Random Facts You Find Interesting Thread

[steve dave]

US Airways has flights from Charlotte to LGA, EWR & JFK all departing within an hour of each other

[Emo EMAW]

Here's a NEW TWIST to this thread:

Posters are allowed to post phony facts, but if someone yells out BULLSHIT!, the phony fact poster has to like, totally tell us something embarrassing. 

[slobber]

Here's a NEW TWIST to this thread:

Posters are allowed to post phony facts, but if someone yells out BULLSHIT!, the phony fact poster has to like, totally tell us something embarrassing. 

Can the embarrassing thing also be phony?

[Unruly]

Here's a NEW TWIST to this thread:

Posters are allowed to post phony facts, but if someone yells out BULLSHIT!, the phony fact poster has to like, totally tell us something embarrassing. 

No denied.

Unless OP is ok with it.

[ben ji]

Here's a NEW TWIST to this thread:

Posters are allowed to post phony facts, but if someone yells out BULLSHIT!, the phony fact poster has to like, totally tell us something embarrassing. 

Denied. This will remain a FACTS you find interesting thread not a make stuff up and play a silly game thread.

[Emo EMAW]

Here's a NEW TWIST to this thread:

Posters are allowed to post phony facts, but if someone yells out BULLSHIT!, the phony fact poster has to like, totally tell us something embarrassing. 

Denied. This will remain a FACTS you find interesting thread not a make stuff up and play a silly game thread.

BULLSHIT! 

[puniraptor]

i learned what a fricative was. interesting.

[Mr Bread]

i learned what a fricative was. interesting.

I learned that a Polish war bear drank beers and ate cigs. 

[puniraptor]

i learned what a fricative was. interesting.

I learned that a Polish war bear drank beers and ate cigs.

AND smoked cigs.

mmm what a delishious meal of cigs and beer. wanna go smoke? - bear

[The1BigWillie]

Ruthie Eisenhower, daughter of Milton Eisenhower, K-State president from 1943 to 1950, got a puppy from her famous uncle, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike delivered the puppy to his niece on a visit to Manhattan Jan. 8, 1944- just 7 months after the D-Day invasion. 

Ike was EMAW. that will be my take away.

I call bullshit. There's no way that's the dog.

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

Ruthie Eisenhower, daughter of Milton Eisenhower, K-State president from 1943 to 1950, got a puppy from her famous uncle, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike delivered the puppy to his niece on a visit to Manhattan Jan. 8, 1944- just 7 months after the D-Day invasion. 

Ike was EMAW. that will be my take away.

I call bullshit. There's no way that's the dog.

Why cuz its black?

[The1BigWillie]

Prairie Dogs aren't really Dogs. 

[The1BigWillie]

the polish army had a war bear in ww2

must have been a pretty pud bear

  yeah lets just all laugh at the polish

nope, stud bear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(soldier_bear)

its not like he killed a pile of nazis but he did "help his friends by transporting ammunition – never dropping a single crate."

The bear was fed with fruits, marmalade, honey and syrup, and was often rewarded with beer, which became his favourite drink. He also enjoyed smoking and eating cigarettes.[2][3] He enjoyed wrestling and was taught to salute when greeted.

 

[sys]

Samsung accounts for 17% of South Korea's GDP.

that's interesting, but not true.  you are comparing samsung's market cap, not the value of its annual production.

[kim carnes]

Prairie Dogs aren't really Dogs.

thats the rough ridin' dog, a-hole.

[ben ji]

Samsung accounts for 17% of South Korea's GDP.

that's interesting, but not true.  you are comparing samsung's market cap, not the value of its annual production.

Samsung Electronics is the largest part of Samsung, a conglomerate that accounts for 17 percent of South Korea’s gross domestic product.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-28/how-samsung-became-the-worlds-no-dot-1-smartphone-maker#p2

[DQ12]

My favorite interesting fact:

Operation Barbarossa (Germany's invasion of the soviet union during WWII) involved 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses. 

[bones129]

Ruthie Eisenhower, daughter of Milton Eisenhower, K-State president from 1943 to 1950, got a puppy from her famous uncle, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike delivered the puppy to his niece on a visit to Manhattan Jan. 8, 1944- just 7 months after the D-Day invasion. 

Ike was EMAW. that will be my take away.

I call bullshit. There's no way that's the dog.

I think it is. Preserved and stuffed. Family heirloom, so to speak. They put it outside now and then to air it out.

[pissclams]

My favorite interesting fact:

Operation Barbarossa (Germany's invasion of the soviet union during WWII) involved 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses. 

I didn't know that many horses existed.  imagine Kansas City filled with only horses, that'd be like that horse army

[DQ12]

My favorite interesting fact:

Operation Barbarossa (Germany's invasion of the soviet union during WWII) involved 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses. 

I didn't know that many horses existed.  imagine Kansas City filled with only horses, that'd be like that horse army

i know, i've been trying to think of an analogy.  the best i could think of was 15 LHC Bill Snyder Family Stadiums filled to the brim with horses.  nazi horses.

[Cartierfor3]

My favorite interesting fact:

Operation Barbarossa (Germany's invasion of the soviet union during WWII) involved 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses. 

I didn't know that many horses existed.  imagine Kansas City filled with only horses, that'd be like that horse army

i know, i've been trying to think of an analogy.  the best i could think of was 15 LHC Bill Snyder Family Stadiums filled to the brim with horses.  nazi horses.

If horses cost a dollar, it would've taken Dalonte Hill almost 2 years under his contract at K-State, to acquire that many horses, assuming he paid no taxes and spent 100% of his money on his Nazi horse army.

[sys]

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-28/how-samsung-became-the-worlds-no-dot-1-smartphone-maker#p2

your article is wrong.  i googled the numbers because i heard a (great) podcast that lolled @ the media for doing the same thing w. regard to apple vis a vis apple being = to the gdp of poland.  you can't trust the media on anything, ben ji.  they are stupid and lazy.  except the media that did the podcast, they're great.


samsung market cap = 198 million
south korea gdp = 1120 million

= 17.7 %.  sorry ben ji, do the math.

[sys]

My favorite interesting fact:

Operation Barbarossa (Germany's invasion of the soviet union during WWII) involved 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses. 

i've mentioned this before, dlew.  people think that ww2 is modern era.  it's not.  ww2 is almost equidistant between the present and the civil war.  it was just twentiesh years after ww1.

[pissclams]

average length of a horse from nose to tail is 8 feet.
8 feet multiplied by 750,000 is 6,000,000 feet.
there are 5,280 feet in a mile.
6,000,000 divided by 5,280 is 1,136 miles.
the distance between gainsville, florida and kansas city, is 1,136 miles.
gainsville, florida is the home to the university of florida.
the university of florida is one of kansas state's sister schools.
those horses could have stood head to tail from kc to uf.

and people wonder why we say florida is one of our sister schools   duh.

[Cartierfor3]

No wonder the Germans destroyed Poland. 1 Bear > 1 horse in a fight, but 1 bear < 750000 horses in a fight.