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Furry Chat => Furry Freezer => Topic started by: Quantum on December 10, 2015, 03:29:04 AM
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Sugar does not cause hyperactivity. It only has a placebo effect on the parents. XP
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Bananas are berries
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Everybody prepare to have your minds blown
Are you ready?
Alright, its not the fall that kills you its the sudden stop at the bottom
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During the Finnish winter war, after Russia claimed that "they weren't bombing Finland, just making airborne food deliveries to help ease the starvation", the bombs became known as "Molotov bread baskets".
The Finns were extremely grateful for their neighbors kindness, and decided to offer them a drink in return.
And that's how the Molotov cocktail got its name.
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During the Finnish winter war, after Russia claimed that "they weren't bombing Finland, just making airborne food deliveries to help ease the starvation", the bombs became known as "Molotov bread baskets".
The Finns were extremely grateful for their neighbors kindness, and decided to offer them a drink in return.
And that's how the Molotov cocktail got its name.
Omg I think I have heard that before somewhere else XD
I guess history also likes jokes sometimes :P
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I know a similar-ish yet less-violent story like it xP
Finnish food was once publicly heavily insulted by Italy's back-then prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Finland later won a international pizza-making competition (with Italy coming in second place), and decided to name the winning pizza "Pizza Berlusconi" as "revenge"
Yeah, Finns have a weird sense of humor >->'
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Cuteness starts up Aggression. Not hurting anything....Or well not yet and I hope it stays like that. However it gets to giving big hugs, pinching cheeks. Or saying things like "I can just hug you to death" "aw I can just eat him up!"
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Another fact:
People get easily hypotinized by... Nyan Cat
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Elephants can't jump.
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Pigs can't look straight up into the air.
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Heh, I was considering making a thread like this a couple days back. Guess I don't need to now!
Anyway, Alaska alone is almost as big as all of continental US.
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Even if an analogue clock is broken it still shows the correct time twice a day.
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Mother rabbits will not abandon their young if touched by humans.
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A group of owls is called a parliament
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A group of ravens is called a conspiracy or an unkindness.
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Not all raccoons have masks, and not all masks have raccoons.
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A group of dragons is called a thunder
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A female giraffe is called a cow. They also give birth standing up, meaning their newborn falls a about four, five feet...
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When Chuck Norris kicked a horse on the chin, it created giraffes.
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If you cut someone's head off the blood can go quite far. Like, over a foot.
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Amsterdam isn't Located in Germany, its located in the Netherlands!
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Scandinavia is not a country...
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There is a place called F@#k in Austria
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There's a place called B*tchfield in England
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Superstar bodybuilder Ronnie Coleman has a competition weight of 300lbs, which is all lean muscle and organ
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In the average lifetime a person will likely walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator! XP
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In the average lifetime a person will likely walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator! XP
that number is probably going down xD
In the average lifetime of a person, they will likely spend more time on social media then eating food
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You're either perfect or you're not me. There is no grey area.
~Vegeta
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There's a town in Denmark called Middelfart
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There is a ghost town in Texas called Denmark
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There is a place nearby called bacon hallow
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There is a ghost town in Texas called Denmark
Wait, really? XD
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There's cities by the name of Manitou Springs, Colorado Springs, Steamboat springs, Glenwood springs, and Pagosa Springs in Colorado. c:
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Someone in Denmark once name their son "Fru Sok", which translates to "Miss Sock" T_T
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I once was apart of a Minecraft community where I was the only person in America at the time
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There was no Americapox or other plague for the old-worlders to bring back to Europe, because America at the time had only one domesticatable animal, the llama
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Right now Southern California is going through El Nino, basically a seasonal storm that lasts for about a week. But this one is the sttongest on record. Flash flood warning for whole week, just 20 minutes ago there was a tornado warning for my area.
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I made a massive underground city in secret on a popular minecraft server. As far as I know it's still there...
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The Texan and the Chilean Flags are exactly the same
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Without considering local dialect, sociolect and lingual variants, Norwegian spoken language can be divided into the two officials "book speech" and "new Norwegian", plus the bilingual offsprings "Norwenglish", "salsa Norwegian", "kebab Norwegian" and "svorsk"
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Random fact (of what I've heard):
There are more Spanish-speaking people in America than in Spain.
