Official Cool Fun Fact Thread....

[Freybird]

"ATM machine" is a redundancy. As is "scuba apparatus."
The phrase is: " I ' couldn't ' care less!"

[Embraer]

...both "Chai Tea" and "Queso Cheese" are redundancies, too.

[dentist90]

Originally Posted by Freybird

The phrase is: " I ' couldn't ' care less!"

Thank you! One of my pet peeves.

Now back to amazing facts:
You can make a cat bark like a dog. Soak it in gasoline and touch a match to it. WOOF!

[dentist90]

... and for you cat lovers, an equal opportunity offensive joke:

A dog can be made to meow like a cat.
Put him in a deep freeze and then cut it in half with a bandsaw. Reee-owwwr!

(makes more sense if you say it out loud...)

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by Tyson Schmidt

Guinness Stout has less alcohol and calories than Coors Light.

no it doesn't about 200 cal in a pint of guiness, 140 in a coors light, alcohol content is about the same

Abracadabra is one of the few words that does not mean anything.

Influenza is an Italian word that is unchanged in English.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Freybird

"ATM machine" is a redundancy. As is "scuba apparatus."
The phrase is: " I ' couldn't ' care less!"

how about " could of" instead of "could have"

[yetibone]

There's no such thing as a hot water heater,

[HHI944]

Cats don't like being made to do the YMCA dance.......just sayin'

[pavulon]

the "YMCA" is generally done with your arms only...and so is only a dance to white guys.

[HHI944]

Ummm, I am a white guy...

[pavulon]

me too.

[Tobra]

I thought there was a black guy in the Village People, but I am pretty sure he was gay, so I will need a ruling on whether or not that counts.

Tabs, you know everything else, how about it?

[HHI944]

I think that kind of ruling is right up Tabs alley....

[dondarnell]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

I thought my wife was from Iowa?

Now that's funny.

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye's-911T

There isn't a word in the english language that rhymes with orange - according to one of my english literature teachers - a whole long time ago.

Cheers
JB

and there are no words that rhyme with silver or purple either...

[HHI944]

purple nurple?

[Hugh R]

Before digital all area codes had a 0 or 1 as the middle digit.

All people with blue eyes are related to one women who had a mutation in her genes about 10,000 years ago. I'm a mutant!

[johnco]

"scuba apparatus."
the aqualung "scuba apparatus" was invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan in the winter of 1942-1943 when they adapted and improved the demand regulator invented by someone else for underwater use.
the fun fact here is I just happen to have one of those laying around the house I picked up 40 or so years ago. threw it in a closet or somewhere 35 years ago and it's been sitting there ever since I believe. yeah, I've inherited the hoarder disorder from my father's side of the family. I rarely throw anything away. this is what it looks like

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by yetibone

There's no such thing as a hot water heater,

I agree that the proper term in almost all situations is just water heater. But to say there is no such thing as a hot water heater is incorrect. We used to need hot (100.4F) water flowing all day for our film processors. The only practical way to do that was three large water heaters run in series. The first one would warm the water, the second would get it hotter and the third would finally get it hot enough to blend with cold water to get a steady 100F. We had enough valves that we could bypass any one heater for a short time for replacement without stopping production. That was only possible if it was summer time. In the winter we had to have all three running.

And as my little know fact for the thread:

Kodak has stopped production of aerial film. Agfa makes all the world's areial film now. Even Japan, China & Russia just buy Agfa aerial film. One roll of film is 9 & 7/16th inch wide and 443 feet long and costs over $2,800.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

...... or purple either...

nurple.

Urban Dictionary: purple nurple

1) The act of grabbing and twisting a nipple of another person, one's self, and even occasionaly other mammals