Random Facts

[JohnMusic]

The longest bone in your body is the femur.

[artyboy]

Bernard Ludwig Black, the owner of the eponymous bookshop Black Books, is a heavy alcoholic and smoker and has been known to be rude and obnoxious to the customers in his shop. The only people Bernard can be said to share a friendship with are Manny Bianco, his assistant and flat mate, and Fran Katzenjammer, his best friend and neighbour.

[Dan1980]

Cherophobia is the fear of fun.

[artyboy]

Freudian slip
a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals

[Dan1980]

In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?

[artyboy]

This is an elaborate and rare form of 9th or 10th century Viking gold ring. It was found during the excavation of a drainage ditch in Sedbergh. It is a double-banded hoop made from a gold strip, the ends of which are drawn into wires at the back of the hoop and then wound tightly round. It is decorated with incised grooves, triangles and lozenge shapes.
It is difficult to be certain of the status and gender of the person who might have worn the ring, as it wasn't found near any other archaeological material. However the fact it is gold suggests the owner might have been someone of high status, possibly noble. The ring may even have been a royal gift since, according to the histories and sagas of the time, kings gave gold rings to their warriors and court poets as rewards for service. Gold rings were regarded as the sign of a Viking king's man. They were not given exclusively to men, but the size of this ring suggests it may have once belonged to a man.
There are various Anglo-Scandinavian sites in the Yorkshire Dales. One farmstead excavated at Ribblehead near Ingleborough, consists of the remains of three buildings clustered together on what is now almost bare limestone pavement.

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[Dan1980]

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

[Emiliano]

I just learned that apparently Lyndon Johnson had extremely high pressure nozzles installed in the White House shower that shot water at his penis and his butt.

One nozzle was positioned to shoot up the president's rear while another was aimed directly at his penis - he nicknamed that showerhead sprayer "Jumbo."

http://www.businessinsider.com/lbjs-whit...tes-2015-4

Apparently Nixon had them removed when he took office.

[artyboy]

Ford is the second largest family owned company in the world.

[Ibex]

"Dude" first appears in print in 1876.