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Almost half of all asian people cant digest alcohol
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White Ravens naturally exist and aren't very rare, yet seeing an adult one is. When a white Raven hatches, it's parents and siblings see that it is different and will push it out of the nest.
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oh wow that's really cool tempest
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If you try to eat a banana slug alive, it would secrete so much mucus it would fill your throat and lungs and you'd suffocate of slug boogers
And that's why they're at the top of the food chain
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The common Christmas tree is not pine. It is spruce or fir.
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Alarm clocks came from hell
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The traditional English method of cooling down in the summer is drinking hot tea. Madness.
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Tires ware away more on the passenger side of a car due to torque.
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A plane have the tendency to go more on one side because off the rotation off the propeller
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love is evolve spelled backwards with a couple of the letters gone
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Fact my school is made up of 96% dirtbags
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The human legbone from the hip to the knee can handle up to 600 lbs before breaking from the pressure
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Fact: You are reading this because you are bored
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Glass does not "sink" and get thicker in the bottom over time unless exposed to near melting temperature. The "proof" that sparked the common belief was windows found in old buildings, although the panes were just mounted with the thickest edge down.
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Every sixty seconds that go by, a minute passes in Africa
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teen pregnancy drops drastically at 20
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Bigfoot is really just a large canadian hippy
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The Los Angeles Angels can technically be referred to as "The The Angels Angels", thanks to how Los Angeles translates from Spanish.
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The Los Angeles Angels can technically be referred to as "The The Angels Angels", thanks to how Los Angeles translates from Spanish.
Angelception :O
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Fact: in company of heroes 2 when facing expert AI SCOOTR CAN NOT FREGGIN SURVIVE SH*T ALL MY TANKS DIE INSTANTLY MY REAR ECHOELON *rants on for five hours about a RTS game *
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Steven hawkings new theory of the apparent horizon says that their are no black holes as we originally thought and their are no singularities instead he has proposed the apparent horizon so their are now 3 possible things that could happen to you once you pass the event horizon or apparent horizon
ether specification takes place or you are burnt to a crisp by a fire wall or all the information that creates you would be scrambled in the apparent horizon
(any singularities that are mentioned are physical and not mathematical)
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That would work along his idea of black holes being intersecring p branes, and at least his new proposal solves the firewall paradox
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It is estimated that about 600,000 people die in China each year from issues related to overwork.
Morbid, i know.
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It is estimated that about 600,000 people die in China each year from issues related to overwork.
Morbid, i know.
its because china is going through its industrial revolution. What do you expect? XP
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I wasn't expecting anything really, i was just pointing out it was bit morbid to know such a fact.
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I wasn't expecting anything really, i was just pointing out it was bit morbid to know such a fact.
Yea ik, but you can also compare that statistic with when america was in its industrial revolution or basically any country but since china has a really large population, so the stats would turn out pregty large :P
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Here's another one:
In Finland, fines are based on income. In 2002, a Nokia executive was fined with a US$103,000 speeding ticket.
This should be in effect in all countries.
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Airplane flight paths are purposly curved to follow the great circle intersecting two locations.
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On the subject of Finland; As a gift for Finland's 100 years of independence from Sweden and Russia, Norway is the first country in the world to give away a mountain. This because the highest point in Finland was a hillside, not a mountain top.
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iy you dived a number an infintie number of times, the resulting peces are infainly small, sine the y are infinite ly small, but ther is infinity of they they add to gether to be infinity,
this means all numbers are infinite
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On the subject of Finland; As a gift for Finland's 100 years of independence from Sweden and Russia, Norway is the first country in the world to give away a mountain. This because the highest point in Finland was a hillside, not a mountain top.
But... Finland hasn't been independent from Russia for 100 years yet ;__; That'll be in 2017.
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Some of you may already know this but woofs are powered by hugs and coke
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But... Finland hasn't been independent from Russia for 100 years yet ;__; That'll be in 2017.
I have this information from several sources, which do not 100% agree on the details. One said it happens very soon, another says it might happen.
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a group of foxes is called a skulk ^_^
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a group of wyrens is a dreaming
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a group of pandas is called an "Embarassment of Pandas" or a "Cupboard". I don't know about red pandas though ^_^
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a group of snails is a route or a walk
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a group of kangaroos is called a mob lol XD
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A group of bats is called a colony. Might not be funny, but I thought it was interesting.
