Facts: Strange but True

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Fri May 26, 2017 1:49 pm

Just a few random facts to help you get through the day. Feel free to add your own.

Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits.
Froot Loops have different colours, but they all have the same flavour.
“Billie Jean” was about a girl who climbed over Michael Jackson's wall one morning and accused him of being the father of one of her twins.
Humans actually have more than 5 senses. Things such as balance, temperature, internal senses for suffocation, thirst and fullness.
Mosquitoes have killed more humans than all the wars in history.
Drinking alcohol doesn't actually kill brain cells.

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Fri May 26, 2017 1:54 pm

I think my lunchtime Timmy Taylor's is helping me more than those random facts

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Fri May 26, 2017 1:57 pm

You're never too old to learn something new DC

MarkGreen · Post by **MarkGreen** » Fri May 26, 2017 1:58 pm

Burnley are in the Premier League, Rovers are in League One

HatfieldClaret · Post by **HatfieldClaret** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:15 pm

MarkGreen wrote:Burnley are in the Premier League, Rovers are in League One

Rovers fans don't understand that Burnley are in the Premier League and Rovers are in League One.

claretblue · Post by **claretblue** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:17 pm

no one is ever more that 17 yards from a pint of Timothy Taylors!

7decades · Post by **7decades** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:24 pm

73% OF ALL STATISTICS ARE MADE UP

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:25 pm

claretblue wrote:no one is ever more that 17 yards from a pint of Timothy Taylors!

I'm calling you out on that 'fact'

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:33 pm

claretblue wrote:no one is ever more that 17 yards from a pint of Timothy Taylors!

I'd like to know where in this 6 level office block that pint is please

(BTW I'm on level 4 with my back & left side to a window so my direction of travel is limited)

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:36 pm

wilks_bfc wrote:I'd like to know where in this 6 level office block that pint is please

(BTW I'm on level 4 with my back & left side to a window so my direction of travel is limited)

It's right in front of you, Wilks....

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:41 pm

DCWat wrote:It's right in front of you, Wilks....

I can tell you read the last fact of my original post. Although I don't wish to promote alcoholism.

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:41 pm

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:47 pm

Saxo and krbfc are pricks

duncandisorderly · Post by **duncandisorderly** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:58 pm

Speaking of beer; in ancient Babylon anyone who brewed a bad batch of beer would be drowned in his own creation as a punishment.

Quite right too.

bfcmik · Post by **bfcmik** » Fri May 26, 2017 3:15 pm

duncandisorderly wrote:Speaking of beer; in ancient Babylon anyone who brewed a bad batch of beer would be drowned in his own creation as a punishment.

Quite right too.

Did they then advertise it as a 'full-bodied' brew?

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Fri May 26, 2017 3:57 pm

Most facts are made up.
FACT!

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Fri May 26, 2017 4:12 pm

the romans were actually from aberdeen, not Rome as some might think.

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