is my favourite onomatapaeia. Palindrome should by rights be called Palindromemordnilap.

everyone knows cocacola used to contain cocaine. well, to this day, even if you had their secret recipe, you wouldnt be able to replicate the drink, as it still contains extract of the coca plant. the company has a special license to import it and de-drug it. they are the only company to have this license.

The largest oceanic current in the world is the Circum-antarctic current, which as its name suggests, circles the Antarctic continent. It transports over 100 times the flow of all the rivers of the world COMBINED - 130 million cubic meters of of water per second (144.5 million tons per second). This huge current (actually just a part of the circum-polar circulation system, which mixes water from the world's oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian) is very poorly understood, as are its influences upon the world's climate.

Humans and dolphins are the only two animals who have sex for pleasure

Oliver Cromwell's last words were: now it is my design to make what haste I can to be gone.

I like this thread, so Im going to bump it
When a giraffe gives birth, the baby falls around 6 feet to the ground!

Stri-dex gives me puffy eyes.

"Ahoy" was once a common way to answer a telephone

Snakes have two dicks.

Nine percent of the Mexican popuation is consider white. And .5 percent are black.

if you cut off part of your liver it grows back. is that right? i think i heard that. someone told me that.

^Lets hope so.

i think by the time you get at it with the knife you'll be pretty much done for anyway.

Oprah discharges 4x the normal human amount of CO2....Al Gore knows this. But he knew a movie would be more profitable than taking Oprah to court. I swear

Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times. Jim Carey, with the same initials as Julius Caesar, is in the movie "the number 23". James Cameron, also with the same initials, had 23 men put their semen on his face today.

remember when they told you as a kid that you'll grow a tail if you drink coffee?

no but they did tell me i'd fall asleep easier if i prayed.

my grandmother wanted me to pray, that's clear!

same here. silly religion freaks