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a group of submissive's is an adoration (just made that up)
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a group of submissive's is an adoration (just made that up)
has been shipped and is now a real thing
Post Merge: January 13, 2016, 09:35:46 PM
a group of submissive's is an adoration (just made that up)
has been shipped and is now a real thing
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A group of noobs is called an ulvus
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Fact : Scootr actually love Ulvus but he's too shy :P
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Fact ulvus is a friend and i dont see him as anything more than thay :( ( ps i have a mate xD )
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Fact : I was right, Scootr is too shy X3
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T_T fact im in between a rock and a hard place in this conversation
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A group of noobs is called an ulvus
U WOT?!! >:(
1V1 ME M8, I DARE U.
Just kiddin' X3
I didn't know people actually talked about me :P
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Oh we do and the fact is i would destroy you in that 1v1 pick your game gmod day z or minecraft ( just got day z btw)
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Oh, I'd reck you in DayZ, you don't even know >:3
Or maybe you will, who knows...
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Considering the FACT that its based off of arma amd i have playes arma with zombies in it....
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I'd rekt you both, double 360° no-scope MLG B)
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Too bad you can't do that in DayZ X3
But I've also played DayZ for a while, DM o3o!
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I've played DayZ a long time ago, one time, I was full life, fully hydrated and nourished, but My leg was broken after a bad fall. I then tried to find bandages and fell down in a spot where I couldn't get out. It was about 23:00, no zombies or players around. So I waited, then went to sleep.
When I waked up, I was still alive :o
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Oh wow XD
My play sessions with DayZ has definitely gotten better since I got my new computer. I play it once in a while now X3
Also, I have to do this *snuggles Eesha* :3
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Ya i hopped on for like 8 mins this morning had all the graphics on ultra. XP
Post Merge: January 14, 2016, 12:54:55 PM
Ya i hopped on for like 8 mins this morning had all the graphics on ultra. XP
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My reminder work ! It work !!
I need new computer components, for Arma and KSP, my beast is 6/7 years old but still rock on Battlefield 4 in ultra :*
Thanks to my Graphic card
(While I got the low settings on Arma III, with 20 fps <.< )
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America spent over 1 billion (yes, with a B) dollars on chemical warfare in 1942, but no country used a single chemical weapon in the war. That number is not adjusted to modern day dollars.
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On the topic of America around the time during the Cold War they tested methods of mind control on volunteer soldiers and the general populous without informing them, this became a conspiracy theory for quite some time and in the end it was confirmed to be true.
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On the topic of America around the time during the Cold War they tested methods of mind control on volunteer soldiers and the general populous without informing them, this became a conspiracy theory for quite some time and in the end it was confirmed to be true.
Project MKULTRA *shudder*
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The really crunchy and "Metal sound" from electric guitars started, when they turned the amplifier up so loud It 'distorted.' That's how it came to be, and that's why it's called 'Distortion' or 'disto' For short, And an electronic way of explaining it, is that.. Oh wait, I forgot, because i'm not an electrical engineer.
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It is mathematically impossible to tune a piano with octaves and steps (which you do on guitars, horns etc.) because of the number of strings.
Instead, an irrational number is used; 12√2, 12th root of two.
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Dogs have the mental capacity of toddlers.
Not so sure on that. I have four younger brothers, and the dog is smarter then any of them at that age ;)
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During 1983 a Soviet early detection system for nuclear attacks reported a potential strike inbound from America, in the confusion that followed the Soviets were poised to make a retaliatory strike, everything was in order to fire back but one of the two officers required to engage the counterattack refused for whatever reason. In the end the incoming attack did not happen and it was later found that the system had malfunctioned. If the soviets had launched a strike nuclear war would likely have followed, thanks to one individual this was averted. (This is off the top of my head so names and some details may be slightly off but the even did occur, scary thought <.< )
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During the Cuban Missle Crisis, the Soviet submarine captains were given orders to fight if American naval forces ordered them to surface. The was one captain whose submarine was armed with nuclear torpedoes, but he decided to surface instead of obey orders
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If you swim in water you will get wet
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If there is no wind, cherry blossoms fall at 5 centimeters per second. Thanks, anime :/
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You aren't stuck in traffic your part of the traffic
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in scuba diving the signal for 'wheres the boat' is hands shaped like a wide v is infront of your chest
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Cats can sense when your sad
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Different languages have different sign languages.
