Weird & Wonderfull!
 

seeing as my girlfriend got me this strange book full of weird facts, i thought i'd put it to some good use and post information from it, here.

so just post a key word or a detailed question (within reason), and i GUARANTEE i will find and post an odd fact about it.

ALL FACTS ARE 100% TRUE (obviously).

E.G: Christmas.

FACT: workers at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, spent 16 hours creating a Christmas tree 17 ft 4 in (5.3 m) tall made entirely from noodles and decorated with coloured sugar.

so post any random question or word, and i will answer it with a fact related to the question.

:)

This sounds like a fun topic.


Whales

an extraordinary Whale shark, 45 ft (13.7 m) long, 23 ft 9 in (7 m) in circumference, and weighing 30,000 lb (13,600 kg, thats just over 13 1/2 tons), was captured after a fight lasting 39 hours on Knights Key, Florida, on June 1, 1912. it was loaded onto a flatbed truck and driven to Miami - a very smelly load!

fuck me! never saw that in here.

Any topic at all, eh?

Skinned dog.

(Fishslaps Oanst)

Srsly. Can we please not bring up an old offensive thread?

Oddworlds Forums >D. Lets see just how detailed that factbook is.

this is close enough, dearest OANST;

after being hit by a passing Peugeot, a small dog travelled nearly 60 mi (97 km) through Northern Ireland one night in November 2005, wedged in the grille of the car. he emerged unscathed, only to be run over again - this time fatally - 3 weeks later.

there's absolutely loads of dog ones.

Australian tourists in London

Charlie, you wicked witch.

Alcar...

Pickled cheese. Beat that, MA.

Socks! I really want to hear a strange fact to do with socks. Or scarves.

this should be good.

whale's dicks

uhh...Zebra! I like Zebras, funny blacked striped horse things...

HA HAA!
 

within reason! please?!?

Australian artist Ando, who was trained as a mining engineer, has created a vast artwork of a smiling stockman that covers 1 1/2 sq mi (4 sq km) of the Mundi Mundi Plains in New South Wales. using a tractor to expose the red earth, it took Ando a year to create the artwork. the portrait is visible 1.2 mi (2 km) from above.
eh, close enough.

well;
the British makers of the pungent Stilton blue cheese have launched their own perfume, Eau de Stilton. it claims to "re-create the earthy and fruity aroma" of the cheese "in an eminently wearable perfume."
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in Berrian Springs, Michigan, there is an annual Pickle Flinging contest. the record throw is nearly 300 ft (90 m).

put them together and you have...

here's both;
Ron Warren of New York City has a collection of around 1,800 sock monkeys.
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helped by more than 1000 volunteers, German woman Elfriede Blees knitted a scarf 8 mi (13 km) long to commemorate the 2006 World Cup. the scarf, which featured the flags of all 32 Nations competing in the football tournament, used some 70,000 balls of wool worth around $30,000.

that'll do (unforntunately, the book does not contain dicks, other than people).

i cant beleive there's no Zebra's in this book!
closest thing;

a horse race run at Newmarket, England, every August is for grey horses only!

there are more horse ones, but this was the most fitting (grey is closest to black), bollocks i know.
sorry!:)
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could we keep insanity to a medium, rather than sky-high maximo loony bin?:confused:

How about lava lamps?

Smegma. Sputum.

eerrr...
 

no lava, but a lamp;

Anne Rohner of New Haven, Indiana, shot an arrow that pierced the brackets of an 8 ft (2.4 m) fluorescent tube and came to rest inside the light - all without breaking the glass exterior of the bulb!

im really playing on words here, but Sputnik?

the most unusual exhibit at the Rahr-West Art Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, is a lump of metal weighing 20 lb (9 kg), which is an exact replica of a peice that crashed into the street outside when the Soviet Union's Sputnik IV spacecraft fell to Earth in September 1962. the rest of the seven-ton craft burned up in the atmosphere.

good enough? im bustin' me balls here!

meh i know more interessting things about whale dicks.

heres another one :

i want to know an interessting fact about stephen fry!

HOLY SHIT HIVEMIND.

The Lucky Chief Motel Massacre.

Here's one:

Bloody mallet.

right-o
 

here's the blood;

in October 2004, businessman Stephan Son of Los Angeles, California, promised to pay back a finanacial investor with a contract - written in his own blood!

and here's the non-mallet, non-mallet name of someone, hammer;

Valli Hammer of Farmer City, Illinois, is never short of company in the bath...because she owns around 2,500 rubber ducks. she began collecting them in 2000 to keep her young son happy at bathtime and now she has rubber ducks from all 50 U.S. states and several foreign countries.

christ, these are specific.

from index: Chief - no
Motel - no
Massacre - no
Lucky - YES

a 54-year-old man was shot in the abdomen during a robbery in Bakersfield, California, in February 2006, but during surgery doctors found a tumor that otherwise would not of been identified until much later.

well here's Kevin Stephan;

in 2006, a teenager who saved the life of an apparent stranger in a restaurante in Buffalo, New York, was amazed to discover that it was a woman that had done the same for him in 1999. volunteer firefighter and boy scout Kevin Stephan, 17, rushed to perform the Heimlich maneuver when he saw Penny Brown choking on her lunch, and only learned afterwards that she was the nurse who had got his heart beating again following a baseball accident 7 years earlier.

and feel free to post whale dick info, as long as its true.

