Fact Of The Day

[partisan]

Sorry^ the mask in Halloween is actually a mask of William shatner spray painted white

[Rainbowmum]

Pirates had insurance! Injured men who sailed under Captain Henry Morgan would receive 1,500 pieces of eight or 15 slaves for the loss of both legs, 1,800 pieces of eight or 18 slaves for the loss of both hands, 600 pieces of eight or six slaves for the loss of one arm or leg, and 100 pieces of eight or one slave for the loss of a finger or an eye. For the pain of a body wound that needed the insertion of a pipe, compensation was 500 pieces of eight or five slaves. For a permanently stiff arm, leg or finger, the compensation was the same as for its actual loss.

[monk]

Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only one testicle.

Yeah, between his ears!

[partisan]

Hitler only had one ball ! Goring had two but very small, himmler had something simerler, but poor old goeballs had no balls at all!!! Hitler didnt actually have one ball but he did become a vegeterian after witnessing an autopsy on a meat eater (not for any moral reason) suprise suprise- hitlers favourite tune was "whos afraid of the big bad wolf"

[Steve1860]

The longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters. Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine is the chemical name of the largest known protein titin. Lexicographers have argued however that chemical compounds should not count. The largest non-technical word is antidisestablishmentarianism, with a mere 28 letters.

[Rainbowmum]

According to Napoleon’s servant Ali, he and a priest named Vignali removed unspecified pieces of Napoleon’s body during his autopsy in 1821. Later Vignali’s descendants sold his various Napoleon souvenirs, including the Little Corporal’s little corporal, described as “one inch long and resembling a grape.” In 1977, a Columbia University urologist bought it for $3,000.

[Lalo]

^^^

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

[monk]

The state of Indiana once tried to pass a bill saying that Pi was exactly 3.2.

[Lalo]

^^ That sounds like Indiana! "Damn the facts! We'll make it what we want to make it!" ^^

You may have heard someone say, “It’s raining cats and dogs.” In reality, there have been actual documented cases from all over the world of fish, frogs, dead birds, snakes, snails, beetles, worms and jellyfish raining down from the sky in great numbers, but no reports of showers of cats or dogs.

[partisan]

In WWI, in the French army, punishment for homosexuality was execution