Kind of obvious but it was weird to me at first, unless the language doesn't use a Latin alphabet.
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Scientifically, since Nemos mother died, but his dad survived, Nemo would've became a female to reproduce with his father
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There's a place called B*tchfield in England
yeah its in lincolnshire near me i drive past it often XD
The traditional English method of cooling down in the summer is drinking hot tea. Madness.
again i can confirm this to be true ^_^ it makes you sweat a bit there for cooling you down ;)
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If a threat gets close to a crows nest, the crows (even the parents) will band together and caw at the threat to protect the eggs/hatchlings.
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the earth is round
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Roses are red, pink and white
Violets are purple and not blue
Here is a random fact in the form of a poem for you
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fact i appreciate that fact XD
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If you step on your pets foot accidentally they'll run away and then you'll chase after them to apologize
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Foxes smell like skunks
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Ramen Noodle soup has something in it that can cause cancer in women
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Not everything you read on the Internet is true. *cough*
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Fact: I'm not sure who's talking to who here
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Fact: I agree with Sandor
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Fact: It is easier to make friends online as you tend to be more open about who you are
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In packs of hyenas the females are stronger than all the males. Even the least strongest female is stronger than the strongest male in the pack. Not only that but the leader is female and called the queen.... And I'm sure most of you know but the females have male 'parts'
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In packs of hyenas the females are stronger than all the males. Even the least strongest female is stronger than the strongest male in the pack. Not only that but the leader is female and called the queen.... And I'm sure most of you know but the females have male 'parts'
I didn't know that actually. Hm.
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They don't actually have male parts.
It's pseudo-male parts.
That's why hyenas are prone to complications and/or dying when giving birth, especially first-timers.
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Not everything you read on the Internet is true. *cough*
Foxes do seriously smell like skunks. I know some people who raise foxes
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Opossums don't play possum on their own. It's a chemical in their body that goes off when they're in danger... They are unable to control it.
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Marine flatworms reproduce by "***** fencing". Flatworms are born neither sex, and the flatworm that's stabbed first turns female.
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A single drop of the liquefied form of sarin nerve gas can kill.
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Gold used to be a common filling in teeth
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Male seahorses raise the young
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I open mouthed kissed a ...
Oh wait, a fact you know. Not about yourself. The word stewardesses is one of the longest words typed using only the left hand.
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It is illegal to die in Westminster Palace!
Not sure what the punishment for breaking this law would be though...
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I open mouthed kissed a ...
Oh wait, a fact you know. Not about yourself. The word stewardesses is one of the longest words typed using only the left hand.
the most likely way that sentence will end (according to google) is
"i open mouth kissed a horse once."
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The number one cause of death in the 20th century was people killed by their own government.
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Kentucky is the only state to start with K, end with Y, and have both U and C in the second syllable.
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So like if you try and eat a banana slug it'll just make like 3x more mucus so you suffocate on it then it crawls out of your lifeless body victorious
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The true Egyptian name of Anubis is Yinepu. The name Anubis came from scrolls written by the Greeks who traded with the Egyptians, and that name was then used by archeologists.
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The longest word I've known yet is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis... Phew *wipes forehead*
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A single cyber attack could take down all of America's power grid, instantly collapsing the nation.
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Without the vacuum of space we would be able to hear the sun burning and it would be nearly unbearable.
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Coffee was an Arab discovery
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1+1 is not <2
and
1+1 is not >2
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People who have a limb amputated experience "phantom feelings" because we're all in the Matrix and the limb is still there.
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Breathing in someone's last breath is an old curse called the kiss of death. Meaning you sucked the soul out of your enemy. It's more effective with said persons family or clan
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a male cannot get a erection in space due to the micro gravity
(dont ask how i know this cus i dont know how i found out either XD )
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The longest tramline in the world is the Belgian coastaltramline which is 68 Km long and goes from De Panne (French border) to Knokke (Dutch border)
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at room temperature and pressure their are 600000000000000000000000 atoms in one mole of a solution
in standard form that is 6x10^23
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Our brains make us think we are 15% more attractive than we actually are.
