INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

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Fact of the day???






Dame Edna is Steve Erwin's Aunty...............


"Gas it w###a".........

[Bibio]

philadelphia cheese turns red when it goes off.

[ophic]

Originally Posted by Bibio

philadelphia cheese turns red when it goes off.

Yeah I thought it had peppers in it once. Was very very ill.

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[Grant66]

Never seen it go red, I stop eating it when it has fluffy mold on the top.

[BanannaMan]

Neil Armstrong was the first human being on another planet. (or moon)
Neil A. backwards is Alien.

The moon landings weren't actually faked. It was just made to look dodgy so that conspiracy theorists would go after that, instead of digging too deeply about the Vietnam war.

[punyXpress]

Lots of facts really - a veritable history lesson:

Where did "P1$$ Poor" come from? Interesting history.

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot.

And then once it was full it was taken and sold to the tannery...

if you had to do this to survive you were "P1$$ Poor".
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot...

They "didn't have a pot to p1$$ in" and were the lowest of the low.

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature
Isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.

Here are some facts about the 1500's

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May,

And they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since they were starting to smell,
brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour.

Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.

The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water,

Then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children.

Last of all the babies.

By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.
Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water!"

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath.

It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals
(mice, bugs) lived in the roof.

When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.
Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.

This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings

Could mess up your nice clean bed.

Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection.

That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.

Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery
In the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing..

As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door,
It would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way.
Hence: a thresh hold.



Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.

Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables
And did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers
In the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day.

Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.

Hence the rhyme:

“Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.

When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.

It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon."

They would cut off a little to share with guests

And would all sit around and chew the fat.

Those with money had plates made of pewter.

Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death.

This happened most often with tomatoes,
so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status..

Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle,
and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky.
The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days..
Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.

Hence the custom; “holding a wake."

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people.

So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave.

When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had ben burying people alive.
So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.

Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be,
“saved by the bell" or was "considered a dead ringer."

And that's the truth.

Now, whoever said history was boring!!!

So get out there and educate someone!
Share these facts with a friend.
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering,
"What the heck happened?"
We'll be friends until we are old and senile.
Then we'll be new friends.

Smile, it gives your face something to do!

I dont know how much of that is historical fact but it was a bl**dy good read!

Originally Posted by ejsv650s

I dont know how much of that is historical fact but it was a bl**dy good read!

I think an encyclopedia got eaten somewhere. Very interesting though

The phrase "the whole 9 yards" comes from WW2. The cannons on a Spitfire or Hurricane had about 7 seconds of belt fed ammunition. The belts were 9 yards long. These were normally fired in short bursts and their focus would be on multiple planes in a single engagement. But if they expended all their ammunition in a single burst or at a single target they said they gave them "the whole 9 yards".

It takes light 8 minutes and 27 second to travel to earth from the Sun. The nearest star is a trinary system (three stars) the Centauri System, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B are only 4.37 light years away from the solar system, and Proxima Centauri a mere 4.2 lightyears. However it is only the third brightest 'star' (they appear as one) in the sky. The brightest start in the sky is Sirius. It is nearly twice as far away (8.6 lightyears) but because of its size is about twice as bright in the sky.