Things you didn't know
 

All crisp packet 'best before dates' are on a Saturday.

Birmingham is the biggest city in the UK.

New York is not the capital of New York state.

Nigella Lawson is not actually a chef or qualified in cooking in any way, she is a journalist.

:eek::cool:

You mean in terms of land area?

Carlisle is the biggest by land area I believe, Birmingham is the biggest by population. I know it's widely believed that London is but London isn't actually a city. It contains two cities (City of London and Westminster) but is not itself a city.

That sounds sort of like it depends a lot on how you define the terms. I mean the whole huge 8 million person region of London is all governed by one mayor, no?

Boris Johnson yeah.

But these are the official cities of England - City status in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But then there are Greater Birmingham and Greater Manchester areas which are not considered cities.

Meh. Like I said, it seems like more of a semantic thing. Sort of like how four of the "50 states" over here aren't technically states, but are actually commonwealths.

I accept that :cool:

If you tilt your bank card under a light in the correct way, you can make out the four digits that make up your pin number.

Using contact solution intended for hard contacts on your soft shell contacts is a VERY bad idea. I was quite literally writhing in pain on the bathroom floor an hour ago because my eye felt like it was on fire.

Learn from my failure.

The hottest part of a chili is not the seeds, it is in fact the white lining which holds the seeds.

There are more porn websites on the internet than non porn websites.

^^Bull****.

Uh... please provide a source for this so I'll know which banks to never do business with....

Every second - $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography.
Every second - 28,258 internet users are viewing pornography.
Every second - 372 internet users are typing adult search terms into search engines.
Every 39 minutes: a new pornographic video is being created in the United States.

Porn makes up hardly even 1% of the internet.

a pile consisting of every ant on the planet would weigh roughly the same as a pile consisting of all the humans.

also, there are more species/subspecies of beetle than there are of all the other species/subspecies of every other thing with a pulse combined.

Just what I was thinking! I actually tilted my debit card in all sorts of crazy ways to see if anything would turn up, nothing though.

About 4% of the internet is porn.
How Much of the Internet is Actually for Porn - Forbes

Random Knowledge....
 

As well as being the worlds most selling book, Ironically it is also the worlds most -ShopLifted- book. That being the Bible.

Hotel Giddeons don't count, as it isn't technically shoplifting ;)

I didn't. Because I'm pretty sure my banking institution isn't located in some strange, sneaky other-world economy where financial security's limit does not extend beyond the completely absurd notion that a person's pin number can somehow be etched into the inner portion of the plastic just for the sake of being ridiculous.

I'm not saying I can't be wrong about this. I'd just be sorta flabbergasted if there are banks out there in the U.S. or Europe that actually visibly include a person's pin number on their debit card. And if there are, then I feel really bad for those that do business with them.

You did? :D

I was hoping someone would :p:

Yeah I did, either because I am gullible or just ****ing paranoid, lol

I didn't know until last week that this guy...



...was the son of one of the founders of Pottery Barn.

sweet n sour sauce at chinese restaurants is made outta ketchup

50/50.

Really? I thought it was in Alabama, but it's really in the UK. Now that is something I did not know.

I think I might be Jewsus.

64% of all statistics are made up.

Someone told me once that a lot of anecdotes are bullshit.

Someone told me that a lot of bullshit is bullshit.

I don't know about that, but I do know that cocktail sauce is just ketchup and horseradish, and tartar sauce is just mayo,relish,and lemon juice.

The word "Inventory" first originated from an inventor.

Snow isnt as exciting as I thought it is.

What ever gave the impression that snow was exciting?

*looks at location*

Oh.

Not sure you saw what Janszoon did there.
Or am I not seeing something you did there?

/confused

You inhale over 700,000 of your own dead skin cells everyday.

There are some days when I've woken up and literally thought I was in a sparkling snow globe. When it's snowing, it's a reminder to forgive and that a white out can mark the beginning of peace and clarity.

Yes, snow is a rare occurrence here in my country. I guess thats not the case in Pennsylvania eh?

Electronically shocking someone's brain can greatly improve their math skills for up to 6 months.

In Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, oil is cheaper than water.

The past two years we haven't had much snow, but yeah, normally we get a decent amount here.