INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

Originally Posted by Jase22

Here's one for you:

All polar bears are left handed.

Latin for left is sinister.

People thought that left handed people were a bit wierd, so the word sinister ended up meaning wierd in English.

The way to tell a real rolex from a fake is that the real rolex second hand doesn't "tick".

Originally Posted by Jase22

The way to tell a real rolex from a fake is that the real rolex second hand doesn't "tick".

be careful with that one mate.
I have seen fake rolexes knocking about NYC with cts rolling second hands...
But, yeah, if it ticks, its definately fake.

Originally Posted by philipMac

be careful with that one mate.
I have seen fake rolexes knocking about NYC with cts rolling second hands...
But, yeah, if it ticks, its definately fake.

Thought I was going to be shot down in flames then!!! Thought you'd like the clever link between left hand and watch

A little known but interesting fact :-

many people believe there is that much goodness in guiness that one can live on the stuff.


the fact is "you can" you need 46 pints of guiness per day along with one glass of orange and two pints of milk

don't know what your liver would be like at the end of a month though :P

Ok, heres todays snippet:

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Having covered the origins of the months which derive from Roman, most of our week days are derived from Norse gods with the exception of Sunday and Monday so named after the Sun and the Moon and Saturday so named after the Roman god Saturn.

Tuesday is derived from the Norse God Tir or Tyrs day, Wednesday from Wodens day, Thursday from Thors day, Friday from Frigga.

Originally Posted by lynw

Ok, heres todays snippet: Friday from Frigga.

Who the Friggin hell was Frigga :P

Originally Posted by lynw

Ok, heres todays snippet:

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Having covered the origins of the months which derive from Roman, most of our week days are derived from Norse gods with the exception of Sunday and Monday so named after the Sun and the Moon and Saturday so named after the Roman god Saturn.

Tuesday is derived from the Norse God Tir or Tyrs day, Wednesday from Wodens day, Thursday from Thors day, Friday from Frigga.

It looks like portuguese people were a bit more practical then. Apart from Sábado (Saturday), which must come straight from Sabbath (haven't checked) and Domingo (Sunday), which comes straight from Dominica, Dominus (Lord), and means Lord's Day, our weekdays are called Segunda (female form for second, since the week starts on the sunday), Terça (short form for third), Quarta (fourth), Quinta (fifth) and Sexta (sixth). Want more practical than this?

when glass breaks the cracks travel at upto 3000 mph, it can be better to have 2 in the bush and the chicken came first!!!

Originally Posted by amarko5

A little known but interesting fact :-

many people believe there is that much goodness in guiness that one can live on the stuff.


the fact is "you can" you need 46 pints of guiness per day along with one glass of orange and two pints of milk

don't know what your liver would be like at the end of a month though :P

I remember as a young kid my dad was prescribed stout on the NHS after a serious operation. He got Mackeson not Guiness though.

PS. FYI, Frigga was the Norse goddess of love, fertility, marriage and wife of Odin. :P