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Jimbuna 12-29-20 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace (Post 2717022)
Whiskey was invented to keep the Scots and Irish from ruling the world. :haha:
:haha::up:

Aktungbby 12-29-20 02:16 PM
Hardly a"useless historical fact"!
 
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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace (Post 2717022)
Whiskey was invented to keep the Scots and Irish from ruling the world. :haha:
That's WHISKY in Scotland; :Kaleun_Party: WHISKEY in Ireland, ya illiterate bugger!:Kaleun_Goofy: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/pic...pictureid=9430
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It is widely believed that during the 19th century, Ireland’s distillers began to use the ‘e’ as a way to differentiate their whiskeys from Scotch. They were becoming more popular and were regarded as being of higher quality. Having a different spelling gave the Irish another way of distinguishing between the two styles. Marketing, in other words.
https://media.scotchwhisky.com/image...cc49b53c96.jpg https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/as...two-spellings/:know::hmph::()1:

Commander Wallace 12-29-20 02:33 PM
^ I just drink it, I don't spell it, you druid. Besides, after a few shots, I can't read or spell anyhow. :D :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

Jimbuna 12-29-20 02:37 PM
Flamingos bend their legs at the ankle, not the knee.

Jeff-Groves 12-29-20 04:52 PM
In 1888, more than 300,000 mummified cats were found in an Egyptian cemetery.
They were stripped of their wrappings and carted off to be used by farmers in England and the U.S. for fertilizer.

Isaac Newton invented the cat flap.
Newton was experimenting in a pitch-black room. Spithead, one of his cats, kept opening the door and wrecking his experiment. The cat flap kept both Newton and Spithead happy.

Not to forget Man's Best Friend!
Robert the Bruce's faithful Bloodhound Donnchadh not only affected Scottish history, but U.S. history as well. Enemies of Robert used his dog to find him in hiding but were surprised when the dog turned on them when they tried to attack his master. Because of this dog hero's intervention the men were driven off and Robert the Bruce survived to become the King of Scotland. Later on, King George III of England's dispute with the colonies in the Americas led to U.S. independence. King George III was a descendent of Robert the Bruce and would not have been in place as King without Robert's surviving years prior.

Jimbuna 12-30-20 12:03 PM
The entire world’s population could fit inside Rhode Island.

mapuc 12-30-20 12:17 PM
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Would you like a trip to an alternative tourist attraction? In the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union built a bunker in Lithuania, and this bunker has now been turned into an 'amusement park' with the apt name Išgyvenimo Drama. Here you can for only approx. 25 dollar, will be met by guards and have their belongings taken away, including a mobile phone, after which you will be taken down to the bunker. Down here you will, among other things. be interrogated by KGB officers, learn the Soviet national anthem under threats and sent through a maze. The visit should give the tourist a realistic experience of what it was like to be a citizen of the Soviet Union, and if you make it through the trip, you will be rewarded with a voucher and vodka.
Markus

mapuc 12-30-20 12:18 PM
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Inęs de Castro (1323-1355) was the mistress of the Portuguese Crown Prince Peter. When the Crown Prince's wife died, Crown Prince Peter and Inęs began living together as husband and wife. They had even more children together, but King Afonso IV felt that Inęs had too much power and wanted to prevent her from getting more by becoming the Crown Prince's wife. The king therefore had Inęs killed.
When the king died in 1357 and Crown Prince Peter became Peter I, Inęs ’body was, according to legend, exhumed. Peter I then had the body crowned and had several courtiers kiss the corpse's hand as a sign of fidelity.
Markus

Jimbuna 12-30-20 01:12 PM
The hottest chili pepper in the world can kill you.

Jimbuna 12-31-20 10:42 AM
Indonesia is home to some of the shortest people in the world.

Jimbuna 01-01-21 11:39 AM
The quietest room in the world has a noise level of -20.35 dBA, which is 20 decibels below the threshold of human hearing and breaks previous records for spaces that were deemed the planet's quietest places.

mapuc 01-01-21 06:05 PM
I don't know if men can use this trick

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According to folklore, a single girl could beat the egg whites from an egg into a glass until midnight on New Year's Eve, and if a figure could be seen in the white the next morning, it would tell something about her future husband. If, for example. looked like an anvil, she would be happy for a blacksmith.
Markus

Platapus 01-01-21 08:08 PM
President Carter was the first president of the United States to watch an X-rated movie in the White House theater.

Buddahaid 01-01-21 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by mapuc (Post 2717243)
Markus
No but we could join Jimmy Carter and...and....well, never mind.....:haha:

Jimbuna 01-02-21 09:08 AM
Banging your head against a wall for 1 hour will burn ~150 calories.

Platapus 01-02-21 09:44 AM
I claim this land in the name of bird poop.
 
Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other Government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other Government, and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies the same, such island, rock, or key may, at the discretion of the President, be considered as appertaining to the United States.


The Guano Islands Act of 1856... still on the books.

Platapus 01-02-21 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2717975)
Banging your head against a wall for 1 hour will burn ~150 calories.

Reading and responding to political forums on Subsim.com burns ~150 calories


Coincidence? :hmmm:

Jimbuna 01-02-21 01:45 PM
No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter "a" in its word form.

Jeff-Groves 01-02-21 02:12 PM
:hmmm:
Think the thread should be just Useless Facts.
Not Useless History Facts.

Jimbuna 01-02-21 02:27 PM
Agreed and sorted.


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