useless facts

[Platapus]

Ravens would say that was an unkindness

[Aktungbby]

NEVERMORE! quothe the conspiracy of ravens

[Jimbuna]

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

[Platapus]

If you have bibliosma, like I do, you enjoy the smell of old books.

[mapuc]

In 1992, the Ubykh language, spoken by a people on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, became extinct.
The language consisted of about 83 consonants and only two vowels.
It was not a written language, but linguists have saved a lot of sound recordings and notes about Ubykh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubykh_language

Markus

[Aktungbby]

^ indeed it is an ergative dialect

n linguistic typology, ergative–absolutive alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the single argument ("subject") of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent of a transitive verb.[1] Examples are Basque, Georgian, Mayan, Tibetan, certain Indo-European languages (such as the Kurdish languages and many Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi–Urdu). It has controversially also been attributed to the Semitic modern Aramaic languages.

This is in contrast to nominative–accusative alignment, which is observed in English and most other Indo-European languages, where the single argument of an intransitive verb ("She" in the sentence "She walks.") behaves grammatically like the agent of a transitive verb ("She" in the sentence "She finds it.") but different from the object of a transitive verb ("her" in the sentence "He likes her."). When ergative–absolutive alignment is coded by grammatical case, the case used for the single argument of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb is the absolutive, and the case used for the agent of a transitive verb is the ergative. In nominative-accusative languages, the case for the single argument of an intransitive verb and the agent of a transitive verb is the nominative while the case for the direct object of a transitive verb is the accusative.

Many languages have ergative–absolutive alignment only in some parts of their grammar (e.g., in the case marking of nouns), but nominative-accusative alignment in other parts (e.g., in the case marking of pronouns, or in person agreement). This is known as split ergativity.

[Platapus]

Scotland has the highest cocaine use of any other country in the world. One in 40 Scots use the drug, or about 2.4% of the population.

[Jimbuna]

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.

[Platapus]

Wearable eyeglasses can be traced back to Italy around 1284

[Jimbuna]

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

[Platapus]

In 1861, Johann Philipp Reis put a loudspeaker in his telephone, and in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell gained a patent for a loudspeaker as part of his telephone, and Ernst Siemens, a German, patented an improved loudspeaker in 1877.

[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.

The spacesuit or the Astronaut?

Meanwhile,..


When in doubt, fry it.

-Scrapple is usually a breakfast meat. Served with fried eggs. If you like catsup on your eggs, it goes well with Scrapple and ground pepper. If you like eggs and maple syrup, it also goes well with Scrapple. Keep your Scrapple refrigerated just prior to slicing.

-Yes, there really is an Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

[Jimbuna]

Every person has a unique tongue print.

[Platapus]

The C-130 aircraft holds the record for the longest continuously produced military aircraft in the world. More than 60 years and they are still building them.



An extra


Kelly Johnson told Lockheed management that if they invested in the C-130 project that it would result in the end of the company... can't win them all.

[Jimbuna]

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.