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Fun Facts For You!
http://funfactsforyou.wordpress.com/
Fun facts and trivia, updated several times a week.
- Added on: Dec 28th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: David Manning
- Listed in: Entertainment Education
- Tags: fun information weird facts offbeat trivia
Recent Posts
St. Patrick’s Lore
I thought I posted this a few weeks ago — in time for St. Patrick’s Day. The post was still in ‘draft’ this whole time. Sorry. We all know St. Patrick supposedly got all the snakes out of Ireland, but here are a couple more ap...
Community College of the Stars
John A. Logan College in Illinois, USA, has the most Pulitzer Prize winners of any USA community college (similar to a secondary school or tech college rather than Uni). The three winners are Donald Goines, Kilgore Trout (of Vonnegut fame) and L...
Lots of synonyms
We all know about the 500 Eskimo words for ’snow’ and the 40 French words for ‘bread’, but here are a few more languages with a weird amount of words for specific things. Greek: Nine for ‘grape’ Irish (Gaelic): Tw...
Mysteries of the Female Body
WARNING: This is a more risque post than most, so mind your kids. One of the earliest ‘sexperts‘ in history is Bombay-born mystic Ravichandra Chandahar (Third Century A.D.), the man who claims to have perfected telepathic orgasms. An earl...
Facebook group
We have a Facebook group! A mate of mine from America (all right, so he’s an e-mail friend) has started a Facebook group about the site! Click on the link above and join up! Also, don’t forget to ‘friend’ me! ...
Naughty, Naughty Ungulate
One of the most (ahem) interestingly named animals around is the Filipino Molesting Tapir (tapirus filipansi). The animal, native to a small area around Manila, Philippines, is called the molesting tapir not because of any sexual cravings, but becaus...