Hmmm. What about Hypnotism? That would be interesting to know about. Sorry for being silly. But these facts are awesome. Thanks for giving me the one with the sockies and scarfies.

sanity at last!
 

my pleasure.

lizards have been dressed up after being deeply relaxed and hypnotized by a ten-year-old girl in Florida. Lily Capehart discovered her uncanny ability to 'hypnotize' lizards when she was just 2 years old, and has been doing it ever since. Maintaining that all her lizards are handled with greatest care and respect, Lily and her parents have created the world of 'lizard-ville' - a series of images showing the lizards dressed up and placed in whimsical lizard-sized scenes.
;)

The Soy Sauce.

Shadow PeoKORRROK THE WISE KORROK THE MAGNIFICENT KORROK THE ALL KNOWING KORROK THE IMPREGNABLE KORROK THE ALL POWERFUL ALL SERVE KORROK KORROK KORROK

I think everything he has said after "Sauce." Is enough to disqualify the post altogether. But ummm...
The Lord of The Rings, Lightsabers, or Didgeridoos. Thanks alot :D

here we are
 

here's one i think you'll like better than Soy sauce, Kastere;

Stan Murmer, an artist from Virginia, is the pioneer of 'butt painting', which involves him sitting in paint and stamping his butt on a canvas to create images. he has created butt-print tulips, butterflies, and parrots by this method, among other things, and, beleive it or not, he has actually sold some of his work.

am i the only one who saw the unintended 'BUTT-erflies' pun?

well, light - ning?

English teenager Karla Pope was lucky to be alive after a lightening bolt tore through the roof of her home in Chippenham, Wiltshire, in July 2006 and struck the metal-framed bed in which she was sleeping. the colossal current blew a hole measuring 2 ft 6 in (76 cm) across in her bedroom ceiling, but even though Karla was touching the metal frame at the time of the strike, she escaped with only minor burns to her hands.

Hmmm... How about... Cow...:)
Or most annoying person... I bet that's me.

A-HA!
 

heh heh, i've got a gud 'un;

one windy day in Oklahoma in the 1930's, an unfortunate cow was whisked up into a tree by a tornado! (alive).

Poor cow. That was pretty extreme.

there's a black & white picture of it in the book, and its alive and fine, just looks daft stuck up in the tree.

DAMN! But people feed on madness around here! Hmm...well, what about Fox?

Human Strength

ITT: I've been Intellectually checkmated.

Satanic Rituals of the fourth degree

Space Marines.

...
 

(playing on words again);

in August 2006, Charles and Camilla - a pair of veiled chameleons - became the proud parents of no less than 56 healthy babies. it is very rare for such a large number of baby chameleons from one clutch of eggs to survive, and owner Vicky Fox from Dorset, England, had to quickly find homes for the inch-long offspring before instinct kicked in and they became violently territorial at around the age of 3 months.

David Gonzales performed an astonishing 21 strongman acts in a single afternoon in Fort Meyers, Florida, in November 2006. ten of these were completed in less than a minute, including tearing a 1000 page telephone book in half, bending a steel bar 4 in (10 cm) thick over his head, and standing on his head while holding himself steady with hands resting on broken glass.

here's a bonus one, it seems morally wrong not to include it;

when a teenage cyclist was trapped under a car in Tucson, Arizona, in July 2006, he was saved by a strong bystander who lifted the car right off the ground. at 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall and weighing 300 lb (136 kg), Tom Boyle raised the Chevrolet Camaro single-handedly, allowing the driver to haul the injured cyclist clear.

the book knows all...

here's a weird ritual;

nearly 500 teenagers from 26 countries donned oversized wooden clogs to perform a modern ballet version of a traditional Dutch clog dance in The Hague in July 2006. the dancers learned the steps in their own countries, which included Canada, Jamaica, Israel, and Finland, before travelling to the Netherlands for the performance.

sorry, no Marines, no Space, but soldiers;

believe it or not, China's army turns away recruits that snore too loudly!

what kind of book is this?!? oh well, it relates to the question, so the Guarantee has not been broken.

Dominoes, or Pickle.

fuck me
 

you would pick a long one! :D

a team of 87 builders from 13 different countries took around 2 months to set up an intricate domino course - and then saw more than four million dominoes toppled in a matter of minutes.

the 'Domino Day' challenge took place in the city of Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands, on November 17, 2006. it was created by Weijers Domino Productions, who had designers working on the Dominoes Day project for almost the entire year. the course comprised 4,400,000 dominoes, took 5 months to produce, and weighed a total of 77,600 lb (35,200 kg).

4 special builders' challenges were included in the course whereby pairs of builders had to complete key areas of the display while the dominoes were already falling. By the end of the event, 4,079,381 of the 4,400,000 dominoes that had been set up were toppled successfully.

the theme for Domino Day 2006 was 'Music in Motion' and 9 musical genres, including rock, classical, disco, and hip-hop were represented. the set up included famous figures, such as Mozart and Britney Spears, as well as pictures, and even a 'domino city'.

one of the most spectacular sections of the design was devoted to Michael Jackson. a mechanical figure that was part of the display did a moonwalk and, whilethe soundtrack to 'Billie Jean' was played, the dominoes fell to form 3 impressive figures of Jackson.

How about Jellyfish? =p

Well, what about Pinata?