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(that would mean I am -45% attractive :) )
Belgium has 7 governments, 63 ministers and over 600 members of parliaments
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The idea of 1st and 3rd world countries was created during the Cold War. Countries aligned with the US were referred to as 1st world. Countries aligned with the USSR were referred to as 2nd world. Countries aligned with neither were referred to as 3rd world. There is also 4th world which is indigenous peoples, nations not yet established, and things of that nature.
source: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm (http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm)
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I am currently not on fire
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I am on fire
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north Korea has its own pc operating system called red star os
its really bad from reports of people that have used it
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The average adult dog has 42 teeth: 22 in the mandible or lower jaw, and 20 in the maxilla or upper jaw. In each jaw there are 6 incisors, 2 canines, and 8 premolars. There are 6 molars in the lower jaw and 4 in the upper jaw. In adult dogs, approximate age can be determined by checking the wear on the incisors.
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The moon is made of Cheese :)
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The oldest tram in service in Belgium is from 1960, but the oldest tramengines/chassis/controllers date back from the 1930s
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Bagels have holes in them because they started in a small jewish village in russia where the tsar demanded a tenth of every loaf of bread the peasants baked and demanded he took it from the middle so the bread was ruined. a jewish baker from the village came up with the idea of a middle-less bread so when the tsar's soldiers went to collect his tenth the jewish people simply pointed to the hole and said "there's your tenth!"
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Maple syrup comes from maple trees
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Saudi Arabia has the biggest amount of Belgian Weapons
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in england, there's many different names for a bread roll (bun, barm, bap, breadcake to name a few) depending on where you're from....... and nobody can agree on the correct pronunciation of scone (it's pronounced either s-con or s-cone)
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Books have pages in them.
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The Sun is actually a Star ^_^
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Cyanide can kill
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Guns don't kill people, death kills people.
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And Bees make honey
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The ends of shoelaces are called aglets.
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Belgium has the highest number of comic creators in the world
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No I didn't! <.< >.>
Ginger ale is made from ginger
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Phosphenes are the strip of light you see when you squint your eyes really hard.
You just tried, didn't you?
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Belgium has over 800 beer brands
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My dad is tattooed from the neck to his wrists.
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the world would a be a better place without butthurt people.
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the world would a be a better place without butthurt people.
Suicide is not the answer, Zaida.
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the roars from the beast in beauty and the beast were a mix of panther and jaguar and the actors voice
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Suicide is not the answer, Zaida.
I know... Just a suggestion. :P
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Babies come from storks who deliver them to peoples houses... Right? ^_^
The largest snake ever discovered was over 25 feet long
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Every 60 seconds a minute passes
You just tried it didn't you xD
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If you lose traction while driving a front wheel car let go of the gas and follow the turn. If losing traction in a rear wheel, give more gas. (Do not stomp the brakes ever and do not stomp the gas unless you have had training in this.)
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When a railroadcrossing signal starts lighting up and making sound, that indicates that if the train would do an emergency brake from the position where it activates the railroadcrossing it would just stop right in front of it
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banging your head against a wall can burn up to 150 calories an hour :)
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The Saw series contains 666 minutes of entertainment.
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A paddle ball contains endless minutes of entertainment.
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If you don't look at a explosion you are cool
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There are 118 ridges on a dime.
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On the coinside of an Euro Norway is not on the map
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That would be because Norway is not a member of eu
A human has four quarts (one litre) of blood but will die before it all flows out
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(actually the amount of blood is between 4l and 5.8l.)
(^^Norway isn't on it because it isn't member of the EMU)
the area between Zeebrugge (Belgium), Antwerp (Belgium) and Amsterdam (Netherlands) is one of the densiest areas regarding ports (it has more amount of ports per KM²)
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In some US States, it is illegal to carry sugary treats in your back pocket.
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(actually the amount of blood is between 4l and 5.8l.)
(^^Norway isn't on it because it isn't member of the EMU)
The the area between Zeebrugge (Belgium), Antwerp (Belgium) and Amsterdam (Netherlands) is one of the densiest areas regarding ports (it has more amount of ports per KM²)
Thanks for the corrections.
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There is a layer in a cat's eye called the tapetum lucidum that reflects light and makes it easier for them to see in the dark.
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The first electrical tram was Belgian
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In Saskatchewan, a hoodie is called a bunnyhug :)
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Hoboken in NJ is not named after indians but simply after the city of Hoboken in Antwerp since it was founded by citizens who came from Hoboken